Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-30
UNDER WHICH I'm SIGN?
THE STARS AND STRIPES OR
THE BRAGGART ROOSTER.

Strong Comparison Betwce EN- the Impulses
of the TWO Parties, as Drawn from d
Current Illustration The Republican
Northwest-The New Tariff-Miils' De-
liberate Instantaneous.
The laws OF New Mexico authorize
each political party TO select an emblem
to be placed upon their tickets AT the
democratic territorial convention held at
Silver City ii was proposed to 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 few
days since, took advantage of this action
OF the democrats to draw comparison
between the party records as follows:
The contrast between tho parties on
the broad field of national affairs Is well
Illustrated by recent event at Silver
City.
You remember that the last legislature
passed all 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,
a delegate from San Miguel, whose re-
PuDiitdH CuGCalIOn uIu SlNIu
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 to reject
the flag and take a different emblem
This was proper and appropriate. For
the democratic state sovereignty party
to disguise itself under the American ma
al lnrn IL I,o i
the stealing OF the livery of heaven for
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 1t
at Fort Sumter: which for four long
years dragged it i'm the dust and riddlcd
it with shot and shell; which tried not
only to tear its stars from il, but to de-
stroy it from among the national banners
of the world; which after the war would
have disgraced it by reputation; and
even now seeks to sink the laborer and
the artisan, who are protected under its
folds, TO level with the pcon and the
panper workmen of less favored lands.
No, the flag is our rightfnl emblem;
not theirs. 1t belongs to the party which
first made it truly the emblem Of free
dom and nationality, which bore it aloft
during the rebellion until the triumphant
elimination in victory, peace and union;
which provided by the constitutional
amendments tTat evr13 orrc uf1t 4ef. HE HE
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-
ccive protection to his fair wages, and
which demands that wherever it waves
there shall be free and fair ballot and a
fair count.
Let us take it as our emblem, with
not a 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 now state of New
Mexico.
When the democratic convention re-
iected the flag it chose another emblem.
1t was barn-yard fowl, the personifica-
ton 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 beon achieved
from the days of Calhoun and the REBEL
ion war to the present.