Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-10-09
Looking Forward.

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! should be constantly remembered. The
| tone of the Democratic caucus at the eX-
ira session; the Democratic doctrine an
| nOunced in the Congressional debates
! that followed: the evident Democratic
| purpose of producing g solid South" by
| effective suppression of the colored vote,
thus aiming to seize the government by
usurpation; the massing in one party or
ganization of the various elements of
surviving disaffection and sectional pas
/ sion with these of Ignorant and design
ing financial quackery-all combine to
! form national peril, which, under eN-
! iSting circumstances, can be avoided only
4 by Republican success in the general
election of next year. 1t Is conceded
! that the shotgun and the tissue ballot
will secure a solid South for the Demo-
| cratic candidate. But whoever that can
| didate may be, how many of those who
are not Democrats, but who supported
Mr.. Tilden in 1876, really suppose that
| he or any other Democrat, even Mr.. Bay
ard or General Hancock, could or would
enforce wiser policy in regard to the
Southern States, or the finances, or adj
ministrative reform, than that of this
Republican administration The reve-
| latiOns of the g futile dalliance" of Mr.
| Pelton, as MIR. 'HiIden calls the negotia-
tiOns of his nephew to buy the electoral
| vote of 1876, have satisfied thousands of
| of reform was a mere pretense, while his
| sophistry about the " daliance'' is an ex-
| traOrdinary revelation of the man. Mr.
! Tilden says that the sole offense of his
| nephew was in offering a bribe to certain
men TO do their lawful duty, That is to
| say that Mr.: Pelton, having decided fer
| himself that the vote Of South Carolina
had been cast for AIF. Filden, merely Of
4 f2red money to induce the Board of Can
| vasseFs to say so. Mr, Tilden quietly
! SuppreSSes the cardinal fact that Mr.. Pei
| ton neither knew nor could know how
the vote of South Carolina had been cast,
| and we presume there is very little doubt
that it was cast against Mr.. Tildesls And
| how about the g futile dallianc with
| Oregon? The Independents = Rrac-
| tically supported Mr.. Hildeu againS6 Mr..
| Hayes in 1876 must now see With salts
/ faction that they were baffied in their
/ efforts to elevate to the Presidency a man
who calls one of the NEST appalling po-
! litical crimes in American history 4 Sc fin
/ tile dalliance. -,
I Even if the daIliance. had succeeded.
and Mr.. PeltOn had bought the Presi-
dency for his uncle while good Mr.. Til
| den was consciously looking out of the
window, do the same Independent voters
/ suppose that we should have seen any re-
form in administrative methods? There
| has been plenty of sneerinG at the civil
| service reform of the present Admins
| tration, and because everything has not
| been Accomplished it is assumed that
| nothing has been done. What Mr.. Til
| den would have done in this direction as
| President may be inferred from his action
as Governor. If the patronage of his
Office was not used with an eye single for
the Governors political advantage, the
| instance escapes our memory. But we
! do not rest the case upon the assertion
| that the Democrats are as bad as the Re-
publicans. We say that more actual and
encouraging progress in civil service re-
| form has been made under the admins
tration of Mr.. Hayes than has been
achieved since the necessity of reform
became apparent, and enough has been
accomplished to prove conclusively the
feasibility of complete reform. Grant
ing that much has been left undOne, and
that much has been done wrongly, does
the hope of the continuation of the good
work lie in the Republican or in the
Democratic party? Would it not be a
! g -futile22- Visitation-of- wrath upon the
Republican party to throw it out of
power because, while it has done much,
it has not done everything? In all the
comic literature of platforms is there
anything more comic than the declara-
tiOn by the New York Democrats of their
g shame and sorrow at the failure of the
Presidents reform policy? The fight in
the Democratic party of this State, which
rent the convention that made the decIara-
ton, is wholly squabble over patronage.
In saying these things we are very sure
that we speak for the great t1uctuating
and Independent vote which in 1874
elected Mr.. Tilden Governor of New
York, and we Indicate the unQuestiOnable
way to victory in the general election OF
next year. If the Republican nomina-
ton shall show that the face of the party
is set forward and not backward, the Re.
publicans will unquestionably elect theil
IL fI.o1
indeed, with any candidate. They are
: sure to win with a candidate wisely Sc
2 lected. Their true policy, evidently, il
to appeal not merely to the party feeling
) and tradition, but to the cordial suppor
l of all who, while admitting the sectional
? madness of the Democrats, and the ne
= cessity of opposing the usurpation of a
+ sirOus of reform in administrative meth.
E DDS, as the only means of making parties
e the real eXpOnents of political feelins
e and purpose. This question become
= daily more important Republican low;
r and Massachusetts, the East and tn
West, have spoken plainly, emphaticalIy
and sincerely upon the subject, and tn
votes of great and now doubtful multi
e tude next year will be cast with enthu
, siasm for the Republican candidate if h
e shall speak as plainly as President HayC
o spoke in his letter of acceptance. 1t
- | IOE IG6DltDlltdIiS GO COllSluCI GLlSs DCCdNtS
a it is in the Republican party that tn
! movement for reform is active. 1t is
/, perfectly sincere and aggressive move
d ment, and while it does not take prGcC
II dence of all others it is daily becOmin
: more and more willing to set up for itsel
Il Republican victory next year is assure
e if the Republican party adhereS to tn
IS work accomplished and the lines draw
by its own Administration. A party
e to be judged by the character of the me
which it selects as representatives, an
d by the manner III which 1t conducts pul
Is lie affairs. The Democratic GOvernC
ID Robinson makes that his appeal for T.,
5, election this year in New York, aud r.
/ publican success next year in the eOm
try will greatly depend upon the evidenC
it which the Republican nomination sha
afford that success means the cOntinUanC
n of the spirit, character and purpose
this Administration. -..-.. ....
Primitive Agriculture in Arizona.
," The natives consist of all sorts of mi,
lures twiXt MeXiCans and Indians. Ii
he dolence is the prevailing characterist
SIS and their ways are primatiVe enough.
ne fork of the mesquet tree, sharpened at Il
short end, is the plow and the long
st prong of the fork is hitched as Il wage
a tongue between two steers. The harne
e. is rawhide. The whole is rugged viii
smoking a cigarette. While one scratch
e, the soil another follows with the seedin
Advanced Mexicans hitch to a brancl
4 tree and brush in the grain. A term
a model laZiness follows till harvest, whi
e. is grand frOlic open to all comers. 1t
to an odd sight. From all directions TIN
come, meR,e squaws and yOungstel
Dl- mostly armed with butcher knives, b
all sorts of edge tools are allowable. II
1T crowd having slipped the Oh-be-ioyful al
lat lighted cigarettes, pitches in hclter-skt
EN- ter, rutting off the heads of the whC
and dropping handsful without order
d. it moves along. These are then gather