Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-09-25
Professions US. Practice.


conventions had any value, the
Republican party, instead Of be-
ing corrupt and rotten, would be
pure and sound. All the plat
forms for a decade past abolnd
in the best sort of professions,
and what is somewhat remarka-
bic, they have grown stronger in
proportion as the party has grown
weaker i'll their observance.
Take a single CONSPICUOUS exam,
pie by way of illustration.
AT the Philadelphia Conven-
ton in June, 1872, which renom-
mated Gen. Grant, the following
resolution was one of the most
prominent in ;he series of eigh-
teen, constituting a declaration
Of Republican principles.
"Sirth-We are opposed TO fur
Their grants Of the public lands
to corporations and monopolies,
and demand that the national do
main be set al art for free homes
for the people,
1t might reasonably be sup~
posed from the terms of this res
olution that it was intended to
deprecate an odious wrong com
mitted by the opposing party,
and to arrest a sp~oilation which
the Republicans condemned.
The truth is that the very men
who concocted this strong con>
sure for effect were either per-
sonally guilty, or complicated
through confederates, of the acts
which they thus pretended to
denounce. The Republicans have
had uncontrolled possession Of
every department of the Govern
ment since 1861. During a large
part of that period Of twelve
years they had majorities of two
thirds IN both branches of Con
gress.
They donated absolutely to
railroad corporations and for 9th
or purposes, nearly three hundred
millions of acres of the best pub
"
, lie lands. They originated and
have continued that corrupt sys-
tenn which resulted in Gre iii
Mobilier and other robbery e.
qually criminal. They have leg
islated and made treat es with
, Indians designed to be broken,
by which scores of millions oi
the rem aiming domain will he
grabbed by organized rings. Un,
der their policy and the opera.
ton of the Interior Department
thousands Of honest settlers have
been plundered of their rights.
Yet after squandering and steal
, ing the public domain in this way
until the great bulk of good land
is gone, the thieves in Congress
and the wire-pullers who carried
these jobs through had the eff
frontery to resolve that eve are
opposed to further grants of the
public lands to corporations and
monopolies." After they were
gorged and there was nothing
more to steal, then they sudden-
ly put on an air of virtue. Hav-
ing stolen the Horse they hon
estIy proposed to lock the stable
door.
When the salary steal was be-
fore the Senate on the first of
last March, MI. Wright Of Iowa,
one of the few Senators of the
majority who resisted it, said:
eff there is any one thing to
which the party 1 belong to is
committed more than another, it
is economy in the administration
of the Government. We went
to the people of this nation upon
that as a part IT our platform.
The people OF this nation had IL
right to believe that we were hon
est, and now the first opportuni-
ty that we have to give evidence
of that honesty, we propose to
increase the salary of every lead
ing officer in this nation.
"All over this land there is a
complaint of taxation, and want,
and suffering. Every day the
cry comes to US from the people.
| say therefore we are untrue to
the pledges we have made to the