The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-12-10
me sNo,, PoIIer.

For the last fourteen years, the
BourbOnie Statesmen haye Kept uD
an appearance of political oppOsi-
ton To the Washington adminisfra-
ton by persistent and ''damnable
Iteration" OF the word "NO ~ They
have proposed nothing and favored
nothing Save the discontinuanee of
the war in 1854, and the indefinite
continuance OF the rag-mOney swim
die Ia 1874 but TO whatsoever any
man acting on the administration side
has proposed (rag-money imitation
only excepted) they have responded,
mo !" To all ana every Of Mr.. Lin
coins war measures, they said. 'rNol'I
10 any further effort to put down tie
rebellion they, Ia 1884. cried, ''No ~
70 the emancipation OF the slaves,
they yelled, No !" To the constita-
tional amendments they shouted
mo !" To Mr.. McCuIloch's able and
wise policy OF hard-mcney resump-
ton, they bswied, ''No ~ To Mr..
Grants declarations in his frst mes
sage for specie payment, they scream
ed, mo ~, To all propositions to re-
press southern white barbarism, they
hOwled, 'sNO % To every public meas
ure originating within the admins
tration party, irrespective of its good
ness or its badness, they hissed forth
q vehement mo ~ n they ever re-
sponded "Yes," it was upon some
stealing scheme like the CFedit-MO-
bilier bills If they ever brought for
ward any project OF their own, it wSs,
Ike the Merrimon imitation bill, some
device of public plander Beginning
the HNO" policy in 1861, they have
perslsLenLly adhered to 1t even to the
present moment.
And now, Wzsufuyt0rr--~S-
US, they propose to continue In the
"NO !" line, which long habit has
made second nature, during the pres
ent winter. BourbOns like Beck Of
Kentucky, snd Swami, of Maryland,
are said tO deelars that "the Democrats
are not responsible for the tail end OF
this Congress, and do not propose to
originate any measures, but only to
oppose measures originated on the
other side" That is, they propose to
continue the "roek-rOOted'' policy
which regards it as the chief function
Of n ''ststesman,o with the label
'iDsmOcrat" on him, to yell, "No p
Democrats are not responsible for
the tail end Of this congress y, Is the
statesmanlY pretext of these dema
gOgues of negatIOn. There is no re-
sponsibllity in'that word democrats"
any way, nor in any other political
name or party organization. Aen-iR-
diViIuGLs are responsible for
their actions, and for their monaco
tiohs. The notion Of "party RESPONSE
bility" is one of the senseless political
delusiOns by which the American
people have too long suffered them
selves to be humbugged in the inter-
est Of demagogues and knaves. The
Individual BoarbOns, Mr.. Beck Mr..
Swami, and the rest, who have been
bawling "NO :" so vehemently for
the last fourteen years, ara response
bic for their bawling, and will be re-
spOnsible, for continuing it. 1t 10, more
over, a responsibility which they can
not escape by thrusting their ostrich
heads into q assnd.bank labeled "demo-
cratic Caucus" Caueuses are things
unknown to the constitution they
are extrs-legal nOnentities, without
souls to be saved or bodies 10 be
damned. Men ndividuals-a alone
are responsible for their own actions,
and will be saved or damned accord
ingly.-C Chicago Times Democratic }