Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-24

every effect there must b a cause. and
what. l ask, 10 the cause of this deploreble
condltion! l answer, the misrule OF the
repuoacan patty. aud say that 10 time for Il
% step down and out, giving place to the
parry NAV can and. will correct the evils
from which We suffer.
10 the esttmatlon OF Mr.. Trip and al
other democratic 1t 10 eminently proper to
discuss tue past record of the republican
party. But as to the past record of the
democratic party.-it mustn't be spoken of.
10 mention it is to wave the "bloody Shirt"
Is 10 rake ' dead issues, is to play upon
the p%rejudices Of the past. The history of
toese I've great parties has run along to-
ge,her and is 30 closely interminelsd as to
become one history in the teachings Of the
present. Each ofthese two parties created
its " share of this history and each is
responsible for that which 1t produced.
We can see no reason, therefore, why II is
perfect good taste to refer to one and an
outrage upon public sentiment to take up
the other. Mr.. Trip enquiries. "has the
government improved" under republican
rule? Going backward TO the day the re.
publican patty come into possession and
Insulating q comparison between then and
now, the deduction is that it has. From
the chaos of a powerful revolution the par
~ has constructed peace. unity and prosper
i'y. tie asks, care the people happier. more
free, more independent" under republican
rule. About four millions of them are more
free and more independent and twenty or
Thirty millions are happier because of the
freedom and independence which has come
to the four millions through The efforts of
the republican party.
The picture of financial and commercial
distress pictured by the democratic cand;-
date for congress is the nstural result of
the Indebtedness which has come upon the
country and as that. Indebtedness is d..
rectly caused by the revolutionary efforts
of the democratic party it would seem some.
what out of place for him to bring it for
ward al this time as an argument in favor
of Ills party.
In 4 discussion of these matters one drifts
impercep.ibly into the forbidden realms of
the CORY sovereign of the bloody shirt. To
speak of hard times leads directly to the
cause of universal depre.sion-the nations
poverty, induced by the extraordinary ex.
penditures incident to the conduct of the
war.-The war is . dead ieue, and We have
no business meddling with it, says MI.
Trip. To obey his mandatory edic. i. to
give over all discussion Of political issues as
presented by the champion Of Dakota dem
ocracy. He originates NJ suggestions for the
bett=rment Of the people. He advances no
theories upon which they could possibly
build prosperity. He institutes no new Fl
nancial schemes whereby the masses may be
relieved Of the distress brought upon them
BY the expenses of . democratic revolution.
He simply reviews the past Of the republi-
can party and adjures those whom he assails
that any defence they may make will con-
stltute an objectionable innovation upon
the etiquette Of politics. This, then, is the
reflex of that magnificent ability that was to
lead the people as children are led and di.
rected by the superior intellect of their cho-
sen teachers. This peurile plea is the
GROWING creation ofthat mental lever which
needed only the fulcrum of the peoples
votes to enable it to move the social and
political structure to q higher plane of in
t-lligeuce and power and there poise it be-
fore the gaze Of an admiring nation. There
are many disappointments in this world,
and not the least of them comes out of the
very commonplace manner in which the
stick Of the democratic rocket returns to
eartl,. 1t went up with q glorious shower
Of sparks and a wonderful fiszing Of e1plo-
sive chemicals. 1t falls with a dead thud,
and we realize hat Bartlett Trip ia no
more than any other a His one political
.peech has been spoken, and friend or foe
can find nothing in it beyond the --LATEST re-
hash of worn out assertions-charges stale
with age, and topped of with the time hon
o.oJ oort;,o Unovoro of tho h1oodv ab;rt },