Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1890-10-08
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Tho laws Of Newj1D1Oe authorisS
each political party n Select an emblem
% be placed upon thu tickets. At the
democratic tcrritsria Convention held at
silver CITY II was pr} Bosed to adopt the
American nag - tho perty emblem, but
this motion was Debated and the rooster
VA selected instead.
Gov. Prince, while presiding at the
republican territorial! convention . few
days since, took advantage OF this action
Of the democrats to draw . comparison
between the party records rs follows:
The contrast between the parties on
the broad field OF national affairs IL well
illustrated by = recent event at Silver
City.
You remember that the last legislature
passed n act authorizing each party to
select some emblem to be printed on Its
ballots. Naturally It was to be
something appropriate to the party. AT
the late democratic national convention,
= delegate from San Miguel. whose re-
publican education had given
him some patriotic ideas, moved
that the American nag be
adopted as their emblem; ~thereupon the
convention, with great unanimity and
amid loud applause, proceeded to reject
the Dag and take Q different emblem.
This was proper and appropriate. For
the democratic state sovereignty party
to disguise itself under the American ma
tional nag would have been = fraud. and
the stealing OF the livery Of heaven for 3
very different service. Certainly WI
may congratulate the aag. II 1t could
have spoken It would have protested
loudly against the proposed prostitution
Of It's glory. Think Of It's being so used
by the party which so long caused 1t Ia
wave, not DER the land Of the brave, but
the land Of the slave; which fired upon il
at Fort Sumter: which for four LONG
years dragged 1t In the dust and riddled
It with shot aud shell; which tried not
only to tear Its stars from It, but to de-
stroy 1t from among the national banners
OF the world; which after the war would
have disgraced II by reputation; and
YER now seeks to sink the laborer and
the artisan, who are protected under Its
folds, TO q level with the peon and the
pauper workmcn Of less favored lands.
No. the flag Is our rightful emblem;
not theirs. 1t belongs to the party which
first made II truly the emblem Of free
dom and nationality, which bore IL aloft
during the rebellion until the triumphant
elimination In victory, peace and union;
which provided by the constitutions
amendments that every one under the
stars and stripes should be free and pos.
sess equal rights; which preserved It's
honor by resuming specie payments;
which insists that every citizen shall re
eeive protection to his fair wages, anG
which demands that wherever 1t wave,
there shall be free and fair ballot and 4
fair count.
Let us take 1t IS our emblem, will
not . star erased, but carrying on II!
azure field the entire forty-four, and with
space stul left for the brilliant star which
will soon represent the new state OF New
Mexico.
When the democratic convention re.
jected the flag 1t chose another emblem.
1t was = barn-yard fowl, the p~ersonifica
tlon OF brag, the bird which Away!
crows over its performances, which
makes much noise, but accomplishe.
nothing himself. This was appropriate
for the party which was n Of the mega
ton, which for forty years has left n,
mark OF the history OF the country but
evfl, and which has continually opposed
oil of the good that has been achieved
from the days Of Calhoun and the REBEL
ion war to the present.