Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-11-04
THE RESULT. OF VICTORY.

THE RESULT OF VICTORY. /
The election of Hayes would be tie
by the highest authority pos
sible, the people, OF all the blundess
and crimes of the Republican party. ct
would ratify and confirm the extrava-
gance and corruption which are COP
fessed and bewailed by honest Repub-
licans themselves. It would prevent
honest Republicans from ever reforms
ing their party from within. This they
doubtless desire to do, for the masses
of all parties are honest. But whte
its best men control and are nonii-
mated by the Democratic party, corrupt
and selfish leaders have got the control
OF the Republican party away from tie
hands of its founders and best men.
They possess its organization and use
its power for their own benefit.
Should the people, by their ballots,
give majorities to the Republican
party now, they would not merely pre-
vent the Democratic party from effect
ing a reform in the character of the
government, from driving out the
thieves and cutting down taxes to
living rates, they would also pre-
vent honest Republicans from ever
obtaining control of the Republican
party.
One proof of the control of that par
ty by it's worst men, was their effort to
nominate Blaine for President. Blaine
is a corruptionist. A man of ability he
doubtless is, but he is knave beyond
all manner of doubt. This does not
rest on doubtful evidence; this is not
the prejudice of partisans. Blaine is a
corrupt rascal, who should be horse
whipped out of our political life. If
the Senate were now the Senate of
Webster, Clay and Calhoun, he would
be denied the privilege of taking the
seat in that body to which he was elect
ed when he found, as he certainly did,
the House of Representatives too hot
for him and about to expose and proba-
bly, expel him. The proof of his ras-
cality exists in his own letters, pub
lished during the last session of Con-
gress. Those letters exhibited him,
in the language of the St. Louis plat
form, as marketing his rulings as a
presiding officer" He sought pay
ment and profits as Speaker. This
alone should drive him into private
life. His jobbery has long been no.
torious while mere member. He has
amassed q large fortune while re-
ceiving no known income except his
salary as Congressman. But his
browning infamy, was the market
ings of his rulings as presiding
officer" In this he degraded and dis
honored the party which promoted
him, and the country whose trust
he betrayed. Yet this very man, this
branded corruptionist, came within an
ace of being nominated for the Presi-
dency by the Republican party, so
completely is it now controlled by pub
lie plunderers whom Blaine precisely
suited for a chief.
Another proof Of the control was
their nomination of Hayes, a merely
negative politician, when they failed
to nominate Blaine. None of the Re-
publican statesmen stood the ghost OF
a chance. Conkling was as far from
being chosen as Tilden. Frelinghuy-
sen had no more hope of the nomina-
ton than Hendricks. Fish was no
more thought of than the man in the
moon, though Fish's Alabama treaty
is the one honorable achievement of
Grants administration. The corrup-
tionists wanted not statesman but a
man of wax, if they could not get a
man after their hearts, and so they
nominated Hayes.