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Show THE PARTY FOR YOUNG MEN. To the young man there is no feature tf democratic principles, as portrayed by the history of that party during the last forty years, that commends the party to his judgment. When we study the history of the country from the time of the rise of the republican party to the present moment, we find that it is distinctly the party of true patriotism. There was one period during dur-ing which the democratic party directly attacked the government and opposed every measure for its preservation, j while at no time has that party been the exponent of any great patriotic principle. The history of the republican republi-can party, on the other hand, presents an unbroken record of devotion to the best interests of the country. Everything Every-thing that has been done to build up this country during this period and to protect the rights and enlarge the opportunities op-portunities of its people, has been done by the republican party in the face of democratic opposition. . ., It i3 significant that the democrats Acknowledge the wisdom of all the irreat measures which have been enacted en-acted by the republican party in the years gone by; but it is well to examine the record which shows that the democracy de-mocracy bitterly opposed all those principles which they now admit to .have been correct. The republican party was as bitterly denounced ten, twenty, thirty years ago as it is today. to-day. The democrats have solemnly declared each succeeding year that the republicans were a menace to the country that republican measures were fraught with ruin to the republic. But as time has passed they have been compelled to shift their position and admit the wisdom of republican ideas. The old stor' is being repeated now. The democrats are vociferously claiming that they are right and that the republicans are wrong. They attack republican reciprocity, the sugar bounty law, the tin-plate tariff and all other protective tariffs, but in a very few years they will be seeking to claim credit for that same reciprocity policy, for the sugar bounty, for the tin-plate tariff and for every other good thing secured to the country by the republican republi-can party. There are some points upon which the democrats appeal for support that are not so immediately .connected with any recent legislation. They point to Jefferson' Jef-ferson' as their model; but there is only one thing that connects Jefferson Jeffer-son with the democracy of recent times. Upon every point that great man agreed with the republicans of today, excepting except-ing upon the dangerous doctrine of states' rights. His advocacy of this doctrine made him the idol of the democratic dem-ocratic party during the days that preceded pre-ceded the war, but since that doctrine has been destroyed there is very little of Jeffersonism that the democrats can claim. The democrats tell us that their party is the protection of the people against centralized power; but this is merely a claim without any foundation in fact. The greatest democrat that ever lived, Andrew Jackson, was the personification personifica-tion of personal, centralized government, govern-ment, and the greatest act that he ever performed as president, the suppression of nullification in South Carolina, was prompted by that feeling as much as by any other motive. He is entitled to all credit for patriotism, but with the 6trong drift of his party toward states' rights, it i3 not likely that he would have so summarily extinguished Calhocn's plan but for his unwillingness to brook interference with his authority. This spirit was again manifested when, in defiance of the will of congress, he destroyed the United States bank and brought on the panic and distress that followed that disaster, So there is nothing in the history of the democratic party to commend it to young men. Older men niny not be able to break away from their partisan allegiance, but no young man should join such an organization. The record of the republican party shows it has always been loyal and true, and it gives every assurance that the party can be depended upon to bo right in the future as it has in the past. Young men who are appealed to to join the democracy on such grounds as are urged against the republicans, should remember that the democracy has always sought to sustain itself by just such attacks at-tacks upon republicanism, and that it has always proven to bo in the wrong. You who have not llrraly fixed your party allegiance, Thk Times would ask you to consider well before you determine deter-mine to turn your backs upon that party which has always been right, to walk into the embrace of the one which has been wrong in every emergency. |