Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1877 — THE GLORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. [ARTICLE]

THE GLORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

Ignorant people believe lies. It is difficult for them to comprehend tlie truth. This is one reason why a larger per cent, of ignorant people are found voting with the Democratic p irty than with the Republican party. —Rensselaer Union. Then the same mode of reasoning explains why it is thnt the colored man aud brother votes the Republican ticket: it’s nil because of his superior intelligence and great intellectual development! A deal of perplexity might have been saved the people if this explanation had been made long ago.— Plymoutli Democrat. There it is exactly as we anticipated it would be. We would have taken an oath that it would come alxiut from some such source. A Democratic newspaper can no more discuss a political proposition or a problem of social science without lugging the negro into prominence Ilian a monkey can climb a pole without dlsphiy-' ing its axility. We wanted to allude >to certain conditions in the Soutliern states and growing developments elsewhere, and put out that paragraph about the notorious fact of tlie larger per centage of ignorance in tlie Democratic party thau iu the Republican for the express purpose of obtaining Tortbe subject a Democratic introdnetlon and consequent Democratic utteii-' teutiou. Since the better, conservative and more intelligent Democrats of this part of the count ry have with remarkable unanimity declared their hearty approval of President Hayes’ sensible Republican reform policy in civil service matters and towards the

Sooth, mid since they have so cor- ' dlally endorsed the manly and sensible and statesman-like utterances of Representative Calkins, we feel greatly encouraged that they may Inaugurate much needed reforms in their own party. One of the first reforms they should undertake Is to. eradicate the pitiful ignorance that abounds to such a deplorable extent in the Democratic parly. This briiigs us back again to the negro that the Plymouth Democrat introduced and the subject we intended to talk about. The Democratic party is the natural home of the ignorant negro, debased and brutalized as he is by centuries of oppression. It is just as natural for the negro as a'class to gravitate to and become absorbed by the Democratic party as it is for the ignorant and depraved classes which have flocked to our shores from the Old World to go to that party. While the inventive tongue of the carpet-bagger could flatter the negro's credulity with the hope of forty acres of land and a mule, or other like absurdity, he would vote with the party that emancipated him from slavery. But he cannot comprehend the great truth of his emancipation, and as soon as the lies of carpetbaggers which attracted him to the Republican party explode, the laws of natural affinity and the towering falsehoods of Democracy operate with a power that seems irresistible. That the negro voter is rapidly traveling in that direction is as the public records. It is only a few months since the Plymouth Democrat was glorifying over the fact that the only negro living Jit that city voted ths DeinocratTc ticket. Democratic negroes are found everywhere in the South and their number is constantly increasing, and especially in those districts and localities where the densest ignorance prevails. South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana have each a Jaige preponderance of negro voters, yet each one of them is goverened by Democratic officers. If the whole negro element would unite with the Republican whites in North Carolina and Florida those states would be giving Republican majorities ; and so would Alabama, if al) the negroes voted the Republican ticket There.' Fol ly thousand of lire Democratic majority in Georgia is probably the votes of negroes. At least thirty thousand of the Democratic majority in Mississippi is the same color. There is one congressional district in the sta'e of Mississippi numbeting nearly thirty-five thousand voters, scarcely ten thousand of whom are whites; yet this district io represented in Congress bv a white Democrat who was elected over a negro Republican. Either the bulldozer has murdered tens of thousands of negroes or else more than one hundred thousand negro voters have joined the Democratic party si nee 1872. We are glad the Democrat directed attention to its negro brethren. They are another illustration proving the proposition that it is dfficult for ignorant people to comprehend the truth, hence one reason why such a large per cent, of them is fotmd in the Democratic party.