Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1890-10-02
REPUBLICAN CLEAR THROUGH.

There is certain class Of politicians,
some times belonging to one party. and
sometimes TO the other, who are so ex-
traordinarily particular that they lean
over a little backwards Qaughter), who
are never quite sure that they are mem
bers of a party unless they are voting
for the candidate Of the other, and Civ
ing aid and comfort to their adverssries.
tApplause,) Therefore. Mr.. President
and fellow citizens of Pittsburg. / con.
fess to being partisan politician, and l
have no sympathy for those who roll up
their eyes until you can see nothing but
the whites. and hold up their hands in
holy horror and enlarge the borders OF
their phylacteries and stand on the cor
ners of the streets magnifying their own
virtues and thanking God they are not
as other men are. and not as other re.
publicans. (Arplause.)
II man is democrat, in Gods name
let him be democrat. He that is filthy
let him be filthy still. And if man be
a republican, in Gods name let him be a
republican in of years as well as in
presidential years.
Fellow citizens, I am often asked, be-
ing what Is commonly called republi
can republican, aud what is known as q
republican from the head of the creek, J"
In the west, In whom there Is no varia-
bleness, no shadow of turning, ] am
asked what is the difference between the
democratic and the republican parties
what odds does 1t make, except that the
one or the other shall have the officer
I have one observation to make on that
point. Ihave one slight difference to
suggest as to the difference between the
democratic and the republican parties In
the of years as well as the presidential
years, and that Is that upon every issue,
upon every question affecting the honor,
the welfare and the prosperity Of this
nation for the last thirty years the re-
publican party has always been right and
the democratic party has always been
wrong. (Applause.) And 1t Is just as
wrong at this particular moment OF
time as 1t was in 1861. Slavery, seces-
sion, state sovereignty, reconstruction,
the public debt, the national currency,
the resumption Of speciel payment, the
coinage Of silver. protection to American
industries. Isay to you that every one
of the questions from the beginning
down to the last syllable OF recorded
time, even so late as Thursday of last
week, has had the republican party on
Its right side. and upon those questions
the democratic party has always been
wrong, world without end, amen.
The democratic party Is the dumping
ground of politics in the nineteenth cen
tury. daughter and applause.) Every
concluded heresy, every abandoned
heresy, everything the nation has go'
done with and tried of and has cas'
away to be trodden under the foot Of
men, Is the heritage of the democratic
party. (Applause.)
And lest this may seem to be harsh
censorous criticism, and lest should be
called to account for some Of those
wholesome statements and charged with
defamation, as have sometimes been
beg to say that I have been In public
life for the past eighteen years and dur
ing that time the democratic party have
had control of the government, either In
whole or part, for fourteen years. and II
any democrat or any friend Of that or
ganization can point out to me a single
specific act that the democratic party
ever did, or ever proposed to do for thu
welfare or advancement, either Of thu