Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-09-17
AN INGRATE'S SHAME.


In addressing the Anti-Saloon Conven
ton in Chicago, yesterday, ex-Senato
Window, of Minnesota, claiming for him
self and his auditors, that they had n
intention of forming third party, anc
that they were working as true-blue Re
publicans, among other trash said:
II think that such thought does not ente
the minds of any other delegate here present
The party that freed the slave, that dignifet
human labor, that enacted the homestead
laws, that suppressed the great rebellion
that defended its country's honor in peace
and advanced it to the front rank of the ma
tions of the earth, is good enough for me-"
''How long, oh Lord, will this sort o
thing continue ?" is the natural exclama
ton from every Democrat in the land
when he reads this false statement made
by the hoary-headed renegade, whom
even the Minnesota Republicans would
not stomach, and whom good Democrats
abhor, for his namby-pamby methods.
Giving all due credit to him and his au-
dience for doing what they affect to be-
lieve is right, nothing in the case war
rants such an uncalled-for and cruel
statement as that "the Republican party
suppressed the great rebellion" The
bleaching bones of thousands of the dead
who met death in the struggle for the
Union, must feel bitter shock in the air
that bears such an migrate lie upon its
wings, and the desolate hearts in every
hamlet and settlement in the land gives
the lie to such a monstrous and cruel
Misrepresentation. The hallowed memo
ries OF Hancock, Mcclellan, Mcdowell,
and thousands of the men who met death
that the country might live, leap as liv-
ing Goals Of fire into the hearts OF those
who loved and served under them, and
turn to whips of scorn to lash the un-
manly and untruthful charlatan who
would thus impose a cruel wrong upon
the unofending dead, in order to bolster
up the decaying cause OF men who reaped
the reward gained by the sacrifice of
those illustrious lives, in the battles for the
unity and prosperity of the people 1t is
an unholy cause which must needs rob
the dead of their laurels, and lacerate
the hearts of the living who loved them,
by such bastard filings at their memories.
Go into any G. A. r. Post of the men
who fought these battles; 90 into any
Home provided for the maintenance of
those who are unable to fight the battle
OF life, by reason of the loss of blood,
shed in the battles for the country; 90
even into the cities of the Union dead
that dot the land each trumpet-tongued
denial of the insult, and human and
spirit forms will arise in thousands and
give the lie in the teeth to the miserable
old man, whose latter DAYS are given to
the defamation of the dead. The records
OF the war and of all who participated in it,
prove doubly and a thousand times over,
that the Republican party caused. the
war, and the Democratic party fought its
battles to successful issue. If such
thing were permissible, as the listing of
the officers now in the Army and Navy,
and who survived the war, the great ma
jority of them, it is we'll known, would
hurl this lie back in the teeth of Win
dom, and the time is coming when the
people of the country will arise in their
might, and by their united vote give vent
to their honest indignation against a
party that stoops to defile the memo
ries OF the dead, to bolster up a rotten
cause.