Gilpin observer., 1914-04-02

tory, even from the founding of our.
government and note the causes that
have led parties to become extinct.
When our government was formed
in 1883, Washington was chosen pres
ident without apparent opposition by
the Federal party composed of men
like Hamilton, Adams, and others
who were the aristocrats of their
day. They began the system of pro-
lection to the manufacturer and the
banker and the lines between capital
and labor were distinctly marked
Under Washingtons administration
and that of Adams, who succeeded
him. In the meantime the people
who were being oppressed by favorit-
ism rose in their might in 1900 un-
der the name and banner of national
Democracy and elected Thomas JEFF
ferson president. The Federal par
til 1917, when it gave up the ghost
and ceased to exist. On it's green
mound and from its ashes the Wing
party was born, that had a checker
ed career until 1856, when the Re-
publican party was formed that en-
bodied all the defunct Whig princi-
pies with the added issue. Aboli-
tion of slavery and upon this issue
they rode into power in 1860. They
selected man whose principles rep
resented the true Democracy of gov
ernment, and from that fact many of
the Democrats of the north voted
for him, regardless of party. A div
ided union loomed before him, and
when the tocsin of war was sound
ed, myriads of Democrats assembled
around their nations banner and
gave him their life's blood in its
defense. After the death of this gal
liant leader whose career was ended
by an assassin's bullet, the reign Of
the classes as against the masses
was again taken up.
The Registers correspondent says
that the Republican party stands on
it's past record, that it made the
American dollar either in specie or
paper, worth a dollar in gold, the
world over and that it compelled re-
spect from all foreign nations" Let
us see how that party placed the
greenback, a national money, on a
par with gold. During and after the
Civil war our greenbacks which we're
a national money for the medium
classes was worth 40 cents on the
dollar as measured with gold, in 9TH
er words, it required $3.50 in green
backs to purchase one dollar in gold.
Grant and each succeeding Repub-
lican president has aided and abet-
ted the building of the protective
tariff wall higher and higher, until
the Payne-Aldrich bill was enacted.
This bill and the wrath of the peo-
pie pronounced the death kneu of the
Republican party. AS protection kill
ed the Federal party in 1900, and the
Whig party in 1856, even so has the
great Republican party that for many
campaigns rode into power by its
boasted achievements, forever gone
the way of its predecessors. The
Democratic party was born at the
birth of the last century. 1t has seen
opposing political parties rise, flour
ish and fall without number. 1t has
ever maintained conservative
course toward the peoples welfare,
and when the people became weary
of searching for strange Gods, have
always returned to the fold for the
protection afforded under it's banner,
and it's mighty bulwarks will with
stand the ravages of time.
AS regards respect from foreign
nations, does the Register correspon-
dent remember the boundary ques-
ton between Alaska and Canada
when an American Republican con-
gress allowed Canada to crowd her
boundary lines many miles to the
westward and take in all those rich
placer grounds lying in the vicinity
OF Dawson, thus depriving the Amer
ican miner Of untold millions? He
says that the Republican party rails
ed the standard Of wages to the
highest point in the worlds history
History shows that every time pro-
lection gave the manufacturer an ex-
ira boost. a cut Of 10 per cent In
wages was declared. and the wage
Garner was only protected by band
ing together in unions and demand
ing wages worthy Of their hire. The
Republican party, like its predeces-
sors. the Federal and Whig parties.