Huntsville gazette., 1886-07-24

Protection Of American labor and
American industry Blair Flu
cational Bill, now before the United
States Congress. has their earnest and
cordial supporl--they want an hon
est election law 50 guarded that no
fraud whatever can be perpetrated;
they are opposed to the present in
famous convict system. and to many
of the cruel, barbarous laws now con
taiued in our criminal code, believing
that the punishment of lime should
be 10 graded as to reform the criml-
nal aud not to brutalizs him.
We care not to GO into even his
torical epitome Of the Democatic par
ty from 1861 to 1886, for that history
truthfully written would cause thrill
Of Indignation IT, permeate the pe0
pie, bui ok at its history since the
war aud marx liz tersiversations and
frequent bare back revolutions in the
air
In the Chicago convention In 1854
the Democratic party declared 1.-The
war failure" 10 the year 1868 the
national platform of this same party
said I'VE regard the reconstruc
tiou acts ESQ called) of Congress, as
usurpation aud unconstitutional rev
olationary and void"
La the yer 1876. ahe Democratic
National Convention said III its plat
form: "We denounce the resnmpt-
ion clause of the act of 1876. and we
hereby demand it's repeal" In 1868
and in 1872 the Democratic party.
without hesitation, denounced the
Republican party for nominating a
soldier for President. and in 1880 1t
, nominated Gen Hancock, a soldier
, 10 the regular army, for Pre- ident.
i After the passage Of the constitu-
tional amendments conferring the
right of suffrage on all male citizens
Of the United States, irrespective OF
, color, it denounced these amend
ments; four years afterward it ac-
cepted them as final. 1t denounced
the greenback currency as illegal and
afterwards wanted to pay the nation
} al debt in greer backs. We m'ght6l
! page after page with the protean pol
icy Of this Dem .cratic party. but
lesist.
We appeal to you. fellow-citizen Ms
9 of Alabama, to trust this Democratic
party no longer, but TO give yOul
votes TO the nominees of the Repub
/ lican party, o party that has perpet
: uated American liberty on this con
tinent, upheld the stars and stripes
of our Fathers.
q The Democratic party, as We be
E lieve by fraud in some Of the States
captured the Presidency in 1884
and we poiot you to the results
cotton sold cheaper in the city Of
q New York in February of this year
! than for thirteen years look at the
disorganiz. d state of labor, the lre-
quent great strikes, all over our com
mon country, the blood shed. the
destruction of property, and women
= aud children on the streets of some
Q Of our great cities crying for bread
I Where ars the promises made by
the Democratic party to tue people
in the Presidential campaign In 1854
in which they pledged if successful,
that they would pay out the great
surplus in the United States Treas
ury to the people Where is the
, tulflment to the people Of this prom
Use, aud where is the surplus Let
these lator strikes. aud the spirit Of
unrest among the people answer.
People Of Alabama, we appeal to
you to lay aside your prejudices. and
come up to the support If the Re-
publican party, who truthfully be-
lieve in the government Of the peo
pie, for the people, and by the peo-
Pile.
Truth crushed to earth will rise again
The eternal years of God are hers
Our excellent c ,Dtoniporary The
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