The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-24
THE IOWA CAMPAIGN.
An Earnest Plea for Republican Unity
Since the Confederacys
Success.
Unmasking the HOllOwness of the Fusion
Temperance Schcme-Instruc-
tive Comparisons.
An Able Speech Delivered by State Sem
ator P. NJ. Sutton, at Lyons,
Iowa.

The Democratic party for the last twenty-five
years has been merely party of resistance
has resisted every one OF the historical events
OF the last quarter OF a century which have Civ
en- to the nation its new and higher character.
go long as 1t was party of opposition only its
characteristics were not considered worthy OF
very grave consideration. But now it has be-
come the governing party. The Government
for four wears must remain In its hands, and
while IL remains the governing party 1t must
impress its nature upon every element of the
nation.
While 1t was the irresponsible party we were
pleased TO overlook its weaknesses and its
faults, feeling that it could do but little harm
and hoping that IT might die or else put on a
new and better life. The world long supposed
the Democratic party was dead. The Demo-
cratic party cnce thought itself to be dead.
But to the surprise OF the world and 10 itself, IL
still lives. the same party that it was before the
war, and beholds itself now the controlling
party OF the country. And 1t becomes our duty
TO discuss its characteristics In plain, honest
words and without reserve. / believe 1t TO be
utterly unworthy OF the trust Ii holds, and that
IL deserves to be impeached by the people of
this country, and for causes which fairly appeal
to every patriotic mind and heart. For it Is an
unpatriotic party and a dishonest party. 1t is
not in sympathy with the national pride of this
country, and IL has obtained control of the
country by false pretenses and fraud.
The very soul OF the Democratic party Is poi
soned against our national glory. IL is the old
spirit OF the Southern States that survived after
the body OF the Con, ederacy was put in its
grave. This and nothing else kept the Demo-
cratic party alive In IL alone ex-Confederates
have found an excuse for the Confederacy And
fos that reason the solid South has chung to the
Democratic party with the same persistency
with which 1t has chung to the lost cause. Seces-
sion was the logical result of Calhoun's inter-
probation OF Thomas Jefferson.
Calhounism the soul of the Democratic
party in 1885, and the last Democratic National
Convention at Chicago reaffrmed the cardinal
principles of Democratic faith as declared in the
Democratic platform of 1856. 1t did 80 in ex-
press words, and 1t did SO to enable the South to
say to its sons We stand now in the Demo-
cratic party just where we stood in 1856" Ex-
Confederates everywhere say they were COM
PEELED to surrender, but insist that they were
right: and base their assumption upon the car
dnal principles OF the Democratic party before
the war; reaffirmed by the Democratic party of
1884, The Confederate Democracy Is the control
ling part of the Democratic party. and no great
favor can be expected from that party except
by they who indulge the Confederate Demo-
Gratis in their assumption that secession was
right. and we see the Northern Democracy NOM
mating to office in the nation and in our State
and for the highest positions, only such men as
took no active part against the South during
the rebellion. The North, by forgiveness and
charity unparalleled in the history of the world.
has sought to unite the Confederate people with
the Union upon some patriotic basis And while
the North has no desire to keep alive the I'M
pleasant memories of the rebellion it cannot in
justice or honor surrender the cause for which
its sons died. III patriotism rather than disre-
gard is 70 be cultivated by the American people,
then the Democratic party must be defeated.
At the close of the war for the Union the
patriotic party of this country made IL funda-
mental principle of its Government that no one
should be permitted to hold Office under the
Government unless true in act and faith to the
cause OF the Union. They therefore provided
by the fourteenth amendment that no person
who had violated an oath OF office by engaging
In instruction or rebellion against the Govern
ment should hold any office, civil or military,
under the United States, unless permitted to do
so by two-thrds vote of each house of Con-
gress.
Congress provided that disabled ex-Con-
federatcs might remove their own disability by
making oath that they would bear true faith
and allegiance" TO the Government. The Gov
eminent simply demanded that self perjured
ex-Confederates should renounce their treason
before God before again assuming the rights of
citizenship: that they should swear true faith
and allegiance to the Government which had
preserved the Union of the States at the sacri-
and allegiance" mean that the North was right
and the South wrong. Faith means more
than allegiance and every ex-Confederate who
took the test-oath swore that he possessed the
faith.
Now, we all remember and must know that
Lamar and Garland and nearly the whole line
OF Confederate officials took that oath with
lie upon their lips, falsely pretending a faith
they did not possess and promising an al
legiance which they did not intend. They did
this fof the , sole parPS POI % stealing
could not be regained except by political
perjury. The oath was hardly cold upon their
lips Tn i N the yeTy places they stole oy false
wrong; that the South had done nothing IL
should be condemned for. or that IL needed TO
apologize for. In this spirit the unrepentant
chieftain OF the Confederacy was eulogized as
patriot en- the floors of Congress.
The unrepentant South stole political power
by false pretenses. and then extended that
power bv methods still more reprehensible. 1t
seized the 20 Is of the Confederate states. and
by conspiracy and fraud, and by intimidation
and massacre made. the emancipated freedman
a political slave. and robbed him OF the vote
the nation gave him, and to this day they keep
that stolen vote to their own use and benefit.
Beginning with political perjury and per-
severing through political robbery and murder.
they established themselves in every one of the
COME ierate States. Then they reached out
their hands TO the North for help again. Look
at their Northern allies. They embrace the
thugs, the thieves, and political criminals of our
cities, the Copperhead Democrats and the po-
ltical tricksters and demaeogues of all parties
They have stolen citizenship, they have stolen
the Confederate States. they have stolen New
York by a false pretense of civil-servicc reform,
and now they propose to steal Iowa, the banner
Republican State of then alton. by the boldest
fraud yet attempted.
They propose to steal Iowa by a pretense OF
temperance reform. This pretense is made for
the purpose OF securing temperance votes for
the benefit OF the saloon. They propose law
that Is wholly I'm the interest OF the saloon. and
the saloons are giving 10 their money and sup
port. and yet they have the unprecedented