Enter Jerry - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX CLEVELAND had been elected President of these United States, and nobody observed with more alarm the triumph of the Democratic Party than did a majority of the schoolboys at Osborne Academy. We did not understand the issues at all, and were therefore the more positive in our convictions. To me, the overthrow of Republicanism appeared as a mysterious calamity--a subversion of the civilized status quo, which should have been prevented by law, or even by recourse to arms. Our rudimentary political principles were extraordinarily like hereditaments of physical deformities or diseases--exaggerated in the transmission from our parents. I could remember requiring to have explained to me the difference between the terms "Rebel" and "Democrat," which during a period of my earliest childhood had been by me considered synonymous. Twenty years after the close of the Civil War, the names of Confederate, Copperhead and Democrat were commonly interchangeable in the speech of rural Indiana; there was a bitterness left there comparable to that which persisted in the Southern States, and this was because the Knights of the Golden Circle had operated in Indiana, leaving a toxic trace of suspicion among the loyal Unionists of the country districts. Osborne was, of course, but fortuitously identified with rural Hoosierdom. Its head was alien to the state, its teachers were for the most part alien to the country. And its pupils were gathered from most of the states in the Union, and largely from the urban centers of population. That its complexion was so prevailingly Republican is a fact doubtless capable of explanation which I am not inclined to search for. To-day I can remember that the few boys who were hardy enough to announce themselves as Democrats did not hav...

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