Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-07-14
The Dynasty.

Foreigners not unirequently detect IN
our manners and institutions some i'm
portant feature that we ourselves overlook
from very familiarity. and while we are
perfectly conscious of it the moment we
are made to look at it, just as We are Of
breathing, unless some outside sugges-
ton makes us do so. Mr.. Richard Cob
den, during his visit to this country, at
tracteI attention to one of these peculiar
tiles, which struck him directly, and which,
when indicated, everybody feels as real a.
our national existence. lie said che had
noticed that the Democratic party acted
and talked as if he Government belonged
10 them" and staggered about among
laws and offices with the easy insolence of
undoubted command Now no man in
the nation can deny this popularity of
partisan character. though no man prob
ably would ever have thoaght Of it if he
had not thus been brought to look di-
rectly at it. The Democratic, party does
act as if they were Of right entitled to fill
all the Offices in the nation, and when. BY
any mischancc, somebody else gets an office
they turn all their effort to repairing the
break in the natural order of things and
expcling the Intruder. They treat the
people as the mere means of maintaining
themselves in power Such an idea as.
that the laws, policy and courts of the ma
ton, or State, should be psel to subserve
the interests of the people, never enters
! their heads, and never characterizes any OF
their conduct. All these they regard as
the appliances which they may use to get
or keep offices, or turn out other men
whom the people insanely imagine ought
to have the offices. We defy any man to
point to any act Of that party in this State,
or in the United States, that is not fully
marked by the one great Democratic idea
of using the people. the Government and
the revenues for the benefit of the party.
A law, measure. system of policy, or
a judicial system locking solely to the
good of the people, and with no eye to
party advantages cannot be found The
lure divino" kings and mobiles of Europe
doAnot more thoroughly carry out the idoa
that the people were made for their use,
than the Democratic party OF. this Union
Ii laws are lacking to strengthen party
predominance, laws are made II laws al
ready made interfere with party schemes,
the laws are repealed. If the laws cannot
be repealed they are disregarded, or the
services of Courts brought to the work OF
setting them aside. Party principles are
adopted, changed, repudiated and readopt
ed, Just as the possibilities Of party advan-
tage may chance to require. Courts are
constituted with special reference to party
necessities. and the Judges always made
of men who frankly admit the claim of
party supremacy. Expenditures are made
for the avowed purpose of paying parti-
sans, AMI expos res Of corruption only in
/ crease the efforts to conceal, not to cure
the evil. So utter AMI entire has become
this feeling of the right Of the party to
frule the nation, that the President never
speaks of himself as the President of any
thing but the Democratic party. He new
er recognizes any people or power outside
Of that party, and never conceals for a mo-
/ ment that his Recommendations and meas
urcs are guagcd by their effect on the par
ty. There is not a measure of the past
three years that cannot be traced directly
to this rnling idea The Paraguay Expo
EDITION. it is notorious, was devised to fur
nish contracts to some friends of Mr.. Ton
cey; to whom hc paid SO 500 . month
hire for steamers that he could have bought
for "a .000. sand did. after paying about
1885, hire Tor each one. buy for about
$12. 900 each. There was NO need of a
feet at all. for the expedition Was sent a.