National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-04-18
PROMISES AND PERFORMANCES.

tney ever nave Deen
PROMISES AND PERFORMANCES.
From natural causes that no party or gov
ernment could control there came to this |
country in 1873 great financial crisis 1t |
Is not necessary or pertinent to explain here
why this occurred, and we simply state the |
fact The Democrats, who had for years |
been bowling about Radical misgovern-
"ment," at once seized upon this financial |
trouble as n battle cry. They declared that |
it was solely due to the incapncity of the |
Radicals in power" and the people suffer- |
ing under the stiugs of poverty and CATCH
ing like drowning man at straws, were so
much impressed with the idea that in 1874 |
the Democrats elected seventy-six majority
in the House of Representatives They had
for years been telling what "we will do ii
i've get in power" and now they COM
menced to tell what they would do, Their
promises were to be redeemed in 1875 when
Congress met.
In due time it did meet, and the noun
tain of Democratic promises brought forth a
very small mouse of performance. A pre-
tence of reducing expenditures was made,
and an army Of sneaks, headed by the de-
lectable GLOVER, sought to discover some
Republican who was derelict in duty. The
reduction in necessary expenditures that
was made produced its natural and inevita-
bic results; money grew scnrcer and times
harder. The era of tramps commenced.
Capital, ever sensitive, sought bank vaults
for security almost every species of trade
and enterprise was crippled. The army of
tramps increased. The Democrats did so
little that in 1876 their majority was re-
duced to twenty-one. In vain they pleaded
that "a Radical Senate checlSmatcd their
proposed measures" and in 1873
the majority of twenty-one was reduced to
three. Rifle Clubs, tissue ballots, White
Liners and bull-dozers had in the mean
time made the Senate Democratic after the
1th of March, 1879. The Democrats of the
House, knowing this after the election of
| 1873 was over, in the last session of the
Forty-fifth Congress, deliberately deter
mined to force an extra session of Congress.
They refused to make the appropriations
necessary to carry on the Government. We
say the Democrats deliberately did this.
They knew that the coordinate and equal
branch of the legislature would not be
forced into indorsing the revolutionary
measures which they attached to these bills,
but they hoped that, with the control of
the entire legislative branch of the Govern
ment, they could coerce the Executive into
permitting them through the use of ballot
box suffers and gravestone registers in New
York, added to the bull-dozers, White Liners
Rifle Clubs, and tissue-ballot voters of the
Solid South to capture the Government.
Hence the extra session of Congress. 1t
was forced by the Democrats.
On the 18th of March, 1879, the Demo-
Gratis assembled in the Capitol with both
the Senate and House under their control.
No time was lost in organizing, and in
twenty four hours both Houses notified the
President that they were ready for business.
Now we were to see those wondrous meas
ures of relief devised by Democratic wis
dom, evolved from the inner consciousness
of its THURMANs, BAYARDs, RANDALLs,
and CoXEs, those statesmen who had been
held up to us as brilliant lights hid under IL
Republican bushel These MOsESlcS u blow
from whose rods was to produce water in
the desert those MIDAsEs, who were to
turn all they touched into gold, and make
the land q paradise, where milk aud honey
would be counted as dro3s, these alchemlsts
who were TO make something from nothing
Well, we have waited four weeks patiently.
The heavens have not yet been illuminated
with the brilliant scintllations that were to
coruscate across the armament The earth
has not trcmbled from the weight of wis
dom that was TO have fallen from the lips
of these prophets, or should we write
profits of Democracy? The sea has not
ceased to ebb and flow as usual its tides
not having been affected by the superior
light that was to shine from these Demo.
cratic stars. And we have commenced fol
the benefit of waiting and expecting pub
lie, public that has been fed for years
upon Democratic promises, to inquire into
what has been done,
And we have found out. The Democrats
have showed the cloven hoof they have
heretofore clumsily been endeayorng for
years to conceal. They have besides shown
that they are utterly incapable, not only OF
devising any remedy for existing evils but
as utterly incapable Of legislatng for great
nation. The coven hoOf is plain. The
same old Democratic party from the South
that fomented and forced rebellion in 1861
is in control of the Capitol to-day, and il
has its same tail of Northern doughlaces tC
make the picture complete, The Demo
cratic party determines TO force another rev
olution, and the tail, MS before, slashes about
its hind quarters, endeavoring to hide the
unseemly parts of the animal; but the
cloven hoof betrays it. "Wiper- Out
BLACKBURN is but the Congressional echo
Of the Ololona States, and it has the bold
ness to proclaim the true sentiments of the
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