The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-07-20

/; cOnnde TO mere SPECTATORS,
and they have COMPOUNDED the acquisi-
ton of money with high commercial
honor to confide religion to theorists
and ~dogmatizers, and they have raised
open adherence to a creed above a bene6-
cent life. Twelve years of partisan Re
publicanism has produced this result.
Partisan Republicanism planted this
poison at the heart of the system, and it
has been driven with the blood through
every artery and vein of the whole body.
Partisan Republicanism, as ~expounded
by Republican Administrations, has been
a vice and a crime.
Do you ask proof7 The honest effort
of an honest Secretary to punish thieves
and robbers-that is, to do his simple
duty. Indeed, "but little candle " in
ordinary times has been made by very
contrast to shine "like a good deed in a
naughty world.n And he has been prac-
tically dismissed out of the Administra-
ton, and all his aiders and abettors are
being kicked out alter him. And in the
face of these acknowledged facts the Re-
publican Convention commended the
Administration for its Honorable work
in the management of foreign and domes-
tic affairs and expressed its gratitude to
President Grant for "his eminent ser
vices in peace" This is Republicanism.
This is Grantism. They are one and the
came.
Thew are inseparable. The great
Council of the party. composed. rs as
been boastinply said. of its most intel.
| lipent. cultivated. representative men
commends this Administration, cor.
mends its acts. commends its tone. COM
mends its whole domestic policy, is
grateful to President Grant that he has
youchsafed them to us, and saws to his
successor: eco thou and do likewise
/ have observed no dissent from this
resolution by any newspaper or public
speaker, or ratification meeting or pri-
yate man Of the Republican party.
The Democratic party here makes the
issue. 1t proposes to change all this con-
dition of affairs and to commence the re-
form where the evil began-in the adj
ministration of the Federal Government.
1t saws to its nominee, $50 thou and do
likewise
Read the platform. 1t declares its
faith in the perpetuity of republican gov
eminent. As essential to that result 1t
advocates.
Absolute acouiescence in the will of
the majority.
SUPREMACY of the civil over the mill
tary power.
Separation of Church and State.
Equality of all citizens before laws of
their own enactment.
Liberty of all citizens unyexed BY
sumptuary laws.
Education of the rising generation.
And recognizing these as fundamental
maxims of all free government, and par
ticularly applicable, under our system
to the States. it declares. in order that
they shall not be hindered. but as far as
NAV be. shall be advanced by the Federal
Government, its unfaltering devotion to
the Federal Constitution and all its
amendments. And rising to the consid-
Grafton of our present ills and their REM
edy. it declares for reform; reform
wherever there is an abuse, amendment
wherever there is a fault.
Reform is essential in the Federal Adj
ministration, in order that while " the
powers granted shall be maintained in
their integrity, that other provision,
equally dear to every freeman, !" the
powers not granted are hereby reserved
shall be asserted with equal fidelity
and thus home-rule-or, as | prefer to
call it, States rightsEshall be inviolate,
and that centralism shall be avoided,
which has proven the hey-day of inca
pacity, and waste, and fraud, the era OF