The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-10-08

peace happiness and prosperity Of the
country to-day as it was to the Nations
existence then.
Young men, before you unite with this
condemned party, stop a moment, consider
If you can afford it. In view of its record
and history in the past and it's character
and attitude in the present, will not the
blush Of shame mantle your cheek when
you forsake the party and the political
faith Of your fathers.
Consider where you are going and care
fully consider what may be the result.
The Democratic party opposed the war
and every measure for carrying it on. It
opposed every plan Of reconstruction pro-
posed by the loyal North. It opposed
every measure that has been before the
people and in the interest Of the people for
twenty-five years past.
This country has been made free great,
prosperous, rich, and glorious, in spite Of
the Democratic party. And the Demo-
cratic party wants a change, it wants to put
stop to this prosperity Of the country
which is so ruinOus 10 Democratic hopes.
Therefore it calls upon every young man
and promises him Office and hOnOrs to
come over into Macedonia and help it to
adopt Free Trade, and ruin the laboring
men and manufacturers Of the country.
Here is another matter that deserves
your attention.
A few days ago Major Mcdaniel, Demo
cratic candidate for Governor Of Virginia,
remarked
That ''When we had adoped a new flag
and granted pensions to all Confederate as
well as Union soldiers, he would believe
that reconciliation had been effected and
that this was a united Nation"
Are you quite prepaaed to help the DEM
Ocratic party and solid South do this2 If
you are, don't attend any more Decoration
Day exercises, for your presence would be
an insult to the honOred dead.
It was to prevent the desecration Of that
flag and the doing of the things that you
are asked to do; that Charley Trimble,
Casper Collins and young Arthur, and
thousands more like them in the opening
d bloom Of their young manhood went forth
from happy and luxurious homes to brave
the dangers and hardships Of field and
camp and offer up their lives.
Hundreds in this community viii remem-
Der Charley Trimble, a noble boy whose
future seemed so bright and full of promise,
when he left his college class bearing an
hOnored name and filled with the dnuntlesB
spirit Of his pioneer ancestors, and the gem
erOus enthusiasm of a youthful soldier, to
enlist in his countrys cause in the very
beginning Of that long desperate struggle.
, At the second conflict on ths fatal field of
Bull Run, he saw the color bearer Of his
regiment shot dead. The flag was about to
fall into the hands of the enemy when he
g returned and seized it and striving in vain
q to stem the retreat Of q broken and routed
army on the field of a lost battle, his brave
: young life was crushed out forever and its
hopes and promises are to remain forever
) lunfulflled.
On the green sod of a prairie in the far
West, surrounded by savage and cruel
foe, poor Casper Collins made his costly
{ sacrifice.
t "In the skeleton clutch of famine" in
the agOnies of slow starvation, from amidst
the awful horrors of that dreary prison at
Andersonville, young Arthur's spirit took
its fight.
, Of what avail has it been
ITO rear a monument with pride
Where these boy crusaders died."
{ if the cause for which they fell is so soon
= to be forgotten.
10 Can it be possible that the young men of
this day and generation are willing and not
u only willing, but eager to surrender tie
+ country and the flag for which these youth
= full heroes offered up their lives. If 50,
q then they died in vain, and with the young
men of this generation will rest the shame
} and disgrace of having delivered the gov
r ernment of this Nation into the hands Of
j. those who sought and failed by force to
!, destroy it. And to such I would say
Your task will be well completed when you
U have dishonored the memery of the gallant
e dead by surrendering the flag for which
IS they fought and under whose folds they
fell, and by pensioning their murderers.
For when you place the Democratic party
% in Y,Ownr WON bpwa f11pnad fba
" over to the solid South, to which that party
p looks for more than three-fourths of the
I electoral votes requisite TO elect its candi
. dates for President and Vice President
n And it is the same arrogant, rebellioui
% South to-day, that it was during the war
2 full Of unreasOning hate and prejudice
y toward the loyal North.
No political freedom or opposition il
!. tolerated there. There you must be (
y Bourbon Democrat or keep your moutl
/, shut. There the shotgun and bull Whir
y reign supreme.
y The people of the loyal North have bu
= little idea Of the bitterness Of this southern
y hate for their section, but they will have
r. realizing sense Of it if the young voters o.
~ to-day can be prevailed upon to give thu
n solid South a dominant voice again in tn
~ councils of the Nation.
;f Young men, there is nothing attractiv
I in the Democratic party. As 1 have said
h it is the party Of Mossbacks and Bourbon
,f and Of fossil ideas and condemned heresies
~ 1t maintains an iron discipline, it neve
tOlerltes for a moment political indepeu
,o dence. If you enter its ranks you must b
~ prepared 10 sink your individuality at ono
and bow down in worship to its all power
full bosses
", It is controlled and owned by the bosse
and run by the machine; it has iron disciI
- line In its ranks and the despotc unit rul
I,, in its convention with which to suppress a
1f individual liberty of expression or action
a Thurman, Pendleton, Ward, the wisest an
~, best Of the statesmen of that party, dare
~ to protest against the corruption of boz
o- rule and ring methods, and to-day the
political Bcalps dangle at the belts Of the
nd bosses, while each has been hOpelessly re
og egated to private life and political obscurit,
Le Therefore, if you enter that party, yc
an do il with your eyes open. There the boz
mn reigns supreme and you must be his willir
and obedient slave.
nd On the other hand the Republican par
tly not only tolerates but invites the fulle
nd investigation and debate. Il has write
is the most brilliant page ever contained
N, any nations history. It has done more
III freedom and for mankind than any par
on ever did before, and it did it all in the fa
ate of the bitter opposition Of the Democrac
i'll. 1t suppresssB it8 bosses and sends The
OF 20 the rear, as witness the fate of Conklh
lg, and Cameron. Its leaders are the yyigf