Nevada County picayune., 1885-11-19
X SchOOlbOy on Politics.
PRESCOTT, ARK, NOv.3 3, 1885.

vote. Have been thinking of late hou to vote. My brother is a Democrat, my father is a Green. packer, what am I to bei
 Our school History shows us that all party leaders are not patri- otic leaders. Patriotism is pure and always leads to exalted action. Partisanship aegenerates into de- tective forces, exposing each oth- CTS corruption, and of late was but a scramble for place and spoil. It is time for thought for our party in power. The long and stubborn contest, and the closeness of the great popular vote, indicate but a probationary confidence in the pub lie mind. The usual enthusiasm attending the changes of the Gov ernment from one to the other great party in the country has gone, and the worldwide depression in agricultural, commercial and me- chanical enterprises, is pressing men to think as they have never thought before.
 The English parliament has a Commission appointed to think in. to the cause of the hard times of that Kingdom. In our country public opinion is not decided, but young men and old men, labor and capital are thinking. The ins and outs-Greenbackers, Democrats, Republicans aud PrOhibitionists- Patriots and Demagogues-all, all are thinking. Some say too much money is withdrawn from circula. tion, others that it ia the Tariff, others cry out corruption, and ar que that, with no money expended for whisky, tobacco or other use- less articles, tho farmers can free themselves from mortgages in one or two years, using of couse per severing industry and common in- telligence. Be that as it may, We boys observe the men, who attend to their own business are generally most successful, and that the polit- ical wire workers are usually nor ally and financially the dead beats of every community.
 tell you, Mir. Gardner l have fun at our house now. Father and brother argue as if the purpetuity of this grand Government depend ed upon the establishment of Dem- Octacy or Greenbackism. Father says the Old Democracy preferred defeat to success, rather than sac rifice principle; that they never went further than to cull Mir. Greedy and Brooks from their Republican foe, but that in order to win, the Young Democracy changed their platform to agree in future policy with the Republicans, refusing only to endorse reconstruction and the Republican administrations. He says the Young Democracy is in power on Republican doctrine, and that only few old Democrats and Wings had adhered to the princi. ples taught by the fathers.
 Brother laughs at the Old Dem- Ocracy and says that States Rights was settled by the war and tLat Success is the supreme test of ability in men and parties. c'Suc- cess" means "Office," politically speaking, don't it Mir. Gardner?) Brother admits the changes re- ferred to in platform but defends it on the ground of progress and that the Young Democracy must 'suc. ceed' in this country in spite of the old and antiquated platforms of the fathers. That these changes are evidence of life and in keeping with the liring issues of the day That the Young Democracy's de- parture from ancient Democratic doctrine is far wiser than the form CT bitter adherance of our fathers. to party and to men, in voting divid- edly, for Breckenridge and Doug las, and Bell, and thus inviting de- feat rather than uniting on either of the three, to have preserved that peace and the Union without blOOdshed.
 Father claims that in pushing the Republicans oat of office the Young Democracy also took the marrow out of their platform, and that in fact we are still under Re publican doctrine by Democratic name. He claims that by virtue of their patient training of the boys