The Worthington advance., 1876-08-17

doctors to prescribe for the wounds inflicted
by the Rebellion, and to believe that treason
slavery, reputation, violence, and ignorance
are the very best schools for reform.
To understand what
DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION
would be, examine the position and control.
ling elements of tho party. The man who
lexpects that hungry c0rmorants, long de.
Iferred eXpectants, &angrened instigat0rs o.
rebellion, the northern sympathizers who
|trod the narrow isthmus between open trea-
son and resistance to the government Sighting
oeespten tic s maS siS:
avan OF dead beats andadventurerswh who com.
lpsse 30 largely the active rlistof the. Demo:
cratic party to become the refomers OF The
lind, must b indeed the most helpless q
With majority Of nearly two-thirds in
the House they have wholly failed for eight
or policy upon the subject Of currency, bank:
ing, tariff, or any other economic question.
While abusing everything that exists, they
produce nothing, can suggest nothing. They
have displayed imbecllity, incapacity, and
stupidity of thought and conception hereto
tore unknown in the history Of parties. They
have shown strong predictions tor the detec.
tive business, but have done nothing
to elevate its character or remove the
suspicion that naturally attaches to it. IT.
terly unable to build themselves up, they
seek to pull others down.
The Southern members constitute the body
and brains Of the party, shape its action and
control whatever policy it has. They are the
head and body of the animal, and the North
ern Democracy constitute the tail, and our ac-
quaintance with all quadrupeds teach us that
| TIE BODY WAGs THE TAIL,
and not the tail the body, and we have seen
this winter that the Northern Democracy are
as subservient to the South as they were at
any time before the war. The interests and
passions of the South will in future, a. in the
long and bloody past, control the action Of
the Democratic party: Among the Demo-
cratic members OF the House there are "a per-
;Confederacy. Overthrow by the North and
defeated, they are soured and desperately in
earnest, and with whom the Northern SYM
pathlzer3 and dough-faceS will be US clay in
the hands OF the potter. II you ask me what
will be the Democratic policy in the future,
answer whatever the South demands, what
tate.
1HB TWO "r''s.
Referring to Tilden as retormer and a
''smasher Of rings" the speaker said:
Tweed, when he was overtaken by misfor-
tune, was not so rich as Tilden; but it is an
ter continuing business tor year or two
longer, to turn reformer and become the re-
generator of the public and private morals Of
New York. Tweed's benevolent purpose was
defeated by the untimely publication of the
specific evidence of his crimes, of which his
friends were compelled to take notice. He
had for q number of years been at the head ot
Tilden was a leading member and sachem.
This Tammany society had for Is years been
Regarded by many as the most corrupt politi-
cal organization in the world emphatically q
brotherhood Of thieves, and close corpora.
ton to which % none bnt the :. most Distinguished
admiralty jurisdiction in the adjudication and
distribution Of political prizes in the United
States, and did notoriously control the Dem
ocratic National Convention in 1853. That
Tweed and his gang were the champion
thieves of the nation had been as well known
tor years before bis tall as it is now, and was
as firmly believed while Tilden and he were
| in sworn fraternity in Tammany hall as when
Tweed was in the penitentiary. But when,
in 1871, The New York Times published the
specific proofs Of his vast villainies, the courts
grand juries and every man in public lite
were compelled to take notice, and then TIL
den, as matter Of self-preservation, jumped
over the fence, turned states evidence, and
rendered valuable services as prosecuting
witness and attorney, as he knew where to
find the evidence and to put his finger on the
different transactions. Ii the criminality Of
notorious for years, Or # filden had turned
prosecutor and witness before their exposure,
his character as reformer would stand better
than 1t does.
CAN THEY BE TRUSTED
The Senator concluded his address of great
length and unusual power by referring the
unreliability Of the opposition. He said:
The Democratic party cannot be safely
trusted with the control of our government
for many reasons, a few Of which / will briefly
state:
i. Because the vital element Of the party,
were traitors, and did everything in their
power to destroy their country. No man
Who ever deliberately betrayed his country
should be entrusted with its government. To
forgive rebels is one thing: to put them in
power is another thing. To place this gov
ernment in the hands of men who sought its
destruction by armed rebellion would be in
only as military necessity. They do not
love it, are not proud OF it, care nothing about
its credit, and its very existence il Tebuke
to them. But this does not diminish their
desire to get control of the government, to
recuperate and repair their shattered for
tunes. The condition Of the democracy OF
the north is somewhat different though
scarcely better. Sympathizing fully with the
south, and entirely subservient, it asks moth
| ing but Office, and leaves measures and poll
cies to the south. Upon economic questions
that pertain alike to all parts OF the country,
while opposing whatever is, and all that has
been done, it has not even q suggestion to
make, and it is utterly bankrupt in ideas.
With individual members Of talent and in
telligence, as an organization it has the con-
fusion Of ideas and the feebleness of grasp
which belong to the senility OF age that has
memory OF evil deeds. It cannot escape from
the past, and al its traditions are evil. It
cannot point to one of its leading measures in
thirty years that has not been condemned by
the voice of mankind.
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