Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-04-29
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4. 4. HARDWOOD, Editor & Proprietor

4. 4. HARDWOOD, Editor & Proprietor
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AUSTIN. MINI.
THuRsDAY MORNING, APRIL 70. 1875.
POLITICAL. 49,
In the Presidential campaign Of 1872
the active efforts Of ex-oftice holders and
Of disappointed politicians accustomed
the exodus of large force from the Re-
publican ranks. Since the rebellion the
democrats had been in hopeless minori-
~. So limited was their active member
ship and 80 inefficient their organization
that the country regarded the party as
practically dead. In fact, on two or three
occasions where few OF the fragments
had been collec.ed-representing the ele-
mcnts Of democracy, they found them.
selves unable to do more than announce
their intention to present no candidates,
and to make no campaign. They knew
very we'll that there was large number
1T republicans who were disaffected and
that such only awaited an opportunity, to
show themselves hostile to the principles
and the nominees Of the party. The DEM
ocrats stepped into the background to en-
courage a secession from the republican
party and the formation of new alliance.
They were not disappointed in their csti-
mate of the character Of the men whose
utilization they sought. Restive under
wholesome restraint, and smarting under
the influence of personal defeat, such
leaders of national reputation as Greeley,
and Grstz Brown, and Schurz, and in our
own state as Wilkinson, Donnelly, Sam
Nayall, John X. Davidson. II. P. Hall,
T'hos. Wilson and others went into the
Cincinnati Convention and organized
what they called Liberal Republican
Party" the rank and file Of whose sup
portcrs were life long democrats. Under
a new name, with new trap and fresh
hate, the democracy sought to restore its
old dominion. The world knows the
consequences. Thccxperimcnt cost Gree
ley his life, and it resulted in strength
ming the democracy; in perpctuating a
reign Of terror in tine south; in carrying
s"vcral states over to the opposition; in
yatsing more than eighty ex-rebels into
the Xiv. Congress, and in periling civil
liberty throughout the entire nation.
Ii';lis it has done under the pretensc of adj
vancing republican principles and ofpro-
moting reform in tho administration Of
the government. 1t has taken this nation
three years to learn that the democratic
assertion of ito own death was but mere
rrctense-a rusc adopted solely for the
purpose Of regaining power, the right to
which they had forfeited hopclcssly by
their corrupt administration and by their
treason. Tie mask is off now. Every
man who believes IN the principles enun.
eisted in republican platforms may know
hencefOrth that if he would have those
principles applied in the administration
Of government, they must be kept under
republican control. twill avail nothing
to tell US that the party is corrupt. We
all know that Corruption is an element
Of universal prevalence; but is the demo.
cratic party less corrupt? There are not
less than 10000 office holders under the
general government! Is it strange that
criminality develops itself in their ranks
Livery Judicial District in this State and
every other is sending convlcts to the
Pcnitentiary annually, but docs that prove
anything against the great mass Of tho
population: Yes it does! But on the Other
hand demonstrates the existence of tina,
regard for law and morals which will moi
suffer crime to 60 unpublished. Society
organized on the basis of sound princi
pies, corrects itself-inflicts penalties fo1
attractions of its rules, and thus maintains
both its existence and its purity. Wher
an officer is proven to be corrupt, with
out proper regard for the duties and re
spoasibilities of his station, deserved pun
ishment should be melted out to hin
promptly, but upon what rule of commo,
sense or Of ethics, can We remove one bat
man from Office and put in his place an
other who by profession and practice /:
known to he very much worse :" The on
great question to be decided first of all is
what political policy is best adapted tt
meet the exigencies of our system of gov
erEment: five regard the policy adopte'
by the Republican party as the best, then
We are good citizens, we shall adhere t.
it through good and through evil report
and five find errors creeping into tn
system, root them out; if VIC find bad mel
in Office, displace them; if the Leadership
is trusted in unworthy hands, transfer il
but never abandon the charter. 1t is t.
this view of the question that we ask tn
attention ofvoters, feeling that the masse
need only to understand the science q
government, and to realize the importance
Of maintaining just principles, to cal
forth their most active efforts in behalf q
the great party which has served the ma
tion and made it the refuge of the Cypress
ed from all parts of the world.
CROP PROSPECTS,.
We learn from our exchanges that sc,
ersl of the States have suffered scverel.
from the effects of the late frosts. Mich