Year: 1879

Democratic School Broken Up.


The democratic school is not keeping
nowadays. The school house was closed
year ago. The master was dismissed
and the bows are now having vacation.
The school was broken up by large part
Of the Scholars going over into the green
back school, where they thought they


could have better time time and get


more offices than if they remained at their


own school. Those who were left being


too small in numbers to keep up an organ


ization were compelled to make the best


shift they could for themselves in the way


of attending school, and the most of those


who were so shamefully abandoned by their
democratic associates are coming directly
over among the republicans. where they
are received with open arms.


The democrats who have joined the


greenbackers ought 10 be the last persons
to complain of other democrats who are


going to vote for Davis next September.


When they broke up the democratic school


by deserving it for the rag-babv school,


they not only gave license by their exam


pie to all others to form such political con-
nections as they choose outside of the dem
ocratic party, but they forced them to take
their choice between the rag-baby school
and the honest money school


Now the honest democrat, brought up
in the school of democracy, finds that the
platform and sentiments of the republican
party on the currency question-about
which the democratic school was broken
up-are in accordance with the doctrines
of the democratic party before the war,
and even down to so late period as two
wears ago, and is shocked and indignant
at the thought of abandoning his princi-
Piles and taking seat in the greenback
where the principles which
he has learned to abhor and detest are
taught And honest democrats are re-
solving by thousands that they will not do
that despicable thing, and are joining the
republican school, where the old democrat
c doctrines about sound currency are
taught and adhered to in spite of all OPP
position or allurements of the rag-baby
"Let all who think alike
act together" say the fusion democratic
organs, and, verify, these honest hard
money democrats are going to act up to
that advice like men, by uniting with
lhe republicans in voting up honest
money and honest Corporal Davis.
They think precisely the same as
the republicans do on this impor-
tant matter, and of course if they take the
advice of the Argus and the Standard,
that those who think alike should act to-
gether, they must act with the republicans
against the rag-baby crowd.


1t is queer, however, that when demo-
Gratis do come out for Davis as honest and
able William III. Simpson did. and brought
over with him the ablest democratic paper
in the State to the support of honest mon
ey, they should be rotten-egged and stoned
by their late associates in the democratic
school for doing so. But it is better to be
right than to have the fellowship of such
from principles as soft money
democrats are, and so, boys, as the demo-
cratic school is closed and you honest
money fellows have been turned out doors,
come right into the republican school
house, where sound money principles are
found in the text books. and you shall
nave an equal chance with the rest of u.s.