The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-15
THE FATTY OF NEGATroN.

United States Senator Cullom in his ad-
dress at the Lincoln banquet in Chicago
last Friday. described the Democratic
party as the party of negation in dis
tinction from the Republican party. which
has always been the party of progression.
Senator Cullom is right; so true is this
charge thet the Democratic party has
never been anything since 1856 but an
organized obstruction to the forward
march of good government, that the
Democracy would be damned to everlast-
ing defeat today did they dare to discuss
yesterday, but putting on reform"
mask today they have the assurance to
expect TO carry the country tomorrow.
The Democracy always forgets that
neither in society nor in politics is it easy
to secure dissolution for gross sin.
The Democracy in 1872 set up Horace
iFeeley, assuming that with so influential,
20 able and so pure standard-bearer vic
tory was assured. The nation answered
by showing Greeley under with storm
OF ballots. Why? Because the North
had not forgotten the Democracy of yes
terday. The North granted that Greeley
could show clean bill of moral health in
the politics of the past, but it knew that
his new found party was robed in the gar
ments OF record that fairly rocked with
corruption, disloyalty, ignorance, crime
and barbarism, and it no more trusted
Greeiey leading an army of Bourbon
democrats than a sound soldier would
trust drunken mob of cornstalk militia
TO storm battery because a gallant vet.
eran led their eharge-an army of bravins
asses and silly, bleating sheep, led by a
lion.
lhe Democracy OF yesterday is history;
ene democracy of today is but "freC
trade" wolf in the sbeen's clothing Of
tariif reform. forgetting that sheep do not
walk with proving tread nor howl wher
they are hungry The people will iudc,
the probable conduct of the Democracy to
morrow, not by their watehwords and uni
form of today, but nv their damnahl,
record OF yesterday, No man changes in
the twinkling Of an eve from rectitude tc
villainy, or from yillaiav TO rectitude, II,
may change his speech. bat n soul that ha.
become blackeaed by long years OF eyi
life does not become white suddenly. i
only becomes whiiewashel. and the blacD
Democracy Of yesterday is but a white
washed party today, sure to become blach
again tomorrow.
Tho Republican party invite, the vote
Of patriotic Intelligence hv i,s raco-,, III,
Democratic party does no, discuss its rec
ord; dare not, because IT knows that II.
record does moi invite. but rene,s the con
fidencc OF the intelligent politi,.aI 90,
science of tho country, The EarYh,ic,,
party has slways been the marty Of nrote.
against evil and Of reform Of enncte,
wrong. 1t protested against slavery. j
rose up as one man against dixnnjon 4;
threw open our public lands to the settler
X restored the Union; ii ror,nli.be,
emancipation; II enacted protection f,
American industry: it is tho only r.-,,
that legislates against the ahDse Of IN,
LIQUOR traffic; the only PARTY tina
formally recognizes The vast inpor, snce a
the question Of temperance reform
The Republican party is never weary q
lcrislating for the freedom and purity O
the suffrage: for the defense Of the ballo
box against the Democracy that are move,
weary OF plotting TO capture il by sto-r,
when they cannot steal it by eorrup
stratacem.
The Democratic party has been feiei
tously described as at best nothing bu
an organized appetite Mario TO an or
ganl,ed prejudice" il ine.Edes in it
ranks nine-tenths Of the tsReEaaee, tn
criminality. the harbarism z stare masse,
In our great cities--at once desisuetiV