The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-10-08

miles to the nearest market
Under all the circumstances i
seems to us as the height of in
gratitude for the people of this
county, who have been so directly
benefited by the prosperity made
possible by the wisdom of William
Mckinley and republican policy,
to persist in voting the democratic
ticket.
Some time ago we talked with a
we'll Uniformed man, one of the
democratic workers of the county.
This man said he was in favor of a
protective tariff. He was a Ger
man and had felt the good effects
of protection both in the Father
land and in this country. He said
further, that he was for sound
money and it is our honest opinion
that if a non-partisan vote could be
taken on the money question in
! this county, free silver would be
defeated by at least five hundred
majority. The reason given by
this man was that he had become
identified with the democratic party
twenty years ago on account of
prohibition, that he had been a
delegate to county conventions and
elected to township Offices and that
he did not feel that it would be
, right for him to leave the party that
had honored him. There is and
should be a higher duty for every
citizen. Democracy and republic
canism r either right or wrong,
they are either harmful or helpful
to the country, and it is every mans
duty to try to decide which party
is the more beneficial and then to
vote with that party IN spite of all
personal matters. The man who
fears to leave his party because it
has accorded him some petty honor,
holds himself above the interests
of his country and of his state.
He says it amounts to more that l
have been given a meaningless
d~elegateship to a convention than
that this Nation should be we'll
governed and prosperous. Such a
man is an egotist of the first water.
We know it is hard to break party
ties, we know men hate to do it,
they hate to be called turn-coats
and possibly to lose old and valued
friendships, but the man who
changes his party from high no
tives never lives to regret it. The
man who leaves because he is dis
appointed in an election or for a
personal reason prompted by am
bition is always the loser.
"First to your own self be true,
And it shall follow, as the night the
day,
You cannot then to any man be
false"
Act upon this principle at the
coming election. Be honest with
yourselves, ask yourself if the
republican party has not done great
good for the country, ask yourself
it it would not be better to be uni
ted to the party of progress, the
party that has accomplished some
thing, than to be tied to the chronic
kicking machine which labels itself
democracy. What has democracy
done for Crawford county? Its
officials have been men of honesty.
We have naught to say against
them in this regard. Have they
always been men who were the
most competent? That we do not
believe.
Again, what voice have the demo-
Gratis of the county in the nomina-
ton of their county officers. Is
there not a well-organized band of
wouldbe perpetual ofice-holders,
who have democracy by the throat
and who hold it up regularly for
denominations? Is there not a
ring of s~elf-anointed "leaders' in
Denison, who are the whole show
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