Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-07-13
PARTY FOR YOUNG MEN.
Republican Principles Attract the
Young and Progressive Ele-
ments of the Nation.

The juXtapositiOn of the names of
Morton and BOnaparte, in connection
with the cabinet, shows that the re-
publican party still has the power
which it was famed for at its birth of
attracting the young, alert, progressive
men from all the other political or
CARNATIONS. Paul Morton, the head of
the navy department, was a democrat
until few years ago. So was Charles
j. Bonaparte, who succeeds him. Both
are men in the early prime of life. Nor
ton comes from a family which has
been democratic through generations.
His father held Office under a demo-
cratic administration, being secretary
of agriculture in one of Cleveland's 5
cabinets. None of the American Bona
parties has been a republican until the
present member of that house changed
his politics a few years ago. Each of
these democrats of several generations
of lineage at last found himself COM
PEELED to abandon the party of his
fathers and come over to the party of
progress.
Said John p. Hale in the senate IN
1855: All the young men in the coun-
try are fioCking to the new party. We
have the coming generation with us.
The new party meant the republican
party. Seward, Chase. Sumner, Lin
coin and all the other pioneers in the
formation of the party of freedom
called it tie party Of young men, and
predicted on that account that it lad
the future on its side. AS compared
with a party like the democracy, which
learns nothing and forgets nothing the
republican party was bound to make
an irresistible appeal to the youth, the
public spirit and the patriotism of the
country. 1t had the young mans de-
votion to high ideals, and also the
young mans enthusiasm. Its first de-
feats only served to make the faith of
its members the stronger and to close
more firmly the door of compromise
with wrong. The confidence of Lincoln
and his compatriots in the midst of the
early reverses was voiced by Whittier
in his republican war song of 1856,
called out by Fremonts defeat in the
party's first presidential canvass:
Then sound again the bugle
Call the muster roi! anew.
If months have well nigh won the fight
What may not four years do?
We see by recent events that the
republican party still exercises its Old
spell over the minds and hearts of
young and public-sprited men. In the
election for president last year all the
great, growing progressive north and
west declared for the republican party
by large majorities. In some com
munities party lines were almost swept
away. As in the international yacht
race of half century ago, the winner
was so far to the from, hat there was
no second. The republican party, in
these days Of swiftly changing cOadi-
tions and issues, maintains its primacy
because il has the intelligence and the
virtue to deal with each question
promptly as it arises. and 20 deal with
it right This party has the most in
spring record of any political Orgaui-
ZatiOn which the country has known,
but it does not rest its claims TO pre-
ferment upon this. 1t makes a new
record every day, and the record ap-
peals to the mass Of the progressive,
patriotic people. The number of DEM
ocrats who have become republicans
in recent years, and who will remain
republicans, would make a long list.
Here is one of the secrets of its power.
1t draws to its fold the best of the
members of the other parties and re-
tains them. In external as in internal
politics, the country relies on this po-
litical organization. IL the earth
shaking international events which are
occurring these days, and which are in
sight, the American people have un-
shaken confidence that the republican
party which is in control of affairs
will shape the country's destinies
wisely IOuiS GlDhp- Democrat