The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-29

they have really repented. But that is not
repentance, it is Hypocrisy, which processes
to repent of sins and does not forsake them,
but embraces worse cnes. Such is the ano-
malous repentance displayed by the Demo
cratic party. 1t never ceases to denounce
the Republican party for what it has done
or is trying to do, but it straightway thun-
ders with fercer denunciations of what the
party has not done and is determined shall
not be done. The moment Democrats for
get to decry Republican policies they begin
to belle Republican motives. For twenty
years they deemed it sufficiently opprobri-
Gus to call Republicans "RAdicals )" now
they claim to be radicals themselves and
ienounce Republicans as rascals.
DEMOCRATIC PROMISES.
Since the early part of 1872 they have
been diligently seeking to suborn renegade
Republicans to turn states evidence and to
discount, ed forces which resisted the progress
of the last decade, and all villainly is In the
forces which marshaled that progress. To
such witnesses they have lavishy offered
honors, offices, dignites, presidencies, every
| thing which could be made the subject Of a
promise.
| no answer to any name; to profess every
creed to follow any flag to sleep in any
bed to fraternize with all factions and to
offer a salve for every sore-such is the mis-
sion of the opposition to-day. Never before
| in politics was lie enacted SO transparent
and SO audacious as that paraded by the
Democratic party in 1872. wheI they gravely
introduced Horace Greeley to the people as
their representative man. 1t is not possible
such ''signs and wonders' can deceive the
elect" SO far they have failed to deceive
even the electors.
If that party feels it to be unkind to re-
mind it of it's past car eeer, how must 1t feel
to be reminded of its present attitude =? Once
Its members professed distinct principles
all that could be objected to them was that
they professed the worst principles extaDt.
But bad as they were, they were more becom-
ing than this utter abjuration Of all princi
pies. You may not like to employ, but you
do not wholly despise, the zealot who con-
sis;ently asserts that sarsapar,la will cure
every disease and so urges it upon every
patient but who can respect the charlatan
who persistently cries to the sick, "give me
your money and you may take what RENE
dies you please p
| When in 1860 Democrats said, "Con-
tinue us in power and we will feck the
Territories with slavery" when in 1854
they said, "restore us to power and we
will barter with rebels, giving freedom
for peace" wheD IN 1868 they said
again, "restore US to power and we will
abrogate three great amendments to the
Constitution, secure government to
white men, and return slavery to COL
ored men," It could only be replied that
such invitations were very unattractive.
But when in 1872 they cried, "restore
US to Office once more and we will do
everything that anybody wants done, :"
the invitation was utterly reFulsive.
And when they supplement- this
brazen Indifference to principle by a
stolld indifference to truth; when
Weary of opposing the measures of the
majority, they combine to assail their
characters; when they abandon false
reasoning only to resort to false assertion,
they exhibit an opposition hard if not
impossible to parallel.
And yet that opposition. while, it. never
was so bad wGs never so dangerous as
now. People can better judge the mer-
its of measure than tie the merits of
man. They can more readily ssdatect
fallacious argument than a false state
ment. When the opposition denounced
Republicans as misguided statesmen,
the people could safely compare our
measures with heirs, and Judge which
were best. But when they denounced
Republicans as thieves it is not so easy
TO try the truth of the assertion. Besides
two circumstances give slight color TO
that allegation. First. Republicans nave
possession of the Government, and have
the best chance to Fecalate. Second.
It has been the especial labor of the
present Administration to detect and
punish peculation. Some cases have been
found.
He was great statesman, as we'll as
great poet, who made Cassius say:
SIN such time as this it ia not meet
That every nice offenee should bear his COM
ment.n