The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-11-18
Editorial Department.
by F. w. .Meyers=
THE REPUBLICANS Of CRAWFORD

THE REPUBLICANS OF CRAWFORD
After all, in spite of defeats and dis
couragements, there is something fine
about being Crawford county re-
publican. Why is it that in, spite of
the small amount Of loaves and fishes,
there are every year from 1900 to 1000
men, willing to sacrifice personal ambi-
tion and to give UP that love that all
men have the love of being on the
winning side-to vote the republican
ticket?
IL is because they love principle 1t
is because they are proud OF the grand
old party to which they belong. 1t is
because they remember perchance, the
dark days of its beginning when the
shadow of Buchanan and democracy.
free trade and secession were over the
land. They remember the days of that
first defeat when Fremont led the hosts.
They remember yet again the glorious
Lincoln, first product of the mighty
west. They remember the great
struggle when, hand in hand with the
loyal democrats of the North, they
battled with Southern democrats with
the life of the Union as the stake. They
remember the baptism of blood with
which the republican party wss chris
tened. They remember the eXecra-
tions heaped upon Lincoln and the
breathiess silence that fell upon the
Nation at his death. They remember
the traitor johnson who all but undid
remember Grant, strong, silent and
inviucible. The days of reconstruc-
ton, the opening of the far west, the
homestead laws, the building of great
railroads, the resumption OF specie
payment, with the bright sun of pro-
lection shining over all. They re-
member Garfield the second martyr
President and that brilliant plumed
knight James g. Blaine. They re-
member his defeat, the stagnation of
the first Cleveland administration, the
panic of the second. They remember
that under the cool hand of the wise
Harrison prosperity came to this
country only to be followed by the
gloom and dispair and hard times ever
attendant upon democracy. They re-
member the election of Mckinley and
the dawn of what will, centuries later,
be called the mckinley era in
America. They remember the glories
of that administration, the successful
. war, the glorious victories. the open
ing up to the Nation of new life filled
with untold possibilities, the tidal wave
of good times and prosperity. They
remember the death of Mckinley and
the succession of Theodore Roosevelt
They remember how WE'LL and how
vigorously and how fearlessy he shas
carried on the work stricken so ruth
lessly from his dead chiefs hand. They
remem Der all these things and they
are proud Proud to be of the minority
if that minority has back Of it all the
splendid traditions and achievements {
republicanism. They remember too
the other side of the picture. The,
remember that of six republican Presi
dents elected by the people, three hav,
been assassinated They remembe
the miseries of free trade and the darl
DAYS of rebellion. There rings in thei
ears the cry that 1.-The war is Il failure.
They hear the groans of dusky victims
men, women and children, throughou
the sunny south. They see the XII
Klux raiders stealing through tn
moonlight and see the flames ascen
from cabin walls They remember tn
tissue BALLOT, the greenback craze
the wave of destructive socialism. The
see before them the pictures OF Buchar
an and Davis, of Tweed and Brya
and Tillman as the greatest men demoe
racy can produce. They see Clevelan
rioting in dissipation while tn
country starved They hear the tramp
tramp, of the marching hundreds o
Kelly's and of Coxey'5 armies, The
remember the ten cent corn, the value
less i've stock and the mortgage salt
They remember that democracy
composed of the intolerance OF til
South. the greed and graft of Tan
many and the fanaticism of William
Jennings Bryan and they are not prou
but they are determined, determine
no matter what the odds, no matte
how long prejudice and passion ma
prevail in Crawford county, no matte
how long the majority may be blinde
to incompetency and carelessness ar
trickery, to abide by the faith, til