The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-08-22
IAN Alliance-Not a Consolidation"

IAN Alliance-Not Consolidation"
Our neighbor of the "Democrat" has
received, and published in his last weeks
issue a communication bearing the above
title. We read the communication care
fully, once, twice, thrice, to see what
might be in the things, and found that
it was a labored effort to prove that
combination and consolidation did not
mean the same thing.
There is to be sure hourishes of
trumpets such as Charles Sumner or
Carl Schurz make as prelude TO the
mole that either of these great noun
tains are about to Bring forth, about
Lib-Rep. Dem honesty and Republican
pelf and plunder &C., &c. How strange
the results of coalitions sometimes, as in
this instance the coalition between dis
appointed soreheaded Republican place
seekers, and the remnents of an effete,
defeated political organization struggling
for power. Now don't it SQUAD we'll for
a Democrat TO talk about honesty in the
financial administration of either national
State, or municipal Government. Only
year ago the Democratic administra-
ton OF the municipal Government of the
city and county of New York was ex-
posed developing mass of corruption,
rarely if ever equaled in the annals of
Government. 1t brought to light the
fact that men whose social inclinati0ns
and habits were so low as to be beyond
description for want Of the necessary de-
scriptive words in the English language,
were in high places placed there by the
Democratic party. Professional thieves,
burglars, head splitters, murderers, and
keepers OF houses of prostition, were
either in possession of the places of hon
or, profit, and trust in the city and coun-
ty of New York, or were the retainers
Of those who were, to a man they were
| and are Democrats, and to a man are to
day prime movers in the Lib-Rep-Dem
movement. What figure these vaga-
bonds would cut in purifying any Gov
ernment, even the most corrupt on
earth.
Twelve years ago the last regular
Democratic administration of our national
Government with James Buchanan at its
head was in the last six months of its
existance, and busy enough it was toe
dismantling every northern Fort, and
sending all the better guns south tt
mount the parapets Of Southern Forts
Or to be turned upon the Government o.
The people, while others not so good were
sold as old iron and he'morey pocketeC
by James B. Floyd, Howell cobb, anC
Jake Thompson, to strengthen go far al
money could do SO, the rebel cause
For from the reputation of what i
known as the Cincinnati platform b,
James Buchanan in 1858 the doom G
The Democratic party was sealed, auC
preparations for Rebellion began will
great activity, by three of Mr.. Buchan
ans cabinet ministers. When the Re
publican party came into power on tn
4tn Of March 1861 with the honest, tn
noble and the prriotic Lihcoln at it
head, there was not so much as a dolla
in the national Treasury, and Demo
cratic slave holders rebellion in activ
operation. How pretty then it sound
for a Democratic organ great or small
or even "no party organ" with Greele
on the brain to be piping purity in tn
Constitutional money handlers of tn
nation, when a more graceIess set Q
thieves never went unhung than III
greater portion Of the Democratic hold
ers Of high places in the Government
were aud especially those Of the last
Al thcse now living are for the Lil-ReE
Derns candidate Greeley The Lib-Rep
Dcms say u great deal about letting th
"dea1 past buy It's dead" and yet ever
organ Of the party from the Elk Count.
Dcmocrat, down through ell grades an
. shades, until you reach the depths
political degradation embodied in tha
"no party organ" the New York Trib@''
pirate their past dishonesty, an
corruption, and treason by great prefer