Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-18

| system of double election under due forms of
law. deyotlng the first election day simply to
| VotlnS Ior nominees, and meeting and
voting some weeks or months after that for
the final election or confirmation of orr nomi-
nees. AT present we should adopt the prin-
! ciple, that the office should seek the man and
| not the man the Office and that we will vote
for no man whatever whom we find to be en-
gagged III any way in electioneering and
maneuvering to push himself into Office or to
Keep himself IN one he already holds 1t is
not essential that we should be with the ma
Jo'1ty, or on the side of power but it Is es-
sentlal that we should preserve our
own individual! manhood and self-re-
spect, and vote only for such men
and measures as our own individual
Judgment approves If our pretended polit-
zeal leaders fail to propose to us such men
and measures. men whose whole record and
life, and not merely their fine talk before cleo
tlons, snow them to be heart and soul in our
interest. we ought to either nominate for
ourselves, or at least refuse to vote for any
other. Let US stay at home from the cleo
lions, dig hsh-worms. go a-ishing whip the
dogs and cats, do anything whatever rather
than go to the polls as SO many collared dogs,
simply to do the bidding of few village pot
house politicians and office-seekers who
have assumed to be our masters, We have
already saved the Democratic party and saved
the hepuoican party, till both they and we
cannot In future save themselves, without
any SUCH furthei degradation ON our part let
them, and all other parties like them perish
forever, and the sooner the better III they
cannot propose to us men for whom we can
vote heartily and intelligently, we will vote for
none OF them LII the Republic, with all its
sublime grandeur and glory in the past and
Its still higher heaven-born hopes for the
future, must go to the bad, we will no longer
help to vote 1t there. The old dogma of Keen
ing us forever choosing the least of two evils.
| always leads at last to the necessity of taking
the biggest of two devils. We have had
enough of it. If any of our old party leaders
therefore, wish to "gobble rs nm " a. the
phrase is, and re-enlist us under their old
political bummers of any sort, they cannot do
IL through caucuses and conventions. INT
they must take US one at time, and each man
by himself. -N-
1. We declare it, therefore. first of all. to be
our purpose to purge the Government. and
relieve the public of all its present monopolies
and exclusive privileges, and official and eau
Gus corruptions, of all sorts
III. We deny that the proper reward of Office
to free man and worthy citizen is merely
so much money. whether voted or stolen. and
affirm that no possible amount of money can
ever pay the true patriot for any real service
he ever renders to his country. whether in
public or private life; for the simple reason
that such service is in it's own nature inyalu-
able
III. ne deny that the cost of proper STYLE
OF living for our public officials. either in
Washington or elsewhere, is what it is pre-
tended 10 be. and we will neither conniye at
either paying or stealing any such needless
expenditure.
~. we deny that men ought anywhere to
Do Kept In positions of public trust simply on
account of their usefulness to office seekers.
c,aucuses and conventions; and affirm that
known and approved capacity and trustworthi-
ness should be the only ground of all public
trusts whatever, and that no defaulter should
ever De permitted TO have second trial of his
ntness IN these respects. The republic should
provide places for supporting it's public pau
pers, reforming Its knaves, and instructinp its
idiots, other than its own positions of public
trust.
'. We maintain that the fundamental prin-
ciple OF both English and American common
Jaw. ana OF all other just law, is now, and
from time Immemorial ever has BEEN that all
contracts. corporations and combinations of
men, OF Whatever sort, which contravene anv
principle Of public policy or of the public
veal. are. in fact. illegal and void. whether
the courts so declare them or not: and that
no Legislature or other power can lawfully
confer any such right either upon individuals
or combinations of men.
vi. We, therefore. deny that close CORPORA
tions: which owe their very being to the State.
and have already received from it millions of
money and whole empires of public lands as
gratuity, can, by any principle Of either COM
iuon or civilized law, absolve themselves from
their fuii responsibility to the public, to the
State and its laws.
VII. We therefore repudiate and DENY both
the logic and the equity of the pretended ap-
piicatlons of the celebrated Dartmouth College
case, by our courts, to our railroads, in order
70 shelter and protect these corporations from
the just power of the public and of the States
"ho endowed and created them, under the
cover Of the pretended authority of the Con-
stitution of the United States, and we affirm
that 1t Is one of the first duties of the States
and OF the United States, at whatever peril or
cost to reduce railroad corporations as COM
mon carriers, and all other corporations to
strict obedience to both the common and Stat
ute laws of the land.
VIII. We deny that there is either any
craftsmanship. or justice, or sense in the per-
petual attempts OF the two old parties ON
the one side aiming to contract the currency
TO favor the creditor, professional and salaried
classes; while the opposite faction is forced
into an attempt to expand it to favor the CD
poslte debtor and specializing class. Such a
preposterous war of interested factions over
rival interests can never relieve nor provide
for the great financial wants Of the country as
whole. Neither faction can succeed: or if
so, 1t would only make matters worse than
NV, oechust edcn faction alike Is wrong,
both IN its methods and its ends. We want
neither the kiting schemes of the one nor the
collapsing schemes of the other We have no
need to hire rival factions by the year to
hull and bear" the gold market in Wall
street.
TX. We are equally opposed to all sudden
contractions or expansions of the currency
and to all unlimited or indefinite expansion
under whatever pretexts. or by whatever
modes We wish to Iquidate all our just
debts on that just basis of value Oh which
these debts were contracted, ard on no other
basis and for the present if Congress will
only let the currency alone. and let US alone
only defending us in our just rights, we will
take care of both il and them too.
Y. But we do wish the unjust monopolies
of the present banking scheme wholly re-
pealed as soon as it can be done without
either too violent expansion or contraction
of our present scale of values: and we desire
that the old original greenback scheme, so
dishonesty and knavishly destroyed, in the
interest of brokers and spectators, and con-
trary to every interest of the people, should
again be restored, and Government green
backs excbangeable at ali times at par for
bonds. aud otherwise exchangeable on con-
ditions prescribed by law, substituted for four
present bank currency
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