The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28
co1IRAcE IN POLITICS.

OF the members of the Forty-sixth
Congress, Messrs. Blackburn of Ken
lucky, Bliss and Cox of New York,
Henry and Kimmell of Maryland,
Robertson of Louisiana, Springer of
Illinois, and Cook and W. E. Smith
of Georgia will be conspicuous as
men who refused in the Forty-fifth
Congress to subscribe to the infam-
Gus doctrine that Fraud is sacred
when successful.
The test vote on the supremacy i'm
portant issue was the vote on the
Hartridge resolution, passed on the
14th of last June. The Hartridge re-
solution declared that when a man
not elected President has once been
put in the White House by trickery
and crime, his title can be question
ed by no subsequent Congress, by
no Court of the United States, and
by no tribunal created by the people.
Fourteen Democrats, out of the great
body of Democratic Congressman,
had the sound sense aud courage to
protest against this theory, so utter
ly destructive to the principles Of
free government. Nine of the four
teen were candidates for reelection
this fall. They were reelected to a
mani
A few minutes before the Hart
ridge resolution was introduced, Mr..
Burchard, a Republican member
from Illinois, sprang upon the House
a resolution similar in purpose and
significance, but less sweeping in its
terms. Eight Democrats voted
against the Burchard resolution who
afterward lost courage, went over to
the overwhelming majority of time
servers and Fraud worshippers, and
stultified themselves by proclaiming
the lie which they had just denounc-
ed. Of these eight i~rresolute, half
and half Democrats, only four were
re elected last Tuesday. The other
four will be relieved of political re-
sponsibility on the fourth of next
March.
Neither Burchard of Illinois nor
Hartridge of Georgia will appear on
the floor of the House when the roll
of the Forty-sixth Congress is called.
They will leave behind them moth
ing but their names, which will be
remembered as long as the Fraud
which they labored to sanctify. 1t
is not an enviable distinction.
How has it Jared with the 235
congressman who voted for the Hart
ridge resolution? Four Of them are
from California, where the election
is yet to be held. Of the remaining
231, nearly all were candidates for
the continued suffrages of their con-
stituents. BY a careful examination
of the latest returns it appears that
barely one-half of the number have
been reelected. On the Democratic
side, there were liz votes for The
Hartridga resolution. Fifty-four OF
these ~recreants either were rejected
as unfaithful servants by the nomi-
mating conventions of their party, or
having obtained nominations, were
defeated at the polls by the apathy
of the Democrats whose honest con
victions they had failed to represent
at a critical time. Even the 119 Re
publicans who thought to gain fayol
with their party by u~pholding Haye:
have Jared badly. Only sixts-tw,
of them have been returned. Fifty
seven of them accompany the fifty
four cowardiy Democrats into tin
? obscurity Of private life.
This is a terrible rate Immortality
1t shows how directly a WHOLESOME
public sentiment acts upon the pop
ular branch of Congress. 1t shows
the political value of courage and fl
deity to Rightly. Y. San.