South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-11-10
TROUBLES OF THE DEMOC-
RACY.

exchanges VIC ind such ultra pa
pers as the Cincinnati Enquirer and
the Columbus Statesman to be IN
great trouble, and we suppose that
their agitation must be transmit
ted TO the ultra Democratic mind.
This does not grow out of the
efforts of the st. Louis Republican
and Frank Blair to disband the
Democratic party, for these papers
are of the blind sort that believe IN
fighting if only TO have the PRIV
lege Of getting their heads well
punched; but # arises from one of
the hobbies that annually beset the
Enquirer.
The Enquirer, as all who have
watched Ohio politics of late years
we'll know, annually comes forth
with some new man as 'tho man OF
the day." able TO carry the Demo-
cratic craft to a harbor of victory
and safety, and as often the man
proves O failure and the craft is
swamped by the breakers.
This Fall. in view of tho coming
Presidential contest, the Enquirer
is on hand as usual, and flies the
name of Colonel Thomas A. Scott,
Chief Manager of tho Pennsylvania
Central Rail Road, as the man un-
der whom to marshal the Democrats
ic host. and to finally capture the
Presidential chair and all the "fat
things" that pertain thereto.
: Whereupon, the Columbus States
man, of the End, speaks out As fol-
flows
1.-The Cincinnati Enquirer seems
to be badly frightened, and in a fit
of desperation comes out in a doub-
Ie-leaded column editorial in favor
of Tom Scott (beg pardon. Colonel
Thomas A. Scott). Chief Manager
of the Great Pennsylvania Cont
mental Railroad Monopoly. as the
Democratic candidate for President
next year.
THE Rnquirer's principal argu-
mcnt IN favor of Mr.. Scott Is his
availability IN Pennsylvania and
other States where his monopoly
has gobSled up railroads. SIsted
down, this simply amounts to a dec
laratuon that the Democratic party
IL in such desperate straits it mus:
put itself under the protection of
the most INSCRIPTIONS and power
ful railroad corporation in the
Union, hoping thereby TO be car
RED successfully through the cleo.
ton, not by the power of its pr;nci
piles, but by the lobby and money
power Of Tom Scouts raIlrcad com
hinations. 'Mr. Scott is strong IN
Pennsylvania and will carry it,
Granted, but it will not be because
he ID a Democrat, Or a Republican,
or an independent statesman ike
Carl Schurz; but SIMPLY because he
is the head of a monopoly that con-
trolls by money and lobby power the
politics of the State, ard has bought
up and used It's Legislature every
year for the past twenty years.
THIS is all there Is of SCOTS power
in Any State or section of this u
MON 1t is a power based on cor
ruption and legislative bribery.
Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, and Wander
bilt are great men n New York by
of precisely the same infiu-
ences that make Scott powerful in
Pennsylvania or elsewhere. But
let the question come to a popular
election and it will he found that
the very reasons that make these
men powerful in corrupt legislative
bodies, will aus the people TO
discard them with loathins, and
contempt for q party that attempts
to carry them. So much for Mr..
Tom SCOTS availability. I
"The idea of selecting thus MIR.
Scott to cleanse the Augean sta.
bles' at Washington is a profound
Joke, and as to the Enguirer'S dec
laration that his honesty is prov
through Pennsylvania we
have this to say: His personal {
honesty may be, but from the OHIO L,
limo to the Delaware u friend will
find his name the SYNONYM of Iegis
lative corruption among well in
formed public men OF both parties,
well as the mass of the people. {
This Is a fact that cannot be dis a,
counted. As to Mr.. SCOTS politics
the Pittsburgh Post claims him as s
Democrat, and Nj. Forney, in
the Philadelphia Press, rs a Repub- {
Both are partly right and
wrong. He gravltates tow
ards either party just as the neces- t
stiles of his immense monopoly IN {
require. His politics are
summed up in the Pennsylvania
Central Combination, and the half c
dozen land-grabbing roads in tho 7
West. of which he Is the master
He uses parties as a nero {
.onvenience. {
"The Enquirer's formal presenta- c
lion of Mr.. SCOTS name invites
but we have no Ideathat I
its notion will take save as an
smetic. The trouble with the En-
is that it is frightened ont of (
all sense of propriety, and in its fit ,
desperation has hit upon Tom 7
Scott as the political sensation of j
The hour. We ought to be thank &
it is not jim Fisk. If the Dem (
party is to be put IN tram
ing for the uses OF the great rail- l
road monopolIsts, monster corpor- ]
and INSCRIPTIONS land
grabhers of the nation, we shall {
conclude its mission IS about ended |