The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1875-09-25

This great strugse left behind 1t in
the people and the Administration
two strongly markell tendencies, each
of them u direct inheritance, Of the
war. One PROCEEDED from avarice
and the corruption If morals. 1t was
the tendency to public robbery, and
it was shared equally by Democrats
and Republicans. In tho former,
however, it was soon checked from
the absence Of opportunity. Their
general extinctionsss political force
had lott them pevsrtal aA's only ono
important centre, The pity and the
State of New York. There Tweed
and Bonnolfy stole Their 'nillions, and
were Rejected and driven out {; and
there the Democmey, headed by
Sam ''Tilden, is now destroying the
public plumbers of the canals; while
the Republicans, possessing the ma
tiOnat A,l.0iNistr,tic" Ut Washington,
with q man inaiffe ;cnt:t0 every forta
Of public plumber ut the head, and
anxi.,ns only that the plnnderers shall
lie lis friends aud relation, still con-
time the work Of rapaci.y, R"beson,
Delano, Shepherd, Williams, OrviI
Grant, Cowe,,, and 'he whole couut-
less gang, competing with each Other
and fattcning themselves % tie fm
poyerished and suffering taxpayers!
lp1 liAsespsatl'es Rep..l,iicaAi party
is pflitelxs worse tlap the ,Delpo.
cratic, becaiise the worst elements. of
italiave control; 50 that it's condition
ia hopeless, and return. within it is
impossible. The Democracy, shavise
been long ont Of otli;e,s and o having
had SO much less. lpQltunjty. and,
temptation 10 bccim8 corrupt. Is
much more under thu direction bf'tSe
honest men in t.fantS; white in the
RepalAican party fNbed honest men
have t. stsnd In hehGtktFoQ lntAi 1
'lease, the tahberssh stA@amsb%RiswA,
will, The other te,AepsHl., inhsrii!teertlb I
tffi02m n, the war. to wlicG Ne lave Te
Iferith,; IL IL mater " political IpfnHe
cible,, asd'is, in Ioarj ndgmehty bf che
highest, n0Wsnt. Turing the war the |
Republican Administration was al
most omnipotent. It exercised war
powersJ II was military government;
its hand was every where, and its will
was felt in every fibre Of the peoples
life. It was, in effect, a vcentralizing
Administration anl the party in
whose name it was conducted became
a csntralizing party. Such it still
re,paius. The theory aud policy of
the Republican party at present are
that the country must be ruled by
one government ut Washington and
that government must be- what 10
European mouarchies is called a
paternal one, interfering in every
concern Of the people, rs for instance,
il education, agriculture, and the re-
preston Of crime. Against this pol
icy the Democratic party rey"lts.
Trne t, Its ancient principles, even
after So many years aud 50 many rad I
ical changes, il stands forth FIR the
old American idea Of local self.
government and republican equiIib.
rum. It contends fihtbe exercise of
the least possible authority In every
sphere Of political affairs, and. for the
greatest possible independence in the
individual, the township, and the
State. 1t repeats the immortal truth,
that the best government is that
which governs least. It ia against
Capitalization. 1t is for State rights,
personal rights, local rights. 1t is.
thus the buIwark Of personal liberty
and public progress. This is it's chief
distinction and its great glory to day;
and this is the reason for which the
American people now give it their
confidence and mean to restore it to
power.
We have thus drawn for our COR
respondent the dividing line between
these two parties-the one corrupt
because Of it's long, irresponsible. and
almost unrestricted tenure Of ant|,or-
ity, AND because the worst men have
got the upper band in it, and alsO
ceGtfalizing, tending t6 the co1sBfi-
dation 6f power in tie I haals 81 itl,e
Federal Government j; 'tl.s atbas pdse,
because long exclusion from power
bss lett the control In the hand Of ito
better elements, and aiso holding Is
| itS A6hdanstn txl idOetstae 70 local colt.
government andthe Development aud
Strengthening of the political ideas,