Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1890 — Ingalls on the two Parties. [ARTICLE]

Ingalls on the two Parties.

From Pittsburgh Speech. If a man is a Democrat, in God’s name let him be a Democrat. He that is filthy let him be filthy, and if he is a Republican in God’s name, let him be a Republican in off years as well ns in presidential years. Fellow citizens, lam often asked—being what is commonly called a Republican, and that is, as we say in the West, “a Republican from the head of the creek,” in whom there is no variableness; .not a shadow of turning—l am asked what is the difference between a Republican and a Democrat, or the difference between the Democratic andßepublican party? What odds does it make except that one or the other shall have .lliL'.A)irieefi.?. .L.hAve .one observation to make to that point, fellow eib 'pi s. J have one slight observation to suggest as to the difference between the Democratic and Republican party in the off years us a el] as in the presidential year, and that is that upon every issue, Ujion every question, affecting the honor, the welfare, prosperity and the existence of this Nation for the last thirty years, the Republican party has always been right and the Democratic party has always been wrong. And it is just exactly as wrong at this particular moment of time as it was in 1860. fS6I, or at any time since 1861. Slavery, secession State sovereignty, reconstruction, the public credit the national currency, the resumption of specie payment, the coinage of silver, protection to American labor and the tariff for the protection of American industries. I say to you that upon every one of these questions, from the beginning down to the last syllable in the record of time, even so late as Thursday of last week, the Republican party has always been right and the Democratic party has always been wrong and it will continue to be wrong, world without end, Amen.