New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-08
DEMOCRATS IN POWER
THEIR RIFLE IN MISSOURI.

sCRIBED-AN ALLIANCE WITH CORRUPT foia-
TICIsNs IN ST. LoUIs-REsOLVE or iNDEiEN-
DENT VOTERS.
70 The Edifor Of The Tribune.
SIR: Since Esau sold his birhrisht for mess OF
pottaCe unreasoning hunger has ever cost men DEAR
SEQ how this Democratic party throws away votes
NV tbe hundred thousand for q few contemplate
Offices
To Tn TRIBUNE independent voters look for
warning not only of events in New-Yoik, but OF
movements and tendencies in distant states Not
all Rcpabhc.allisla is represented by BriStow MOI
all Democracy is tho Democracy of Ildcn. AS an
army OF observation. the independents voters need
broad and Just survey Of the whole field ferhapS
few facts will help them to understand why 'De
o,titudc of srch mon ~ ex-senator Schurz toward
the Democrats in Missouri is not precisely what IL
would be toward Democrats in New-fork.
On the streets here today ore cannot hnd an IN
dependent voter nor German OF elmer party "''-
less he Is an extreme Catholic. who has not SCI
purposc TO overthrow the Democratic party "s-
silly eyents may change that feeling but to-day II
ex,sts aud its causes are worthy Of notice. 1t VIII
he fell elsewhere within IS hours more than one
man of great influence has offered TO spend weeks III
addressing The Geuan, in Ohio In behalf OF the he
publican party if it's platform and candidates 40 ot
move Objectionable. Yet some of these very men
were among the most bitter in hostility 10 hepuo-
JcansIu 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 70 herman
independents.
Tn the patience Of these the recent ciiy cleo
ton here only the last straw on the Gamers
back Tho trouble began long ago. There were
1900 men. nearly AL Germans. who had the cour-
age TO vote for Lincoln in this slave State In looo
when war broke out enough took arms Tor mo
Union TO capture Camp Jackson to save the >tate'
md TO make all SecessOnists hate the Germans III
tensely Also during tho war. the powerful Cath-
Ollie influence here very strongly III sympathy
with the Confcderatcs When the Independents i1ted
acknowledgements from the necks OF the Son'h-
err svmpothizcrs. in 1870, they quickly found that
the old fires Of hatred though long buried were yet
alive But they hoped that these relindled flames
would ouiokly burn out in the open air of political
freedom Much was done TO check them while the
campaign of $40 was pending. But after It's close
they wcro seen plainly enough. Blair was thrust
aside 10 make room for weak old man having
record more acceptable 10 the majority. Union men,
and especially Germans, were quietly crowded ont
of influence or place. The Democratic party became
more and more distinctly controlled by the Conied-
crates and by the Catholics Repeatedly, In order 10
save tho school system Independents who still acicd
with the Democrats were forced to oppose the party
candidates.
ly prominent Democrats went wild with Initiation.
MANY Democratic papers, indeed, openly clsmorcd
for repudaton in answer to The most ultra speeches
In that direction crowds raised most plainly the old
rebel yell. Senator Schurz battlcd stoutly for on
honest currency and Democratic papers and leaders
In every mart of the State denounced him for it,
venonoasly and coarsely if he had not helped to
enfranchise most OF them. Bogy uttered some OF the
weakest twaddlo ever heard i'll the Senate Chamber,
Ill 4of 1.c IL iuty
much pains to call him great statesman and SchlIz
The TOOL of Eastern bondhOldors Finally, the gov
eminent of both State and city under the Democrats
had been shamefuly corrupt. No Republican could
nse stronger language respecting many acts of the
Administration and the Legislature than was then
used by seme of the most influential Democratic
papers.
Against these acts and tendencies Of the party in
power the Peoples movement of 1874 was an in
effective protest. 1t failed oly because one wing Of
the Republican party. claiming to represent the
President and lod by tho Federal Ofce-holdors with
few exceptions entered into open alliance with the
most corrupt of the Democrats. Not many Repub
cans realized that in refusing to vote for the Peoples
candidates they were merely helping the Whisky
Ring to carry ont bargain with Democratic cOrruP
fionists The pretext used was that the IHdcpend-
ent movement was intended solely for the reelection
of Senator SChurz, who was hated with equal intcu
sy by the bitter partisans and the corrupioniss OH
both sides. While many thousand Republicans were
by this plctext and 10y the busy work of Federal
officials led to oppose tho ticket, thousands
of Democrats who had sympathzcd with
it with lrew when they saw that it would fail.
The main results were tho election of a State ticket
controlled in lis valuable Offices by the most
extreme and the most corrupt element oi the Demo
cratic party; tho election of Cockrell, Confederate
"A. e ZD1... i
the calling of Constitutional Convention. One of
the minor results sgnificant-the election OF "a
Democratic ticket in ST. Louis County which
twelve ont Of fifteen candidates wero known as
Catholics.
The city election followed in April, aud showed
that the alliance between Democratic cOTuptonists
and Federal officials was complete. The Democratic
rrirary meetings carried by the most disgrace
full performances ever seen in this city. Gangs Of
Tupsateis hired by the Ring, united with crowds OF
men sent from distilleries by tho Federal Off
cials, to vote down decent Democrats. Then
the same stIong-smelling combination carried
the Republican primaries. The result was Demo
cratic Convention of which two-thirds of the menl-
bers were Irish Catholics. which put w Catholic
Irishman for Mayor. and "a Republican Convention,
of which majority of the members were Govern
ment employees which put up another Catholic Irish
man for MayOr-the Collector of Internal Revenue
who since tho exposure OF whisky frauds, has been
permitted to resign. These nominations caused an
explosion An Independent candidate was brought
out within the week preceding the election and yet
without organization, and in spite of notorious
frauds at the polls and the returns be beaten
by only votes by the Democratic candidate
for whom the Whisky Ring worked openly as soon as
it was plain that the Republican nominee would be
defeated
A Inf 0alta GNpa0 hy Of
OF an independent candidate through such means.
But the Democratic MAYOR died during the week