The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-31
For the Telegraph:
"JHdge JiIsnn before the Confessional. :"

Politics would be purer, the country Safer
and Democracy would carry much more
sanity loci. il the intelligent part of it
would visit the confessional before instead Of
cfer voting their Presidential Ticket. A
learned pundit of the Democracy in the last
weeks KenoShG Union, under the above
Ca pton, with wonderful quaker familiarity
as If he had fell in love with my first name,
volunteers this remarkable Pickwickian
advice 10 me.
In conclusion, we have this advice to give
YOU: If you want 10 get out of the demo
cratic party, whore, from your good sense
and honest ideas or what our government
needs. we sincerely believe you belong, you
must take different course. You must
come out boldly and denounce the Demo
cratic party as a fraud, sTilden thief, and
that Hen bricks is so stepped IN crime tha6
he ought 10 be hung without the benefit OIL
clergy-that Hayes and Wheeler are I'M
maculate, and that none but TOOLS and
knayes VIII vote against them at the coming
election. With tits kind of talk, Jon with
actions TO suit the words, you will be taken
back to the bosom Of The republican party
A man before the confessional would make
a sorry appearance in beratiEg any body but
himself If he was blessed with "good
sense, ""honest ideas,"he would simply ask
himself where lies thetrue line Ofduty for him
in the present issue between the two great
political par tics of the day; especially as a
Liberal, whose WatchWord had been Reform,
would the question come with crushing
weight, where should his vote and influence
-; ST., 10 hat WA IN
the contending forces for the possession OF
the controlling power Of the government.
In whosoever hands it falls now, there, will
1t be likely to remain for series of years.
The start we take in this Centennial year we
will be apt to follow for quarter of
century. Permanent reforms have their
outgrowth aud achievements only where in
teligepce, culture AMI higher civilization
is sought for. If there is no aspiration for
the ideal in government, there viii be no
effort or progress in that direction. Look
ing at the personnel of thestWo parties one
can be at little loss to see the yanta ge
ground of the one over the other, the for
ward movement of the one, and the back
party better opportunity to inaugurate a
new poloicy, rejuvinate, plant itself upon
sound economical principles, avoiding the
blunders and corruptions OF an over domi-
nant party whose success had made it AFRO
CANT and was:eiul, than the democratic
party has had for the last eight years. Bat
it's leaders had no heart for reform, nor had
the party masses they represented the cul-
ture or training to stand behind them IN such
a struggle. The result has been stale, Hat
and Improbable. The yesGgs lions iDaCg
Grated in Congress against The Republicans
had to be conducted in secret because every
third man implicated was Democrat who
had found it more profitable as the times
were, to be corruptionist than patriot
The Democratic House with its eighty
weak and yacllat ing.-nO forward move
menU, to restore confidence or prosperity tC
the country; on the contrary, it has With
held many. needy appropriations, fearing
people in their present distress; it has un
settled all financial hopes of resumption by
repeating the time clause Of the act. Io
hope Reform from snch party would be
| like a christian drawing consolation from
| VoineyS Rutns, or Palne's Age OF Reason.
! On the other hand, the intelligent masses
Iofthe Republican party out of Office have
taken steps to relieve the party Of its evil
dolpgs. The apparent Democratic success
of 1874 was their re buke at the polls against
certain leaders. The heart of the party is
sound to the core, the better element has
come to the rescue and the party stands to-
day with candidates worthy of its palmiest
days aga inst whom no damaging charges
Jean truthfully be brought.
/ There is no iced of Republicans or Liber-
ais ''denouncing the Democratic party as q
fraud, Tilden a thief, and Hendricks so
lsteep'd In crime as to be hung without
benefit OF clergy "There are plenty ofDemo-
Gratis and Democratic papers that have
already done this al aaauSsune. From good
Democratic authority before and since the
nominations we have learned that the two
faced, amphisbaeria position of the party
upon the currency question is a fraud upon
all common honesty. That Tilden is a
Railroad wrecker, into whose Golfers mil
lions OF the peoples money have gone
which was generously subscribed to aid IN
developing the resources of the country by
railroad enterprises, but gobbled up by him
to fill his "bar'ls of money for the cam
!paigD."
That his reform record is sort o.
death bed repentance such as the whisky
Lsquealers have since improved and perfected
to an art. Hence We return your advice b.
asking you to look well to the squeazersuI
your own party.
JON B. JILsUN.