The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-08-31

NO. eincelely sp1nis, p,.,.>.orn,
Why Have Sach party?
What has Democracy done for this
country any how since 1860, and what
is the use OF the party continuing
For thirty-two year 1t has only had
one President, and the country would
have boon much better of il it had
had none. During Ull these thirty
two years Democracy has conteuded
that tho Republican party was de-
stroylng the country, slrauglins the
constitution, oYGrthrowins popular
liberty and perperatiug enormous
outrages that would take from now to
election day to recount But some.
how the nation has got along through
IL all, the county seems to have pros.
pered, the people us general rulc are
happy and contcnted, Rnd upon the
whole we dc not SEQ that the Repuhli-
can party las any apologies to make
But suppose Democracy had been site
cessful during ull that time What
would have been the condition OF the
country?
The New York Recorder, n RepubIi :
can paper that is doing ycoman SER
vice in the Republican cause, referring
to this subject shows what IL would
have been. We would huye had not
one but two republics. Tie sOuthcr II
states were determined to seceIa, and
the Democratic party wolId have al
lowed them to go rather than to
make war TO keep them in the I'm.
ion IL maintained the doctrine
that there was no power in the
consultation to conrce sovereign
State. that II State could remain or go
out at pleasure. The Republican par.
w successfully eoulbattcI that here ~
I'm the forum Of dcatte ana crushed
1t to death in hundreds OF hattle-tields
In the next place, If Democracy had
won. we to day would present to all
mankind the only rtpellent picture o.
the only nation in the world maintain
fig the dIabolical doctrine that man Aai
tho right to hold property in man. VI
should have tic slave pen and tn
slaye auction block in the mark.
place of all the towns and villages be
low Mason and DIxou's line. or what
ever other line Southern aggression
should have demanded and Democrat
40 northern cowardice conceded. w
boast OF Toonibs carried out that h
expected to see tho ,luv when South
sra slave. holders should call the rol
of their slaves from the stsps of Bun
ker Hill Is there a Democrat to-da,
mall this broad nation WIN woul,
wish for the restoration OF slavery, t,
maintain which Democracy made tn
bloodiest war of modern times?
.But here is another dark picture t
oontemnlate had tho Democracy su,
ceaaod during all these thirty.tw
vsars. All our skilled iUdustrte
which challenro the admiration of IN
world wouId scaraelv have an eyis
snce. va would bs the yassals d
FDrope for nil our manufactured a
t;eles from a common screw up to tn
magnificent machinery that drly,
oar war yesseis through the waves
a rate Of an ,ed never vet attained +
any va4sel. Look nj lie mills mn
factories that rise in every town an
viIinga hntveon tht. t,ya occaps
Thcy employ tile greatest and be
array al labor in th, world thu pemt
cratic Commissioner of Labor in Ne
gork testifyittr 10 the fact. Arou1
thesa towns and yfl,ures cluster II
chnr,h ana I5o,aa and N. srhooi n
oftbem the cre.tinu of n nrnteeti,
thrift There ia not a elurla one
thoza grnat and ni.l5,v inIpatri.
which Democracy has not endonyor,
tocrush out r,v I4gf.,etfnn which Ina
,t,vovs hean ,I.foated rs tie R.nli,
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