National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-07-30

ration of business credit. At all events II
will be time enough for our neighbors to
NEEDLE with our private affairs when re-
quested to do so an earlier interference
would seem to border on impertinence.
DEMOCRATIC HABITS AND TACTICS.
Democratic political stumpers, bummers,
and editors are greatly troubled about cor
ruption in politics. Their very souls are
narrowed up in view of it. Their hours OF
sleep and days of waking are haunted by
this spectre, and it seems to be an increas-
ing horror with them that this world is so
full ofiniquity. We are apprehensve that
their constant familiarity with it in their
own ranks has something to do with the
quickening Of their own consciences
history of the Democratic party, traced
back to 1882, will opon up an ample field for
contemplating the fruitful theme of human
depravity. Its path, whenever in power,
from that time down to the last session Of
Congress, is traced by the slime of official
corruption that finds no parallel in the re-
cords Of any other party or era. So far as
frauds in elections, peculations and en-
bezzlements in Office, jobs and jobbcries,
thefts and outrages, disloyalty, treason, and
rebellion are concerned, they all help to
mark the corrupt track of the Democratic
party since the days of JACKSON and VAN
BUREN down to the present time.
II is not strange, then, that the Demo-
Gratis not only smell, but become alarmed
at official and personal corruption. 1t has
proved the bane and ruin of that party.
Through it, us it marked the administrations
of JACKSON and VAN BUREN, came popular
alarm and disgust, which eliminated in
1910 in perfect overthrow-a Waterloo
defeat to the party. The Augean stables
were thoroughly purged by the popular
broom. and the Democratic party was
sweepingly repudiated and spurned by pop
ular favor, for the reason that it had proved
itself innately and intensely corrupt.
Through the mistakes of the Wing party,
and the treacherics of those it had trusted,
the ground gained in that contest was lost,
and the Democratic party was enabled to
crawl back into power which it held until
1SiS when the popular voice declared
against it again, and elected General TAY-
LoR. During that administration new mis-
takes and new treachcries interposed, under
which the Democratic party was permitted
TO thrust its corrupt presence into power
once more which it was enabled TO hold
through Wing follies and final disintegra-
tion until 1860, when it had become so thor
oughly debased and rotten that the people,
in the name of Republicansm, again hurled
it from authority in the Government and
sent it into retiracy from which it has not
yet been enabled fully to recover though it
has been largely aided in that direction by
Republican blunders and follies. In 1861
the Democratic party developed from its
normal condition Of accredited dishonesty
and corruption into that of absolute trea.
son and rebellion, with record that was
made in the best blood of the Nation.
q The Democratic party has been confront.
ed with its own record, the worst known t.
the political history of republics and it has
\ been held in check by it, so that even the
s most criminal blunders of the Republican
: party have not been able to relieve it from
!, a chronic National minority condition down
S to the present hour. Under its promptings
r OF ambition aud gnawings of hunger fo
1 spoils it has become desperate, and resorts
q to all sorts Of expedien,s 10 recover the los
t, confidence of the people. 1t has no hop'
If under its own record Of ever recoy
is ering its lost prestige unless it
G own history can be wiped from public recol
y lection and be forgotten, or what they ar
7, aiming at specially now, is to fasten {
a corrupt record upon the fame of the Repub
= lican party, which will depress it in publ
e estimation to the Democratic level. Tn
: Democrats have been laboring to make tina
= point every hour since they obtained powe
d in the House of Representatives. Ever,
n prominent Republican official in the Gov
a ernment has been assaled with malignit,
d akin TO diabolism and has been pursuet
c with venom rs unrelenting as hatred an,
If a satanic thirst for advantage could prompt
rs For years this line Of policy has bee
y pursued by the Democratic part
IS through inquisitions, spies, bribery
e and perjury, and, with all thei
s. unscrupulous ingenuity and all thei
1t desperation of purpose and character, the
Is have utterly failed of convicting a solitar
" prominent Republican official of pecula
a tion, embezzlement, robbery, or malfea'
10 ance in Office in any shape that has estal
&c lished crime or entailed punishment. A
re this fruitess endeayor ON the part of III
Democrats has accomplished this much
has shown by comparison the fact that MOI
ii defluting, peculation, and embezzlemer
- occurred in a single year under Democrat
~ rule than has been shown to exist in all I'll
40 eighteen years that the Republicans ha,
~ been in power, and yet the Democrat
y nress and its orator sta tesmen ore confi,