The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-09-26
EDITORIAL COLUMN.
The Same Old Party.

The Same Old Party.
The democratic party is fond of
pointing with pride to its record-of the
last few months. 1t does not want to
go back of that; any allusion to a record
of more than four years is taken as a
painful insult by the average democrat.
They are willing to go back to mythol.
ogy, back to some saying of jefferson
which they can interpret at will, but
the facts of their record they will re.
pudiate to u man.
ASK a democratic anti-expansionist
about the Mexican war which was
waged in order to extend, slave terri
tory and he will get mad and call you
names. If you ask him about the terri
BILE free trade times under Buchanan he
will tell you that you are abusive. If
you mention the course Of southern
democracy during the civil war; if you
mention the treachery of 1.-THE war is a
failure'' party of the north during those
days he will say you are waving the
bloody shirt. Ii you mention the OPP
position of his party to the resumption
of specie payment he will say you r q
fool; if you say ought of the Klu Klux
raiders of government without the con-
sent of the governed down south he
will denounce you as a ''nigger wor-
shipper" If you say anything about
Cleveland he will tell you he never
liked Cleveland anyhow although he
voted for him three times for president.
Coming down still later, if you question
him about the rack and the ruin that
was to come to this country if free sill
YER was defeated he will profess not to
know Of what you speak. If you mild
ly mention those democratic resolu.
tions denouncing Mckinley for not
holding the Philippines when they sup.
posed he would not do so he will speak
his old piece, that the poor are getting
poorer and the rich are getting richer.
that we r taxed from the cradle to
the grave and that we stand in immi-
nent danger of an imperial government
just remember that under whatever
disguise it may now be parading, it is
the same old democratic party. Re-
member it is the same old party that
waged a war of expansion with the ex-
press purpose Of increasing the power
of human slavery; remember it is the
party that brought the awful panic OF
Buchanan's administration; remember
that it is the party from whose ranks
every rebel and copperhead was re.
cruited; remember that it is the party
that slandered Lincoln and Grant, that
organized every Kiu Klux raid. that
has for years advocated placing oul
manufactures in the hands Of Great
Britain, and that four years ago and
again today, though now in q minor key
advocated the most dishonest, impracti
cable and corrupting financial system
ever presented to an intelligent people
The democratic party is always ''seeinl
a new light" they were always .'mis
taken in the past but on the right tracl
now" To-day they are anti-expansion
lists. but if the war should be brough,
to a successful close to. morroW and the
beneficial results expected should come
to pass, you could not, in a year from
now, find a single democrat who would
not tell you in that naive, democratic
way that he guesses you must be mis-,
taken about his party having opposed
the war, that at any rate it is ancien,
history, and that his wonderful party
has really found q new panacea which
will run the government as easy at
shooting the chutes. 1t is the same OLD
party, always denying its past. always
in opposition. always holding out de
lusive promises, always after Office and
always like its prototype, the mule
without pride in it's ancestry nor hopt
of posterity.