Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-09-03
The Attitude Of Parties.

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old Democratic party, with all it,
ancient prejudioes, its honored lead
ers and schemes, it's sins and iniqui'
ties and worse than barbarous rec
ord, is slowly and surely working itl
way back to power and place
through the false pretenses and va
rious aliases employe ed to suit looa
and immediate issues. In Wisconsin,
it is "Reformers," in Virginia "Con.
servatives," in Ohio democratic.
Reformers," in California AMT NJ o.
nopoIists," in Kansas "Independ.
ents," Dc Then, in the strong Dem.
ocraf.e' States, and 10 others also
where there are no local issues to
distract the people from the ultimate
effects of their ballots, the Demo
cratic party, encouraged by partial
and complet victories, last fall and
since, are holder and more agrees.
i've than they have been since 1864,
when they attempted TO snatch a
party victory from the apparent de-
feat of the Union Army and it's pat
riotic hackers of the North. Those
who read the daily journals know
this, however much politicians of the
striped sort may attempt to hide the
facts.
One other thing is quite certain;
those honest, but deluded men who,
last fall, joined the so-called Reform
party of Wisconsin to better them
selves, will wake up to q fearful re-
alzation that they are 10 bad COM
pany; that through their aid and
compliance with the schemes of the
iniquitous Democracy, as represent
ed by Ryan, Geo. B. Smith, Gov.
Taylor, ct al, they are sowing the
seeds of rebellion in the south, and
upon them all will fall the curse of
restoring the Democracy, inaugura-
ting a reign of terror and war OF
races 10 the south, whore the White
League and Ku-Klux band are plan
ming to enslave labor again, with
quite as much zeal and method as
the Changers north are endeavoring
to emancipate industry from what
they avow to be oppression from
monopoly and chartered capital.
1t is not little strange that one
party-and that party the one which
it's leaders but few years ago de-
clared to be built upon the founda-
ton of human slavery-should claim
both of these organizations as the
natural and proper adjuncts of it's
plans and fortunes In the South,
where murder and rapine are rife
and the terror is sanguinary, the
raid under colors in
scribed mo civil Rights for US |"
"a White Mans Government for
White Men |" "Down with the
Damned Nigger !" And this white
mans party composes all the rebel
eIements of the country, and the
carpet-baggers and pelf-
hunters of the South, seeing the
popularity ofthe cry, join in. The
New York World. the Baltimore,
Mobile, Savannah, Allan
IA, Nashville, and Democratic papers
Of other cities endorse this element,
and with one hand endeavors to
smooth down the compunctions of
men, who have been
ed astray by false preteuses, lies,
sweet morsels, which were put upon
The hooks last fall under various fiat
sering names and devices.
So far the Changers of Wisconsin
and other Western States have not,
except in a few localities, broken
away from their political friends and
1t is one of the funda-
mental principles OF the organization
hat party politics shall not disturb
It's deliberations or distract It's pur-
poses as body designed to benefit
The husbandman and his interests.
The Oranges that have adhered to
this principle show strange, but
altogether favorable contrast when
with those Oranges divi-
led by political squabbles that even
asst fall carried them over bodily as
political accessories to bogus reform
and the Democratic party. These
asst mentioned are something like
Sampson, as he was represented,
being shorn of strength and deliver
I'd into the hands Of his enemies
bound hand and foot.
Time will prove moro conclusively
han any prediction made by the
nungry Democratic or renegade pol
tlcians, whether the bogus reform is
70 succeed in the coming election, or
whether the Changers will be cap.
,ured and made over in body TO
hat party which in the past was the
champion of slave labor, and whose
career for thirty consecutive years
brought forth not one single measure
for the amelioration Of the laborers
Of the country.-Monroe Sentinel.