The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-27
Young Voters, Attention.

There will 100000 young men
vote 70" Presidential electors next
month who never voted for Presi
dental electors before. These 2,O0O,-
GOO young voters hold the result of
the present contest in their hands.
Now as custodians of trust at once
so important and SO far reaching, it
is their duty to act with thoughtful
caution. AS young American citi-
zens you have this responsibility,
and in the discharge of it it will not
do for you to say that your father
acted thus or SO. 1t will not do for
you to follow your inclinations sole
Iy; to follow your preferences, your
sympathies.
Your decision affects your own
future. 1t also affects the future of
your neighboc. This is the rub, Here
is the moral side of it. You are your
brothers. political keeper. As a po-
litical sentiuel-young, patriotic, am
bitiOus-are you going to prove false
to your American citizenship at the
very outset?
Right down in your heart you have
a sympathy for one cause or the
other. 1t is very largely this SYM
patny that determines whether you
are a Democrat or a Republican.
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Now what right have you to bljndIy
follow this sympathy, when your act
directly affects every other man in
the land? You are a sovereign, not
a serf. You are sitting in judgment
upon the future CT your own realm.
You elect judge to the bench.
He follows his prejudices and disre-
CARDS evidence. You quickly degrade
him. Ought not you as electors, who
put not only judges upon the bench,
but lawmakers in Congress and Pres
idepts in the White House, ought
net YOU to be hauled down from your
American citizenship if you follow
prejudice, and disregard evidence?
You admit that you ought. OF
course you do. You are manly
Americans, and can't do otherwise.
Now let US submit in evidence, three
points:
1. That history shows that when
ever the strong, national policy, out
lined 10y Hamilton, saved from de-
struction by Lincoln aud Grant, and
now represented by the party of
HarrisoG,-whenever this policy has
obtained, we have made progress.
Why2 Because the policy had in it
the elements of success the opposite,
or Jefersonian policy, the elements
of failure. You doubt this? Let us
beg our judges to lay aside that Turk
ing prejudice, that suggested the
| doubt, and read our history through
clean glasses.
2. That experience proves that our
material progress has been made
while we shut out products of foreign
capital and labor, unless they paid us
something for coming in.
3. That wherever there is greatest
material accumulation, there Is great
est culture, temperance, humanity,
piety.
As an impartial sovereign, with
decision IN your hand that affects not
alone yourself, but me, and not alone
me, but every other American, you
are bound to take this evidence into
consideration. Can you gainsay it ?
If you can find the road to national
unity in the precepts of Calhoun; if
you can find more material wealth
in Virginia and Mississippi than in
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania ; if
you can find the highest culture in
the lower wards of New York, and
in States where two out OF every
three men you meet can neither read
nor write; if you can do this, then
you can C0nscientiously decide this
case in favor of the principles at
present represented by Cleveland and
Thurman. If you cannot, then as an
impartial judge, you are bound to
decide it in favor of the principles
represented by Harrison and Morton. .
Bear this in mind that it is no more
a question Of men than it is of SYM
pathy. IT is a question of principle,
not of your prejudice or Of your
preference.
John f. Henshen is a machinist of
indianapolis, who was recently can. |