Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1888 — The Party for Young Men. [ARTICLE]

The Party for Young Men.

If the Republican issues of the present are less emotional and enkindling than those of an earlier day, there is absolutely nothing in in the Democratic party which makes it alluring to young men. It is Bourbortized in its traditions and fossilized in its management, and although for brief periods and “revenue only” it has made pretensions to reform, it has speedily gone back tofts “wallowing,” with an intensity of satisfaction which suggests that as its natural condition. The Republican pavty, on the other hand, stands for certain great principles which may well ..Command the* loyalty of young men. It fiolds a genuine reform : of the Civil service; 11 stands for a treatment of the tariff along the lines of protection to American manufactures and American labor. It insists upon a fair ballot and an honest count, North and South. It antagonizes the dominance of the saloon power and offers the most effective political agency for restraining it. Upon these and other issues it appeals confidently to yoilng-men*who, as they come of age ai.d c av-id r what party associations they shall form, will uaturaTly be drawn toward the party which stands for the right side of current issues.—Boston Journal. ■ -