Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-03-03

FRUITS OF DEMOCRATIC AscENpAEsr.
we had occasion, yesterday and the day
before, to comment upon the outrages in
Kentucky, and to discuss their relation to
the policy of the Democratic party, under
The government of which they were OPEN
~ and defiantly perpetrated. We then
said that we considered Kentucky, which
has been for long years completely under
the dominion of the Democracy, fair ex-
ample of the fruits of the policy and
teachings of that party. There has been no
military despotism or Republican rule In
that State to which these disorders could
be attributed. The only causes operating
to produce them existed with the sanction
of the Democratic party. The effect of
Democratic ascendancy in that State,
therefore, is to promote lawlessnoss and to
prevent in punishment.
LII we look from Kentucky to New York
city, we find another illustration of the
practical working of Democratic princi-
pies. Fer nearly ten years the Democracy
have had complete control of the ballot
boxes and administration of public affairs
in that metropolis. Under its domination,
the expenditures of the city have grown
SO tremendously that now they are but
trifie short of the cost of administering the
civil departments of the Government of
the United States. Its revenues, grown
to be tens of millions, go into the hands of
men SO .notoriously corrupt and extrava-
CANT that their frauds and thefts are SUBJ
ject of street talk The most startling and
stupendous corruption is daily exposed in
the fearless and Independent journals of
the city. Uuder the administration of the
notorious Tammany ring, the corrupt jul
dietary of the city draw regularly salaries
that exceed in amount the remuneration
paid the entire judiciary under control of
the United States. Their salaries
vary from twenty-five thousand to six
thousand dollar. per year. Most of these
Judges are go corrupt and so completely
under the control of their political leaders
that before them, cases i'm which the latter
are interested are disposed of just as those
leaders dictate, no matter what the Justice
or law governing them may be. So well
known is this that it is daily commented
on in the papers of that city. Tweed,
Sweeny and others Of the Tamnany ring
under their regime have grown to be as
lavish in their expenditures of money as
Fisk and his associate plunderers of the
notorious Erie ring. The ballot-box in
this specimen-governed Democratic city
does not speak the voice of the taxpayers,
or of the nlajorityof the people. 1t is con-
trolled az the exigencies of Tammany de-
mand. From New York city this corrup-
ton has spread to Albany, and now the
Legislature of the State has fallen into
their power. But New York city, like
Kentucky, is entirely under the control of
the Democracy. These frauds and startling
corruption cannot by any possible course
of reasoning be laid at Republican doors.
1T is the product of Democratic legislation.
Looking, thcn,a these two States for the
fruits of Democratic ascendancy, we have
these results: In Kentucky we see lawless-
ness in its boldest and most defiant atti-
tude, the legitimate offspring of Democrat
lie policy in New York we find corruption
on the most gigantic scale, and in the
most astonishing forms the product of
Democratic government. In both places
there have been no extraneous causes to
make the experiment Of party rule an UNI
fair test, for in both Democracy has ruled |
without disturbance for years. The pic |
ture is worth studying.