The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-05-25

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What can ennoble knaves, or sots. or towards?
Alas not all the blood OF all the Towards.
| No no there is but one way of salvation
for the Republican party, aud that is
through the purgation Of defeat. The
spoils once out of their grasp, the cor
rupt men who rated from the Demo.
cratic party into the Repu b!ican would
instinctivcly follow the scent Of public
Dlnnder and rat back into the Democra At
&c party, and the Republican party, re-
leased of It's incubus, with its men Of
ideas at the front, would again deserve
the confidence of the country. This is
consummation devoutlv to be wished.
Most of my dearest friends are still in
the Republican party, ende Jared through
many years Of association by bonds Of
common faith and mutual trust. | mean
to keep the right to love them still.
Hand III hand we stood around the ad.
ministration Of Andrew, and felt his own
great arm leau or US for support" live
IN the nndoubtlng assurance that they
will soon learn that patriotism and virtue
did not die when the Republican party
committed suicide, and that we shall vet
come together in the trials and triumphs
OF tie future and wonder we ever sepa.
rated
What then remains! The Democrat
party. ''Do you belong to the Demo.
cratic party - Mo- | shall never again
'belong'' to any party, but 1 am ready
to cooperate with any party or with any
men who, in my judgment, best promise
to destroy the power which now curses
the country. know full well how great
is the popular distrust of the Democratic
party. | have taken some small share III
creating that distruss when it was wei,
! founded.
loved my country and l hated it
But now old things have passed away.
When We are able to vote in the millen-
nun. We will welcome the ideal party.
Until then we must aim at practlca,
methods and practical results. do not
| like 70 be forced 20 a choice Of evils, but
| see clearly that until one party or the
| other dominates an ideal candidate we
must choose between those who are pre-
sented or take te the woods
Can we trust the Democratic party In
l34o our southern Wing friends, in jus.
tifying themselves for supporting the
Wing ticket with Gen. Taylor at the
head. used to say: ''The southern man
who is farthest from US is nearer to US
| than any northern man can be- 1t is
my profound conviction that the worst
Democrat whose nomination at st. Louis
is possible is safer for the country than
the best Republican whose nomination at
Cincinnati is possible. The imperative,
the solemn need Of the country is
change Of the national administration.
\ new set OF books must be opened at
Washington Every department OF the
government from the White House to
the custom house must be purified; the
accounts Of $4,000 officeholders must be
examined. | have no fear that while this
process OF scrutiny is going On, any new
set Of otficeholders can organize system
Of peculation and corruption like that
which is now in full blast Even il
the forthcoming administrator should
follow in the footsteps of its predecessor,
| think know that in four entire years
il coaid not intrench itself in Office as the
Republican party has done in aimos, six
teen years OF uudisputed power; and that
IN 1880 the country will repudiate tie
servants who should prove false TO their
trusts, and would relnstate a Republican
party redeemed, regenerated, and olsen
thralied. But do no, rest my hopes
upon my wisdom as a prophet. rely as
vel, upon the record OF the Democratic
party for the last four years. ! remem-
Der tia. in 1872 they nominated Horace
Greeley a their candidate FOR The pres,.
dency, and Charles Sumner as their can
date for Governor OF Massachusetts, and
adopted a platform dictated by the doc
triualres and purists Of Cincinnati. The
declarations OF that platform are the au-
thentic utterances CT the national
1 Democrats party, AMI they have
/ been ~eattirmed by nearly every State
convention OF that party since he'd. IN
Z Michigan enough Democrats renaaaced
/ party ties TO elect Christlancy over Chan
dler, IN Wisconsin. enough TO elect Angus
Cameron over Carpenter. In New York
the Democratic party elected Herman for
Senator and TIden for Governor In
Massachusetts, they elected CASTOR
Governor, and Chaplin. Thompson, Tar
box. Banks, Warren. and Seelye rep
resentatives to Congress. None of these
men were of the Bourbon persuasion. All
who we're Democrats were of the liberal,
progressive Democracy. But they
elected Cockrell in Missouri instead OF
Schurz,'' so did the Republicans OF Mas
sachuse.ts elect Dawes instead Of Hoar
but they were obliged to take such men
or be defeated" True, and that necessi-
tv still continues. II the Democratic
convention should nominate . Bour bon
his defea. is certain. So, if the Republi
cans nominate ring candidate" his de-
feat is equally certain.
My hope is in the great American peo'
pie. The President Of the future must
represent honesty, economy and reform
OF the host Of claimants TO the Repu5li
. can nomination one name alone meet;
these requirements. and that name Of It
self might be . sufficient guarantee werei
not that he would so into power hamperee