Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-05-28

been confined to the social walks of Life. but
1t permeates every department of the Gov
eminent. Under their boosted reforms of
the civil se' vice, stealing, bribery, nepotism
and general disregard of merit has become
the rule, and an honest man, who is permitted
to attend to the duties of his Office, the ex-
ception.
At gathering of the "leaders" of this
organization of rottenness at Springfield in
our own State, recently, it was said in boast
ing tone by shallow-pated person holding
the seat of State Senator, that the Repub-
lican party is the only Political party that has
ever exposed it's own thieves. The remark
was int lded for eulogy, But why have it's
thieves-or a small number of them-been ex-
posed? Simply because their scoundrelism
had become so gross that it could not any
longer be hid. The corruption within had
literally eaten its way to the surface at a
thousand points, and must come out.
The credit-mobilier plundering, congress-
ional bribery, Jayne piracy, Sanborn black
mailing, District of Columbia plundering, the
Indian swindling. the Freedman's Bureau
swindling, the mail-contract swindling, the
steamship subsidy swindling, the gigantic
schemes of peculation, theft and plumber, so
numerous that no man can memoriZe the list.
have been exposed because concealment of
villainies so colossal was no longer possible.
But what, we ask. has this party done with
its exposed scoundrels? Let us see 1t has
hcnored the bribe-taker Bingham with for
eign mission. 1t has rewarded the rascal
Casey-who, by the way, is brother-in-law to
the President-with a custom-house reap
pointment. 1t has kept the liar and rogue
Richardson at the head of the national trea-
sury. 1t has honored the ballot-box corrupt
er Harlan with it's confidence and approval.
1t has used the power of the standing army
to protect the scoundrels, Durell, Kellogg &
Co., In their usurpations in Louisiana. In
short, it has dismissed it's proceeding against
every revenue-collecting thief ever taken in
the act of stealing. 1t has whitewashed every
office-holding scoundrel that it has not re-
wsrded with an appointment to some higher
place of trust and profit. And it has not pun
ished one corrupt scoundrel who promised to
help the party, but every decent official that
refused to wink at villainy.
This is the record it has made, a record
which language is inadequate to express in
the fullness of it's baseness.
Republicans will tell you that their party is
not so corrupt as was the late Democratic
party, and endeavor to screen their own vii
famous record in that way.
1t is true that III the days of its life the
Democratic party became the ultimate stand
ard of the worst known political corruption. To
express their highest conception of the politict
ally-rotten, men said - as rotten as the
cred no higher standard of comparison. Men
thought that the country had found in that
compact organization of men inspired by the
pirates motto. ITO the victors belong the
spoils, the ne plus ultra of political depravity
and that whatever else might happen there
could not be any greater political depravity
beyond. As usual men were mistaken.
For the corruption of the now dominant
political party, the rottenness of the old
Democratic party, even in its most corrupt
days, furnishes no parallel. The corruption,
fraud, theft, robbery, scoundrelism and de-
pravity of every name that have characterized
the two administrations of the Grant party,
are without parallel in the history of the
United States; nay, &re almost without a
parallel in the history of the world. By COM
parison with this spectacle of organized
monstrosity the old Democratic party, stepped
and double dyed in political rottenness, was
as an angel of light and righteousness to some
hideous imp from the lowest pits of the
eternally damned.
Thus, at considerable length. we have sketched
the wrongs that have been heaped upon us
all teaching us of the necessity of a thorough
reformation.
No government that Expresses It's citizens
can long remain in prosperity, from the fac
that the citizens are the government. 1t is to
accomplish this reformation that the party of
The people is called forth. You ask how can
this be accomplished? We answer by organ
ization-combining In closer union for the
purposes of worjling out this reformation.
The present will be known in history as an
era or organization. All classes of society
and branches of business, all trades and pro-
LESSONS, have associations for the material
protection and assistance of those concerned.
By organization Alexander the Great over
ran the Medo-Persian Empire, demolished the
walls of Tyre, overcame the arid sands of
the great Sahara, and marched his victorious
legions tv the banks of the Ganges.
By organization Mahomet, the false prophet,
gathered around him the robbers and bandits
of the plains of Arabia, and out of these dis
jointed forces built up power which the
world could not withstand.
By organization Hannibal. the Carthaginian
General, nodded an army and navy with
which for years he held complete away Of the
seas and made the power Of Rome to tremble
to it's very center.
By organization Napoleon Bonaparte made
of France first-class power, and the world
stood aghast at the perfect degree of order
and harmony which he evolved from the wild
chaos which his predecessors had created, and
dictated treaties to his opponents within their
own capitals and upon his own terms.
By organization railroad kings have fixed
their tariffs.
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ruled with despotic power the world of
finance.
Through their chambers of commerce mer-
chants have fixed their rates OF profits. and
every interest has its system of protection.
Until this widespread movement, the tillers
of the soil, of all classes, were without ready
means to protect their interests; possessed
of vast wealth, yet they were at the mercy Of
the shrewder and more provident classes of
vast power, they yet knew not how to WELD that
power for their own benefit. But this large
portion of our population is organized, and
they are fast combining with all other indus
trial classes.
The question now is how best shall this be
utilized-shouldt this movement be political
We answer yes, and we use the term in its
truest sense. 1t should occupy, possess and
hold every Office in this nation, from path
master to President.
1t should represent henation abroad, at the
courts of st. James and Versailles.
Congress should be filed with it's represent
alive men.
Judges in full sympathy with its objects
should occupy our supreme benches-men who
in the noon-day light of the present age, will
be able to see their way through the musty
precederts of by-gone times, to q decision es-
tablishing the law to be, that corporations are
the serUdnts and not the masters of civilization.
Men, who. when musty decisions stand in
the way. will brush them aside as cobwebs that
have been spun in the judicial night, on which