The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-10-22
DISREPUTABLE Politics!
A GOOD TIME For DECENT Men To sQUIT
The DEMOCRATIC PARTY!

The result of the election is must
aattering to Republicans, and to no
section more so than Southern Ohio.
Where there are honest industrious
workingmen, there the Republicans
made great gains. The miserable
trickery of the Democratic party has
become nauseating to the people, and
it is in no wise to be wondered at that
the Democratic party has met with a
crushing defeat and rebuke. 1t is a
good time now, before the smoke of
battle entirely clears away, for voters
to look carefully over the field, and
consider we'll the aspect of the situa-
ton. Year after year the Democratic
managers have come around with the
same old dose of Demagogy. They
have never made business Of appeal
ing to the intelligence of the people,
but they rather have appealed to ex-
citement and prejudice. In fact it
may be said that Democracy receives
its principal vitality from ignorance.
No Democratic stumper in these later
days has attempted to enter the field
of reason and logical argument, in the
effort to build up his party.
Will any Democrat take issue with
us in such an assertion? If so, we
have but to appeal to any intelligent
Democrat who has read the literature
Of his party, or heard the harangues
of Democratic stumpers, for the right
eousness and truthfulness of our posi-
ton. For years and years many good
men have voted and acted with this
party, evidently with the hope that,
by keeping up the party organization,
a better element Of Democratic faith
would eventually work to the top, and
give the old party a better character.
But such hope has been ruthlessly
blasted. Democracy has degenerated
from year to year, until the respecta-
BILE portion of the party are compelled
to look with shame and humiliation
upon the party leaders.
In the recent campaign in this State
the Democracy were asked to follow
a leader who had, in public proclaim
ation-purposely it seemed-ignored
the Creator, and who boasted that in
temperance, with all it's train of
attendant evils, was right. The party
leaders never for moment considered
the right or possibility for any respect
able Democrat to think for himself,
and maintain his.character as decent
man and good citizen by withdrawing
from the support OF such a man
And this is the best that the Demo
cratic leaders do for their party. Even
when Democrats have rallied to the
of their party ticket in times
Of Republican apathy, and placed the
Democracy in power, the leaders have
most shamefully betrayed the trusts
in them by giving the people
the most disreputable of administra-
tions possible to attain. 1t has been
the same old repetitions of the same
old history. The man who has voted
the Democratic ticket during the last
twenty-five years, is compelled to re-
main dumb when asked what good
thing his party has accomplished dur
ing that time. What humiliating
spectacle for a good citizen!
The serious question which every
good Democratic citizen should ask
himself just now, in the light Of the
peoples condemnation Of his party, is
"does it PAYS it honorable to be a
Democrat any longer? 1t matters
not that you have always been Dem
ocaat. Does it pay to smother your
own responsibility by lending your
name and your sanction to the unscru-
pulous men and methods Of the Dem
ocratic management? We cannot be
accused OF saying this from motives
of Republican selfshness, for we have
nearly thousand Republican majority
in Jackson County, and a good safe
majority in the State. We talk thus
merely in the light of one citizen
addressing another, and considering
the best interests Of both. Take these
matters into consideration, friends;
look at the situation carefully; study
the character of the Democratic lead
ership; look to the good of the Ma
tional, the State, and the County
Governments: and in the name of the
Lord leave the Democratic party. Do
not wait until the heat Of campaign
when you will be annoyed and CEN
sured, but leave it now-and forever