The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-23
THE ONLY ISSUE.

III. At"sS>-
Pardon me, if seemingly soold. But you
seem to me to lag. You neither feel the FIRE
Of the patriotic spirit which has rescued New
York from the grasp of fendish partizan
nor are you reused into action
BY its glorious victory.
What il Republicanism ell clotted over
with corruption? A curse To itself and to
the country! What, Democracy, if .meared
in crime and venality? A mine of mischief,
a very volcano of ruin! Now this corrup-
lion, this crime and venality, have controlled
and threatened the very vitality of our Re
public in the great State and City Of New
York, and have been crushed; crushed BY
the people, who, snappins asunder the chains
of parry, gappled with them with the
honesty Of an invincible will, and conquered.
Yet not i Journal in this city, save rs the
telegraph has flashed forth the the battle, and
its results, has pictured the great struggle, or
pointed out or painted lis greater moral.
Are you asleep, Mr.. Editor? l ask the
question; for this corruption, this crime
and venality are not confined
to New York. They are widespread.
They clasp, through monopoly anda gigantic
moneyed control, in their venal fold, other
State-, and threaten even our living, thriving,
glorious young State, Kansas. Dare you
ignore the conflict, or s.ut out from your
columns IFS great import You
see the evil; your party sees it; pass on,
lei il go unheeded, and you and it
will be punished. For what is the issue now
before the people, Only one, answer the
independent pres. ltsays:
All other questions that have hitherto
divided the American people disappear be-
fore this one Can public corruption be
stopped, Can public robbery be put down
Can political frauds be Suppressed and pre-
vented? Can bribery and preaent-taking be
ban. shed from political Affairs
Only one issue, too, answer the hOnt 81 Re-
publican journals. Hear the New York
Tribune, as their exponent
There is no issue before the country 80
commanding as the issue between honest
men and the rogues; and no political cam
paign that can compare in importance with
the campaign against corruption. People
are no longer agiisted about slavery. Recon-
struction is settled. The rights of the negro
are practically secured. No respectable seq
ment of a party longer denies the sanctity of
the national debt. No free trader, however
crazy, wants the tariff repealed or largely
reduced Just now. The ivest issue OF the
hour i the issue Of honesty in politics
vital question, can We punish the thieves?
sirs, wake up! Let your voice be heard
in favor of the right. Be men, and work
for men.
ask you, in this connection, to publish
the following artis lie from the New York
World:
A little foresight, or little common sense,
when it happens to run counter to a prevail
ing infatuatiOn, is almost fatal gilt The
World has sgain and again put its influence
and party standing in jeopardy by giving
bold advice which fell upon unwilling cans.
Nobody can aor doubt that the World was
right in its aggressive onslaught against the
Tammany ring in the winter and spring OF
1870. That was one of several costly and dis
experiments we have made to save
the party from surely approaching evils. 1t
is clear enough nor that if the World had
been followed and supported by the Demo-
cratic party Of the State, in the spring Of
1870, We should have escaped the blighting
defeat which has just fallen upon us. Then
was the time to have flung overheard the
Jonah and saved the Democratic
ship. We foresaw then, rs clearly as any
see now, that the ascendancy Of Tammany
was fraught with political ruin; but the par
ly gave US no hearty support, and we were
to trust our vindication time.
We submit it to the judgement of the party,
and to the judgement of all clear-sighted
men. whether We were not right; whether
our judgement was not IA opp0rtune in time
AZ it was in substance; whether the party
did not make an egregiOus mistake in Civ
ing 80 little support to our strenuOns and We
hement "war to the knife" II Tammany
had been subdued and -,rediied then, how
would have been The position and
of the Democratic PARTY now?
''The prudent man., says the author of the
Book Of Proverbs, "f0rsseeih the evil and
hide,h himself; but the simple pass on and
ire punished" The party has at last tossed
he Tammany Jonah overheard into the
raging engrlfng sea; but how much better
/ would have been to take time by the
orelock," and to have done IL season and
lone as precautiOn, what had To be done at
asst Blu; at, the time when this action
would have been timely, the Democratic |
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