The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-08-12

That party, after long term of
1lmost uninterrupted control.
Brought the country to bankruptcy
ND plunged y ipto~.the vortex Of
We shrink aghast from the con-
temptation of what our condition
would be today if the Democratic
party had had its way.
AS a party it is great in numbers.
and great in crimes. Nine-tenths
OF its members are glad in their
hearts that their party has not been
able to have its way.
They are heatily glad that they
have been subjected to the discipline
of defeat.
They are glad that they did not
succeed in the dIsmem berment of
the Union, and the establishment
of the Southern Confederacy.
They are proud that they have a
united county redeemed from the
curse and the blot of slavery.
They ale proud that in wealth,
in power, in the liberty of its citi.
zens, and in all things that 60 to
make up the true elements of
greatness, our United State has
no rival on the face of the globe.
But while the Democratic citi-
zen is proud OF his country's great
ness and grandeur. he is abashcd
and deeply Inundated when he
comes to scan his party's record
When he reflects that his party has
opposed every step in the progress
OF this nation for third of CEN
tury, he Is not proud OF that.
| The Democratic citizen look s
back over the great measures which
have agitated the country, and he
looks in vain for single one that
has been settled wrong.
! The successful prosecution of the
war, the emancipation, the enfran-
chisement of the colored citizen,
the resumption of specie payment.
the persistent battle for honest
money, the beneicient policy of
protection, achieved in spite Of the
determined opposition of his party.
He is glad in his heart that the
Republican party has done all of
these things, and brought his
country up to It's present state of
prosperity and progress, and he is
humiliated that his party cannot
claim anv of the credit, and he is
chagrined because he feels that his
party is still on the wrong side of
the one great question that divides
the two great parties.
A large ma jority of the Demo
cratic voters know that their party
is wrong, and would be gratified
beyond measure if there was any
other place for them only the dis
loyal, un-Amerlcan side on which
an unfrlendly fate seems to have
placed them.
But honest, intelligent Demo-
Gratis deserve to belong to better
party, especially Young men who
have been raised to the Democratic
faith are not bound to carry the
odium of party which has been
and is untrue to the best interests
Of the country.
The young man about to start
out in life wants to be in touch
with the spirit OF the age. lie
wants to enjoy the largest oppor-
tunIties which the Development OF
the country under our protective
system alone can give HIM.
Generally speaking his wages is
his capital, and under protection
he gets double the pay his father
got for days work, under a reve-
nue. tariff, and he pays only half as
much for what he has to bny o.
manufactured goods. His party
creed tells him, If he is a Demo
crat, that protection. makes tht
poor man poorer, and the rici
richer. 1t never explains how this
Is done, but it proposes to make
the poor man richer by a policy
that will reduce his wages onehalf
and to make the rich man pOorel
by enabling him to employ thc
poor man at half the present rat,
of wages.
The party that has always beer
wrong since the days of Jackson i!
not to be trusted now; and the per
sonal interests of every voter, ole
or young, rich or poor, high or low
without regard to occupation o.
calling, demands that the public
service continued to be admins
tered by party, and presiden
tried and true, that they all know
they can trust implicitly. Now lie