The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1867-10-25
Thc President, his Cabinet.
and the DcmOCla attic
Party.

clave Of eastern Democrats, inter
cstcd in extorting from the people,
cent per cent, upon bonds purchased
at one fifth their face, and held by
men having no sympathy in common
with the toiling millions of America.
assembled in Washington to confer
with Andrew Johnson upon the state
of the country.
These results, as brilliant in de-
sign. as they are glorious in their
accomplishment. reflect no credit on
the President, because they have
been secured in spite of him and his
policies. The great reaction can
rightfully afford him qualification
only as reprieve brings relief to the
CONDEMNED culprit, because he has
done nothing to produce it. Moth
ing can be more illiberal, however,
than an attempt to stifc his joy at
the discontinue of his advcrsaries,
as the stag may rejoice when the
hounds on his pursuit arc unex-
pectedly brought to bay.
But be has no Identification with
the Democratic party, and a rccog-
milton of any community of interest
in the general result would be of in
calculable injury to the Demo-
cratic party, and Of no benefit to
Mr.. Johnson, as it demonstrates
that both him and Congress are to
be repudiatcd at the earliest oppor-
tunity.
That the Democratic press of the
country has sustained some of the
mca surcs of the President against
the revolutionary schemes of Con-
grcss, only proves that they deem
his views little less dangerous than
those of congress, nothing morc,-
and should lead none to suppose that
the Democratic party is response
bic for his acts, or that it will allow
him to claim the glorious past of its
history, or share in its bright hopes
of the future. Since he lisregarled
his former reputation as Democrat
by accepting the dishonorable posi-
tion of military governor Of Tenes.
sec he has been uniformly rcpudia-
ted as democrat by all sound Dem
ocrats, as Enthusiastically as he has
repudiatel Democracy.
In no sense is he democratic
President. Democrats did not elect
him; they have no claims upon him,
and have never asserted any; except
the one common to all citizens upon
every Chief Magistrate; that h:
honestly support and defend the
Constitution. And even this claim
of theirs has not been respected,
for, while prating with the atfecta-
ton OF a prule, about the letter of
the Constitution, he has, with the
impudcnt effrontcry of prostitute,
placidly bchcll and permitted its dali
ly violation by a reckless Congress.
As a republican, elected by fraud
aud violence upon the ballot box,
and the right of suffrage, he has
chosen !, be, and still is surrounded
by a cabinet composed Of the life
long enemies Of democracy. He has
had occasion to appoint many for
eign ministers, but in no single in
stance has he appointed democrat
in good standing with the party.
Dix, the most respec table of all
his appointces dissolved his connex-
ion with the party in 1913, and
never since has been in good stand
ing with the party. Cowan, Ray
mond, and Greeley have been sue
cessively appointed to the vacant
Austrian mission, while Fitzpatrick
the scandalous yilifcr and scurrilous
dcfamer Of democrats in New Jer-
scy, for his yilcness and vilifca-
ton Of democracy was appointed
as minister to Chill.
We complain of none of these
acts of his, We had no claims upon
him, and desired none that should
prevent his appointing men who had
done acceptable service to the re-
publican party to these several po-
sitions. Because we partially con-
cur with him on a point in which he
differs from his party friends, must
not be taken as an endorsement of
his unpopular and unstatcsmanlike
administration. Had he been a
democrat, no fraction of a fractional