The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-10-08
UNDER WHICH ENSIGN?
THE STARS AND STRIPES OR
THE BRAGGART ROOSTER.

@trong Comparison Between the Impulses
OF the Two Parties, Drawn from "A
Current Illustration The Republican
NOrthwest-The New Tarin-Miils' De-
hberato Misstatements.
The laws of New Mexico authorize
each political party 10 select an emblem
TO be placed upon their tickets. AT the
democratic territorial convention held at
Silver City 10 was proposed 10 adopt the
American flag as the party emblem, but
this motion was defeated and the rooster
was selected instead.
Gov. Prince, while presiding at the
republican territorial convention a few
days since took advantage of this action
of the democrats TO draw comparison
between the party records as follows:
The contrast between the parties on
the broad field of national affairs is we'll
illustrated by recent event at Silver
City.
You remember that the last legislature
passed an act authorizing each party TO
select some emblem TO be printed on its
ballots. Naturally 10 was 20 be
something appropriate to the party. At
the late democratic national convention,
"a delegate from San Miguel, whose re-
publican education had given
him some patriotic ideas, moved
that the American flag be
adopted as their emblem; thereupon the
convention, with great unanimity and
amid loud applause, proceeded 10 reject
the flag and take different emblem.
This was proper and appropriate. For
the democratic state sovereignty party
10 disguise itself under the American ma
tional flag would have been fraud and
81.
very different service. Certainly we
may congratulate the flag. If it could
have spoken il would have protested
loudly against the proposed prostitution
of its glory. Think of its being so used
by the party which so long caused it To
wave, not DER the land of the brave, but
the land of the slave; which fired upon it
at Fort Sumter; which for four long
years dragged il in the dust and riddled
it with shot and shell; which tried not
only 20 tear its stars from il, but 10 de-
strOy il from among the national banners
of the world; which after the war would
have disgraced it by reputation; and
even now seeks 10 sink the laborer and
the artisan, who are protected under its
folds TO a level with the peOn and the
iDaupcr wOrbmen of less favored lands.
No, the flag is our rightful emblem;
mot theirs. 1t belongs 10 the party which
first made il 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 constitutional
amendments that every one under the
stars and stripes should be free and pos
sess equal rights; which preserved its
honor by reSuming specie payments;
which insists that every citizen shall re-
-ceive protection 10 his fair wages, and
which demands that wherever il waves
there shall be free and fair ballot and a
fair count.
Let us take il as our emblem, with
not star erased, but carrying on its
azure field the entire forty-four, and with
space still left for the brilliant star which
will soon represent the new state of New
Mexico.
When the democratic convention re-
jected the flag it chose another emblem
It was a barn-yard fowl, the personitica-
tion of brag, the bird which always
crows over its performances, which
makes much noise, but accompliSheS
nothing himself This was appropriate
for the party which was one of the mega
ton, which for forty years has left no
mark on the history of the country but
evil, and which has continually opposed
all of the good that has been achieved
from the days of Calhoun and the REBEL
ion war TO the present.