Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-08-17
Can the Democratic Party be Trusted !!

THE Democratic party has had no lack
of opportunity to demonstrate its capacity
to govern, if such capacity it possessed.
1t is not to be denied that 1t has hsd with
in its ranks statesmen of eminent ability
and worth. But party may, as whole,
be very different in character and capaci-
ty from some of the men who are attach
ed to it. The wiser and more patriotic
men of the Democratic party have been
those least Influential in shaping its
course. 1t is notorious that, year after
year, the party has been losing from its
ranks its most eminent and worthy men,
because the hot heads of the South, and
the plundering rings of New York, COM
pletely overturned all their patriotic and
prudent counsels. Bearing and forbear-
ing, as many of them did, for many years,
in hopes of effecting reform, the party be-
came so corrupt, so revolutionary, so un-
patriotic, that no consideration could in
Guce them to remain longer in it. That
class of men have found home in the
Republican party, and are an important
element of its strength. The party, in
the States, and in the General Govern
ment, has held power only to misgovern
and retard the moral and political progress
of the country. 1t has, in order TO control
the elections, pandered to prejudice, igno-
rance and crime. 1t has combined with
oppressors, and made leagues with corrup-
tionists and plunderers. 1t became the
bond-slave of the reasonable oligarchy
which plotted the perversion of the Con
stitution, and, failing in that, its complete
overthrow, by dividing the Union. And
by this base yielding to the worst ele-
ments and principles, the party became in.
capable of governing in the interest OF
thrift, order and freedom.
In its financial management it has, at
the dictatation of cliques and ruling in
terests in the party, made frequent, reck.
less and violent changes in our financial
policy, so that the currency was depreci-
ated, commerce prostrated, and bankrupt
cy and ruin spread over all sections of the
land. In its general politics it strength
ened and fostered into gigantic proper
tions the Southern secession element,
while denying its confidence to the earn
estly patriotic men of the South. 1t put
ranting and reckless fire-eaters to the
front, and made its wise and prudent men
succumb to them. A generation of Dem
ocratic rule at Washington crushed out the
patriotic and conservative element at the
South and developed the treason of 1861.
That rebellion was the fruit borne by a
generation of almost unbroken Democrat.
ic control of the government
Passing the conduct of the party during
the war, we note its unpatriotic action in
encouraging the lawless element of the
South to obstruct all measures for promot-
ing peace and progress there. 1t has viii
fed aud DETAINED Northern emigrants to
the South. 1t has derided the teachers
who have gone there to educate the ignor-
ant. 1t has promised to put the Ku Kluz
Democracy in unqualified control in the
South in the event of the Democracy be.
ing restored to power, and in every way
possible has contrived to keep alive the
most bitter feeling between the blacks anC
the whites, and also between the people
of the North and the South. 1t has EN-
bittered and fostered the prejudices o
caste, and section, and race, for the bases
of partisan purposes. This is, as all cal
see, brewing trouble for the future.
New York, both the city and the State
is under Democratic control. The New
York Democracy is the element whicl
will rule the party in the coming contest
and, if it shall be successful, control tn
government at Washington. The New
York regency-the Tammany ring-wil
rule at the national capital precisely a
the chiefs of the South Carolina and Vii
ginia oligarchy ruled before the wal
What kind of government can we expeC
from the Democratic party thus ruled an
} officered? Let the scenes of the 18th c
July answer. The Democratic authoritie
then sacrificed some of the most sacred c
our rights and usages, namely, the right
of free assemblage and of religious liberty
: in Difference to a turbulent, proscriptiv
} and riotous element, to which the part
owed its majorities at the elections. Tn
} officers forgot their oath to keep the peac
, and enforce the law, in their zeal to col
2 ciliate Irish Catholics and secure thei
votes. Thus it always has been with thi
: party, and thus it always must be: Th
: hesitancy, cowardice and vacillation
: Gov. Hoffman was fatal to his own rep'
, tation, the preservation of peace, an
g strikingly reminds one of the inconsisten
s vacillating, ruinous course of James B'
1 chanan in dealing with the treason OF 1S6
f The incapscity of both Buchanan an
: Hoffman may be traced to the same sourc
: the influence of the bad and destructi'
n elements of their own party over ther
: In them the flesh lusted against the spir
! evil warred against the good-and then'
l. the shameful vacillation and ineficient
e in their conduct.