The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-08-10
Radical Favoritism.

This favorrtism 10 a. great, grand
aud very extensive soneth hg jus
now. Reader, arc you acquainted
with the monster If You are {
working man your depleted poke
book is n receipt certifying that Jou
arei that you are, day after day. sus
tanning its manifold and Unsuitable
rayages.
This ravager may be known anc
recognized as a frequentcr of thu
suInptuous places of TIE bondholder
capitalists and ofice-hg]ders,0t to whom
its spoils are delivered. The las
named receives his pass, for his favo1
Itism, from tho former, who receive:
theirs, for the favoritism TINS shown
them direct from those of toll. Il man
Is no sooner elected to Office these
days, than he is immediately be~iegec
by those moneyed lords for his favor
to make him their tool These be
tiegers pay well, therefore, rarely ev.
or fail in securing their prize. How
wonderful, still how true, that a mar
in high trust can he such a mercena
ny character. that he will thus secret
~ impose upon the confidence of his
constituents. This, too. in a fret
and untrammeled Repub'i c That i:
= Republic so understood once. Blu
Oh temporG n,Wtanter. 1t is n stand
ing mockery Of a Republic which
a 49, .rg,
This depreciency arises from th,
dishonesty of the present Incumbent
Of Office, and the corruption of the
party which elected them. Hence
the urgent aecessity Of a speedy pur
CATION.
FaSoritism begins with our noble
President, and extends sheer down
the coh~catenation TO that of Chief
Magistrate. Though the benefit our
loved Ulysses received from it in one
day would satisfy a magistrate for his
whole term. So much for not being
President instead of holding that little
Insignificant "posish.' Favoritism
ola radical origin. is a self-aggrandi
zing antomaton, and has the greatest
tendency of soaring to the loftiest
climax: Hence the miraculous and
sudden fortunes of some Of our office
holders, who started in the business
destituteAof all but the Office. In
sueh.cases favorltisln is subservient to
the highest bidder, it succumbs TO the
firest price.
Some, by contributing for a house
for the President. have, as a conpen
sation been awarded a lucrative Office
which more than a dozen Times rsmu-
nerated them for their Donation
Those presenting pups need not ex-
bect anything higher than a post-ofce
Though all presents are thankfully
received and highly appreciated.
Favoritism does not cost the Office
holder anything. 1t only costs those
farmers who from early morn
till late ct night, toll and sweat at
their arduous labors in tilling the soil
for those productions essential to the
preservation of life, even to those in
fiicting these impositions upon them.
It comes only from those mechanics
the pride and bloom of this Republic
than whom no nation can boast of
more geniuses or better skilled work,
men,. Only from those frontiersmen-
who, after repeatedly repelling the va
rious attacks of savages OIL the war
path, besides contending and dispos
ing-of other dangers encountered
in a pioneer life, are telling the forest
cultivating their reservations, beauti
flying their homes, and striving to ex-
tend civilization toward the Pacific
coast. But alasl their progress is
materially retarded by the everlasting
swarm of tax-gatherers who have even
penetrated the almost impervious and
interminable recesses Of the great
West, to the extreme limits of civil
in quest of means for keeping
mp and fostering favoritism in the
East. Ol r. e.-r
The reader, if a careful peruser of
our Democratic Journals, already
this, and it is not to give the
to its reality, our mention of
the facts, hut because it ia by, with
and through the enormous taxes thus
assessed that favoritism holds such
full sway, and with such encourage
ment under the present administration
This Government, from the highest
Office down TO the most mental one, is
controlled by a most damnable elite
of he'll begotten favorites, with here
and there an honest man like stalks
Of barley in field of wheat. Plain
talk is, it? Not though without a
cause. 1t is said there is a time
when patience ceases to be a-virtue.-
That time is now in vogue. We are
a tax payer, preyed upon by favorit-
isEn, and, therefore, assume the privi-
lege of free expression.
To get a good Office now, is TO be-
come Immediate heir of fortune. Else
can n man, whose stated salary
is only a few thonsand a year.. and
with only n year or two of his; official
term having expired, afford 10 equip
and furnish mid slchagrand display of
wealth. a thirty thousand dollar ~"stone
frontf'r Need We say, that for his
political influence in some transaction
10 the interest of some bloated aristo-
Crat-for the introduction of some bill
-or, for his vote for or against some
bill already Observation-Disclosures Sc
cures to him the perquisite means.
90 The oppressed and toiling ,,~trnasses
everywhere are anticipatingsa God
send in the rapid but sure strides of
the Democratic party TO its whilom
acme Of predominancy. But will it.
be realized as a,5God send? Will
that suceor. anticipated by thousands
be ushared in with its coming? or