The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-11

"hopelessly corrupt war claims 10 the
amount of two or three millions Of dollars |
we're hunted up and state certificate Of in
debtedness issued therefor, and consttu-
tional convention called to so legalize these
claims that they would be paid. In Illinois,
too, the Independents are "galled" by the
disreputable performance of the Legislature.
These are but a 1.-THE of the abuses he emu
merates, but they are enough for our pur-
pose, and as result he declares that the
democratic party is utterly without princi-
pie. The independents, he says, are men
of pronounced convictions, and with these
sincere beliefs, he asks what they see P
and answers "The same democratic or
"ganization, speakers and prees, supporting
sin one district Kehr, a hard money tree
"trader, and in the next Stone, an avowed
"protectionist, who voted for initiation.
''The same party supports, with equal zeal,
corrupt knaves, and honest reformers,
"hired attorneys Of railroads, and extreme
"anti-railroad grangers. In this state and
"Illinois these contrasts have been pecu-
"liarly calculated to create the belief that
'the democratic party has in reality no
''sincere conviction nor honest purpose
"that it is merely a congregation of outs
"trying to get IN. This idea is certainly
"not weakened by the recent alliance be-
"tween the democrats and the officials of
"the whisky ring
We have boen thus particular to state
lis complaint against the democracy, that
| our readers may see that there is some
foundation for the change of opinion he
describes as going OH, as actually having
| taken place. AS we have said, he has not
yet implicit confidence in the republican
party, as may be readily inferred when he
says "Mcn are apt to judge the whole
I" of party by what they see of it near at
hand. When both parties seem to be
"quite destitute of principles, if forced to
" choose between the two, independents
:" are very apt to choose the one which has
I" less prejudice against Union men. less
hostility to free schools, less disposition
" to resort to fraud for the sake of power,
&" and the stronger tendency toward prac-
teal reform" But this only serves to
make his opinion all the more emphatic,
and to render the signs he give us all the
more hopeful. What is the drift of inde-
pendent opinion now? He tells us, that
on the streets of st. Louis, to-day, " one
cannot find an independent voter nor a
German of either party, who has not a
set purpose to overthrow the democrat
ic party Possibly events may change
that feeling but to-day it exists, and Its
causes are worthy of notice. 1t will be
felt elsewhere. Within forty-eight hours
more than one man OF great influence
" has off cred to spend weeks in addressing
the Germans in Ohio in behalf of the re.
publican party. Yet some of these very
men were among the most bitter in hos.
tility 20 republicanism only last fall.
In Illinois, men whose names are known
all over the land share the same feeling.
Nor is it by any means confined to Ger
man independents. Andagain " 1t is
only the truth TO say that, in portions of
l." Illinois near this city, where German
" independents are very numerous, such
" feelings are as commonly expressed as
" in this city. There as well as here, the
rejection of Schurz for confederate in
flationist was regarded with indignation.
"Nor have other incidents been wanting,
in this and other western states, TO pro
duce that feeling of distrust which the
"defeat of Schurz and the recent election
here may easily kinde into hostility.
Are VIC Lot correct in saying that the
signs are hopeful? Ohio, Missouri and
Illinois are great battle grounds of the cam.
paign, and if such is the feeling there, as
we have every reason to believe it is, the
republican party has only to bestir itself
adopt wise and magnanimous policy, and
plant itself Enthusiastically on the side OF
reform, and victory is within easy reach
is certain.