Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-16

who believe that public plumber transfer
red to private pockets, is revenue re-
form. We have heard good deal of the
reforms in the Internal arrangements of
Tammany, but the came spirit of I'M
truth, imposition and desire for plumber,
characterizes the reformed organization
that formerly rested so heavily upon the
tax payers of the city of New York, and
ground laboring men to the depths of
poverty and dependence.
This same address, in stating the evils
that will result from the success of the
Republican party, says that vote for
the radical ticket is, to endorse the inn
positions in the name of reform upon
the people of the city OF New York, OF
system of government more costly,
complex, aud corrupt than the Ring it
supplanted. Here, then, we have all
these reforms that are so much boasted
of, in the municipal management of the
city, declared to be more costly, COM
pick and corrupt than the rule OF the
unreformed Tammany, that robbed the
taxpayers dor the benefit of Tweed,
Sweeny, Connolly and A. Oakley Hall.
1t is a stretch of credulity that no one
but Democratic politician would in
dulge in, to suppose that laboring men
had so little intelligence and understand
iag, that they viii read this appeal for
their votes with approval, when it is
followed in the next sentence by lugu-
brious longings for return of the good
old days when Tweed was ''boss, and
Connolly dispensed the money of the
city.
Mr.. John Fox, Chairman, may suppose
that he has convinced New York voters,
by his address, that the Republican
party are responsible for the salary grab
bill of the last Congress, but he ought to
know that he is mistaken, and that the
freemen of the great State of New York
have inspected the record, and know by
that, that if the Democratic members of
Congress had not voted for it., there
would have been no such disgraceful
legislation, and what is further that of
the leading republicans who voted for
the measure most of them, like Butler
and Carpenter were by education and
antecedents democrats. Every political
instinct of these men are in sympathy
with the grasping political dishonesty of
the democracy, Butler being a republi-
can only as he thinks he can make it for
his interest to be SO, and only deserving
his party after his fifty-seventh vote in
convention for Jefferson Davis for Pres
dent, by seeing it pass into hopeless
minority by following his favorite into
rebellion No sir, Mr.. Fox, the people
know that the salary grab is demo-
cratic measure, passed by democratic
votes, and the support of the members
of the republican party who were once
democrats, and are not yet converted to
the political honesty of the republicans.
One year ago the democracy of the
nation surrendered every distinctive
principle they had ever cherished, in the
vain hope of participating in the spoils
of Office They voted for their life long
enemy, one who had combatted with
giants power, all the delusive frauds of
their organization, and adopted as their
party platform set of resolutions, writ
ten by men who had always been I'M
friendly, containing many of the princi-
Piles of their adyersaries that they had
ever fought against, embellished with
catch-words, and glittering generalities.
This year, on Friday last, the party rep
resentatives in the most powerful state
in the Union, raise the old anti bellum
war cry, and seek to bring to the polls
the strength of the old party by the same
system of lying and dishonesty that once
succeeded, wholly forgetting that the
progress of the age has brought to the
people as whole, greater intelligence,
and that the recent awakening, has
brought about higher conception of
political and financial honesty before
which such documents of patent hum
bug, will fall to the ground with no 9TH
er effect than to weaken the cause that
resorts to such trickery and dishonesty.