The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-08-16
THE DOWNFALL OF THE REPUB-
LICAN PARTY. IT'S CAUSES.

we are assuming i'm this article
that the Republican party has about
run it's course, and we think existing
facts fully justify the assumption.
10 the superficial observer it looks
as if the New Party movement under
Mr. Roosevelt has been. the cause Of
the ending of the old party, but such
an one does not look deep enough
to see the real causes. 1t is true the
agitation of Mr.. Roosevelt and his
followers has brought the matter to
a quicker ending, but apart from this,
the result would have come, and that
at no distant day. Tit il really mar
vel ia political history that the Re
publican party has survived as long
as it has. Tt was not founded upon
any principle, on which rational eX-
pectation Of endurance could bebased.
1t was born a sectional party and
has remained 20 until this day. a.
we look over its history, it would
seem that its mission, if we may say
it had a definite mission, was to pre-
serve the Union and abolish slavery.
When this was accomplished there was
no more reason for it's continuance,
than it would have been for George
Washington to keep hi colonial army
in the field after the surrender Of
CORVALLIS.
The Republican leaders of years
ago evidently realized this, and set
themselves to Strengthening their
party, and perpetuating its power
and influence. And to do this they
conceived the idea Of enfranchising
the negroes, knowing that they
would vote solidly and persistently
and without question, the Republican
ticket, and that they had a sure thing
of this mass of voters.
Then, they also conceived it neces-
sary in maintaining the supremacy
of the Republican party, to form an
alliance with the captains of industry,
and give them the benefit of high
protective tariff, and thus pour mil
lions into their Golfers, with the I'M
Outstanding, implied, if not expressed,
that they would finance their political
campaigns. In other words the Re-
publican party with the favoritism
Of high protective tariff laws, was
providing for itself a reserve fund,
upon which it could, and did draw in
the Presidential campaigns of that
party. And %, in all these years, the
people have been feeced, that the Re-
publican party might be kept in pow
CT, and that multi-millionaires, who
were the direct benefciaries of this
arrangement, might roll in luxury.
We want to emphasize the fact,
that these were the two political
agencies, by which the Republican
party has kept itself afoat since the
war. The negro vote and the High
Protective Tariff. And it il the very
irony of fate, that these are the pre-
else rocks upon which the Republi-
IGA party Los GU lcL9L SOAAS - RAN@N&'
Their enfranchisement Of the negro,
and their alliance with that element,
drove every reputable man in the
south, some Of whom might under
other circumstances, have sympa-
thized with them, into the Democratic
party, thus forever barring them
from single Electoral vote from that
section.
In regard to the tariff question that
was not 10 easily understood, and il
has taken a long time for the agri-
cultural sections of the country to
understand the iniquities Of the high
protective tariff system, and how 1t
was robbing the farmer. 1t is said
1.-THE mills of the Gods grind slow, but
grind exceedingly fine"
The light Of the truth has at last