The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-09-01
No Fault in Him.

There was no fault in Mr.. Clark. He
was good officer, had learned much by
experience, and all that--but Mr.. Per
klns had the inside track" with the APP.
pointing power. When will the time
come that the interests of the people will
have the inside track with the appoint
Ing power 1ual,rauhee Ncars.
Which being translated into the Demo
cratic dialect, means-when will the De
mocratIc party get the inside track, with
the appointing power? 1t is quite evil
dent that there are about as many people
in the respectable portions of America
Five Points IN all cities excepted) IN the
Republican party, as there is In the
Democratic party. 1t is for this inside
track" ard s'appointing pOa1er" that the
Democratic party has wasted all its ener-
gies, and walowed in guilt for the last
ten, Of even twenty years for this it
Joined itself unto slavery, and did It's bid
ding with a survillty that would have
shamed dog repealed the ordinance
that guaranteed freedom to the Territo-
ries belonging to the Union, raised mobs
to over-run and murder the people in the
Territories who opposed the forcible in
PRODUCTION of slavery among them, con-
nived with, and winked at the doings of
southern traitors always-excusing or de-
anying the mobbIng and lynching of north
ern citizens all over the Southern States,
and finally leading the South into a re-
'bellion against the government and the
great principles of freedom, which de-
stroyed quarter Of a million of lives, of
loyal men, and equally as great number
who were made disloyal by Democratic
teachings, involving the nation In a debt
of three thousand millions of dollars, and
since their rebellion was crushed they
have did everything In their power to
prevent the restoration of peace on a be-
sis that would forever prevent recur-
renee of their traitorous insubordination,
and secure the blessings of liberty to all
Gods creatures Since the rebellion was
conquered, the northern wing of the Dem
ocratic party have increasingly urged the
southern wing not to submit to the very
reasonable dictation of their conquerors.
And when the southern wing of the Dem
ocratic party organized themselves into
Ku Klux klans and committed their
hellish outrages upon defenceless negroes
and Union men without let or hinderance,
they had an able defence in the northern
wing Of the Democratic party. All these
things, and more besides, yes, more than
we could crowd into our limited columns
have the Democratic party done to get
the INSIDE track and tie appointing
go,rer.
There is no vice or treacEery in their
own party land there is heap of it
therel they have not covered up or ex-
cused, and no virtue in the Republican
party land there is heap of it there)
that they do not condemn. A party with
out principles, comprising all that is vi
cieus in the land. such as follow the muir
derer, the executed felon to his grave
mournlng. Basing their hopes upon the
idea that there is more bad than good in
the land, they struggle on In the same
old beaten track. panderlng to the worst
passions of humanity, hoping to reverse
Gods plans and thereby overcome good
with evil, and finally get the inside
track, and the appointing power" in
the nStion. These are hard sayings,
but they are fit to after on dying bed
keep them before the people After all,
there are hosts Of good men in the Dem
ocratic party-good in everything but
politics-good ncighb rs, good friends
and good citizens, and yet they affiliate
with the very worst men for party pur-
noses-there is the strange part of it.
Men full of good influences will excuse,
or at least never condemn assassinations,
and denominations the most horrible that
can be conceived, if they are done in the
Democratic party, or if the condemnlng
of such wiekedness will in any way mill
tate against the party's chances for get
ting the inside track and the appoint
ing power"
We rather think the thing is right as
it is-the people have tbs inside track,
or that portion of them that would not
join in a political aCaLe over the carcass
of an executed murderer-all for politi
cal effect.