Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-10-31
"LET 1T DIE ="
The Democratic Party Condemned Ont
Of Its Own Mouth Death De.
serypd-Tt Ought Not to Live.

shO WI that there is All invincihle rea.
son why the Democratic party can
never win II national victory. 1t is
that the youths of this republic are not
Democrats. The sons of Democratic
fathers have grown up Republicans.
So long as slavery and the war linger
in 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 ex-
lists
The public schools have slain the
Democratic party with its textbooks.
1t is vain for statesmen to declare that
there were as manv Democrats as Re.
publicans in the Union army. 1t is
vain to affirm that the war for the
preservation of the Union could not
have been carried to successful close
without the aid of the Democratic
party. 1t is idle for philanthropy to
suggest that the attitude Of that party
toward the war in the beginning was
a humane one; that it was inspired by
the higher and better wish that the
cause of the conflict should he peace
ably removed, and the splitting of
brothers. blood by brothers. hands
avoided. The Democratic party has
heen ideally identified with slavery
and slave-holding. The Republican
party is identified with emancipation
and the war. Therefore are the youths
of the country incapable of being
Democratic. Therefore the Democratic
party can never win National vic
tory. Its old men are dying away.
The boys who catch the ballots that
fall from their stiff-ned hands are
Republicans. This fact cannot be de-
MED. 1t will do no good to quarrel
with it. All others which have oper.
ated to diminish the number of Dem.
ocrats and increase the lumber of Re.
publicans 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 maIediction
of the war has palsied its 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 Democrat. The weary
foot of the gray grandmother 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 Democrats. The
old blue coat that his comrades carried
back was cut up for little jackets, but
not one covered the heart of Demo
Graf. The ratified musket that fell
from him with his last shot became the
thoughtless toy of his boys; but not
hand that played with it was the
hand of a Democrat. The babe he
kissed crowed and crowcd for his re-
turn, and its unwriting and unar swered
notes were not from the throat of a
Democrat. The tear-soiled camp let
tiers which the mother read aloud i,
the long, bitter evenings while the boys
clustered at her knees did not fal
upon Democratic ears. The girls sobs
blending with a mothers weeping
did not make Democrats of theil
brothers. Perhaps the father hac
been Democrat all his life!
l The children go to school. There is
t not Democrat on its benches. Thu
first reader contains portrait o
Abraham Lincoln - that kind ano
sturdy face never made a Democrat
On its SIMPLE pages, in words of one o
two syllables, is told the story Of hi
birth and death. That story neve
j, made Democrat. In the pranks o
the Fairgrounds the name silences thu
=. froicsome and makes the jollies
:. grave. The name never made Dem
!, ocrat. In the pictures that light "
F. the geography are the firing on For
4 Sumter and the death of Ellsworth
). These pictures make no Democrats
The first page of the history contain
a representation Of the surrender o
Lee at Appomattox. No boy gazes OF
that and ever atterward avows him
, self Democrat.
;, In the higher grades the same sub
tie and unresiSted influence is at work
The te xt-books contain extracts iron
: patriots speeches during the wal
Those speeches made no Democrat.
The great battles are briefly described
the narrative has no Democratic listen
ers. The strain of martial music run
through the readers, and that musi
makes no Democrats. Sketches OF tn
$ great Generals are given; the brav
II deeds arouse the enthusiasm of tn
/. lads, but there is no Democrat anon
|. them. The horrors and suffering {
> the slaves are told: the maddene'
blood that mounts the boys cheeks
It not Democratic blood. The curse {
h slavery has pursued the Democrat
o party, and has bounded it to ITS dealt
Therefore, let it die; and no lips wi
be found to say prayer over til
grass on its grave.
The late defeat need not be attrit
u,ed to any other causes. Otht