The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-10-30
The Difference.

When the Democratic party claims
that the government of the country
should b entrusted to their care as
reformatory measure, it is fair to infer
that they claim that as party they are
honest while the Republicans are not,
and that they endeavor to detect and
punish criminals while the Republicans
do not. But it is also fair to 20 to the
record to see whether these claims are
true or false.
1t is customary to speak of days gone
by as the good old times, but the pages
of history show that the times of Demo
cratic rule are not to be included. They
speak of the panic and they say its cause
is Republican dishonesty; have they
forgotten the panics of 1887 and of 1857,
when the Democrats were in power
They talk about the Indian rings. Have
they forgotten Floyd and his S7SO,O00
steal. Living witnesses can be produced
who know how the Democrats managed
matters on the frontier, and they all say
that the corruption in the days of Buc-
hanan's administration has never been
equalled since. The closing pages of
the record of the Democratic administra-
ton of the affairs of the nation are but a
catalogue of crimes. They stole the
treasury empty, they turned over to the
rebels all they could, they scattered the
army and navy, and left as legacy to
the incoming administration the most gil
gantic rebellion the world ever saw.
That is the national record Of the Demo-
cratic party. Panic upon panic, disaster
upon disaster, crime upon crime, and fin
ally civil war.
Since Buchanan's time they have had
no national record. But there have been
Democrats in Congress. The records
show something about a back pay bill.
Every Republican who voted for that
hill has been consigned to private life at
the expiration of his tenn. But not a
single Democrat has lost standing in his
party on account of his favOring the bill.
The Credit Mobiler swindle was exposed
and the records show the Democrats as
deep in the mud as the Republicans in
the mire. The Republicans threw over
board every one tainted with suspicion
even Schuyler Colfax, the pet of the
party, was discarded because he could
not account for check for only twelve
hundred dollars. John G. Schumacher, of
Brooklyn, was mixed up with all sorts of
fraud and crime it was open and noto-
rious. Bat the Democrats elected him
to Congress. To-day he is a fugitive
from justice. Tweed of New York was
accused of stealing his millions. Ex-
tracts from the city records were pub
lislled furnishing convincing proof of his
infamy. The Democrats elected him to
the state Senate. Instead of taking his
seat he was sent to prison by the efforts
of the citizens without regard to party.
but Democratic court let him out.
The Republican party has been imposed
upon by unprincipled men, but it has
never knowingly put bad men into posi-
tons of trust and honor. The Democrat
ic party has done this time and again, as
the instances above quoted show, and if
the Republican party had placed in power
fewer white-washed Democrats, who came
into the Republican party not as a mat.
ter of principle, but for purposes of self
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. its black list would have
been great deal shorter.
The record as given above is history.
It can neither be doubted denied nor ex
planned. How much confidence is to be
placed in the Democracy ?-Eureka Her.