Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1881 — The Old Name and the Old Organization. [ARTICLE]

The Old Name and the Old Organization.

The following, from the Den of an old time Democrat, we copy from the Kentlaud News. The'author is well known as a Christian gentleman, an old and honored citizen, and gives utterance to the sentiment of every true Democrat. He says: “In connection with other questions which have been submitted to the friends of the Democratic party is the following interrogative: “Would you favor a reorganization under any other name, as the Whig party was reorganized into the Republican?” So far as known, an emphatic negative has been the response; and thus it should be, unless it is the purpose of the party to abandon its principles. So long as it proves true to the Jeffersonian principles which it has al ways professed to maintain, there can be no reason for substituting another name. An alia3 is always suargestive of deception or dishonesty. It is not claimed for the Democr&tie party that it has never made mis takes, or that it has never strayed from the liue of political rectitude: but these deviations have been comparatively few. For more than a century it has fought its battles under the same banner and the same old name, and its achievements have been glorious. The name is all rightLet the party keep a vigilant eye to the land-marks of its organization and maintain a strict regard to its cardinalUprinciples. Itjshonld yield to no temporary tide of opinion under the delusive hope that by so doing it will secure success. Let it maintain with unflinching stability such measures as will promote the general prosper, ity of the country. Let fags and factions, bank rings, abominations and monopolies be consigned to the fostering care of the Redublican party, to which they rightfully belong. If the Democratic party desires to retain its pristine virtues it must be true to itself, to the country and to the interests of the common people.

It is a matter of fact, and of no slight insignificance, that the oppon ents of the Democratic party have been recognized under twenty-five different names, as the following list will show: /

In 1776, Tories. In 1780, Nova Scotia Cow-Boys. In 1787, Convention Monarchists. In 1789, Black Cockade-party. In 1808, Anti-Jeffersonian Impressment men. In I*ll, British Bank men. In 1812, Peace men. In 1813, Blue Lights. In 1814, Hartford Conventionists. In 1816, Washington Benevolent Society, In 1818, No Party Mon. In 1820, Federal Republicans* 1 1 1826, National Republicans.

In 1834, Anti-Masonic Whigs. In 1887, Conservatives. In 1838. Abolitionists. In 1840, Log Cabin. Hard Cider Democratic-Republican Whigs. In 1844, Anti-War Whigs. In 1848, Taylor Anti-Annexation Whigs. In 1850, Whigs. In 1852, Scott Anti War Whigs. In 1853, Maine-Law Whigs. In 1854, Know-Nothing*. In 1856, Republican Abolitionists.

In 1860, Republicans.

J. M.