, 1864-07-31
GhieGq<b Wrlhutle.
SUNDAY, JULY 81, 1904.


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!. TIRE CONSPIRACY AGAIN..
The Chicago organ Of 'JrT Davis deyotes
two articles In It's ltsue Of yesterday, to the
startling revelations OF the Missouri Den,ocra,
In relation to the eaistcn.e Of q secret orran-
izatlon ~ithin the Democratic purity, the oh.
ject Of which Is the overthrow Of Tho exist.
irg md legt innate popular Government, aud
Tie establishment, On its ruins, Of North.
Western Confederacy. With characteristic
duplicity, Ahc flrst article IL 60. wordcd as to
uppcar to deny the truth Of, what the D<n.o-
sat asserts, though: with CHARACTERISTIC Gnu.
taon, no such denial il. terzns, ls found therein.
In The eccoud article, the words eI1o. by mn
cary increment, IRON denial OF Mr., Storcy,s
completely IN The contemplated crime, to a
qualified expression Of disbelief In the whole
af1air. =, -,
50" far as Mr.. S. is CONCERNED, VIC have no
opinion. The allegation is balanced by his
disclaimer; and between him and bis aecu.
se1s the question Of ycraclty is to bt
settled. the public or the courts, AZ the
case may be, being the tribunal OF ep-
pttl. We grant that In the gathering
OF the .vcfnminous testimony upon which
Eelief IN the reality Of the plot rests, eertous
b&undeEr may have been committed, p,rticu.
lurly bluuders which relate to tbs share OF
5nui,ldunls in the intamy that hiss been con-
cocfcu. The editor of the Tunes may have
bctn The victim Of one OF these. But in re-
gard TO the, truth Of the main facts that the
SCENTS OF tho Government have developed
the existence. in well mntared form, of
wide spread; carefully organized, extensively
ramiied md e1ces dIrg]y dangerous conspira-
cy 1or the destruction: Of our lnstitutious--
there can beno doubt And the T..nes itself
is our authority fnr the fact that conspiracy
hss been entered into, though it']eaves us iu
the dark as 10 the precise objects to be accom-
printing the call which appeared In its col
umns for u ''Democr-tic ~ Convention at
Peoria, used. the following9 language,
which cannot have escaped the atten-
ton Of our readera, as 1t was made
the subject Of comment In this journal, on
the day following. We quote:
We print elsewhere j csl, for q Democratic Mas
gust cn4uirg. II win he observed that the ell fs
rot lesu!a BY the Democratic. State Committee,
but hss !te slgnature1 appended Of gentlemen ID
Known Mat TIRE Il IN tais State q sseTst oraant.
cation, not ooaaftt4ds a. sttc tcsa tae Duaosutsc
IdStHt ttA Ne Hse1at ~ o. tfRt2 13 Ht1h Eh6 DIM
otTattc PGrfy. We deem 1t our duty to state taat
1hiy raii fof Mars Convention at Pcotia IA rhn
enana1on Of khts eteTet organ -ufsoa. It il sim.
Ing IegaIdihR the matter In any quarter.
Tie 7,snts admits the existence OF the
"stcrtt organization,n "tha members Of
which act with The Democratic party :" and
the government officials, after long and
weary labor in which all the resources Of the
secret Service and of the military police in
districts under martial law, were freely EN-.
ploJ ed, give MS, In the statements 1nade In
the Dtmect-t, the precise objects St which the
orsanizatton aims, and the agencies that it
employs for the attainment OF its ends. The
objects ana the agencies Are aliko reasonable
and Infamous.
But eside from the revelation male b. tna
Iires, the alarming nature OF the facts de-
veloped in the direct proofs taken at st.
Louis, and aeide from the confidential state.
ments volunteered to na byDemocrsts who
know that whereof they affirm, we find in
our examination Of the prluclples,, policy
and motives OF the Democratic leatera de.
gree Of probability amounting about to q
certainty that they arc not mallgued when
accused Of desire to destroy the institu-
tions under which We live. When we say
Democratic leaders, we mean those who
haye earned and acquired the name Of
CopperheadB OF the most venomous type.
because to them the care aud keeping Of the
Democratic party have been intrusted,
Since the war begun they have never
known loyal inspiration or been
accused Of n. patriotic act, Poisoned
In the beginning with hatred Of
everything not approved BY the gospel Of
mnn-fel1ing, they have increased in malisntty
as the national dagger has Increased, until
cow, in the supreme Acur of the national
peril. they are hissiIg hot with the treason
that they little care to conceal Such men,
criminal as they are, act upon human mo-
tlveA and by human agencies for the accom-
plishment Of their Internal work Hence we
must Judge Of them rs We judge of others
snd when they 40 known to hnpe that the
Union armies may be dlagraceiully and dis
aetrously beaten, that Lincoln my b. Killed
IN Ills tracks, that the "Abolitton North ~
may be overrun by the rebel armies Of the
South, and that jeff Davis may at last rule
over us and them, sc have only to wait some
favorable moment, in which belief In enc
cess Ia sufficiently strong to amount to fan
citd Immunity from danger to seetlat they
have advanced from secret wlehe5 to defiant
words, and from words to acts, md that they
are enoearoring to realize, In bloody deeds
Unnecessary, the hopes that they have io.
dulged. All men do strive ate,
that which the heart Graves; hence
VIC know that. 1t Is but q short
and easy road from treason spoken In sobc,
earnest to treason wrought ont In violence
and blond. Show us the man who has bceu
flaming with hate and disloyalty since this
great contest commenced, who has re}olcel
over al Upion defeats, and who has no hesI
tataon in utteriug the hope thst the South
being In .tte right, may succeed
and We can truthfnlIy. affirm Of him
that he 1scks only the opportunity or cour
age to strike es we'll as to talk, and that hi
muet by clear lot lcal sequence, make com
mon cause with whntever will further h{,
Risber, ard be finally inapeued into consp!ra
cy and assassination In the North, or 10 NOR,
honorable but less effective service iu tn,
armies of the South.
The report Of this grest plot against Lib
erty and the Union Is true-truc By proofs
by the confessions Of those engaged therein
and true by the logical probabilities CT til
opposition that the Government has eucoun
tertd. The motives, the means and the men
all stand In their proper relation, and word
are. assuming the form Of blows. If tina
Government would preserve itself, let it b.
the first to strike!