The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-10-24

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that will be satisfactory to all.
ure has of course fallen upon the
party. This is misfortune. It ia
pity that the dishonest men will
not go with the minority, and that
the agents appointed by party Of
good principles should not be al
ways good men.
That there is corruption in poll.
tics everywhere is not doubted. The
prac ical question is whether that
corruption is peculiar to any party,
as such, and whether the antecedents
Of the Democratic, party are such as
to justify the expectation that it
would purify politics? To, ask the
question is to laugh. The politics
of the city, of New York are an
epitome of those of the Democracy.
Is it possible to conceive more ut.
terly rotten and degraded systems
1t is notoriously matter of bargain.
Even Judges are known to have
bought their way to the bench, and
the prices which they have paid are
known. Moral worth, intelligence,
capacity, fitness, are official quail
ties wholly disregarded in the bar
gain of Democratic politicians,
which results in filing by enormous
majorities the various municipal
Offices.
Or look at the States in which the
Democratic ascendancy is unques-
toned. Is it supposed that the pol
itics of Democratic Kentucky and
Maryland are purer than those Of
New England OF Wisconsin 2 The
Republican party has been the DOM
inant party in New York since the
election of 1864, when Horatio
Seymour was happily defeated. OF
late there has been a loud outcry
against Legislative corruption and
rotten canal management But no
man has evel heard that the Demo
cratic members of the Legislature
were not, in proportion, quite as
venal as the Republican, whilst the
Republican. majority did not hesi-
tate to investigate and expose the
canal contracts without inquiring
whether or not ihe scrutiny might
not implicate some Republican
agents. zf
Or, viewed nationally, it was the
Democratic party whose agents, gave
us the synonyms of swindlers and
corruptionists. 1t is enough to
suggest Swartwout and Price, Floyd
and Fowler, and the whole Cabinet
Of Buchanan. John Slidell in the
Plaquemine frauds in Louisiana
merely repeated the repeating"
system practiced and taught in the
city Of New York. .f
We do not mention these things
as "you're another" argument. We
speak of them to recall to our read
ers the character of the Democratic
party in the matter of political pu-
rity, and to remind them that if that
party does not very widely steal at
present it is because it has no op-
portunity. 1t is out of office. Even
Andrew johnson keeps it out. The
New York World complains that
the President expects the support of
sthe Democracy and yet keeps
Democratic fingers out of the
Treasury.
Indeed, what right is there to ex-
| pect peculiar honesty of a party
which shouts and sneers with con-
tempt at "moral ideas p Why
should the people of New York, or
of any State, anticipate integrity in
the management of public affairs
from party. whose leaders preach
reputation openly with Mr.. Pendle-
-
ton, or stealthily and tentatively in
magnifying the debt as crushing,
and paralyzing, and fnsupportable,
with Mr.. Sanford E. Church. Men
who constantly enlarge upon the
horrible oppressiveness of taxation,
upon the awful price of bread, and
upon the pinching and starving OF
the workingman's wife and children,
but who have never word to say
of the blessing that was bought
with that price, and the incalculable
advantage. to every workingman
which was secured by the war which
he is taxed to pay for, is man who
is willing that the word should be
said which he does not say, and the
debt repudiated whose repudiation
he does not verbally advise.
The Democratic party viii prom
Use retrenchment, reform. and all
the cardinal virtues as their policy.
Having heard their protestations,
let every voter look at their history
and at the character and views Of
the men whom they can not shake
off as leaders, because their hold is
vital-l1ien like Pendleton and VAL