The daily gazette., 1875-04-16
WILMINGTON. DEL, APRILIO.Is 1875
UnDarai(eied Inipudence

1t l3 stated tnat ek-Speaker Dlalhej III |
a late speech in Connecticut, announced
as startling fact" that with the cleo
toral votes of the Southern States, the
Democrats will need but fraction of
the Northern vote to give them the con-
troll of the government of the Republic.
The impudence of such men rs the Rad
ioal party has brought to the political |
front seems unparalleled. Here is Mr..
Blaine, one of the best of that class, at
tempting to alarm the people with such
insinuations as may be drawn from his
startling fact" The fact may prove
startling to Mr.. Blame, an expectant of
the Radical nomination for the Presi-
dency, and to others of the same party
whose hands have been deep in the
Treasury of the nation; but it is hard
to conceive that there would be any
thing in the Democrats having majori-
ity of the electoral votes that could be
startling to the people. On the con-
trary, the reverse should certainly he
the case. For it cannot be forgotten, al
would gladly have it so, that the Demo-
Gratis had been given the government by
the people for nearly two generations
previous to the misfortune which befell
the nation in the election of Lincoln
Then il was that the Radical Abolition
lists and all the abominable and discord-
ant factions and isms combined to take
the government into their own keeping
Startled at their own work these men
who had been heaping the most foul and
abusive language upon the Democratic
party and the Democratic leaders, turn
ed about and pointed to the free and in
dependent Government which the Dem,
ocratic party had built up in the past
three-fourths of century, and called il
the best government the lrorld ever saU.'
And it is to place the government in thi:
position again, if possible, that the De
nocratic party is laboring for.
After such long seige of unparalleled
robbery, corruption and astounding ex
travagance on the part of the Radica
Republican leaders can it be any wonde
that the people should seek again tn
Democratic party as the instrument G
bringing the government back in som
degree at least to the principles of 70,
mer years. They know that it is onl
by such means that economy and goo
government can be reached; and unt
we have less extravagance and a redu,
tion OF taxation there can be no perm;
nent change. The whole landed prope
ty is weighed down with oppressive ia,
ation from which hundreds Of millio,
OF dollars are yearly gathered and squal
oered IN extravagant salaries to hord
OF officers quartered upon us to eat o,
ear substance.
All this must be changed-salaries
daced and coruorants discbarged n,
made to sustain themselves Ly tn.
labor.
Hence should Mr.. Blaine's statene
prove true, which nobody calls in an,
tion, the people will not be startled ye
much. He might have made his stat
ment much more startling" and st
nave been credited, had he announc
chat that fraction Of the Northe
vote" had already been rendered nea,
certain, and that the elections wor
prove 1t to be the largest "fraotio,
put II MIR, Blaine was sincere and trut
iul IN his insiAuations, which we don
ne must have been terribly shocked
the next day or two after HIS 'startl;
tact was uttered at the returns from c
necticut as they came in, dashine his
eument to pieces and hurting Domocr
&c gains and victories in his face from
the surrounding towns and cities. n
placing the whole political power of II
State IN the hands of that much abu
party.
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