The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-11-12
The General Result and What ii
Means,
From the Chicago Tribune.)


heavy transforms which the October
guns presaged and foreshadowed. Both
together are merely postpenement of
what would have happened in 1872 but
for the misfortune of the Opposition in
having candidate whose eccentricities
alarmed the business men of the coun-
try. With either Adams, or Davis, OF
Trumbull, as a candidate for the Presi.
dency, the same kind of thunder.gus
which swept over the field last Tuesday
would have been felt two years sooner.
The people did not vote for Grant in
1852 so much as they voted against
Greeley. Having voted against Greeley
then, they have embraced the earliest
opportunity to vote against Grant and
Grantism now. What does it all signi-
fy?
To answer the question we must 90
back few years. The Republican
party has been in full possession of the
Government since the beginning of
1861. 1t has borne sway in Washing
ton and in most of the State capitals
during period of fourteen years. In
its early history, when it he'd hard
struggle to keep its head above water,
it was a pure and uncorrupted organi-
zation. The scoundrelly elements OF
society were nearly all allies and com.
ponent parts Of the Democracy. But
as the Republican party became strong
er it drew more and more of the vicious
and unprincipled members of the COM
munity into its ranks, and its own orig
inal ingredients became tainted by the
contact. In short. the party leader
ship has become corrupt and rotten.
not everywhere, but in the main. 1t
has become so corrupt that a
leading journal in Washington
city-one supposed to reflect more
nearly the views Of the Administration
than any other-has the effrontery
to denounce all investigation into pub
lie abuses as party treason. and to
stigmatize Dawes and Garfield, who
have certainly not distinguished them.
selves to the same extent that Hercules.
did in the Augean stables. as imbeciles.
towards, and turn-coats. The Admin
istration of Gen. Grant has been not
only singuiarly stolid and Indifferent to
this corrupt tendency of the times, but
has been an active participant i'll it.
The country has become convinced oil
this fact-was convinced Of it two years
ago, but could not then express its con
viction, for the reason already stated
1t has found at last an opportunity to
utter its emphatic malediction upon this
loathsome state of public affairs. 1t
has combined into one vast, overwhelm.
ing sentence Of condemna
ton, its verdict upon Credit Mobilier
Salary Grab, Sanborn Frauds, Syndi
Gates, Boss Shepherd, Secor and Choir
penning, Custom House Blackmalling
Carpet Baggery and Third Term. There
is nothing more to be said on any O.
those sIrbjscts.
i The Republican party has reached
out for its leaders, taken them by the
collar and kicked them down stairs
Look at Massachusetts,. 1t has beer
assumed by the Administration thai
the people of that State would endure
anything. Consequently the power
and patronage of the federal govern
ment have been handed over to Benja
min F. Butler. whose name has fol
. years been synonym for i'll fame IL
politics. Civil Service Reform has beer
strangled. The influence of money
has become a great and important
factor in politics. Party terrorism ha:
been employed to crush honest differ
ences Of opinion. Rascals have beer
commissioned to collect the public rev
enues on shares. Time would fail u:
to enumerate the particular grievance:
imposed upon the party in tina. State
for in Massachusetts, the Republican
party is the people,-the Democracy
constituting merely scattering vote
The time having come to say what thu
people really think, they have elected
a Democratic Governor and IA majority
of Democratic Congressman in State
which had given as high as 10000 ma
jority for the Republican ticket. San
Bowles' time has come! He has Ions
been telling US that ''The earth VA
feverous and did shake down East