The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-17

doad-DeatS and adYenturerS VINO compose so largely
the active list of the Democratic party to become
the reformers of the land, must be indeed the mos
hopeless of idiots.
HOW THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, is MADE VI
With majority of near.y two-thirds in the
House, they have wholly failed for eight months tC
produce any plan, scheme of relief. policy, upon
the subject OF currency, banking, tariff, or any
other economic question. While abusing every
thing that exists they produce nothing, can sugges
nothing. They have displayed imbecility, incapac
ty, and stupidity of thought and conception here
tofore unknown in the history of parties. They
have shown stronG predictions 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 of Repre-
sentatives at Washington illustrates the strength
and organization of the Democratic party. 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 Northern Democracy constitute
the tail, and our acquaintance with all quadrupeds
teach Us that the body ways the tail and not the
tail the body, and have this winter that the
Northern Democracy are as subservient to the
South they at any time before the war.
The interests and the passions of the South will in
future, in the long bloody past, control the
action of the Democratic party. Among the DEM
ocratic members of the House there sixty-four
persons who officers and soldiers in the Con-
federacy. Overthrow by the North and defeated,
they soured and desperately III earnest and with
| whom the Northern sympathisers and doughfaces
will be as clay in the hands of the potter If you
| ask me what will be the Democratic party in the
| future I answer whatever the South demands
whatever her interests, hatreds and passions die
| tate.
| DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
! The Democratic platform at ST. Louis may be de-
| scribed as an elaborate and extended falsehood,
divided into sections We may safely defy the most
ingenious to find in it honest and truthfu state
ment In the first section we have this declara-
| ton:
"For the Democracy of the whole country we do
here reaffirm our faith in the permanency of the
Federal Union, our devotion to the constitution of
the United States with it's amendments universally
accepted a final settlement of the controversies
that engendered civil war, and do here record our
steadfast confidence in the perpetuity of republican
| self-government."
When we reflect that nearly one-half of the au-
thors of this declaration had been engaged i'll armed
rebellion to destroy the Union, in which they had
the sympathy of the other half, we know what they
by reaffrming their faith in the permanency
| of the Federal Union, and when for more than
four years nearly the other one-haf, with the SYM
pathy of the other half, had waged bloody for
| the overthrow of the constitution, we know what
they mean by devotion to the constitution" That
they love the Union and constitution as well now
as they have ever done, we can all readily believe
Such declarations by the convention, in view of the
personal history of the great mass of its members
are but hideous mockeries, and intended only for
deception. little further come to the fol-
| lowing extraordinary declaration:
" Reform is necessary to rebuild and establish
in the hearts of the whole people that Union which,
eleven years ago. happily rescued from the DAN
ger secession Of States but now to be saved from
corrupt Capitalization which, after inficting upon
ten States the rapacity of carpet-bag Gyrannies,
| has honeycombed the Offices of the Federal Gov
eminent itself with incapacity waste and, fraud,
infected States and municipalities with the con-
tagion of misrue, and locked fast the prosperity
of an industrious people in the paralysis of hard
| times"
| When you consider that many of the men making
| this declaration are the identical persons who,
eleven years ago. attempted to destroy the Union by
secession OF states, ana VINO Drougnt upon tne
nation all the horrors and sacrifices of civil war,
| you will be able to comprehend the audacity and
| insolence of the falsehood.
The authors of the war, the creators of the ma
tional debt the makers of disturbance and revolu-
ton in every State, and directly responsible for
every evil and misfortune that has followed the
great conflict, they boldly charge their own crimes
| upon the Republican party.
! LAND GRANTS.
Again, the platform says
"Reform is necessary to put stop to the profit
gate waste of public lands and their diversion from
actual settlers by the party in power, which has
squandered 200 000, 900 upon railroads alone,
and out of than thrice that aggregate has dis
posed of less than sixth directly to tilers Of the
SOIL"
The merit of this resolution will be appreciated
when refer to the fact that the candidate for Vice
President, Gov. Hendricks, was in the Senate six
years. and during the period when most of the pub
| lie lands granted to railroads, and was dis
t1nguished for the general hearty support ne gave
to such grants and particularly for his earnest and
| repeated advocacy and the large share he had in
the grant of about 81 900 to the Northern
Pacific railroad, the most stupendous gift ever made
to corporation. But it may be said in extenuation
of this that if Gov. Hendricks has had so much to
do with giving public property to railroad corpora
tions, that Gov. Tilden has shown great ability in
relieving such corporations of their property, and
| that taking both together they make a
| safe pair on the railroad question AS further
| commentary upon this resolution may add the
single remark that it was the Republican party that
granted the homesteads to actual settlers upon the
public lands-a boon which had been haughtily de-
MED through every Democratic administration.
| COMPOSITION OF THE ST. LOUIS CONVENTION.
l lie ia briefly the
Louis Convention that passed this remarkable plat
form and placed in nomination these distinguished
refOrmers, Tilden and Hendricks.
There was the old stakeholder. with heart full
Of bitter memories, believing that emancipation was
robbery and his only hope of indemnity in the Dem
ocratc party.
There was the old agitator and secessonist, who
bad hurried States into rebellion and drafted ordin
ances of secession.
| the Confederate flag upon many bloody field, and
who proudly pointed to their rebel record their
| title-deed to office and glory.
There were the members of the rebel Congress al
Richmond who had debated with closed doors the
| question of the black flag.
There were the architects and defenders of Belle
Isle, Libby, Andersonve, and Salisbury, scenes OF
horror of which the Modocs in their lava fortress
had never dreamed.
There were the Northern sympathzers and
doughfaces, who had waited and watched over the
border, whose hearts and hopes were in the South
while their bodies were i'll the North.
There were a few Union soldiers who had carried
their scanty laurels to a Confederate market
where decoy signals were scarce and in large de-
mand.
There was the sore-headed Republican, whose
neglected claims for Office had shaken his faith il
civilization and convinced him of the necessity fol
| reform.
In short there we're assembled the mourners fol
slavery- the organizers of rebellion, the Ku-Klu2
and White Liner, the Northern sympathizer ant
doughface, the advocate of State sovereignty, anC
the representatives of every element that had tori
the country with civil war, drenched it with blood
and watered it with the tears of the widows and or
phans.
THE GREAT REFoRMFR.
Gov. Tilden is inveterate bachelor Of 66, life
long Democrat. and has been for twenty years
leader in his party, and closely identified with all
its most infamous measures. Trained in schoo
Of New York city politics, graduate of Tamman!
Hall, disciple of the resolutions of 1798 an arden
sympathzer with the rebellion, he completely filled
that character known during the war as the Copper
head.
Mr.. Kelly, and other leading Democrats. befor
the nomination. earnestly described Mr.. Tilden al
a railroad wrecker, character well known. in New
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