Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-02-21
The Lost Character of the Republican
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can party. l voted for its candidates.
But I think their party has lost
character in this State. 1t is led by CO.
terie who, as I am informed and believe
gamble all night to cheat each other, and
intrigue all day to plumber the public. ]
CANNOT CoALEsCE WITH SUCH A PARITY
Mayor Haoemeyer.
The Republican party lost character by
sheltering and perpetuating the proven
New York Custom-house frauds which
profted the White House Ring.
The Republican party lost character by
rejecting General Grant, who had used
his great office as private emolument and
not as a public trust, receiving gifts from
politicians and giving Office to score of
his relatives.
The Republican party lost character by
re-electing General Grant after he had
usurped the war-power to push ahead the
Santo Domingo job.
The Republican party lost character by
promoting men, and ofthese Grant is chief
who set all constitutional limitations at
defiance, although these should have bound
them merely as men of honor who put
the military above the civil power; and
who lent their official influence to uphold
the carpet-baggers in plundering the
Southern States of $200,000,0O0 since the
war closed.
The Republican party lost character by
tolerating in its leadership men who used
the bayonets of United States soldiers and
the patronage of the United States Gov
eminent to control conventions and carry
elections.
The Republican party lost character by
working out no better craftsmanship, to
effect its own continuance in power, than
to array the entire black race of the South
against the whites, and to perpetutate thus
social and industrial disorder there
which prevents the South from sensibly
lifting at the burden of our public debt of
over $4,000, 100000.
The Republican party lost character by
permitting General Grant to convert his
power to confer office and profit upon 1OO,-
900 persons, into an instrument to secure
his own reelection.
The Republican party lost character
when all its leaders who had been bribed
with Credit Mobilier stock-two Vice
Presidents, two Senators, six or seven Rep
resentatives with simulated indig-
nation, open denial of the truth.
The Republican party lost character
when, claiming to be the party of great
moral ideas, its representative men, assem-
bled in State Legislatures, in every State
capital from New York to Kansas, set a
price upon their votes, were the bought
cattle of monopolists and all who sought
to prey upon the people, and scarce any
where passed necessary laws except for
money.
The Republican party lost character
when in the October Pennsylvania election
its trusted leaders organized and executed
an unparalleled system of bribery and cor
ruption such as Tweed never dreamed of,
and of frauds upon the ballot-box by ere
peaters' two or three times more numer-
Gus than ever repeated their votes in the
worst days of the Ring in the worst dis
trict of the worst ward of all New York
repeating, frauds, bribery, and corruption
now manifests in comparison of the Off
tested by Republican reformers in the City
of Philadelphia, and made the ground of
their protest when General Grant had
fastened to pardon out Of the penitentiary
the one only Republican politician allow
ed to be convicted and sentenced for his
crime.
The Republican party lost character
when, the Government of plundered Lou
isiana having been skilfully recovered
from the hands of the carpet-baggers and
negro gamblers to the hands of resident
taxpayers in fair election, its leaders de-
vised and executed a plot to overthrow
the State Government, in which drunken
Judge Durell, an INSCRIPTIONS United
States Attorney General, and President
Grant played their separate and prearrang-
ed parts, and effected that intolerable u
surpation, which continues unpublished
and unsubverted to this hour.
The Republican party lost character
when its official chief ordered the protest
ing, plundered, and oppressed citizens of
that great commonwealth to abide at home,
for that his ears would be deaf to their
protests-he would alter nothing, what
ever they might say; and he has altered
nothing, and Durell wears ermine still and
brother-in-law Casey still sits supreme at
the seat of customs.
The Republican party lost character
when Grant appointed and the Senate con-
frmed as Minister to Spain, Daniel E.
Sickles, in the catalogue of whose baser
and meaner crimes the cowardly murder of
his wife's paramour shines like virtue
The Republican party lost character
when the leading Grant Elector in this
State confessed to fraudulent evasions and
violations of the customs laws and offered
to pay $4,000 to escape heavier penalties
and confinement in the penitentiary.
The Republican party lost character
when the chairman of the four foremost
committees ofthe House ofRepresentatives,
Dawes, Bingham, Scofeld, Garfield; Kel-
ley, the foremosr oracle of Protection, the
policy of the Republican party; Senators
Pattersons, Allison, and J. F. Wilson and
the Vice-President-elect, were proved gull
ty of venality and falsehood.
The Republican party lost character
when besides these its foremost men the |
second highest officer in the Government,
Schuyler Colfax, was proved guilty Of ven
atty, falsehood, and of an imbeciie inven-
ton which puts his wit on level with
his morality.
The Republican party lost character
when Harlan was proven to have received
$4,000 for his Senatorial election in Iowa,
and when Subsidy Pomeroy was caught
in the act of bribing Legislators to re-elect
him to the Senate from Kansas though
both these men had long been known to
be notorious corruptionists, who traded on
their Temperance" and 'piety."
The Republican party lost character
when its newspaper press concealed the
crimes of these leaders, or condoned them,
Or denied them.
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