The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-22
DEMOCRATIC wIND-BAGs.

From the NJ Y. Times.
The Democrats in Congress have issued an
address to the people. They begin by de-
nouncing Capitalization" and Subsidized
press" Upon hearing this, the first impress
sions of most people will be that the object of
their attack is the Democratic Government
of New York-for surely such an example of
Capitalization" was never seen in the world
before. All power is placed in the hands of
half dozen men, and the people are no
longer allowed to have voice even in the
election of the chief oficials-still less any
control over them when they are in Office.
Again, if we want to see subsidized press,
we must certainly look to New York for it,
where numerous papers are kept in existence
by corporation advertisements, for the sole
purpose of supporting the corrupt faction of
the Democratic party. Unless these journals
were thus fed and propped up, most of them
would drop out of existence in less than
three weeks, and all of them would de-
nounce the palpable and shameless mis-
government of the city and State.
But these are not the circums tances which
move the Democrats in Congress to
protest. Their anger is kindled against the
tsRadicals" wicked Radicals who
saved the country from being split into frag-
ments in 1861, and who have ever since tried
to preserve the honor and increase the pros
perity of the country. These are grave
crimes, and the Democrats in Congress can
not regard them with patience. They say
that ''honesty fitness, and moral worth are
openly discarded in favor of trucking sub
mission and dishonorable compliance; hence
enormous defalcations and widespread cor
ruption have followed as the natural conse-
quences of this pernicious system" If this
was not intended to refer to Connolly and
his frienes, the Democrats have unintention-
ally given an exact description of their rule
and the results to which it has led. When
they say, ''if the career of these conspirators
be not checked, the downfall of free govern
ment is inevitable" it is impossible any
longer to resist the belief that they had theil
eyes fixed on their worthy associates who
have turned free government into mockery
in this State.
'Nothing is left to the citizen or the st ate
which can any longer be called right; al
is changed into mere sufferance." Here
once more, we have perfect description in
small compass of Democratic principles oi
government as exemplifed in New York
What the address means by the sacred rights
of States, as applied to the South, Jefferson
Davis recently explained at greater length il
his speech at Selma. The people understand
pretty.well what the Democratic idea of State
rights really conveys. The address proposes
no definite policy-it consists merely Of
windy defamation against the Radicals fol
abusing the powers of government. The
Democrats forget that tAere would have beer
no government at all by this time, in the
sense in which we have hitherto had one
but for these same desperate
Radicals. That the Republicans have
made some mistakes-notably in allowing
another session 10 elapse without revision
OF the tariff and further reduction of taxa
tion-a very large section of the party freel,
admits. But it is a little too good a iokt
for the Democrats to pirate about honesty anC
economy In government What thew have
done Ia this State they would do everywhere
they bad the power. Republican short