Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-07
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40 g The Names q Pslatieel
Parties. e.
The Chicago Tribune Gays: The
6nt, and apparently the most psrplsx'
iug, di06 Guilty which besets every new
departure 10 that Of getting name"
Aud tho Tribune might have appro.
priately added: Tho last aud most
humiliating difficulty i to got votes"
BY just 50 much is the end Of each
Is new departure worse than it, be-
ginning.
The old liberty party which had but
> single purpose-lths abolition Of sIav-
sry-nsver gave iteelf much trouble
ab"ut name. The opp,obrious cpl
thets he.ped npon Il BY it, enemies,
were accepted aud made the watch
words Of 4 contest which ultin,ated in 4
victory. The same u true Of tho his>
tory Of tho Republican party; its name
va lcst sight Of 10 the deeper signi6-
canoe cf it, principles. The terms Of
hurled At the Republican par
~ by ito enemies we're gathered up aud
used With terrible effect upon the slav-
cry propsgandis.s. Tn. term Of" Black
Republican," applied to Republicans
in scorn, was accepted ~ tho syno-
.ym Of the championship OF an op-
pressed aad despised race, and about
this spithet Of contempt aspirations
for universal freedom gathered in such
force that the false theories, the 20.
cisl brutalities, the aristoorasie ten
denotes, and the monstrous political
hsrssies Of = century ware driven to
tho wall, made to bow the knee to tho
almost forgotten doctrine Of equal
rights snuneiatsl il the Declaration Of
Independence, and throagA I var The
government was saved and regensra-
ted. r 49,.
The difficulty Of the new departure
of last fall vas, that it Was I mare par
~ Of opposition. It announced no
new policy, il declared no new doc
trines indeed, it had 20 little real
faith in FREQ trade" in which eco
nomio theory, its leaders pretended to
believe, that it lodged that issue. Lib.
eralism was . bold attempt to seize the
government, and the people quickly de-
tected the Inconsistencies OF ito plat
form, the dishonesty Of its convention,
aud the absardity Of the unnatural A.
titude Of its candidate for the presi-
dency.
The Ohio movement IL more ridicu-
lous than that Of 1872, In this that it
i weaker, being mere shadow Of the
national campaign Of last year, which
proved to be only the conspiracy Of a
few wrecked politicians without princi.
ples or following. A few political ad
venturers Of Hamilton county pocket
ID tho Ohio (Allen county, movement
a the out-of:business politi-
oil adventures Of the whole country
captured that of last fall. These trieks
Of Newspaper editors and worn out
leaders are only worthy Of the times
Of Polk aud Pierce, when the democrat
10 party, controlled the country in the
Of man selling, and 4 few uu-
Questionable political scouudrels con-
trolled the democratic party in tho in.
terest Of tho spoils Of Office. The sla-
very propagsudists, stipulated for the
preservation Of the peculiar institu-
ton, and tho clique Of northern dough-
faces stipulated for the Offices and
spo;la. All the new departures Of the
ureseut day are based on this old, de.
PRAYED, democratic theory that politics
10 = business ; that few men control
the people. aud that tho Republican
party, controlled by the voters, is 4
usurpation Of the special privileges Of
these self:consti leaders. Hence
every new departure i. merely . con.
spiracy to destroy the Republican par
~, in order to d:slodgs the people from
the control of their own affairs. Hence
the Chicago Tribune draws oil ito anal
ogies Of parties from England aud
France. In the former country class
rules in the latter . faction ; and 10
both tho people are mere pawns on
the chess-Soard Of politics, to be novel
about or sacrificed for the protection Of
the Queen or . dynasty.
. The old slavs oligarchy ofthe South
fslt . supreme contempt for the people.
The poor whites we're used ~ voting
CATTLE" the slaves ~ beasts Of burden,
aud tho mud sills" Of tho North
were left to the manipulation Of the
/" dough.faoes" who registered the de-
crees Of tho Southern regency for the
price Of Office. livery "new depar-
turs" inaugurated since the close Of
the var has been made up Of these d.
smsuts-thirst Of power, ocstsupt for
The psople, . sneakins, snotish regard
for aristocratio forms Of government.
The Chicago Tribune writes twaddie
about tho " Cesarism Of the Republi.
can party" bees use the line Of its own
thought aud desire u toward . one
man power. Having been engaged in
various attempts to steal the control Of
pational affairs agsinst the wiehes Of
the people, it faueies everybody else
guilty Of tho same crime againet the
spirit Of our institutions.
There arc no signs Of decay in the
Republican party. The people have
never appealed to It in vain. It has
met promptly every great question -
soon - presented, and never failed to
solve it in tho interest of impartial
justice. Il 10 the party Of the people,
and the people viii take care Of it.
Inter Oceas.
GENERAL Fits Hugh Leo had mar
row escape from drowning in Virginia,
On Tuesday, by tho eapsizisg Of . small
boat. Though loaded down With heavy
cavalry boots, he mansged to keep adoat