The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-10-25
WHY YOUNG MEN OF REPUBLICAN
ANTEOEDENPS SHOULD NOW
VOTE THE DEMOCRATIC
TIOKEp.

period of their politics, aud will 10 a
great degree, influence their political
career. 1t must be confessed that q
mans politics is largely u matter of
sentiment, or the ouigrowih of passion
and prejudice. Especially is this true
of the men old enough to have pariici-
pated in the ar of 1861 5, aud who
imbibed the fierce passions of that
terrible period, when reason found
itself entirely dethroned. Most of these
men have ever since ''voted as they
fought" without ever stopping TO
reason about 1t; aud but few of them
will change their habit of voting unless
an apparent effect on the condition OF
the pocket. book results from a political
policy, and even then we find men who
| fought for the union blindly following
the republican party while 1t is i'll the
very act OF robbing them.
Young men casting their first votes
are naturally Influenced to some extent
by the political faith of their fathers;
but they are yet so Tar removed from
the passions of the war. which in
fuenced their sires, that they can
reason more calmly than their elders,
and arrive at a conclusion by more
deliberate exercise of the judgment. 1t
is In this later generation that the hope
of the country rests. They, at least.
are expected to be guided by reason
rather than by prejudice.
The young men OF republican parent
age are invited to a comparison OF
parties not only party principles, but
the material Of parties-before taking a
step which Is difficult, because of
perverse human nature, to retrace.
And first, as to the principles and
policy of the two parties: Briefly,
especially in Missouri, the republican
party is the party Ut extravaganza and
high taxation. 1t piled up a mountain
of debt In this state, which it has taken
the democratic party nearly twenty
years TO wipe out. 1t now favors and
has endorsed in its platforms state,
district aud c%ouuty-a policy OF taxa.
ton under the gnIse Ci protection
which is little less than public robbery
effected under the forms Of law. No
repub.ican,young OF old, IN the state Of
Missouri, believes the effect OF the
Mckinley bill will be anything but
disastrous TO the interests of Missouri
and The west; yet his party has in.
dorsed 1t.
No young republican can deliberately
desire to see the south again Frustrated
and subjected TO negro rule, as during
the disa graceful days of the carpe,bag
ger, yet the republican party has
indorsed the Lodge force bill, which is
intended to bring about q similar con.
dition of things aud TO empty 8
Pandora's box Of evils upon a section
I Just restored to peace and prosperity
The old republican votes for these
things because his party directs him ''
: do so, and with uureasoning obedience
! he never questions it's authority or tn,
. business of its DEGREES. But the young
republican stops TO think. Lite, will
its business activities, is just openins
before him. He does not desire I,
uphold a policy that parslyzes tn
y agricultural industry of Missouri AM
r the west and makes it pay tribute Il
, the protected industries Of the New
England states. Nor a he sec an,
good eason for elevating the negr'
above the white man in one-h hall thu
: United States. He cannot understand
q why the prosperity of any section
8 should be retarded, and anarchy ant
mIsrule substituted, only to give ofic
to a few adverturers. He cannot b
Z made to love the negro better than tn
white man. He must have some bette
reason for voting the republican tickle
than the prejudices OF q wal tough
and ended before he was born.
{ The young republican, likewise, ca
not help being influenced by tn
material of parties as at present CON
: posed In Missouri. The democracy j
it's rank and file is a respectable part,
II is composed of the bone and sine
y of the state men OF culture, refinemen
moderate wealth and social prominence
d Where the most school houses an
1t churches are found there will be ioun
IL the most democrats. U~nfortunatel
o for the young man of republican ante
cedents in Missouri, he is confronte
with q social afiliation that is repus
nant to hun. His party is confined
'e the country to the baldknobber, Il
'r ignorant and unlettered, or the prejr
q diced; and In the cities to negro'
is ahd the most depraved foreign elemen
" Respectable men In social and bushes
circles are the exception, not the rul
10 They separate themselves from the
own active and potential party assc
ciates the Filleys and the Pohlmans, b
70 whom they are derided as silk stocking
and assistant democrats. The youn
republican of intelligence, who reat
and reflects, cannot feel comfortable
, his surroundings or proud of h
associates. Affiliations cannot lift hi
:, up, but can only degrade hun.
|, A social and political condition ca
not exist In The democratic party
ic Missouri that can breed aud fIster
Fillcy or any species of bossism.
% These contrasts must necessari
@ attract attention, and cautious conten
%plaiiou of the political future Of youn
d men desiring to associate tbemsely'
with political decency and soci
responsibility, will swell the demc
% cratic vote In Missouri by thousands
il should.
,s Th omas L. Snead, General SterliI
. Prices old adjulant general, die
/. suddenly In New York last Saturda.
NJ He was q man Of great execuliy
4 ability and of unusual literary talent
n His book "The Fight for Missouri
a wary valuahla contrihuf;on IN tha uy,