A Republican President issued the Emancipation Proclamation

"On this day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln (R-IL) issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Effective at yearend, all slaves in Confederate-controlled territory would be "forever free." ∴ Ill-informed critics of the first Republican President Lincoln fault the Emancipation Proclamation for only freeing slaves in areas not yet under the control of the U.S. government, but -- because of the Democratic Party's resolute defense of slavery -- the federal government had the necessary authority only over so-called "property" of the rebels. ∴ Within two years, the Republican-controlled 38th Congress followed up this great advance by enacting the 13th Amendment, banning slavery throughout the nation."

Michael Zak is a popular speaker to Republican organizations around the country. Back to Basics for the Republican Party is his acclaimed history of the GOP, He is also the author of the 2005 Republican Freedom Calendar. His Grand Old Partisan website celebrates more than fifteen decades of Republican heroes and heroics. Visit www.grandoldpartisan.com for more information. Read More......

The transcontinental railroad was a Republican achievement

GRAND OLD PARTISAN, 7/1/2009 by Michael Zak - The 1860 Republican National Convention, in its platform, called for building a railroad to the Pacific. ∴ On this day in 1862, the Republican-controlled 37th Congress passed the Pacific Railway Act, establishing the transcontinental continental railroad. The bill, written by U.S. Rep. Samuel Curtis (R-IA), was signed into law later that day by President Abraham Lincoln (R-IL). ∴ The man honored with driving the golden spike to complete the railroad was a Republican and former Governor of California, Leland Stanford. In 1856, Stanford had co-founded the California Republican Party. He would later serve in the U.S. Senate and found Stanford University.

About Michael Zak
Michael Zak is a popular speaker to Republican organizations around the country, showing office-holders, candidates and activists how they would benefit tremendously from appreciating the heritage of our Grand Old Party. Back to Basics for the Republican Party is his acclaimed history of the GOP from the Republican point of view. Each day, his Grand Old Partisan blog celebrates more than fifteen decades of Republican heroes and heroics. See www.republicanbasics.com for more information. Read More......

Michael Zak: James Meredith, Republican

Grand Old Partisan salutes James Meredith, Republican civil rights pioneer, born this day in 1933. In 1962, judge Elbert Tuttle, an Eisenhower appointee, ordered the Democrat-controlled state government to permit Meredith, an African-American, to enroll at the University of Mississippi. He is pictured here being esorted to the university by John Doar, another Eisenhower appointee, and a federal marshal. Riots by Democrat racists left two dead and 79 soldiers and U.S marshals wounded. ∴ Meredith joined the Republican Party and for several years was a staffer for Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC). He recognized the danger posed to African-Americans by condescending, socialist white Democrats.

Michael Zak is a popular speaker to Republican organizations around the country, showing office-holders, candidates and activists how they would benefit tremendously from appreciating the heritage of our Grand Old Party. Back to Basics for the Republican Party is his acclaimed history of the GOP from the Republican point of view. Each day, his Grand Old Partisan blog celebrates more than fifteen decades of Republican heroes and heroics. See www.republicanbasics.com for more information. Read More......

Dems thwart MLK, Jr

Martin Luther King, Jr's struggle was against Democrats
Grand Old Partisan Blog, January 15, 2008, Michael Zak wrote,

On this day in 1901, the Alabama Democratic Party called for a convention to write a new state constitution that would prohibit African-Americans from voting. Despite vocal opposition from Booker T. Washington and other Republican civil rights activists, the Democrat scam succeeded.

Democrats dominated Alabama's 1901 constitutional convention, and its chairman was a Democrat. In his opening address, he said: "If we would have white supremacy, we must establish it by law -- not by force or fraud... The negro is descended from a race lowest in intelligence and moral precepts of all the races of men."

Alabama's African-American citizens would not vote in appreciable numbers again until the 1950s.

It was a Republican federal judge, Frank Johnson, who in 1956 ruled in favor of Rosa Parks and who in 1965 ordered the Democrat governor, George Wallace, to permit Martin Luther King's voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery.

At the 2000 Republican National Convention, Condoleezza Rice said: "The first Republican I knew was my father and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I."

Democrats want Americans to forget that Republicans supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act much more than did the Democrats. Read More......