The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-10-28

! ~ NAO pdil y VI Lincoln, Grant
and Mckinley of being the inveu-
tor Of original sin.
But Mr.. Rayner pilots the rak-
lsh craft of the Democratic fran
chlse pirates over the perilous wat
ers oil a mined harbor when he re.
verses the fight of time and ap-
peaIs to the records of history, for
TINS task, commenced by Rayner,
the Republican party will finish.
In its cradle in 1886 and defeated
IN that years election four wears
later the Republican party, grown
to a giant OF huge proportions,
swept the country from coast to
coast and elected Abraham Lin
coin president Of the United States.
1t became the shield and buckler
OF the Federal Union, to defend
which from the attacks of traitors
1t placed in the field 1872, $50 men,
who did the glorious work of he
roes on countless bloody battle
helds,-ShiIoh, Cold Harbor,
Chickamauga, Seven Oaks, the
Wilderness, Antietam, Gettvs-
burg, and a host of others from
Manassas to Appomattox. The
millions of brave men who answer
ed the call Of a Republican presi-
dent tor troops to stamp out rebel
lion are swiftly passing on to their
eternal rest and the bivouaC of the
dead but their souls are marching
on, and though driven out of the
South the Republican party still
lives.
We have said that the Republi-
can party stood for the Union,
fought for the Union and saved the
Union. But Mr.. Isidor Rayner
thinks this was slight and trivial
thing. He disposes of it by charg-
ing the great Republican party
with acknowledgement" To sup
port his baseless accusations he
goes to history, and we are right
there with him to assist him, in
our poor weak way, in his histori-
cal investigation and reseatch.
Now that you have gone back to
war times, tell us Mr.. Ravner.
what was the attitude of the Demo-
cratic party toward the preserva-
ton of the Uuion? What did the
national Democratic party want to
do while the great rebellion still
ragged in all its fury? We do not
believe that Mr.. Rayner will care
to answer this question, and we
will therefore do him the kindness
to answer it for him by handing
him a plank from the national
platform of the Democratic party
adopted by it in the dark DAYS of
the Civil War. The Democratic
National Convention met in Chi
cago on Aug. 20, 1904, and pro-
claimed its cardinal plank to the
people in the following language:
THAT this Democratic national
convention does explicitly declare
as the sense of the American peo-
pie that after four year of failure
to restore the Union by the expert
ment of war, the public welfare
demands that immediate efforts be
made for cessation of hostilities. "
Thus the Democratic party was
willing to desert the nation in the
hour of its need. And ia the mean
time the mighty hosts of Republi-
canism were singing the songs of
victory and freedom by a million
camp6res and demanding at the
point of the bayonet the "uncon-
ditional surrender" of their coun-
try's enemies.
Since Mr.. Rayner, in the perfec-
ton of his folly and the quintes-
senCe of his asininity, sees fit to
go back to the days of the rebel
lion the keepers of the Republican
faith will go back with him and
guide his footsteps and see that
he does not lose the trail in his
oratorical wanderings in the misty
past. There may be balm in Gill
cad, but there is none in the his
tory of their country for the Demo-
cratic party. What would have be-
come of the country if the nation
al Democracy had had its way in