The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-02-26

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The Lost Character Of the Republican Far'y'
fhay, a ,,rrat respect for thc Repu9neap party.
q - 80 ~ candldatr-.. bht hnlaN
49,. narty ma lo.f character IN this state ~ u
ir5 ~ catcrie who, a-l am informed ano bcueNt,
Gamble Am ultht Co cheat each other, and intrigue
IN f4v ~ pluudyr Oh, puhliC. CANNOT CoAtEs'E
Wrrr .r,li a PARTY Mayor Hdtsmty'r
The Republican party. lost character by
shcltcriug and perpetuaiing the proven
New York Custuui-house frauds wmeh
uro6ted the White House ring.
The Republican party lost character by
rc.rlccting General Graut, who had used
his great Office as private emolument and
not as a public trust, receiving gifts from
politicians and giving office to u score OF
his relatives.
The Republican party lost character 10y
rc.clecting General Grant after he had
usurped the NARROWER tp push ahead the
Santo Domingo job
The Republican party lost character by
promoting men, aud of these Grant Is .
chief who set all constitutional limitations /.
at defiance, although these should have
bound them merely as men OF honor, who
nut the military above the civil power
and who lent their official influence To
uphold the carpet haCgers in plundering
the Southern States OF S2JU,0OOOOO since
the war closed
The Republican party lost character by
tolerating in it, leadership men who used
the bayonets OF nted States soldiers and .
the patronage of the uited States Gov .
eminent 10 control conventions and carry
elections
The Republican party lost character
hy working cut uu better craftsmanship, e. .
effect its own continuance Ia power. than
10 array the entire black race of the South .
against the whites and u perpetuate thus
% social and industrial disorder there which |.
prevents the South from sensibly lifting .
AT the burden Of our public debt OF over
S2OOO.OOO,OOO
The Republican party lost character by
permitting General Grant 10 convert his
power to confer Office and profit upon lOO,-
GOO persons, into an instrument to secure
his own reelection.
The Republican party lost character
when all it, leaders who had been brlbcd
with Credit Mobilicr st0ck-two Vice
Presidents two Senators, six or seven
REPRESENTATIVE made with simulated in
dignation open denial OF the truth.
The Republican party lost character
when. claiming n be the party Of great
moral ideas, its representative men assem-
bled in State Legislatures. in every State
capital from New \ ork to Kansas, set
urice upon their votes, were the bought
cattle Of monopOlists and all who sought
tn 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
it, 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 " re-
peaters two or three times more nu
mcrOus than ever repeated their votes il
the worst day, Of the Ring in the wors
district of the worst ward Of all New Yorl
repeating, frauds, bribery and corrup
ton now manifest in a comparison of TIN
official returns with the census, but ais
attested by Republican reformers in tn,
city Of Philadelphia and made the grOunC
of their protest when General Grant haC
fastened 10 pardon out of the penitentiary
the one only Republican politician allowed
o. be- convicted and sentenced for hii
crime.
The Republican party lost character
when, the Government Of plundereC
Louisiana having been skillfully recovere,
from the hands Of the carpet bageers an,
negro gamblers 10 the hands Of residen
tax payers in a fair election, its leader
devised and executed plot to overthrow
the State Government, in which drunke
Judge Durell, an INSCRIPTIONS Unite
States Attorney-General, and Presiden
Grant played their separate and prear
ranged parts, and effected that intolerabl
usurpation which continues unpunishe
and unsubverted 10 this hour
The Republican party lost characte
when its official chief ordered the protest
ing. plundered, and oppressed citizens q
that great commonwealth to abide a
home, for that his ears would be deaf :
their prOtests--he would alter nothing
whatever they might say and he has al
tered nothing, and Durell wears ermin,
still and brotherin.law Casey stiil sit
supreme at the seat Of customs.
The Republican party lost characte'
when Grant appointed and the Senat
confirmed as Minister 10 SPAIN Daniel Il
Sckles, in the catalogue Of whose base
and meaner crimes the cOwardly murdc
Of his wife paramour shines like a yirtu,
The Republican party lost characte
when the leading Grant Elector in thi
State confessed 10 fraudulent evasions an
NA'iANAVAN " AiAN NN1tthA0 Jaws hll uutIt
To- pay 500, 900 to escape heavier pena
ties and confinement in the penitentiary
The Republican party lost charactt
when the chairmen Of the four foremo,
committees OF the House Of Represent.
tives, Dawes, Bingham, Schofeld, Garfield
Kelley, the foremost oracle of Protection
the policy Of the Republican party Sens
tors Patterson, Allison, aud j. f. Wilso
and tho Y 200 Bra9tlav,N aIaot
guilty Of yenality and falsehood.
The Republican party lost charactc
when besides these its foremost men IN
second highest officer in the Government
Schuyler COliax, was proved guilty a
venality, falsehood, and perjury, and of a
imbecile invention which puts his wit ON
level with his morality.
The Republican party lost characte
when Harlan was proven 10 have receive
$4,000 for his Senatorial election in low;
and when Subsidy POmeroy was caught
the act Of bribing legislators 20 re-ele,
him 10 the Senate from Kansas thong
both these men had long been known to /
notorious corrliptionists, who traded 0
their Temperance" and ''piety."
The Republican party lost charactC
when its newspaper press conceded tn
'AAhNa VI bhN1N ANaANinI VI NVu0DhlA Allcl
or denied them.
The Republican party lost characte
when It's learned men in Congress refuse
t3 demand the impeachment Of Durell, q
VI tGe Attorney General, and refused I
re6gke the President. '.''
me Republican party lost characte
,;Iiea Tvs honest Senator's and Represents
1885, dLrva, majority in both houses, refused {
d;d n ~a. ;1 une impeachment Of Colfax. an
Te u ~ SIe SiT upon the resignation Of III
No honest man can co,1o... -, A.
Republican party while il 1850 y We WIN t .l
by such u press, while il is Ie III e''ll
leaders, and while its honest rn a,u oy sue
courage to rescue its leadership fay raVe no
hands Of ielOns.- World. '''N' IN
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