The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-02-06
% p d'KENOsH WISCONSIN, THURSDAY FEBRUARY g. 1868
The Modern Democracy.


4 The popular notions now embraced b.
d the democratic party ere singular compc
z sition of negatives. Opposition and faul
finding, are the chief elements in the Dem
ocratic creed. The New York Tribune
gives the following delineation ofthe party
"1 A MODEL PLATFORM. sao 5s.a
'The fundamental theory on which th,
Democratic party is run is that wheneve
and wherever the fools can all be united
against the men Of sense, the Democratic
ticket can be carried. The Indiana Demo
Gratis have therefore just met and, except
the purchase of Walrussia by MIR. Seward, il
there is any piece of political tom foolery
which they have forgotten to endorse, il
must have been from want Of paper or
which to write it, or of perseverance in ''do
ing the spelling" They want the Recon
struction acts repealed before they have
been tried. SO that the Presidents failure
may again be repeated.
They want the National Banking system,
always the best, and now the only banking
system in the country, abolished, in order
that the greenbacks, or forced loan, which,
as war measure, they denounced, may be
| doubled in time of peace y
They want the United States bonds to be
taxed. though all courts have at all times
| held such taxation to be unconstitutional
and though it has been a thousand tunes
| shown that no part of the tax if levied, will
be paid by the bondholder, but that every
dollar OF it will be paid by the present tax
payers. They deny that the Southern
States ever could get cut Of the Union, and
assert their inalienable right to go out of the
Union when they wished thank Andrew
johnson that they are already in the Union,
and denounce Congress for still keeping
4hem ont of the Union. They believe that
so much of the National Debt as was not
expressly agreed to be paid should, like
Micawber's notes of band, be renewed bv
promises, and that these promises, to the
amount Of 100000, 900 should be regarded
as valid payment of 100000 of the
debt. This they call paying the debt in
greenbacks. Like Mick aw Der, when he had
given his mote IF ''hand," they will, when
the debt is converted into promises, breathe
freer, and thank God the debt is paid They
are opposed to tariff which only produces
the trHing pittance Of $170, 600, 900 per an
mum, and want one adopted 'for revenue
only"
They want the Democratic party, whose
rebellion cost us half amiiliou lives and five
thousand millions of dollars. placed III power
for the sake OF economy They deny the
right of Andrew johnson or any other
branch of the Federal Government to say
who should vote i'll the Rebel States though
the State governments having been de-
stroyed by their own rebellion, If the FEEDER |
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there can be no voting and without voting
there can be no reconstruction And this
they call speedy restoration"
They want free liquor and slave labor,
which would place them III as happy a |
plight as the lrishman who landed in this
country on Winters day, and found the |
dogs let loose and the stones troze fast.
They curse the war for the Union, and
everything else that can't vote, including
the negro, but bless the soldiers who weie
the acor, by way of invitation to them to
vote the Democratic ticket. They recog-
nize in Andrew johnson the Sun in Heaven, |
III the Republican party a very dark cloud,
and in the South a prize SQUASH, suffering
for lack of sunshine.
They recognize in George Washington
an individual who might have been some.
thing of a man if he had not lived 80 near
the epoch of Gen. Hancock
They congratulate their sister Democra-
cy of Ohio upon having given birth to that
wonderful infant, the Hon Geo. FL. Pendle- |
ton, and trust that mother and child are do
ing we'll
ii ad the Indiana Democracy incorporated |
in their platform clause condemning
and newspapers, it would |
have been perfect