Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-10-19

of Lincoln that the .Bryanites
today pretend to see in the election
of Mckinley. Note these ex-
tracts:
There is not a man here whose
life, property and everything
whose wife, children and home will
not be in danger should such a de-
plorable result follow as the elect
ion again of Abraham Lincoln
Hon. John McKeon, to the Demo
cratic Convention, September a.,
1864.
The constitution is indeed al
most sacred instrument. 1t is at
tackled by armed traitors in the
south and by insidious double
dyed traitors in this administration
Mr.. Lincoln at the head-at the
North.-Hon. j. B. Haskins, to
the Democratic Convention, Aug
81, 1864.
If Abraham Lincoln is reelected
President, the liberties of the peo-
pie are gone forever. Military
despotism will rule. There will be
no liberty of speech or press.
Anarchy, bloody anarchy will fol-
low. Taxation without limit will
grind the people to the dust.
There will be more widows and
orphans and more tyranny and OPP
preston than the world has seen
for centuries.-Niles Republican.
In my deliberate opinion, if Mr..
Lincoln is reelected we shall have
a military despotism fastened upon
us and our children, with a stand
ing army of negro janissaries.-
Leslie Combs, of Kentucky.
The miserable principle of CEN
tralization, of imperialism, has
been deeply implanted in the
hearts of the men who are govern
ing now. One by one they are
destroying all the guarantees of
personal rights. The people must
protect themselves and their
country or they will be swept into
the maelstrom decentralization and
arbitrary power with every vestige
of liberty in this country.-Col.
Price at New York, Oct. 10, 1864.
Reflect but for a moment on the
aggravated calamities Of four years
more of war under the administra-
ton Of Abraham Lincoln. Choose
YOU now what shall be the DESTINY
of yourselves and of your children
after you. If these things con-
, tinue for four years more the
! chances are as 9 to 10 that your
! free government will be changed,
l that instead of elective presidents
converting themselves into despots
. you will have hereditary monarchs
1 to rule over you and your children
to the third and fourth generation.
How is your mode of escape? In
the success of the Democratic
party.-Clement L. Vallanding-
t ham, in speech at Sydney, o.,
September "a, 1864.
, Are you a laborer? The %re-elec-
ton of Mr.. Lincoln, will, as surely
> as you live, not only close up the
ways by which you hope to find
employment, but put the price of
, food and clothing and every neces-
, sary of life so far beyond your
! reach that your wages will scarce
suffice to keep you from starva-
tion.-New York World, Novem-
. Der s, 1864.
There are thousands of such quo
! t%ations that might be reproduced
but these will serve. It will be
seen from them hat the Demo-
cratic party could not even devise
a new scarecrow for this campaign.
They went back IS years and resur-
rected one that had lain forgotten
l and thick with dust and they are
waving it as vigorously today as
they did in 1864. Change names
and places and the Democratic
speeches today are reproductions
of those made when Lincoln was a
t candidate for reelection. And
the Democratic leaders today are
quoting Lincoln!
:, The Democratic party has al
l ways been a bird of evil-a raven
croaking in the night Of forthcom-
ing death and damnation. It has
been croaking for fifty years with
out interruption, is croaking today
and will be croaking when the
: present has passed into history.
. Today it vilifes Lincoln and to-
t morrow, it deifes him. It has
never had a policy long enough to
get acquainted with it. It gets
around every four years to the
issues that we're settled four years
/ before. It is a band of political
scuttlers who profess to believe
that the ship of state would be
: safer if it we're beached than if it
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