The advocate., 1891-05-06

The same great fundamental ideas divide
the Republican and Democratic parties to-
day that divided their predecessors almost
from the beginning of the United States
government, and the same great controlling
influences and sentiments which led to the
formation Of political parties in the United
States still control and characterize their
successor. Two great ideas came to the
front as early as 1887, when the federal gov
ernment was created under the constitution.
Two great ideas that have characterized po-
litical parties under some name from that
time down to the present hour. The one
was the national idea and the other was the
states rights ide. The Wing party came
from the Federalist party, and came from
party that for more than dozen years sd-
ministered the policy Of this government as
it is administered to-day. The Republican
party is the lineal descendant of the old
Wing party, the old party of Clay and Web
ster, and it included in it's organization the
old Liberty party and the old Free Soil
party of the United States. The Demo
cratic party was the anti Federalist party Of
the country. It's FIRST name was that Of the
Democratic society, which it bore for q
brief period. Then it alternated between
the names Republican and Democrat, and
at last dropped all the name except that
which IL has borne for so many years, but it
;a N Ronk khok kha o,paak ,,0davlu;wr. ovo;rson,
that moved the Democratic party in ito
original organization, which led to the Or
ganizstion of the Wing party, and. then the
Republican party of the United States, are
still the underlying, overshadowing princi-
Piles which control and move them to-day.
The old leaders are still their idols. The
names Of Jefferson, Calhoun, jackson and
Tilden are the names of the men cherished
by the Democratic party of to-day, while
the names of Hamilton and Clay, Webster,
Lincoln and Garfield still inspire the Re-
publican party, and they are the silent but
mighty leaders of Republican thought to-
day. Applause.
We forget history, and it is sometimes
we'll to recollect il. There is one thing /
have always liked of the Republican party;
it could face the past or il could face the
future without any fear. II can look upon
It's past with pride and satisfaction, and il
can look out to the future with hope and
exultation. And, my friends, that is not
what can be said of any political organiza-
tion other than that in the United States.
Let the careful reader and dispassion-
ate thinker but notice the last part OF
the above quoted matter, and think how
vain and ignorant men may stultify
themselves, when relating and accepting
the foregoing matter as true political his
tory. Such men as now rejoice to
remain as Republican idolaters need
not be expected to remember that
when this modern Republican party was
organized at Pittsburg, Pa, on February
%, 1866, the venerable Francis P. Blair
of Silver Springs, Md, was made its
president-a man who had ever and al.
ways fought Federalism and Whiggery;
that John G. Fremont, the first Republi.
can candidate for President, had had nc
attachment whatever for those antiquated
doctrines, and that the party that nomi
mated him declared themselves "in favor
Of restoring the action Of the federal gov.
ernment to the principles Of Washington
and JEFFERsoN;" that the call for the
convention that nominated Lincoln and
Hamlln in 1860 invited all to participate
therein who "were In favor of restoring