The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-05-16
A BLOODY SHIRT CAMPAIGN.

meeting of the Republican State Cen
trail Committee, at Columbus, it was
resolved to make a bloody shirt
in Ohio this coming fall,
it is but proper that we present a
few points in the face of which these
gentleman will be compelled to wave
the sanguinary garment. In the
first pace they intend to howl loud
ly over the fact that the Democrats
in Congress have appointed q rebel
General as Door-keeper ofthe House,
while they, the Republicans, had pre-
sented the name Ct a Democratic
Union General for the position.
This howl would no doubt succeed
in arousing the faithful and .warlike
stay-at-home patriot, if it were not
for the facts that the rebel General
appointed by the Democrats was at
the time of his appointment holding
an office under the local Republican
authorities of Washington City,
while the Democrat they presented
was the same man whom a Republi-
can administration had dismissed or
relieved from service during the war
upon the charge of his not beingloy-
al to the Government. And, furth-
er, if 1t were not for the fact that a
Rebel General now fills a Cabinet of,
fee, and over three hundred other
rebels fill offices under the appoint
mentof a Republican administration.
In addition to the foregoing, we
would submit the following facts
bearing upon. this question, which
we copy from Frank Leslie's Illus
trated Newspaper, and which shows
what the so-called Confederate"
House has done, and in the face of
which the Republicans of Ohio will
be compelled to waye the bloody gar
ment:
"The so called Confederate House
of Representatives had passed Bill
after Bill for the enrolment of Union
soldiers, and that these Bills had
been defeated by the Republican
Senate; that less than one outef five
of the private pension Bills passed
by the last Democratic House of Re
representatives. had been approSed,by
the Republican Senate; that the Bill
providing Communication in money for
artificial limbs allowed to MANNED
Union soldiers, though'passed blythe
Confederate Honse, wasemascu1at-
ed by the Republican Senate; and
that it was the same Confederate
House which had originated and pro
cured the passage of a law increas-
ing the pension of Union soldiers
who had lost one hand and one foot
from $24 to $50 per month.
"In the presence of such facts, il
would seem that the country ought
not to be greatly alarmed by the
selection of an ex. confederate officer
to fill one of the humblest places in
the gift of the House of Representa-
tives, especially when that same
House. has placed a Union officer in
the responsible position of its clerk.
and has filed az its highest, Offices
with men of Northern origin, resi-.
dence and opinions. AS we have al.
ready intimated, this specie of'small
politics could not be held by Usitc
furnish the staple of serious discus
sion if it were not held sufficient to
furnish the staple of grave debate to
the manufactures of political issues
at Washington. We believe that the
Republican leaders at the National
Capital greatly mistake the temper
of the Northern and Western people
when they seek to set their battle in
order by such oblique manoeuvres:
for a most oblique Vancouver it is
when a minority party uses as apol.
itical football the name of soldier
whom, as a majority party, it would
not touch with a 'ten-foot pole, ex.
cept for the purpose of doing dispar
agement to his claims. Loyalty is q
beautiful virtue; but the hypocrisy
Of loyalty has come to wear a ,repul
sive aspect in the eyes of the people
when it is used merely to mask the
designs of scheming politicians
And, unEappily for the repute of the
Republican tacticians, they, are toe
much in the habit of seeking a con.
donation for the overt and fragrant
offences of their party by holding up
in affected terror, a hideeus spectacle
of the offences which the Democrats
are going to commit if they should
be allowed to take possession.of the
Government.
The Republi can journals, for in
stance, are replete with predictions
of the Southern Claims and mon
strous subsidies which, in that event
are to swamp the Federal Treasury.
and ruin the country They tell us
that the aggregate Of such claims
and subsidies may already be fgur
ed up to the stupendious sum of two
hundred millions of dollars; but they
do not tell us that since the year 18
81 the Republican party in Congress.
: has voted away 2S5, 900, 900 of acres
? of the public lands in the single item
of subsidies to the Railroad, Earpor
atoms which it has pampered. Ant
they do not tell us that it is the pre-
| sent Democratic House of Represen
t~atives which has arrested this prof
ligate waste of the public domain ant
of the public moneys by passing
! resolution against the allowance o
subsidies in the future. 1t woult
: seem, therefore, that the Republican
I politicians should hasten to chang
, the tactical expedients which ar
simply exposing the poverty of thei