The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-10-31
"LET 1T DE-"
What a leading Democratic Paper
SAID of It's Party in 1880.
The Chicago "Times" Explains Why
the Party Should Die.

ino TecenU pTtslCenLlaI election mas SHOWN
that there is an invincble reason why the
Democratic party can never win q national
victory. 1t is that the youths of this re-
public are not Democratic The sons Of
Democratic fathers have grown up Repub-
licans. So long as slavery and the war
linger within the memory of Americans, the
youths OF the republic will continue to grow
up Republicans; and slavery aud the war
will b. remembered as long as the public
school system exists.
The public schools have elain the Demo-
cratic perry with the textbooks. 1t is vain
for statesmen to declare that there were as
many Democ ats as Republicans 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 with
out the aid Of the Democratic party 1t is
Idle for philanthropy to suggest that the at
| ii ude OF that party toward the war in the
beginning was humane one: that 1t was
inspired by the higher aud be ter wish
that the cause of the conflict should be peace
ably removed, and the spilling of brothers
blood by brothers hands avoided. The Demo-
cratic party has been IDEALLY identified with
slavery and slaveholding. The Republican
party is ideally identified with emauc patton
aud the war; Therefore are the youths OF the
country incapable of being Democratic.
win = national victory. Its old men are dying
away.
THE YOUNG MEN ALL REPUBLICANS.
The boys who catch the bJ'ots that fall
from their stiffened hands are Republicans.
This fact cannot be denied. 1t will do no
goof to quarrel with it. All other causes
which have oLetated to diminish the number
of Democrats and increase the number of
Republicans are insignificant besides this one
Tremendous and invinchle fact. The curse
of slavery has ppls )ued the blood and rot
ted the bone of the Democratic party he
msledic.ion OF the war has palslei its brains
NO DEMOCRATS THERE.
cs.e young wife who held the babe uo to
kiss the father as he hurried to the tap of his
departing regiment has not sucked q Demo-
crat. The weary foot of the gray grand
mother who watched the children while the
wife was busy has not rocked the cradle of
Democrat. The chair that the soldier father
never came back to fill has not been climbed
upon by Democrats. The old blue coat thai
his comrades carried back was cut up for
little jackets, but not one covered the
heart of Democrat. The ratified
musket that fell from him with his
last shot became the thoughtless toy If
his boys; but not a hand that played
with it was the hand of a Democrat. The
babe he kissed crowed and crowed for his
return, and its unwit'iDg and unanswered
notes were not from the throat of q Demo
crat. The tearsoiled camp let ers which the
mother read aloud iE the long, bitter even.
iDgs while The Boys clusrere at her knees
did not fall upon DEM cratic ears. The
girls sobs, blend ng with the mothers weep
lug, did not make Democrats Of their broth
ers. Perhaps the father had been Demo-
crat all his life! .. ga ~. 'ts
DEMOCRATS NOT MADE IN srHooLs. g.
The children go to scaool. There is not a
Democrat on its benches. The first reader
contains a portrait of Abraham Lipcoln-
that kind and sturdy face never made a
Democrat. On its simple pages, in words of
ons or two sylables, is told the story of his
birth ard death. That story never made a
Democrat. In the pranks of the play
ground the name sllences the frolic-
some and makes the j nlliest grave.
That name never made q Democrat. In
tre pictures that light up the geography are
the firing OH Fort sumter and the death OF
| Ellsworth. Those pictures MAKE no Demo-
! Gratis. The first page OF the his DRY contains
| a representation of the surrender OF Lee at
| Appomattox. No boy goZes on that and
ever after avows himself Democrat.
THE CURSE OF SLAVERY ON THE PARTY.
In the higher grades the same subtle and
| unresisted influence is at work. The text
book contains extracts from patriots
speeches during the war. Those
speeches make no Democrats The
great battles are briefly described; the
narrative has no Democratic listeners. The
strain of martial music runs through the
readers, and tnat music makes no Demo-
Gratis Sket cbes Of the great generals are
gwen; the brave d. eds arouse the enthusiasm
of the lads, but there Is no Democrat amor e
them. The horrors and sufferings of the
slaves are told; the maddened blood that
mounts the VS. cheeks is not Democratic
blood. The curse OF slavery has pursued the
Democratic parry, aud has bounded it to its
death Therefore, let It die; aud no lip will
he found to say prayer over the grass on its
grave.
OTHER CAUSES FOR rreoCRATIC DEFEAT.
The late defeat need not be attributed to
any other causes. Other causes were at
work, but they were only incidental The
tariff was one. Sec ionaism was a second.
LET we'll enough alone' was third. The
October failure in Indiana was fourth. But
all these were trivial, and together could not
have accomplished the result The result
was accomplished because the youth 1T the
republic was not Democratic. That p,rty is,
therefore, without a future and without q
hope. The malepction of the war has
palsiei its brain. Toe curse Of slavery has
poisoned Its booi and rotted lis bone. Let
it die.-Noy z, 1880.