The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-07-05
BOSTON'S POLITICS.
PRINCIPLES GAIN.
ING GROUND AT THE HUB.

The Thinkers and Political Econo-
mists Are All Joining The Democrat
ic Party--SOme Evidences of The
Growth of Democracy.
Editorial Correspondence
Boston, MASS, June %, 1S9O.-The
strongholds of Republicanism are giving
way to Democratic thought, and Dem
ocratic principles are taking hold upon
the intellect of the entire Republic. This
is seen nowhere more plainly than in
Boston. Here is the early home of the
Republican party; here in the home of
SUMNER and HENRY WILSON and host of
other great lights in theRepublican party,
in the days of its youth and invircjble
power, the principles Of Democracy
have entered and they are leaven-
ing the whole lump of the body polite.
Boston, the ''hub" of learning and cul-
ture, is Democratic city, and the en-
tire Bay State is hanging in
the balances. Ever since Was school
boy I have heard it said: "The respec
liability and culture of the South is in the
Democratic party, but in the North it is
just the other way. The Northern
Democracy is merely the "scum OF So
ciety." Every Southern boy has been
told that day after day until many peo-
pie in the South have really come to be-
lieve it. There never was a greater
slander upon any people. The majority
of the wealthy and educated people of
the North have belonged to the Repub-
lican party in the past, but there never
Was time when the Demo
cratic ranks did not contain
thousands and tens of thousands of the
best educated and most intellectual peo-
pie in the Northern and Western States.
1t is the glory Of the democracy that it
has ever been the refuge of the poor and
oppressed, and that it has ever held a
poor farmer entitled to just as much
protection and equality as the richest
manufacturer who is made rich at the
expense of the rest of mankind. The
poor of the North and the South alike
ought to be Democrats, if they are not.
The Republican party has taxed and bur-
dened them sorely enough to drive them
into the Democratic fold. They have
seen tariff laid for twenty five years
with the ostensible purpose of
protecting American labor, and seen
it go into the pockets of their
employers. Many of them are
Democrats, and they are among the
truest and best in the great organization.
The division on party lines in this part
of the North, at least, is coming to be
this: The men who are protected and all
voters they can control, and the bitter
sectionalists compose the Republican
party; the educated portion of the popu-
lation who understand political economy,
together with the reading and thinking
farmers, mechanics and clerks compose
the Democratic party. The best evidence
of this is seen at Harvard University
whose President, DIR. ELLIOTT, has re-
Gently become an out and out Democrat
and whose distinguished professor, JAS.
RUSSELL LOWELL the best living specimen
of New England culture, is staunct
Democrat. In the faculty at Harvard
composed of 219 professors and instruct
ors, only seven are Republicans. Quite g
number are Independent in politics
but the greatest, as we'll as the majority
of them, are pronounced Democrats
The historian BANCROFT is a life Ions
Democrat as are thousands of the strong
est and best men here. 1t is an inspira
tion to see such men: shaking off th'
dead issues of the past, using thei
great scholarship and great influence t.
purify American politics, and strength
en- the only party which is in favor o
equal rights to all and special privilege
to none. Following them are host o
intelligent workers who see in the sue
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hope of emancipation from Injustice an
oppression. Until recently PREs1DEN
ELLIOTT was what is vulgarly cal
! ed a Mugwump, but he no,
says that he is an out an
out Democrat. The leaven {
, Democracy is in the body polite here
t and Democratic principles are in th
ascendency, and soon will be in til
majority at the ballot boxes. OF cours
the struggle is going to be hard on
but the THOUGHT and the LABOR of tt
country will win against DOODLE an
DEAD ISSUES.
AS one evidence of how true it is tn
the great thinkers of this country a
r all coming to be Democrats, it is ia
;. that there is not a Professor of Politic
y Economy at any frst-class COLES
, or university who teaches Prote
, ton. They all teach the Der
ocratic principles, and the Repub
cans are crying out against it becaus
as they allege, the young men who a
=, coming out of college are most all Der
ocrats. Some time ago, it will bs 1
membered, it was seriously proposed
coterie of Republicans to establish
University where Protection should
,e taught as the true theory Of Politic