The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-11-29
THE REPUBLICAN ALARM


Is not without cause. The leaders in
and out of Congress were not prepared to
see their majority in the United States
Senate swept away from them indeed,
they did not dream of any danger until
1879, when, with the two Senators gained
from Ohio and California by the late
elections, and four to come from the
South in place of the Carpet Baggers,
Patterson, Conover, Dorsey and Spencer
the Democrats will control that body.
The effort last week that has created
great excitement in political circles, was
an attempt on the part of the Republican
majority to steal two or three carpet bag
gers for terms of six years. OF course
these fellows have no show of legal title
to the seats they claim, but that makes no
difference to the party leaders; and
when the votes last week gave evidence
of possibility, even probability, that
they would fail in their scheme, the ex.
element and alarm became serious. The
Republican leaders do not seem to meet
with much sympathy from some of their
leading journals. The "double.treaCh-
cry" of Patterson and Conover has open
ed their eyes to the corruption of the
carpet baggers in way that is amusing
to Democrats. The Philadelphia Iele.
graph, for instance, asks;
What right had the Republican leaders
in the Senate, or the members of the
Republican party outside Of the Senate,
to expect anything different from these
scalawags; and what right will Republi-
cans in and out Of the Senate have to ex.
pect that Kellogg, if he is admitted, will
not follow the example of Conever and
Patterson at the earliest opportunity? In
plain words, what reason is there for any
reasonable man to think that the Repub.
lican majority in the Senate, or the Re.
publican dscendancy in nation, can be
maintained by trickery and conniyanCe
at fraud?
For more than ten years the Conklings
the Blaines, the Edmunds, the Buffers,
and the rest of them, have been bending
all their energies, not to make the party
they profess to represent more and more
worthy of the confidence of intelligent
citizens who do their own thinking, and
who do not believe that tomorrow will
witness the end of all things, but to
maintaining partisan ascendancy in
the Senate and House by hook or crook.
The result of these tactics has been that
in the House the Republican majority
was overcome three years ago, and that
in the Senate it has dwindled down to
The carpet baggers whom they
coddled and patronized, and whom they
sent troops to the Southern States to sus-
tain, have dispersed, and such of them
as are not in the penitentiary or in ban
ishment, are endeavoring to make what
terms they can with the Democrats.
And the New York Tribune latterly ri
sing or falling to the dignity of an "or-
gan," also has its growl. We quote:
The Senate ruled the country. The
caucus ruled the Senate. Twenty men
ruled the caucus, But what has become
of their vast power? How comes it that
an insignificant creature like Conover or
Patterson can cry "Checkmate," if he
to Republican Senatorial eau
cus? The question is interesting, and
the answer ought to be instructive, Vast
power was intrusted to a few men, by
the people, for the protection Of the peo-
ple's interests and rights. As long as
this power was used for the public good,
it was not Curtailed. But in time it was
used for the party, and not for the peo.
Pile, and then for faction, not for the
party. Senators were excluded, not be.
cause they were not lawfully elected, but
because the majority saw fit to serve
party friends. States were long deprived |
Of representation, not because they we're
not States, but because their elections
did not please the Senatorial majority.
Millions of citizens, who cared not much |
for party, but very much for country, be-
came indignant. Republican majorities
melted away, Far seeing and Just Re.
publican Senators protested, and ma
ority voted them down. Made drunk |
with unrestrained power, the Senators of |
,he majority acted as if it were impossi-
Die that they should ever be checked;
hey drove out of the Republican party, |
with SCOTS and sneers, those who ques. |
Toned their methods; they denounced |
ls traitors all who criticized the abuse of |
power for partisan ends. The results are
Known. Northern States, one after an
,ther, have been carried by sheer dis.
rust into Democratic ranks. In one State
fter another the power of the Republi-
AN party has been shaken or broken,
Until there is now no working majority
n the Senate.
Years back, we Democrats used to talk
hus about their "scalawags" and carpet
'aggers, and then they only laughed at
IS. To item now it is no laughing mat
or. The way the tables have been turn
ng the past three years is caution to
hose holding dishonest power, or exer-
ising power in knavish manner. Our
republican rulers must submit to fate
nust yield to destiny, and retire. The
ecree has gone forth, Uor pop,Ih, VOr del.
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