The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-20
THE REGISTER AND Mr.. ED
SON,

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with such a character as the Regis
ter gives him in the above lines,
stand anywhere else in the present
crisis than precisely where he does,
squarely on the Democratic platform.
For once we cordially agree with
Bro. Williams, that our candidate sis
4 good citizen and a successful bust
ness man." We believe Mr.. EDISON,
or any other good citizen, would find
it difficult to keep up with the wind
ings of the Republican party, after
it fell into the hands of the sharpers
of Wall Street. 1t has seemed to
have had for years but one central
principle, and that has been to legis-
late in favor of the rich and against
the poor, and what troubles the Reg
lister and many more papers of the
same stripe is, that "good citizens"
are forced to abandon a party which
has proved false to itself and false to
its own pledges in the past. Mr..
EDISON stands now upon the financial
issues where he has stood for years.
If the Register will take the trouble
to turn back to its old files, say to
1874, it will find that the manly, in
dependent course of Mr. EDISON, Is
Representative of our county, called
forth from its own columns warm
tributes o~frespect for his independ-
ence and consistency. If the Regis
ter will but take the trouble to read
some of its own editorials of that
wear 1t will find that even itself, of
late years so ready to swallow allthe
bitter doses of doctrine, mixed up
for it by bond swindlers and salary
grabbers like GARFIELD and others,
then spoke in fearless, earnest pro-
test against the wretched heresies it
now advocates through its miserable
championship. 1t now attempts to
~censure MI. EDISON because he will
not stultify himself by any indorse-
ment O fthem. Take for instance the
Registers editorial upon the currency
question in April 1874, wherein it
charges the sharpers of the East
with conspiring against the interests
and prosperity of the West, and the
Register then had the true ring.
When in 1867. the Republicans of
Preble county passed in their Coun-
ty Convention their Greenback reso-
luton, the Register endorsed it, and
the paper was a power among our
people. It stood with the people and
against the intriguers who have made
everything cheap but money. 1t
would have been to the Registers
credit fit had remained steadfast to
these grand doctrines Of the people,
but government pap was too strong
for its editor, and he soon democrat
I lied its columns to suit the notions
of the master whose collar he wears.
After endorsing MIR. Edison as "a
good Citizen" it does no compliment
to itself in the light of its past utter
%ances, when it attempts an attack
upon him. Editors of small mental
grasp, time-servers who change with
every wind of doctrine, should have
the discretion to keep them from
saying too much about consistency.
Mr.. EDISON has not yet been com
PEELED to turn his back upon any ut
terances of the past, and if the edi-
tor of the Register were only sharp
enough to know that the substance
of some of our editorial matter which
he has of late so bitterly attacked.
was for the joke of the thing, taken
from the columns of his own paper,
of not very ancient date, he would
not have shown his editorial weak
ness and stupidity to so many of oul
people by his valient charges upon
his own breastworks. The fact is,
the Republican party is crumbling in
our county as it is elsewhere. Its
day of usefulness was ended when
poker playing politicians and Credit
Mobilier salary-grabbers took ad.
vantage of their positions to defraud
the people. When they denounced
the Greenback as a lie and a cheat
when they demonetized the old sill
yer dollar-when they attempted tc
force resumption in gold upon oul
nation-when they repealed the in
come tax to compel the poor to beal
all the burden of taXation-wher
they gave to corrupt and soulless
corporations our magnificent public
domain-when they attempted to ar
ray sect against sect-when for year:
they wandered through the dreary
wilderness of their reconstruction
nonsense, until the awakening PEG
pie forced their fraudulent Executive
to adopt the democratic policy to
wards the South, the Republican
party lost its hold upon good men,
We wish we could say of many oft!
representative men what the Regis
ter is compelled to say of Mr.. ED
SON. We would be glad if we could
out of many of them we cannot