Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-09-26
pOLITICAL NOTES.

CT- The Republican party Is the true
anti-monopoly party. - VGoqWd (Wts.)
Censor.
tE- The Democrats of Pennsylvania
have no opinions to express on the tariff
| question. They are waiting to find out
what side of It they are on.-PntS6ur9h
| (Pd) Commercial.
ET- Schuyler Colfax, in response 10
serenade at Eaton Rapids, Mich, SAID
| that che could look back upon his long
career and see that he had never per,
formed public act for which he would
be ashamed to stand and answer at tho
courtof heaven"
Eg" The Democratic party wants to be
trusted not for what it has been, hut Tor
what it says IL will be. The people only
know it by what 1t has been. BY that 1t
| has been Judged in former years and con
dcmned. IL will be the same way this
year. The people prefer party whose
| past record gives assurance OF good gov
ernment and honesty and economy In me
fulure.-COunca Bi1bs tIo,cd) No0pdre@
cB~ The Democratic press mourns in
cessantly about the increase OF
debt and taxes, caused by its own party's
| misdOng. Now, will any Democratic
paper tell us when and where its party
has reduced taxes or public Indebtedness
anywhere during the past ten or fifteen
yearsY If the party has done any such
thing in any city or State where II has
been dominant, we are not aware OF It,
Columbus (O'hiOJ Suite Journal.
To- When Democratic orators de-
nounce the decentralization Of our politics,
we admit that politics are indeed demor-
allied, but far more so among Democrats
than among Republicans. Ii among the
1.aff
who abuse the power they possess, there
are very few among the former who do not
show by their conduct that they are seek
ing power for the express purpose oi
abusing it. AS an opposition purity the
Democracy is failure. IL would be
well if it could be got rid of, and the field
he left free for better one.-NtD York
Tins.
tI5" The Albany IN. " Eoeaing Jour
nal says of Democratic criticisms: "lf
the criticisms of Democratic papers
have little weight with the people, it is
because they are marked by so little cam
dor They are now virulenily assailing
the Republican party and Administration
as corrupt and pro1igate. But 1hey have
been doing precisely The same thing for
the past ten years, and The accusation COM
mands TO more credit now than ii did
then. Its palpable falsity has not pre-.
vented them from repeating it during all
this time, and the people naturally reason,
ii they did not examine the facts for
themselves, that what has so often proved
baseless is entitled to no credence or re-
spect now"
GB- Democracy has got 20 mean differ
ent things in different places, preparatory
TO meaning nothing in all places. The
Pennsylvania Democracy readOptrd as its
platform the platform OF the Ohio DcmOc-
racy, with the exception of the free-trade
plank. That they did not believe in, and
rejected-although il simply resolved that
tariff duties ought TO be levied only for
revenue. The high-tariff Democracy of
Pennsy lvania has always been an unman-
ageablc burden to the party, ever ready to
defeat the party on the question of free
trade. Its dissent from the Ohio platform
on this subject shows that it can never
again cooperate with Western Democrats
nor Western Democrats with it.-St. Louis
Republican.
EB~The New York Times says: Veteran
Democrats of the West, who have been
accustomed To look to the Chicago Times
and the st. Louis Republican for their pO-
litical inspiration, must be inconsOlable
now that these, their only guides and sup
pOrters of any account, have abandoned
ihem to their fate The latter paper huries
the Democratic party daily, and in its
issue last received by us says: "lndeed,
it Uhe Democratic party has ceased TO be
IA fighting power, and does not, at this
time, possess grain of intlu nee in ma
tional politics. 1t has lost the faculty of
attracting attention to itself Its platforms
though these same platforms, when pro-
claimed by some other party, become an
inspiring war-cry against Republican
ism'
eY-The New York Commercial AdUer-
tiSer says of the despised and rejected
Liberals: Where now are the exuliant
chiefs who but a year ago marshaled their
little tut potential clans at Cincinnati,
and demanded of the great Democratic
party surrender and absorption? Alasl
how are the mighty fallen! The men who
but year ago gave the nod to Democrat
ic conventions in State after State, and
waved the wand of sovereignty over the
national gathering at Baltimore, now find
none so poor AS to do them reverence. 1t
is the story over again of blind Beisarius
and the penitent Wolsey. Those men who
wore the purple last year come now in
tattered vestments and with hungry eyes
to the precincts of Democratic conven-
tiOns, and find their piieous appeals for
even an obeus of recognition met with
scorn and "contumeliousness."
eY-The Buffalo IN. W Commercial Ad-
vertiser has word or two ON the past
which the Democracy are so anxious 10
bury: The Democratic journals lay great
stress upon the assertion that they do not
seek to "galvanize dead issues" they do
not want to "reyiye the past" or course
they do not, and why Simply
because they are afraid of it. A steward
or any other servant who had been em-
ployed in position of responsibility, and
been discharged for breach OF trust.
would not be apt 10 ask TO be reinsiaied
for the reason that he was willing To for
get the past. 1t would be tor his injured
employers OF friends TO condOne for and
forget the past, if they could place conf
dence in his promise to do better in the
future. 1t would not be for him to say,
70 never mind that old affair, will let
that drop" But su h is precisely the po-
sition taken bv the Democratic party.