Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1883 — That Settles It! [ARTICLE]

That Settles It!

Mr. Jefferson Davis has added his high falsetto voice to the Democratic chorus. He too is convinced that the Republican party must go. The survivors of John Morgan’s Confederate command held a reuhion a few days ago at Which the benediction of Mr. Davis presence was earnestly desired. But he was not able to be present, and so respohded to his invitation with a letter of regret. This letter was simply Mr. Davis’ way of declaring that The Republican Party Must Go. “The name of your association,” he wrote to John Morgan’s men, “is eloquently commemorative of the daring deeds performed, the dire sufferings borne and the barbarous indignities inflicted on men who had bravely struggled in unequal combat to vindicate the rights their fathers left them.” All Democratic papers in good and regular standing will of course be requested by the Democratic National Committee to reproduce this Davis’ “rendering” of the current Democratic campaign anthem. The Democratic press, of Ohio in particular, must not neglect to perform this service. Ohio distinctly remembers John Morgan’s men, and just how they “struggled in unequal combat to vindicate the rights their fathers left them.” The Republican party must go. Why, certainly, Mr. Davis! It was the Republican party that resolutely declined to help John Morgan’s men accomplish this particular piece of vindication. .Nay more, and worse. It was the Republican party that thus squarely and persistently denied that John Morgan’s men were struggling for rights, and that stoadily upheld the hands of the Boys in Blue who handled John Morgan’s men so roughly. In fact they put John Morgan,s men into the Ohio Penitentiary. The simple statement of these facts constitutes, a 3 Jefferson Davis thoroughly realizes, a scathing indictment of the Republican party, impartial history will convict it of having hurt the feelings of John Morgan’s men in several places. The Republican party must go. American people can well believe that at his age Jefferson Davis is averse to taking an active interest in current politics. But when John Morgan’s men urged him to attend their commemorative jamboree the unwasted instinct of patriotism within his breast asserted itself, saying: “Now, Jefferson, here is a fine opportunity to deal the Republican party a staggerer. Democrats in various parts of the country for some time have been singing that the Republican party must go. Just you take up the strain adding somo characteristic variations of your own.” Mr. Davis obeyed his instincts with his customary ability and oarnestnes. The Republican party must go; Jefferson Davis sdys so.—N. Y. Tribune.