The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-07-04

iloO, WolhiuS III The interest OF the mob !;
where witnesses are driven from the country
and the voters from the polls; where citizens
from another State are looked upon
as aliens, and, differing in political opinions.
treated as enemies; where schoOl-houses are
burned, and the school-teacher mobbed or
murdered, free labor finds no home. and CAPT.
tai no security. With the capital and labor of
the country thus restricted to one-half the
country. who wonders that times are hard. that
capital cannot find profitable fields for invest
ment, that labor is but poorly rewarded? One
half OF this country is now practically closed
against them; and in this one-half, one-half is
practically sllenced by the other. Is it not
perfectly clear, from the course of the Demo-
cratic party within the last two years. that the
South is no less intolerant? Is it to be sup
posed that, with every branch of the Govern
ment in the hands of the Democracy, the
South will be less intolerant or less violent. or
that the tendencies or spirit of the Democratic
party will be less revolutionary and less an
archical than they have been? Can it be sup
posed for moment, in view of the experiences
through which we have passed for the
last two years, that, with the Democratic
party in full control of the Government.
labor will have greater freedom or capital
larger security South than they have to-day :?
Is there any one so idiotic that he cannot
understand. or so blind that he cannot see that.
voter must have less privilege than he TODAY
possesses Is it not an utter craze to suppose
these privileges will be enlarged? Does any
one dream that, under Democratic auspices, his
labor will be more productive than it now is
Will the Republican voter South have freer
range of speech, or thought, or action? Will
there be less of terrorism, less Of violence? If
there is less of violence, or would be, under
Democratic rule, would it not be because ali
fh0o
thought and action are crushed by the strong
hand of mere brute murderous force. Under
Democratic rule in every department of Govern
ment. will the schools be more fOurishing? Will
the labor of the freedmen be better rewarded?
Will the constitutional amendments be more
honestly enforced and regarded than they now
are? Whatever of quiet the new policy has Sc
cured is the quiet which comes from successful
terrorism. "Order," it was once said ''reigns
in Warsaw" The slaughtered Poles could no
longer resist, and the strongest evidence of the
great crime was the dreadful quiet which pre-
vailed. Things are quiet in Mississippi and in
Louisiana. and in South Carolina. and in Flori-
da. The Republican majority is under the
heels of q revolutionary, rebelliOus Democratic
minority. Quiet, then means burning homes
means violence even unto death. The ma
jorities as they appear at the polls run most
quietly one way, for the real maiority-the
great bulk Of the voters which would make the
majority--is driven from the polls, or dares
not approach them, for the voters know the
price they must pay for an independent ballot.
1t is not worth while here to enter into details,
but the volumes of evidence taken in Louis
lana and Florida with reference to the cleo
lions of 1876 sicken the very soul in their re-
cital. No nation on the face of the earth pre-
tending to be free, or claiming to be civilized,
presents such a record. Robbery, arson, muir
der were not mere incidents and accidents, but
all these crimes were organized.
Loudly processing the necessities for reform
for the last two years, the Democratic party
has had control of one branch of the National
Legislature. What it has done, and what it
has omitted to do, are entirely characteristic
of the party and in harmony with it's past his
tory. The officials which that party placed in
power in the House have proved themselves,
one after another, utterly unworthy Of any
trust Or confidence, public or private. Speak
ing generally of the legislation that party has
inaugurated. it is wild, demagogical and revo-
lutionary. It's pretensions of economy and it's
efforts at practical reform in that direction
have encountered the well-merited contempt
of the whole country. Threatened, as we have
not been before for many years, with domestic
troubles, the ravages of organized mobs not
yet being old, but still fresh wi hin the recol-
lection of every one, the hal y settlers upon
our frontiers practically helpless against the
depredations Of rowing bands of savages,
Communism and agrarianism threatening the
disturbance of the peace and the destruction
of public and private property in all our great
centers-yet, in the face of these dangers, so
so alarming, the Democratic party
in the interest of economy and re-
form, have undertaken, practically, to destroy
the only weapon upon which the people could
rely for their protection and safety against
these dangers. Against the army OF the Uni
ted States, small and inefficient in point of
numbers as it is, the Democracy seem to have
the most deadly hostility. They have indus
triously undertaken to cut it down to such a
point of inefhciency as regards mere numbers
that it will be utterly impossible for the Gen
eral Government to protect the citizen either
in his life or property. against such scenes as
we were compelled to encounter no longer
than one year ago. The settler upon our from
tiers must go unprotected. Not only do they
seek to cut down the rank and file. but the
officers of the army, who have won the ma
tion's gratitude by great public services, are
stricken from the rolls or their pay so dimin-
ished that the reward of many veteran officer,
whose life has been devoted to the services of
his country is much less than tnatof q drunken
Doorkeeper placed in power by Democratic
Congress as reward for services against the
national life and integrity.
The object and purpose of this diminution
or the army, OF thus striking officers from the
rolls, are perfectly obvious. The aim is to again
place the army of the United States in the
hands of that South which sought to destroy
the Government. 1t is by relieving an officer
here, and there, and elsewhere, to create vacan-
cies which those who figured in the Rebellion
may hereafter fli-and the astounding specta-
Gle is presented of great nation, just out of
tremendous conflict engaged in for years for it's
own preservation, turning over the very army
upon which it was compelled to rely for it's
own salvation to the hands of the destroyer. A
more stupendous piece of folly than this,
should we consent to it, it would be impossible
to conceive of. COOS
In their wild efforts at what they call econo-
m g reform, every useful department the
Government has been crippled. The Depart
ment of Justice has been so hampered that, in
various portions of the country, term
after term of courts has passed by;
justice has been denied, delayed or
postponed because there has been
no money furnished by this Democratic Con-
gress with which the ordinary functions of
courts could be carried on. The Department
of the Interior has been robbed of its own re-
sources. and, under Democratic policy, the in
ventors, class of whom we are all proud, are
compelled to submit to q DOstpOnement of &C.