The daily gazette., 1877-10-10
people.

IT WON'T Do.-Senator McDoaald's
excuse for proposing to pair off with Sen
ator Morton will not be acceptable to the
Democracy of Delaware. If Senator
on the opposite side, when he knows his
party has large majority ami can con-
trel the action of the Senate at any time
through movements to delay and the aid
of the presiding officer, pairs off with an
other, or offers to do SO, as Mcdonald
says Morton did with him, it does not
justify Senator's hazarding the success OF
party laboring for Reform and Re-
trenchment and reduction of taxation of
the people, in pairing off at such crit-
cal time as this. 1t is the most priceless
trihing if the Democratic party is to be
made the mere cats paw of such action
as Senator McDonald's. Morton's vote
may be worth millions to the scoundrels
who have taxed the people and wasted
their substance on swindling office-hold-
ers, army pimps, and navy pads for the
last fifteen years, and here Senator who
has been denouncing Morton as pro-
moter of the greatest yillainies, includ-
ing even murder, robbery and the grand
fraud of robbng the people of their cho-
sen President, now proposes to throw
away an opportunity to get rid of some
of the villainous work OF the Radical
party which has so long cursed the peo-
pie OF the South and oppressed the great
er part of our people NorCh, by not voting.
We want none of Senator McDonalds
courtesies if they are 10 cost us such a
price. He may give Morton all of his
prayers behind the scenes, If he chooses.
or all of his worldly goods. But he has
no moral or political right to defraud the
people of their right to vote on the par
tlzan platform which he chose to accent.
He cannot do it with honor If he per-
sists in pairing off with Morton in a case
where the Radical party triumphs over the
will of the majority of the people, he
ought to be censured by an act of the
Indiana Legislature and asked to resign.
The Democratic party want no child's
play in politics-they are for Reform and
they will haye it. If there are any 9TH
ers such as Mcdonald in either House.
we say let them be made to stay at home.
The Democracy of Delaware have been
told by their party leaders that Morton
would hang thousand Democrats any,
where's aye, suffer them to be consumed
with fire such as Satan himself might
enNndle for the sake of political tri
umph, and yet Senator Mcdonald promo
ses to give away the first opportunit,
that presents itself to escape this deyilisl
mans clutches, because Morton at SOM,
previous time offered to pair with hin
That he might "visit sick daughter.
IL this Is sample of the stuff of which
Indiana Democrats are made the fewe
OF them that go into Congress as Re
FORMERS the better. We despise sucl
hypocrltlcal conduct. 1t is sure to brinl
manly and honorable politics into dis
gust; and cause the people to believe th
strife at the polls is merely for the loaye
and fishes for the leaders, and that sue
leaders barter and trade in their vote
one with another, on every occasio
where ten, or twenty, or hundred tbou
sand dollars can be made by land grant.
subsidies, patent extensions, fraudulep
claims and such other devices as hay
been frequently charged and in som
cases proven to have been consummate
IN the last ten or fifteen years. Washin
ton needs publication, but we fear Sci
ator Mcdonald is not one of the men
be entrusted with the earnest work Il
Democrats have taken in hand. "a
will be glad if we shall find o,.rself mi
taken.