Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-10-08
THE YOUNG VOTER.
Advice to the Young Men Who VIII Vote
as to Where to Cast Their First Ballots.


Lieut.. Gov. Hanna, at Gosport, Ind.]
young man, you should consider well before
casting your first ballot. If you start to voting
right it will be of great advantage to you in after
l1fe If you vote with a party that is proud of
its past history-a party that can take great sat-
isfaction in recounting its record in the war for
the Union-a party that is pleased with its
candidates, a party that is active, progressive,
and determined to be for Americans and
America; If 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
restless young men. Young man, do you know
that the youngest Democrat in this country that
ever voted for a Democratic President is 40
years of age?
1T has been twenty eight years since the
Democratic party elected its President, and I'M
less that party mends its ways, 1t will be
twenty-eight years more before it even has a
chance to elect President
Intelligent, enterpr1sing young men, don { 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 is there, Hen
bricks is there, Cleveland is there, Tiden is
into the Democratic party. Don't you see it is
no place for you? Don't be Democrat just be-
cause your father was Democrat. / heard an
Irishman in my town say that there was no
need of young man being Democrat just be-
cause his father was Democrat-no more use
of it than there was for a young man to be q
bachelor just because his father was bachelor
My young Democratic friend, let me tell you
secret. ] was Democrat once Myself, in my
younger days, and an orthodox at that; that is,
my father voted for Polk and Pierce, but when
I hpar nf 1Nar xUhp L hoard
of Fremont and free homes for free men, l
fell in line under the Republican flag, and have
been following it 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 Will always be proud
OF that act-a party that since it 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 fittest
party whose motto is equality before the law
and at the ballot box. party that gives homes
to the homeless; that crushed secession; that
obllterated human slavery: that made it lmpoS-
slbe for slave to exist beneath our flag in the
domains of our republic: a party that believes
In protecting American labor and American in
duStrIeS; party under whose wise adminiStra-
ton our country has grown rich and prosperous,
mas increased more than threetold In wealth IN
the last thirty years, and to-day our republic is
the greatest and grandeSt nation beneath the
stars. Young man, II you will join the Repub-
lean party, you will be urged on to greater and
nobIer deeds, you will be stimulated by the eX-
ample and memories of the actions of the great
fathers in the Republican party-the apostles
and martyrs of freedom-yOu will be
surrounded by men who keep pace
with the spirit and pro gress 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
he N- n - nONfF,1
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 Presidents-Lincoln, Grant,
Hayes, GARFIELD, Arthur, and next November,
James q. blaine of Maine