Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-12-14

done because it ought to be done, or the pub
lie interest demanded it, but as far MS we can
see in every case for political capital or
profit.
To create the impression of retrenchment
and economy it repudated public debts,
stinted and crippled the army and navy.
| lett unfinished public works, left navy yards
| to get out of repair and become useless,
withheld from courts the means necessary to
| en- force tho laws, and reduced salaries to
starving rates. Looking at the House from
| its legislation we should say that it is as un-
| friendly to the government as we know the
| body of its members to have been few
years ago.
AN ADMINISTRATORS WHAT TIE PARTY
MAKES 1T.
The administration OF any President will
! be in the main what the party which elected
| him makes it, Ii he breaks away from his
party, the chances are that he will be broken
| down. In "a government OF parties like ours
/ the President must have his The
men to whom he owes bis election. who have
defended him from assaults, to whom he
must look for support in the flu
ture, Will ordinarily control his action.
and he will do nothing offensive
to them. The success of MIR. Tilden
will mean the success OF the Confederate
Democracy. He would owe his election
chiefly to the South. and from that section
| would come the men of stern will and pur-
pose demanding and receiving the recogni-
ton of their policy. The late rebels would
swarm in the cabinet, run the departments,
| command the army aud navy, represent the
/ government at foreign courts. and find ten
| thousand ways to punish the loyal men of
| the Nation Tor their humiliation and defeat.
To understand what a Democratic admin
i.4s~&ssss sssssld se -srfrfiff- the po-,.ivrf md
controlling elements of that party. The
man who expects that hungry cormorants,
long deferred expectants. gangrened instiga-
| tors of rebellion, the Northern sympathizers
who trod the narrow isthmus between
open treason and resistance to the govern
ment fighting for its life. the slave-drivers
who have lost their occupation, and that in
Vulnerable caravan OF dead-beats and adven-
| turers who compose so largely the active list
OF the Democratic party to become the re-
| formers of the land, must be indeed the most
hopeless OF idiots.
HOW THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, is
MADE UP.
With a majority of nearly two-thids in
the House they have wholly failed for eight
months to produce any plan, scheme of re-
lief, or policy upon the subject of currency.
banking, tariff, or any other economic ques-
ton. While abusing everything that exists,
they produce nothing, can suggest nothing.
They have displayed inbecility, incapacity,
and stupidity of thought and conception
heretofore unknown ia the history of par
/
for the detective business but have done
nothing to elevate its character or remove
the suspicion that naturally attaches to it,
Utterly unable to build themselves up, they
seek to pull Others down.
The composition of the present House oil
Representatives at Washington illustrates
the strength and organization OF the Demo-
cratic party. The Southern members con-
sttute the body and brains of the party,
shape its action and control whatever policy
NJ has. They are the head and body OF the
animal and the Northern Democracy con-
stitute the tail and our acquaintance with al
qusdrupeds teach US that the body wags
the taIs and not the tail the body
and We have seen this winter
that the Northern Democracy arc a:
subservient TO the South as they were at AM
time before the war. The interests and pas
sions o the South will in future. as in the
long and bloody past, control the action ofths
members oil the House there are sixty-four per
cons who were officers and soldiers in the
Confederscy. Overthrow by the North anC
defeated, they are soured and desperately II
earnest, and with whom the Northern sym
patzers and dough-faces will be as clay in
what will be the Democratic policy in tn,
future, / answer whatever the South de
mands; whatever her interests, hatreds and
passions dictate.
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
The Democratic platform at st. Loui
may be described "a al elaborate and ex
tended falsehood, divided into sections. w,
may safely defy the most ingenious to fine
in II one honest and truthful statement Ii
the first section we have this declarations:
For the Democracy OF the whole countr,
we do here reaffirm our faith in the perma
nency of the Federal Union, our devotion
to the Constitution of the United States
with its amendments universally accepted n
final settlement of the controversies tia
engendered civil war and do here record on
steadfast confidence in the perpetaity of re
: publican self-government-"
When We reflect that nearly one-half o
the authors of this declaration had been en-
! gagged in armed rebellion TO destroy tn
Union in which they had the sympathy o
, the other hall, we know what they mean b,
reaffirning their faith in the permanency o
the Federal Union" and when for more thai
! sour years nearly the one-half with the sym
: patty of the other half had waged q blood.
war for the overthrow of the Constitution
we know what they mean by devotion :
9 the Constitution; that they love the Uniol
: and Constitution as we'll now as they hav
4 ever done, We can all readily believe. Sue
, declarations by the invention in view q
/, the personal history OF the great masses of II
members. are but hideous mockeries, and in
| sChucu OHll lOf utCtptiCu. n llttic luTtHt
|. on we come to the following extraordinar,
declaration:
Reform is necessary to rebuild and estab
: lish In the hearts of the whole people tina
Union which eleven years ago happily res
cued from the danger OF a secessios OF State.
: but now TO be saved from corrupt central
ization. after inficting upon ten States tn
! rapacity of carpet-b bag tyrannies, las honey
) combed the officers of the Federal Govern
g ment itself with incapacity. waste and fraud
3 injected States and municipalities with tn
r contagion of misrule, and locked fast tn
prosperity OF an industrious people in tn
paralysis of hard times"
When you consider that many of the mel
making this declaration are the identica
persons who eleven years ago attempted t
destroy the Union by a secession of States
and who brought upon the Nation all tn
horrors and sacrifices OF civil war, yo,
will be able to comprehend the audacfty ant
insolence of the falsehood.
The authors of the war. the creators of tn,
national debt the makers of disturbance art
revolution in every State, and directly re
| sDOns ibl0 for every evil and rnisforftlne tha