Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-11
Democratic Arguments Now
Same as In Civil War.
READ THESE EXTRACTS
lincoln Charged With Same Things
rs Mckinley.
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the DcmOcrA 10 Platform shown To Be
Dodge 10 ather In ths Yong
voters of the Nation-l Real what Was
said Of lincoln During the War of the
| Rebellion.
There are many men still living who
we're voters in the trying times of the
,vll war. They recall the attitude of
The Democratic press toward President
Lincoln and the Republican party in
those dark days of rebellion. 1t comes
with a shock of surprise to find not
only Mr.. Bryan in his public utter
ances, but the Democratic party itself
in its platform lauding Abraham Lin
coin as a statesman and patriot.
This is simply made the handle for
abuse of the Republican party of to-
day, and for its progressive policies.
The plea is made that if Lincoln
were living he would not be in favor
Of so and so. The reason the Repub-
lican party retains the favor of the
people and continues in power, is sim
ply because it is progressive. 1t keeps
its face to the morning; it turns its
back upon the tombs OF the past; and
there is no reason to doubt that were
Abraham Lincoln alive today, he
would be in hearty sympathy with
every article of Republican policy in
its platform of the present.
There never was man in this
country who received so much abuse
from the Democratic party as Abta-
ham Lincoln. From the day he be-
came a figure in national politics un-
| til he was struck down by the bullet
of a Democratic assassin, that party
had for him only hatred, contempt
and derision. He never announced a
purpose or policy which the Demo-
cratic party did not antagoniZe with
bitterness even greater than that OF
the present. The Democratic press
habitually referred to him as an ape,
gorilla, an ignoramus and an i'm
perialiSt.
The Democratic convention of 1864,
held in August-only nine months be-
fore the final collapse of the Confeder-
acy at Appomattax-in it's platform
declared that there had been -four
years OF failure to restore the Union
by the experiment of war Then it
denounced the Republican party and
President Lincoln, because, as it de-
clared, The cons titution itself has
been disregdrded in every part, public
liberty and private right alike trod-
den down.
An examination Of the fils of the
daily newspapers published in 1868
and 1864 shows that Imperialism,
usurpation, violation Of the principles
of the Declaration OF Independence and
abrogation of the constitution are not
new campaign cries. Bryan and his
gang are using them today exactly as
they were used by Vallandigham and
the Democratic crowd in Ohio 81 years
ago. Below are given a number of
extracts from Ohio Democratic papers
of 1863 and 1864, which will show thai
the same methods were used and the
same war cries howled, as are in use
at the present. Evidently there is a
lack of brains on the part of the DEM
ocrats to invent new campaign cries.
THE Lincoln orators evidently i'm
agine that because we have won two
or three military victories lately that
the people will give Lincoln another
four years lease of power. Now, vic
tories or no Victories, Lincoln is going
out of the Office" Editorial in Gin
cinngti Enquirer, Sept. 26, 1864.
Lincoln has suspended the writ OF
habeas corpus throughout all the
states. If he would suspend his own
corpus it would be the better for the
country. ."-Crawford County Forum,
Oct. 2, 1868.
"One by one the liberties of the
people are being wrested from them
by the bold bad man in power, and
unless we take a stand now, the last
vestige of personal liberty in America
will disappear. .'-Crawfor County
Forum, Oct. 2, 1868.
Let us remember that to vote the
Democratic ticket, you vote to sustain
the personal liberties of the people
and free government" Crawford
County Forum, Oct. 2, 1868.
1--WE have never seen a poorer and
more pitiful exhibition of demagogisn
than the publication of the 'tickle-me
and-Pll-tickle-you correspondence Of
Abe Lincoln and General Grant. Il
is humiliatlng to see such sickenlns
electioneering combination at a crisi,
like the present" = Editorial in tht
, Cincinnati Enquirer, Sept. rs, 1864.
There were few prudent men II
the north who foresaw, at the begin
ming of this contest, that the effect o
the prosecution of war to subdue thu
south would be TO inaugurate an drre
sistible tendency toward an imperia