The record-union., 1892-11-05
WHAT A VOTE MAY MEAN.

WHAT A VOTE MAY MEAN.
A vote for the Weaverites' Senatorial
candidate in this county is a vote for the
Democratic party. 1t has taken up the
Peoples party nominee to further Demo-
cratic ends, and for that alone If it wins,
it will own the Senator; he cannot ig-
more the obligation he will be under to it;
he would be more than human if he re-
sisted the hand that raised him.
The scheme of the Democratic party is
to capture the United States Senate-all
else is to be sacrificed for that. With
that and the House in hand the chivalry
would again crack the plantation whip
over the native, and teach those "beggars
(the Union soldiers) how to starve."
We should go back to the era of retro
gression, obstruction, weakness in for
eign relations, incapacity in Indian at
fairs, recognition OF the revolutionary
doctrine of the Wisconsin Democracy
relative to the free schools, and return to
wildcat banking and other insane State
rights doctrines and practices.
For it is history that the Democratic
party has promoted no great moral re-
forms, has cringed to church, has bowed
to aristocracy, has limped before royalty
done obeisance to rebellion and dis
loyalty.
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vaporings; on the contrary, we affirm it
as historical fact that the Democratic
party has been the consistent foe of the
homestead and pre-emption laws, and
that during forty years it did battle in
and out of Congress to prevent the sys-
tenn under which our public lands have
been settled by the people.
1t never suggested Improvement or re-
reform of election laws, save in one in
stance, where young Democrat of San
Francisco, in the name of a reform wing
Of his party, proposed law similar to
that of the present system. 1t has led in
no political, economical or moral reform
it never turned hand to extend the area
! of freedom; it lifted not finger to wipe
the stain Of slavery from the National
! escutcheon; it has used the vicious and
ignorant for party ends in defiance of the
naturalization laws; it never attempted
to put an effectuaI check upon the intro
duction of anarchists, revolutionists and
the criminal and pauper classes of Eu-
rope; all such legislation sprang from
the sentiment underlying the Republican
party of which it was born.
The Democratic party has uniformly
and always opposed regulation of in
fuences antagonistic to good order in
society; it favored and now urges the res
toration Of financial system that once
overwhelmed the country with practical
bankruptcy; it has been the advocate and
is urging the doctrine that office. trust
and administration constitute spoils that
should be distributed among party serv-
itors for party good rather than for the
promotion of the general welfare and the
conduct of economic government.
1t has ever been that mob violence,
rebellion, revolt and nullification have
had in their ranks more Of the affiliates
of the Democratic than Of any other
party; it has been the one and only party
that has asserted the non-equality of
human rights under the Constitution and
the laws.
To restore that party to full power in
the Government will be to plunge the
country into a sea of doubt; to unsettle
confidence in our fiscal system; to flood
the Nation with an unstable and danger
Gus State currency; to promote the de-
velopment of a host of political vagrants
that move in the womb of the party and
wait only its accession to power to pro-
ject themselves upon the country.
To restore that party to power which
has not been permitted a full grasp Of the
reins since its membership lit the match
in Fort Moultrie and fired from rebell-
ions breastworks upon fated Sumter,
will be to intrust the whole Government,
without check or restraint, to an organi-
zation that will be dominated at Wash
ington, however patriotic men may cling
to it in the North, by elements that have
neither forgotten nor forgiven the lesson
of the sixties, nor pardoned the Republi-
can party for saving the Nation, conquer
ing peace in the name Of the Union, re-
suming payments without shock, and
paying off well to its end the most
gigantic debt ever heaped upon a nation.
Ali which the Democratic party in
platform and press, on stump and in con-
vention pronounced impossible; for it de-
clared that the war was a failure, saving
the Union was not to be accomplished,
specie payment could not be resumed,
and that the debt never could be paid.
THE old-time and threadbare Demo-
cratic dodge is being tried again. The
Democratic press is just now doing its
utmost to make people believe that the
United States Government is about to
COW, browbeat, and drive voters from
the polls next Tuesday. There is nothing