Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-09-15
SHOULD REPUBLICAN POWER BE
PERPETUATED!

hepuDllcan purity suouiu NV PoiPo'o'o
itself. But then none nre SO blind as
those who wont see. II goes back on
the history Of its party-taking care of
specifications wherever it can avoid
them, and asks, with amazing conf
dencc, what the Republicans, As a party,
have done to forfeit public reliance2 The
general question is prolific of reply.
The path to the proof Of its incapability
to act as a governing party is as clear
against the Republicans as would be the
evidence against tried and condemned
criminal, fortified by his full and free
confession of guilt. 1t is always plum
ing itself on what it has done in quellipg
the war Of the rebellion, and talks as If
nobody had any share in sustaining the
integrity Of the Union but men OF It's
party. This assumption is most ridicu-
lous one. Just take the State OF Massa-
chusetts, for instance, from which comes
much of this hollow kind of brag, and
how was it there? Deduct the Irish
Democrats, the natives of this country
attached to Democratic principles, and
its soldiery who, like Dugald Dalgetty.
fought for whatever paid them best-and
they were not few-and its partizan
Republican soldiers will dwindle into q
decided minority. So with New York,
10 with many other States, SO was it al
most generally. Careful analyses of the
politics Of the men who fought to pre-
serve the Union will show that the Re-
publicans had the lions share OF the
honors Of warfare. and the Democrats
the great bulk of the dangerous work.
We appeal to State records In substantial
ton OF the facts we have stated. What
honest credit then can the Republican
party arrogate to itself as party, per Sc.
in carrying the war Of the rebellion up
to It's success? The share, only, We say,
which minority had-but minority
which has not been half 80 modest in it's
claims to credit as il has been entitled to
bravery In the field.
Then let rs look al the management OF
the war. Our battles were planned, dur
ing the earlier years of its continuance,
ON the carpet in the White House, or in
the War Office. That they were fatally
directed nobody will deny. That victo-
ries were hindered in order that personal
ambitions should be forwarded and party
schemes carried out. who will be SO bold
as to deny? Can any one read the re-
port made by General Mcclellan, or scan
the history Of the two first years Of the
war, and then offer to assert that thou.
sands OF noble men, and millions OF
money. were not recklessly sacrificed in
order that individual screenings should
be favored, and that the name of the
commander In chief should constitute a
political horror, and debar him from the
chance Of assuming the Presidency OF
the United States, for which, beyond
doubt, he was the popular choice2 Are
those atrocious proceedings proper rec
concentrations of the Republican Gov
eminent, or reason why Republicans
should have perpetuation as party?
Before the war, and until the manage
ment Of the government fell into the
hands of the Republicans, we had q
national constitution the integrity Of
which was held sacred. Was not that
instrument violated, in numerous in.
stances, reoklessly md unnecessarily,
and lives and interests put in peril and
sacrificed on authority which neither
constitution, law or just e1pediency sane
toned? Has there ever been any regret
among the Republicans because of this
great blot on our history as q Republic
None whatever; for it is but few months
since measure Of iniquity. which woult
have given the President the power Of al
sutocrat, had the entire sanction Of tn,
party-a measure which was only de
feated through the almost universally ex
pressed indignation of the people. Il
there anything in all this-in the actor
OF spirit Of Republican leaders in oppo
sition to constitutional rights-to recon
mend their party to an extension o
powerin the nation2 Nothing whatever
What has the Republican party done
In tho South to recommend the party Il
an extension Of power? Is it's min,
years persecution and plundering OF III,
people of that section one of its assume,
recommendations? Are the creation O
intolerable State debts, taxation so bu,
densome as to make property worse TIM
worthless. and general prostration {
all the interests which, in health, woul
have produced solid recuperative result
in the South, good and sufficient reason
why their authors. the Republican
should have renewed power to persecut
plunder and depress still further? Surel
not.
Are the thievings and defalcations {
republican Office holders, supported i
tneir rascalities by the government, til
amount Of which, for years, was mue
larger than the whole national expeud
ture before the war; the Credit Mobile
swindlings, in which prominent Reput
lican members of Congress had larg
share; Custom-house prosecutions o.
up BY collusion in order to rob the me,
chants Of New York and Boston and Z,
the pockets OF emissariss Of the COVER,
ment-who shared their spoils even wi,
members OF the Presidents cabinet
reasons why the authors and abettors
such denominations should have long
tenure Of iniquity2 Even the Washin
'on Chronicle. attached to the rulil
Party ~ the cohesive force Of pub
plumber" and claimant for q renewal