The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1888-08-22
A FEW OF THE REASONS WHY.
A Defense. of Men and Principles
Against Some Groundless
Charges


1t is often made the catch-straw 10y
Republicans that Democrat is fol.
lower of his party simply and solely be-
cause his father was "A Democrat before
him; and also that his Rebel parentage,
or his allegiance long ago to the South
ern cause, are absolute proofs Of his
/ the truth in many instances. We have
+ thousands of men III the Democratic
party to-day loyal, true and earnest -
who twenty-five years ago were raising
, the Yankee yell These men, like all
true Democrats, cherish the conviction
that when the war was over il was fin
| ished; they have no desire to recall
those musty issues of the past long
ago settled mid smoke and death and
introduce them, like some ancient
ghosts, in the politics of to-day. Meth
er do they consider themselves better
Democrats than their brothers who
fought on the other side. With mag
nanimity born of loyalty itself, they
strive valiantly for the Democratic
cause, never STOPPING to that low ar
tifice of taunting the world with their
Yankee war history. They realize that
the politics of to-day involve but the
causes of to-day-that the reviving of
war memories should contribute not
one iota to the convincing argument of
any politician. That the Democratic
party are set of Rebels in thought
and action yet is what the Republic
ans would have you believe. That they
are not, / call upon the thousands of
Union Democrats to testify that they
are not, | call upon any man endowed
with child's understanding, TO point
to a resolution passed in platform, to
Democratic act in public service, that
bears in its import Rebel semblance.
Nor has every Democrat "A father of
like politics. This accusation of des-
cending politics BELTS the Republicans
more generally than any other party.
They would seek to establish that ig-
norance of politics in the young Dem
ocrat of to day which bespeaks the
knowledge of nothing more preferable
than to blindly follow in his fathers
Democratic footprints. Thanks to the
principles of our great party, such is
not the case Many are the young
Democrats, who were reared by Re-
publican parents in Republican com
munities, and taught that Democrat
was Rebel and a devil in human
mould, who worshipped nothing more
reverently than the Lost Cause, which |
Col. Swope said Mt Beaver Dam, with |
tears in his eyes as big as
biscuits, permitted child to be sold
from its mother. How sad to think OF
i'll OF course the Democratic party of |
to-day is responsible for all this! i will |
nickel to missionary fund |
to send Brother Swope to distant lands
where such is the case to-day, and the
Democrats are no more responsible for
it than the instance to which the hypo-
critical Colonel made reference. His
eloquence ON this subject was 50 pa
thetic and fearful, ii shows that he has
qualified himself to preach in country
where imaginary slaves are still held in
bondage.
The young men are Democrats, not
because their father is Democrat
perhaps he is, many times he is not
but because they believe in that princi-
Pile which gives the poor man equal
rights with the millionaire; because the
Democratic party fulfills all its prom