The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-02
THE YOUNG VOTER.
Advice To the Young Men Who Will Vote
as to Where to Cast Their First Ballots.
Ilieut. Gov. Hanna, at Gosport, Ind.l

Lieut.. Gov. Hanna, Mt Gosport, Ind
Young man, you should consider well before
casting your first ballot. III you start TO voting
right it will be of great advantage to you in after
hfe IL You vote with a PARTY that Is proud OF
its past history-a party that can take great sat
isfacton in recounting its record in the war for
the Union-a party that Is pleased with its
candidates, party that Is active progressive,
and determined TO be for Americans and
America; IL you Will join such party as that,
your future life will not be political burden to
you.
cratic party, you will find many dissatisfied and
disappointed old men-many discontinued and
restless young men. Young man, do you know
that the youngest Democrat in this country that
ever voted for Democratic President Is 40
years of age?
1T has been twcnty-eight years since the
Democratic party elected its President and UNI
less that party mends its ways, 1t will be
twenty eight years more before it even has
chance to elect a President.
Intelligent, enterprising young men, don't go
into the Democratic party. There Is no room
for you there. The company Is not the kind for
you to keep. Look at the Democratic party
the solid South is there, the free trader Is there
the Mormon is there. The Bourbon is still
there, who never learns anything nor forgets
anything. The copperhead Democrat is there
The rebel guerrilla is there. The men who
murdered draft officers are there. The men who
burned colored orphan asylums are there. The
shotgun and rifle clubs are there. The tissue
ballot is there, old Bill English il there, Hen
bricks is there, Cleveland is there, Tilden Is
there, JEFF Davis is there. Young man, don't go
into the Democratic party. Don't YOU see 10 Is
no place for youP Don't be a Democrat just be-
cause your father was a Democrat. / heard an
rishman in my town say that there was no
need of young man being Democrat just be-
cause his father was a Democrat-no more use
OF IL than there for q young man to be
bachelor just because his father was bachelor
My young Democratic friend, let me tell you
secret. i was a Democrat once myself, in my
younger days. and an orthodox at that: that is,
my father voted for Polk and Pierce, but when
heard of the Republican party, when l heard
nf Eran md traa fraa mon /
fell in line under the Republican flag, and have
been FOL owing IL ever since, and am glad of it,
Young man, turn your face TO the State OF
Maine and cast your political future with the
Republican party, and you VIII always be proud
OF that act-a party that since 1t has come INTO
power has known no defeat; that in the
struggle Tor supremacy in the last quarter
OF century has been the survival OF the httest
party whose motto ls equality before the law
and at the ballot box. A party that gives homes
TO the homeless; that crushed secession; that
Obliterated human slavery: that made II lmpOs-
sible for a slave to exist beneath our flag in the
domains of our republic; party that believes
in protecting American labor and American in
duStr1es; party under whose wise adminlstra
ton our country has grown rich and prosperous,
has increased more than threefod in wealth in
the last thirty years, and to-day our republic rs
the greatest and grandeSt nation beneath the
stars. Young man, IL you will join the Repub-
hcan party, you will be urged on TO greater and
nobler deeds, you will be stimulated by the ex-
ample and memories of theactions of the great
fathers in the Republican party-the apostles
ana martyrs Oh Ireeuonl- VIII DC
surrounded by men who keep pace
with the spirit and pro Sress of the age-who
believe in the sacrednessS OF the home-men
who would crush the vile heads of slander-by
men who do now and have kept step to the
music OF the Union-men who believe in Ameri-
ca and Americans.
You will be cheered on to greater duty by
having in charge the soldiers OF the Union,
blessed with the prayers and tears of their
widows and orphans. You will have upon your
shoulders the hopes and fears of 100000 of men
made free by your party.
Young man, look at the great names the Re-
publican party has given to America and the
world-John Brown and Thaddeus Stevens,
Sumner and Stanton. Morton and Wade. Then
the long list OF observation-disclosures, Grant,
Hayes, GARFIELD, Arthur, and next November,
Rlainn Of Maine