Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1885 — A Few Questions for Soldiers. [ARTICLE]

A Few Questions for Soldiers.

1. Does the Democratic party like you better than the Republican party does? If so, why. 2. From ’6l to ’65 and from ’65 to the end of time, did the Democratic party approve of your acts while suppressing a Democratic rebellion ? If so, why ? 3. Who now control the Democratic party? What States put it in power again? Was it the old loyal States of the North or the solid South ? If the solid South, do you feel that your country is in better hands now than it was under Lincoln, Grant, or Garfield ? 4. Will the Democratic party take better care of your widow or your children than the Republican? If so, tell why. 5. Will the Democratic party give us more liberal pensions ? If so, why ? 6. Will the Democratic party be more apt to save, cherish, and defend what it attempted to destroy when you threw your life between it and destruction? If so, why? Tell me, why? You know better, my good comrades, than to trust a party that has never loved you or your glorious cause. Whatever the Democratic party has done for you has been forced upon it. All that the Republican party has done for you was bom of profound gratitude and deep appreciation of your noble services. I appeal to all good citizens to stand by the Republican party. Its flag is the flag of the Union. Under that flag the gray-haired patriarch should stand. Under it should fight the citizen who revels in the wealth of matured physical and intellectual powers. The young man, just entering the wonderful field where the citizen becomes the crowned sovereign, should make no mistake. Let him not enter a party that is weighted down by the darkest political crimes of the century. Let each and all stand by the party, holding as its political faith the Constitution of the United States; the party of freedom; the party of the poor man; the party of the laboring man: the party of an untrammeled and a truthful ballot-box; the party that caught the inspiration of “Yankee Doodle,” preserved the perfect melody of the “Red, White and Blue,” and made a nation ring with “The Union Forever, Hurrah, Boys, Hurrah.” For that party’s support—the Republican party—before my Maker and the shrine of com science I appeal to all.— Comrade D. 8., Henderson, at lowa City, lowa.