Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-10-10

Radical Preaching VS.. Radical Practice.
We know nothing which exceeds the
unblushing effrontery OF the leaders of
the Radical party, unless it be their We
nality and corruption. This efrontery
was illustrated fully by the leader and
ruler of the piebald convention which
met here on the 1st of October, when DR..
Wilmer offered among other resolutions
as its platform, the following:
= Rssolpsd, That we are earnestly in favor of
such reform in our State and county govern
ments as will relieve our people from the heavy
ed, and restore the value of our property, now
80 sadly deprecated. =
This resolution is in entire accord with
the preachings of the Radical party, and
in entire discord with its practices. When
the leaders are most blatant about re-
form, then are they preparing greater
schemes of corruption; when they speak
most of patriotism, or loyalty as they call
1t, then are they concocting schemes of
self-aggrandizement; when they talk most
Of law and order, then are they most
busily engaged in violating the one and
disturbing the other; when they pirate
about peace throughout the land, then
asa they most wickedly engaged in OPP
South; when they talk about protecting
home industry, then are they most GER
tain to enact high protective tariffs for
the benefit of the favored few and the
oppression OF the laboring and the farm
ing interests; when they pray loudest
then are they dipping their hands deep
est in the treasury; and when they re-
solve about restoring the value of depre-
ciated property, then are they surely or
ganizing Boards of Public Works, like
that in Washington, to plumber the tax
payer Of the little property which the
Outrages and robberies of the war have
left him. This has been the history of
the Radical party ever since it came
into power, and such will necessarily
be its conduct SO long as it is controlled
by the only principle which now keeps it
together namely, the cohesion of public
plumber.
AS we said, the impudence of these
leaders is most unblushing. Why cite a
stronger Illustration than is presented by
the resolution we have quoted above 2
For forty years, with the exception of
brief intervals, the Democratic party had
been in power and so conducted the gov
eminent that it had grown from infancy
to the maturity of strong manhood. Pros
.perity reigned at home and abroad.
Every branch of industry was guarded
by equitable laws, and the resources of
the country were SO developed as to
challenge the admiration of the world.
Taxes were SO light as to be almost nomi-
nal, and, literally, ''the blessings of gov
eminent, like the gentle dews of Heaven,
fell alike upon the rich and the poor"
Corruption, venality, peculation and bri-
berry were unknown in those entrusted
with the executive and legislative de-
partments, and they discharged their du-
ties with regard to the strict construc-
ton of the powers delegated to the Fed
eral Government. The councils of the
nation were filed by men who reflected
lustre upon their high offices, and who
were mot only pure but above suspicion"
This was the condition of the nation
when the Radicals obtained power. How
sadly is all this changed! Now we have
the doctrine boldly preached that "a
national debt is national blessing"
Now gift-taking President, Keeling in
debauchery, reigns in the White House
and feeds his whole family connection to
the remotest degree from the public crib.
Now a Credit Mobelier Vice President
presides in the Senate Chamber. Now
we have hack-pay stealing Congressman
legislating. millions OF acres of the public
domains away to mammoth corporations,
who have placed their bonds ''where they
will do the most good" Now Wall street,
with its panics and Presidential brothers
ia-law making "corners" in gold, thus
unsettling the whole business and none
tary system of the nation, is as familiar