The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-30
DEMOCRACY UMmASKED.
The eoiled Career Of tho Bourbon
Party and Its Impure
Motives.
An Eloquent Speech by Oliver +.
Horton, at Indian.
apOlis, Ind.

To the novitiate the broad lines which sera-
rate the great political PARTIES are but family
!egible. comparison OF Tn platforms reveals
tudinous verbiage OF the Democratic instru-
ment shows nothing OF the soied care II or that
party and its impure motives. But an expert
enccd observer will discover behind the mask OF
virtue which t as ,umes It's woiAsn tongue. De-
mocracy fees from its past like fugitive from
Justice, ike a criminal from the specter or his
victim But they cannot divorce their past
from the present. As freeman says, history Is
the politics OF the past, and loiitics Is the ms
isolated, but il connected with tho past by the
tudissoluble links or cause and effect. Inc doc,
trine OF the heredity OF me Is the only RATIONAL
explanation OF the continuous inisdeeds OF the
Democratic party. Its antecedents are notori-
pusly bad IL changes its professions every
four years as regularly as those years roll py III
5uggles with political principles Ike mou tie
bank, and treats an intelligent public as though
they were a set OF pumpkins, devoid OF me.-ory.
suppose You intend to employ man to I'LL
position OF trust in your bus ness. You would
not pay the slightest attention TO his preten-
sions; you would demand recommenuauions T ~
testing his punctuaiity honesty, efficiency Inc
Democratic arty presen 10 the country TINS
gear hand-biil Of moral platitudes, termed
platform, " hich vaguely promises some IN ngs
That are good and Others that are no But
how can we believe one word which that party
of faithess pledges and broken pre- misses says,
when We recollect that the Democratic party or
the North in 1850, fav red sec 'ssion' In 1907 IL
opposed secess on and favored Recommendation on
the basis OF slavery. In 1864 IL declared tne war
failure: in 1866 IL declared the war success.
In 1865 it opposed the constitutional amend
mcnts; in 1872 It appro,ei the constitutions
amendments. In the same year ~ deinanueo
the immediate resumption OF specie payments;
IN 1876 it demanded an immediate repeal Oh the
resumption act. In 1880 IL demanded tarin
for revenue only in 49,! II tired 70 get On , Ine
trade where il ignomin ously lie- what that
rugged Odd philosopher, DIR. John on, once SAID
70 the young man applies TO the Democratic
"Annnr
pains with Your education. You could not pos
sibly by nature be as stupid as YOU are.
In view OF this trihing with national questions
of grave import, IL may we'll be inquired what
States the democrats will carry IN the coming
election. To answer this question must open
the darkest chapter IN the annals OF american
history-th, reco d OF the Dem cratic party IN
the South since the wjgr-a record that denies
the page anu shames the historian.
They will carry the state or mississippi,
where, until 1915, he kepubh ans had ma
jority OF $4,000, but which was overturned n
that year by revt luton so crue ana 80 DlOouy
as to blanch the face OF outraged humanity
Public massacres, midnight hang1ngs, ostra-
cism--taose threats of violence that spread q
nameless terror through the community, that
feroclty which stamps barbarism on the savage
all tended TO show TO an astonlshed world
what the Democratic party meant by white
mans government. In IA 90 County. where
the Republicans had a majority of LOO and
more seven Republican votes were cast, and
there were many others IN the same ratio.
They will carry the State of Louisiana where,
between the years 1866 and 1o7i, more than 400
Republicans were killed and wounded simply
for exercis NJ their constitutional prerogatiVe or
casting a vote. Negroes were pursued Ike
lepers, and Justice was so prostituted that
slavery in comparison seemed protection and
a BILE sing
ma sacres at Hamburg, Danvillc, Clinton, Cou-
shatta. COlfaX, Nicks Durg Red River, and Me-
chanics' Institute. The Republican vote in Ar
kansas, Louis ana, Miss ssipli, Alabama, North
and South Caro.inl has been literally burned
out-van shed as smoke in the DEMONSTRATING
only the tlnders behind To tell the CHASTITY tale,
Hundreds OF thousands OF votes have been an
initiated.
They will carry every district in the South
where there is illicit distillery every district
where "a Government revenue officer has been
killed. every d~ tr CT where there is no school
house; every district where the balot-boxes
have been stuffed: every district where men,
illegally armed have surrounded the polls; every
district where Kuk uX and White eaguers ex-
fsted; every dis, riot where the Union soldier
eleeps under the sod OF he battle neld; every
district where man has been held as a slave;
every district where the b God of the negro has
stained the soil; every district where the tyranny
of one party remains; in fine, they will carry
every district that is controlled by the despot-
ism OF ignorance and that Is enshroudcd In the
do not say that every Democrat in the South.
or n majority OF them, were ku-klux and White
Leaguers, and favored the measures of these
organizations but do say that every Ku-klux
and White Lacquer was a Democrat.
The Democratic party, that putrehcd remin-
iscence OF treason, crime and bunder, il en-
gagged in telling the country to-day that the
mission OF the Republican party is accom-
plshed. The mission OF the II publican party
will never be accomplished until The Democratic
party is dead.
They ask that we shall no LONGER talk of
Southern outrages. Now that the bloody work
is ovei, and they are masters or the situation,
their sensltiyeuess may be accounted for. They
have gained control OF every clecto al vote
south OF Mason and Dickson's line The South
presents an i'm regnabe and suilen front to-
day. as Ii did twenty-four years ago, and IL a
menace TO the peace and prosperity OF this
country.
n the Democrats in the North desire change
so ardently, let them adjure their Southern
brethren TO permit fair count, and some of
the Southern States will cast legal Republican
The Democratic party not only threatens. but
absolutely pl dyes itself to cut off the pensions
of Union soldiers. IL said, in plank unques-
tionably dictated by the Southern members of
the convention: ave denounce the Republican
party for having failed 10 relieve the people
from crushing war taxes. And again
"1he system OF direct taxation known an the
internal revenue Is a war tax, and so long as the
law continues the money derived therefrom
should be sacrenly devoted TO he relief OF the
people from the remaining burdens of the war,
and be made II nd 10 defray the expense
of the care and com ort OF worthy soldiers dis
abled in the line OF duty in the wars OF the re-
publ, and for the payment OF such pensions
as Congress may, from time to time, grant TO
such soldiers, a like fund for the sailors having
been already provided, and any surplus should
be paid into the Treasury.
They favor paving pensions out of the rro-
ceeds of a tax who's existence they denounce
The spirit OF prophecy moves me, and predict
lin view OF these words and the ght of the
past-that Democratic government will cease
to pay pensions 10 Union soldiers unless the
South is similarly provided for. The first step
will be TO pension Southern widows anu orphans,
who, they will sentimental ly urge. are innocent
victims OF the late strife. That will proba ly
prevail, aud more will follow. This threat and
the talk OF "Cru-hins war taxes" come in bad
grace from the south. In 1878 the Republican
States paid fifteen siXteenths OF the whole GUS
toms revenue OF the nation. Between the years
1866 and 1873 S2u55, 397, 6.8 were collected as
internal-revenue taxes. OF this sum the eleven
Confederate Sta es paid S2Ol 800, O9j. la less
amount than that collected ia the State of OHIO.
The charges of misgove nment preferred
against the Republican party by the Democrats
may be shortly dismissed. They say the Re-
publican party does not protect its citizens
abroad, and quote insolvency. McSweeney
lived in ireland five years, took his oath OF Office
"a Poor-Law Guardian, thereby severing his al
legiance to the Unite Sta.es. He was released
rom prison through the demand of Secretary
Bl inc, Though that gentem n's right to make
the remonstrance was not at all clear McSwee-
nty IL now running as q candidate for the En-
elish Parliament. The Republi, an party pro-
tected its citizens abroad when IL battered down
the forts of Corea: when IL drove the French
out OF Mexico; when 1t forced Si5,0O),O 900 out of
England as settlement of the Alabama claims,
and finally when it made it possible for Ger