The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-10-17
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The Democratic National Committee bave ia
sued an address which is about as replete with
tursid rhodomOntade as any production to W bich
our political literature has ever given birth.
RAISING over its rhapsodioal shout of joy at the
escape from annihilation which it made by
saving I0diaua, which is not merely amusing
Dut rather excusabe in view of the fact that
the sensation of being only partially beaten is a
novel one to that party, it goes on in delirious
Kind oil way to enumerate and describe the bless
ings that would flow from restoration 10 Dem
ocfat'c ascendency. 1t augurs peace, prosperity
exemption from taxation deverance from every
evil bliss to the coored citizens aud whole
| catalogue OF such blessings as nobody previous
iy mad hoped for until the arrival of the mllen-
| ium' It's as prodigal of promises as Dr. Mari
| COLDS Dear Jack of the hustings.
Here's your railways carried AMI your
neghbor's railways jockeyed. Here's all YOUR
sons 10 the post office Here's Britauia smiI-
lns on you Here's the eyes of Europe on
you. Here's universal prosperity for
you, repletion OF animal food, golden cornfields
| gladsome homesteads and rounds of applause
| fr0m your Own hearts.
III thfo" you ia anything you ask for. Therel
Church rates, abolition of church rates more
malt tax, no mals tax; universal education to
the highest mark or universal ignorance to the
lowest; total abolition of hogging 10 the army,
| or a dozen for every private once a month all
around; ; wrongs of men or rights of women-only
| say what it shall be, take 'em or leave 'em and
L m OF your opinion altogether"
This remarkable effusion reaches the height
OF delirious rhetoric when it falls afoul of the
Republican party aud the administration.
Among the crimes imputed in this raying phil
Iipic to corrupt and selfish leaders," are those
OF "having p:ostrated our manifold indus
tries, brought about "an oppressive taxation,
an exhausted South, an impoverished North,
anuctuaIing currency" There are a whole lot
more OF equally incoherent aud absurd utter
ances. Now considering that all the evils.
thus glowingly depicted in so far as they ex-
ist at all. are the sequent results of Demo-
cratic rebellion, the coolness and effrontery of
holding the Republicans responsible for them
| surpasses any exploit of sublime impudence
that has ever gone before it. 1t is possible the
American people can be deluded by such trans
parent noosense, but it is an ins alt to their in.
telhgence to believe so until the fact is proved.
The Democrats are ludicrously unlucky 10
their choice of missionaries, or else extremely
limited in their range of selection Who. for
example, do you imagine they have had upon
the stump this week to preach economy and
honesty in public affairs? Why, Fernando Wood
| for one and Richard o German for auotherl The
| very mention Of these names makes the pre-
tence of reform the acme of burlesoue
Compared with Wood, Belknap is saint.like.
As for OGormon, he was counsel to the cor
poration during the Tweed regime, and in per-
feet fellowship with the gang who gave us a
lifelong surfet of Democratic honesty. And
yet these fellows, and lots more like them, d.
late upon tue "corruptions'' OF Republicanism
aud the purity of Democracy with as much
complacency as if every citizen of New York
didn't see, as often as he passed by the City
Hall Park, two monuments, which are des-
tined to commemorate as long as they stand,
the relative claims of the respective parties to
popular confidence The one is the county
court house at the northern extremity of the
Park, the corner stone of which was laid sir.
teen years ago. IL is s,ill incomplete, aud
crumblipg at the base while unfinished at the
roof. There have been expended upon and
within it twenty-three million dollars That is
the Democratic monument. The other Is the
postofice at the southern end, an sdifce much
larger, finer AMI more expensive. 1t has taken
ten less years to build it, and it cost about one
third as much as the unsightly structure to
which it stands in perpetual contrast. Thas is
the Republican monument!
But there are other standards of comparison
by which the two parties can be judged to the
| immeasurable advantage of the Republicans.
Take the open aud unblushing parceing out of
the municipal offices which is now forming the
basis of a dicker between the two factions of
Democracy. 1t is defiant of common deoency.
These "reformers'' not only divide the spois
beforehand, by allotting to each other mayor,
sheriff, county clerk, judges corouers, alder
men, &c. but they inventory and appor.ion the
minor patronage of shese places and weigh it
in the trade. So that the chief magistrats of
the city takes his seat under the humiliatng
condition of having such clerks and subordi-
mates quartered on him as have been previous
| ly determined upon by the gsmesters who
ra flied for them in caucus This is the style OF
| doing business which would uDquestionsbly be
| introduced at the national capital, il we should
| be afflicted with Democratic administration.
| 1t is. carried on here and always has been ur-
| der the very eyes of Mr.. Tilden. There Is no
shame manifested on account of 1t, no effort
| at conceslmsnt of the practice. Custom has
| blunted the sensibilties of the Democrats so
much that they apparently do not realize at all
how demorallzing it is. 1t does not check in the
slightest degree the power of vociferasion or
| the brazenness of "cheek" with which they
clamor for 'Tilden aud Rsformp'
| YARMOUTH.