Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-06-09

ments as the fruit OF this democratic con-
troll? Where can they find the evidences
of any such sense OF responsibility and
any such devotion to the public welfare
as should encourage them to continue
democratic management or cntrust the
party with still larger power? A party
is to be Judged 10y the general drift and
spirit of its action VIVA, has the demo
cratic party done 10 justify public conf
dcnce? Take one OF the most salient and
conspicuous fruits of its succcss-thc Uni
ted States Senators it has elected. What
is their character and what do they repre-
sent? In Connecticut it elects Eaton, the
avowed copperhead and secessionist. In
Missouri it dismisses Schulz and gives the
honor to Cockrell simply because he
served in the rebel army. In Pennsyl-
yania it names as its leader "Cotiee-pot
Wallace, the notorious corrup)lonist. In
New York it names Mr.. kcrnan-personal-
" an unexceptionable mar, but owing his
election to the fact tina, he represents
church as much As u party. Taxing the
selections us whole, are they sach rs
commend themselves to pubic favor
Do the people feel like trusting party
whose choice spirits, named for It's high
est dignities. are copperheads, eoniedeT
atcs, or corruptionists?
The result OF those Senatorial elections
is a very striking indication OF the char
acter Of the democratic party, but it is by
no means all The other prominent acts
which distinguish its record point IN The
same direction. LII Ohio it has had full
swing since January, and it has swung
into Il politico-sectalian alliance with the
Catholic hierarchy and into a support ol
its attack upon the public schools. The
Geghan law, which makes sc ataranisln
the rule of the State, is the significant out
come OF democratic success. In New
Hampshire its fruit is bold and glaring
political outrage. The party had used its
power so recklessly and uuscrupulously as
to ALLEVIATE the people who had been mis-
led into trusting it, and now when it finds
itself thus repudiated it seeks to retain by
desperate usurpation what It's shameful
misconduct had forfeited. In Connect
cut it used its power no. merely to elect :,
secessionis! to the Senate, butto break
down the safeguards of pure ballot-box.
What the fruits OF democratic success
are in our own State, we have all seen
An exhibition of incapacity beyond any
thing witnessed in recent years, a palpa
bic division Of the party, ordinations and
recriminations without measure, an empty
pledge of reform and an inordinate grasp
for power.-such is the fulfilment OF dem
ocratic promise. This is the only State il
which the party has made any professions
of accomplishing any valuable work and
here the movement has thus far resulted
only in dividing the party and disappoint-
ing the public. The net results up to the
present moment are nothing for the State
and split for the party Looking over
the whole field Of democratic action, and
what solid substantial fruit is there TO
show2 Who remembers anything of de-
mocracy in Ohio except the Geghan law
Who remembers anything Of it in Penn
sylvania except the election of Wallace?
What is it identified with in New Hamp-
shire bu: usurpation. and in Connecticut
but the election of Eaton and the prosecu-
ton of partisan legislation? What does
maggot and quarrel? And is all this
title to continued public confidence p
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