National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-09
DEMOCRATIC nuaMuGaERY.


their ticket without riot and bloodshed, and
have presented the public with their plat
form of principles This is composed of
about equal parts of self-conceit Ignorance
or willful misrepresentation, nonsense and
falsehood, mixed TO suit the tastes of party
which is not overstocked with intelligence,
principle or honesty of purpose, and which
gets down to its work Of spoi-hunting rs
ungracefhlly and persistently as the hungry
swine takes TO it's trough at feed time. The
first purpose Of that party is to secure the
spoils of Office, and the second to accomplish
this end by any means, no matter how in
consistent, unjust or dishonorahle. In
Maryland the chief end of the Democracy
seems to be to secure and conserve to itself
all the plunder possible without the slight
est regard to the public welfare.
Most of it's platform is mere rubbish,
gathered together promiseuously into dish
of flap-doodle, which is the food usually
compounded for fools There are twoplanks,
however, that are entitled to some con-
sideration on account of their absurdity
and total want of intrenchment in historic
fact. Mark the following:
T. When the Dcmocratic.C Conservative party
regained power in the Congress of the United
States 1t enforced an economical adminstra'
tion Of public affairs aud made the resumption
of specie payments possible event. 1t will
be its duty to maintain the advantage thus
gained by firmly establishing the credit OF the
country upon the basis Of coin exchangeaole
in all the markets of the world.
The record of history which the Demo-
cratic party has made for itself since it
regained power in the Congress of the
United States shows that Resumption was
made possible in spite of Democratic hos
tility aud embarrassments which were
thrown in its way by every conceivable
impediment which II could invent and use
for that purpose. 1t endeavored to repeal
the Resumption act before it had reached
the period for that to occur, and was only
prevented by the same causes that saved
the nation from overthrow by rebellion,
because there were Democrats who loved
their country more than they did their
party leaders, and would not consent
that it should he defeated in that
way. But for that, resumption would
have been defeated by the Democratic
party since it regained power in Con-
gress. The claim that the Democratic party
| has enforced an economical administration
"of public affairs at all is simply prepos-
ferrous. 1t has indulged in some show OF
petty economy in Departments of the Gov
eminent by niggardly system of Gripping
the public service; but that should not stand
to its credit so long as it has spent two dol
| lars for every one thus saved in needless
senseless and pro6tless investigations. Then
again, the record shows that the Democratic
patty, by its leaders, has affiliated with
every effort to impair the public credit
| through greenback imitation and Ratism
and its ends in that direction have only been
defeated by the good sense and patriotic de-
votiOn of Democrats who are held in that
| party by the power of association rather
than by sincere fealty to all its measures
and anti Democratic dogmas The truth i:
that resumption has come TO the country IN
spite of the leaders of the Democratic party
and it's policies and measures have had M
more to do with securing its benefits to the
country than the Democratic resolution tina
the war was d miserable failure passed by
its National Convention, had to do witt
crushing the rebellion. With men of sense
who are conversant with the history of tn
Democratic party since 1860, and who woult
not mislead the public mind, the seventh
resolution would have been hooted in ridi
cule out of the Convention but for the pre-
dominating thirst forspoils which has seizet
upon and now controls that party
The following resolution is amere piec
of assumption and impudence, based entirel.
on false premises and statements. Mark it:
40. The Republican party in its couduct @
National affairs has violated this fnndamenta
article. 1t has provided by law for Fedora
interference in State elections. 1t has assume
the right to confer upon Federal courts. super
visors, marshals and special deputy marshal:
tho unconstitutional power Of enforcing Stat
laws. 1t has deliberately sanctioned the un
constitutional use of the troops of the Unite
States Mt the polls in the several States. Thes
are measures of Capitalization which show
determined purpose to change the Organi
character of the Government bcqueathed TO I
, by our fathers, and such measures ought to
resisted by every means within our power,
After claiming in the former resolutio
, what in no degree belongs TO the Demo
! cratic party, it is not strange that it shoul
f resort to traduction Of the Republican pC
stion for further petty advantage. tt
! convention, if it had particle Of INTEL
t gence and sense Of justice, would haS
f known that it misrepresented the fac
when it asserted that the Republicans hav
provided a law for Federal interference i
State elections, for it is not true The Fee
eral election laws only apply to the ele
ton of members of Congress and the Pres
{ dent, and have never been used in al
G other relation, or upon any other occasion
/ The necessity for this law was created l
+ the enormous frauds praeticed by II
: Democratic party in Presidential and Coz
/. eressional elections and the laws we
a enacted purely in behalf of honest and ia
| elections, and for that reason have cha
T lenged the bitter hostility Of the Dem
= cratic party. So far as that party has hi
+ the power within the period of fifty yes
: il has debauched the elective fra
chise in our Presidential and Co
= gressional elections, and the election La
, were enacted to disarm this power. II h