Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-11-07
''TO the VIctOrs Belong the
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The Democracy have long protested
to hold as a cardinal point in their
creed, the doctrine hat all the distrib-
utable Executive patronage, in the
shape of official position and perquis-
ties, from cabinet officer to country
postmaster, or from minister TO St.
James, to boot-black at the White
House. belongs 20 tie winning party at
the polls. When Andrew jackson was
elected President over John Q. Adams,
he inaugurated the policy of selecting
his appointees exclusively from his
partizans, and gave as a reason for so
doing, that the people of the United
States having determined on a change
of Administration, it was his duty, in
obedience to that expression, to con,
form his administra ton to it, from the
highest to the lowest department, and
from his principal advisors to his low
est subordinates Ill the land. That
doctrine, since the days of jackson.
has been prOfessedly practised BY polit-
zeal parties, but was practically repudi-
ated by the Democratic party in FIVE
years after the originator had vacated
the Presidential chair. While practi-
cally ignoring the doctrine, they, with
the uniform inconsistency always exis-
ting between Democratic precept and
practice, applauded it theoretically, and
CLAIM to believe in it even at this late
day. 1t is no rare thing to read in
their party organs, p~retentious ed
i%torials, claiming that all the Federal
offices and patronage are now the legit-
innate inheritance of the Democratic
party, because that party sympathises
with the, infirmeties of his Accidency
Andy. Their claim is brazenly auda-
cious. The people of the United
States declared through the ballot box
in 1864, by a most decisive vote, that
the machinery of the Federal Govern
ment could not be trusted in the hands
of the Democratic party, and expressed
their wish, in the lawfully prescribed
way, that the administration and poll
cy of Abraham Lincoln should contin-
ne to control the national destiny
Now if the doctrine of jackson was
correct, that the course of an admins
trstion should be directed in all its
ramifcations comic, mably 10 the ex-
will of a majority of the peo-
Die, then is the Union party, and it
'nly, justly entitled TO whatever of in
luence snd power attends the admin {
.stration of the Federal Government. s
Accident johnson, however, is a trail l
or to the party and principles that
lected him Vice President. He total
y forgets o. disregai is the popular ut b
erances of 1864. Andrew jackson |
haped his administration to effect the :
demanded by the people Q
.ohnson shapes his in supreme con- 4
empt of the people; and, defying Z
heir wishes, buys NJ supporters, creates s.
ABILITIES, and a~ttI4cts adherents by b
the Union 5rgy Of the official =,
atronage and power which the result
? the last Presidents election giVeH
:, nothim, and besto wing it on men who
e the nations foes, having no recon- u
Iendation but then willingness 10 fat 4
r and do the dirty work of their mas
r. n,
The theory of Jackson is basely per- J..
by johnson. Those political
.urbons who call themselves Demo
ats, and boast Of their Jacksonisn 10
neage, should bluf,- at the insult they h
st on the memory # "Old Hickory" n,
hen they presun to justify the h,
treachery of johnson, by
mparing the course of the latter to hi
at of the former. m