Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-08-06
"LET 1T DE-"
The Democratic Party Never Can and
Never Ought to Win Another Ma
tiOnal VICTORY

The following remarkable article ap-
peared in the Chicago Times (Dem.)
Immediately after the presidential cleo
tion of 1880, and was, in the light Of the
certain defeat of Cleveland, remark
able prediction:
The recent presidential election has
shown that there is an invincible rea
son why the Democratic party can
never win a national victory. 1t is said
that the youths of this Republic are not
fathers have grown up Republicans.
So long as slavery and the war inger
within the memory of Americans, the
youths of the Republic will continue
to grow up Republicans; and slavery
and the war will be remembered as long
as the public school system exists. The
public schools have
SLAIN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY,
with the text books. 1t is vain for,
statesmen to declare that there wereas
many Democrats as Republicans in the
Union army. 1t is vain to affirm that
the war for the preservation of the I'm
ion could not have been carried to a
successful close without the aid of the
Democratic party. It is idle for phi
lanthropy to suggest that the attitude
of that party to the war in the begin
ming was humane one; that it was in
spired by the higher and better wish
that the cause of the conflict should be
peaceably removed, and the spilling of
brothers. blood by brothers hands
avoided. The Democratic party has
been ideally identified with slavery and
slaveholding. The Republican party
is ideally identified with emancipation
and the War Therefore are the youths
of the country incapable of being Dem
ocratic. Therefore the Democratic
party can never win National victory.
ITS OLD MEN ARE DYING AWAY.
The boys who catch the ballots that
fall from their Stiffened hands are Re-
publicans. This fact cannot be denied.
1t will do no good to quarrel with it.
All other causes which have operated
to diminish the number of Democrats
and increase the number of Republi-
cans are insignificant beside this one
tremendous and invincible fact. The
curse of slavery has poisoned the blood
and rotted the bone of the Democratic
party. The maledictiOn of the war has
palsied it's brain. The young wife who
held the babe up to kiss the father as
he hurried to the tap of his departing
regiment has not sucked q Democrat.
ln6 weary lOOU Oh Jno gray grand
mother who watched the children while
the wife was busy has not rocked the
cradle of Democrats. The chair that
the soldier father never came back to
fill has not been climbed upon by Dem
ocrats.
THE OLD BLUE COAT
that his comrades carried back was cut
up for little jackets, but not one COW
cred the heart of a Democrat. The
ratified muskets that fell from him with
his last shot became the thoughtless
toys of his boys; but not a hand that
played with it was the hand of a Dem
ocrat. The babe he kissed crowed and
crowed for his return, and it's unwilling
and unanswered notes were not from
the throat of q Democrat. The tear
soiled camp letters which the mother
read aloud in the long, bitter evenings
while the boys clustered at her knees,
did not fall on Democratic ears. The
girls sobs, blending with the mothers
weeping, did not make Democrats of
their brothers. Perhaps the father. had
been Democrat all his life!
THE CHILDREN GO TO SCHOOL.
There is not Democrat on it's
benches. The first reader contains the
portrait of Abraham Lincoln-that
kind and sturdy face never made
Democrat. On it's simple pages, in
words OF one or two syllables, is told
the story of his birth and death. That