The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-09-15

President or not. 1t kinder wants
him and it kinder don't want him..
The trouble with the Press seems to
be that the Presidents passed by the
known, deserving, able, experienced,
and trusted statesmen of the Repub-
lican party, and without consultation
and against the sremonstrances of
prominent Republicans who had a
right to speak and ought to have been
needed, he sought out a batch of OBJ
scnre, inexperienced and unfit men
for fhe highest positions, of which
the ridiculous Borie was sickening
example .......,.,..s, -. -.5s
/ This course of proceedings, says
1.-The Press IS amazed, disgusted and
weakened the party There is a.
good deal of this kind of feeling in
and around this city. We know quite
a number of " deserving able,
{" experiencedr and strusted- states
linen who were = disgustedH and
| 9 amazed" that the President passed
them by and conferred Offices, as they
claim, upon obscure, inexperienced
and unfit men. If the Press is af-
ficted in this way, it should not COM
plain, for such accidents will happen
III the DesL reg u1ateu party = -
The Press is sound when it says:
When the party leaders go about. simply di-
.lating on the glories of the past and shufling
| over the issues of the present, when they tell
about the bad things Andy johnson did and the
leaders. and they win sood ind but few who
will be led by them,a :
The editor of that paper has evi-.
IDENTIFY been reading the speeches de-
| Eliyered by Sherman at Delaware,
Garfield at Mansfield, Bingham at
New Market and ,Shellabarger at Lon.
don, every one of which bad more to
say about rebels, traitors, eopperheads
! and such kind ofsstuff, than they did
about tariff and internal taxation, land
grabbing, &c. The speeches referred
to will come in play next winter, when
the funeral ceremonies of the Repub-
flican party will be performed. AS
specimens OF eulogistie eloqueDce
they will be exceedingly interesting.
We hope the Press will possess itself
with patience, for in very short time
this 5atch of obscure, Inexperienced
and unfit men will be turned out to
grass, and able, honest, experienced
and trusted Democratic statesmen
will take their places.
Our friends of the PLAIN Dealer
have got things considerably mixed
in this matter. Although the Press
may be somewhat ultra in some of its
political notions, it viii be news. to
the people in this region that it is an
intensely Radical sheet OF, that it
has amy leaning towards Radicalism,
and we think the Plain Dealer folks
twill search our columns in vain for
| the article referred to.
We had read the article to which
our cotemporory alIudes in. the Por-
| tage County Democrat, the organ of
the Republican party Of this county,
in its issue of last week. and its bold,
independent manly ptterances chal-
lenged our admiration, 1t contains
much of truth; but we are unable TO
agree with the writer in regard TO the
causes which are bringing the Radical
party into bad odor with the people
and which threaten it with over
whelming defeat and er annlhila-
ton in the not far off future. That
General Grant is guilty of the laches
land mismanagement of which he is
charged by quite anumber of the in
dependent Radical journals, OF the
country, is doubtless true. But that
is not the disease of which the party
is dying. IT. is being destroyed by its
want of fidelity to the principles
which it professed, and the pledges il
made and by its open, shameless dis.
lregard of the rights and interests oi
the people, 1t started upon its career
,, with the solemn promise to preserve
the Constitution of the Fathers of the
+ Republic, and yet it has by fraud ani
usurpation shornI that sacred instru
, ment of many of lis distinguishing
and essential features. Immediately
: after coming into power, and in th'
beginning of the late bloody struggle
it avowed its sole purpose to be tt
: preserve the Union; with all thu
: rights, dignity and equality of th'
several States unimpaired, and in. .th'
f very face of this solemn pledge it ha
f destroyed that equality which wa
: vouchsafed by The Constitution ane
!, by usurped arbitrary power reduced
sovereign, independent States to lii,
t condition of mere provinces govern
: ing them by despotic military power
ruling them with The sbayonet, unit
: they would surrender the privilege
e of freemen and the rights which leacl
# and every State reserved to 4itsel
n when the Union was formed, It
leaders held it up as the party devoted
Is to the doctrine Of the equality o
d the people before the law" and We
If they have been guilty of building u
in the land a privileged order, hate
y ful monied and manufacturing aris
b tocracy to eat out the substance o
Il the laboring producing people. an,
o reducing the people to state of vas
i salage to the bondholders and 1Ney
England manufacturers. They pro
fessed to be il, favor ofpreserving th
public domain which the Government
= held in trust, for homes for the peopl
: and in the face of these profession
- they have partitioned an empire of il
? fairest portion, among their favorit
:, = corporations and monepolies. The
claimed to be in favor of protectin
:, American industry against the paupe
! labor.of Europe, and they forthwith
= set themselves to work to encourae
:, the importation of the rat-eating, ps
). gan Cinnamon, to compete with an
:. finally drive from the labor mark,
= : the men and women of our own rae,
= The Republican party is-threatene
q with overthrow and destruction on a,
oo conn4 of ifoa v;oIofion of poloro