The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-04-25
GREENBEcKERs' DEPARTMENT.
Selected by W. A Wells. ] -.
DEMOCRATIC ,TssEACHEHY.

DEMOCRATIC ,TREACHEEY.
For fifteen years the Money Power has
controlled and manipulated the two polit-
ical parties as machines to further it's
schemes of plunder. 1t first contracted
with the Republican party, then in power,
which it has kept at the front, in active ser
vice and under pay, while the well drilled
Democracy, under hard money leaders,
has been held at bay, not as a reserve, but
as sort of wall of defense, to prevent hos
tile parties from occupying the ground, to
menace and harass the active forces The
Republican party has been kept loyal to it's
masters by being well paid and fully en-
ployed. The Democracy has been held by
strict party discipline and promises for the
future.
In 1867, the rank and file of the Democ-
racy raised mutiny in their camp, and in
their national convention declared that the
so bends were payable in legal tenders, as
follows
"Resolved third. When the obligations
of the government do not expressly state up
OH their face, or the law under which they
were issued does not provide that they
should not be paid in coin, they ought in
right to be paid in lawful money of the Uni
ted States" ,~
On this platform Horatio Seymour was
nominated and defeated by the generals of
the Democracy. He was victim of treach-
cry in his own camp.
! During the previous session of congress a
bill had been passed, which President John
son allowed to die on his hands, authorizing
the payment of the 500 bonds in coin. At
this time Rothschilds, who now repre-
sent John Sherman's syndicate, held $780,
O00,G0 Of these bonds, which had cost them
so to 60 cents on the dollar, and were par
ticularly interested. August Belmont, Roth.
child's American agent, was chairman of the
Democratic national committee, and owned a
large interest in The New York World. On
the 18th of March, prior to the Democratic
convention which nominated Seymour, July
4th, Baron James Rothschilds instructed
Mr. Belmont that unless the Democratic
party went Ill for paying the 500 bonds In
gold, it must be defeated. A cool campaign
followed until the 18th of October. The
New York World, the leading organ of the
Democracy, came out in flaming editorial
denouncing Horatio Seymour as unfit and
and unavailable, and advising his withdraw
al This was a death blow to the ticket
1t threw great CONSERVATION into the ranks
of the party which it could not overcome
and Grant had an easy walk over the course.
That the nomination of Horace Greeley was
indorsed by the Democracy in 1872, so that
its leaders might throw their influence and
cast their votes for Grant, is proved by the
result
1t is also an undeniabe fact that Govern
or Allen, of Ohio, was defeated in 1875, not
by the Republican party, but by the money
and treachery Of the eastern Democrats,
who did not scruple to denounce him and
urge his defeat. This treachery was well
known and fully understood by Mr.. Allen
bis friends ftar tho pIapUinu of 1875
the Democracy unexpectedly found itself
with an elephant on its hands in the shape
of Tilden, who had been elected. Governor
| Tilden had proved himself a shrewd politician
of ample wealth, possessing will of his
own, as well as boundless ambition, and
though Belmont and the eastern Democracy
We're willing to work for his nomination at
st. Louis in preference to western Demo
crat who was in sympathy with the popular
sentiment, they were by no means prepared
to place him in the Presidential chair with.
ont guarantees, with so large a number III
his party who We're advocates of the Green
back doctrine. 49,
Soon after the election, negotiations were
commenced with Mr.. Hayes by the Demo.
cratic leaders of the Money Power in n New
Orleans and New York. A game of diplo-
macy commenced, which even the Potter
committee did not penetrate. Hayes was
given the alternative of stultifylng his man
hood, and becoming the plant. tool of the
Money Power and the southern politicians,
or remaining in private life with the approx
al of his own conscience and the respect oi
honorable men. He cold enjoy the emolu
ments of the Presidency as a creature and
tool of the wreckers and plunderers, whose
avarice and infamous legislation have
paralyzed business, destroyed prosperity
and plundered the producers of untold mil
lions, or he could retain his manhood, and
lose all. The result proves that he was true
to the instincts of his nature, for no one
ever knew him to ignore the advantages of 6
good and regular income for any sentimental
consideration. r.. - 80" -.: -
The terms were that the Democracy o.
South Carolina and Louisiana should be per
mitted to assume control i'll those states
and that John Sherman should be placed al
the head of the finance bureau, and retained
there during Mr. Hayes term of office, anf
that the executive veto should prevent any
unfriendly legislation, After terms hat
been agreed upon, ways and means wer'
necessary. So the electoral commission wa
created. Upon close canvass it was fount
necessary to get rid of Judge Davis. 81
Logan was slaughtered and Davis chosen il
his stead, that the commission might be 81
balanced as to insure success, and at tn,
of coliusion and forethought, and Hayes wa
elected by a majority of one. This outrag
came near precipitating rebellion, which
was quieted only by the cry of Revolu
tion Revolution ?" by the organs of tn
Money Power, even those that had sustained
Tilden. This commission, if not proposed
by, was readily acceded to by the eastern
Democracy. The Democracy was sold. t.
the Money Power by its own leaders, as Oh
former occasions, and rs it will be again. I
majority of the present congress was electe'
on the soft money issue, but as soon as the,
are invested with authority they forget theI
pledges, bow their necks submissively to tn
dictation of shylock leaders, thus betrayin
!, every pledge they made before election, anc
blasting every hope their success inspired Il
r the breasts of a wronged, oppressed aud out
ragged constituency.
The Pale Faced Abstainers.
Those uho have talked abOut rOSV Eng