The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12
GAN ORGANIZED APPETITE.v
from the Chicago Tribune.l

iAOu euo DeIuOcfaIlc party aS an Or
ganized appetite" The remark is not
less epigrammatic tLan true. The Dem
ocratic party thirsts for power that it
May feast en- offices-divide the spoils
of victory. The late jubilation speech
of Mayor Harrison illustrates this point.
In one breath he says: "The Democratic
party do not want ofice;" but in the
next he says: "I haven't had much
time yet to do appointing, but before I
get through l will have great many
good Democrats around me-" And in
conclusion: eve have the city now,
and we will have the county treasury
in the fail, aUith all its PATRONAGE i;
and after that we will have posses
sion of the White House." But this
is not all the Democratic party pro-
poses to do with it's power. The
country cares little whether the
patronage" is in the hands of one
political party or in the other, but it
cares much for the constitution and the
Union; it will not consent that the one
shall be trampled upon and the other
rent in twain. Before the country ele-
Yates the Democratic party to supreme
power, it will be known precisely how
that party proposes to exercise it's
power. To inform itself on this point
the country will adopt the old standard
of comparison-judging the future by
the past. The Democratic party pos
sessed supreme power once. What did
the Democratic party do with it's power?
Resigned it into the hands of faction
bent upon the destruction of the consti-
tuition and the Union! When the
country rallied to the defense of the
Government, what did the Democratic
perty do? Sympathized with the enc
mics of the Government, voted the war
for the Union failure, and grumbled
and growled, while Republicans shed
their blood to savei it.
This is the ante-bellum history, in
brief, of the Democratic party. What
is it's present attitude?
l. 1t would disband the army because
the army is the visible sign of the de-
struction of the rebel Confederacy.
2. It feels bitter animosity toward
the national banks, because they were
the fiscal agents of the Government in
supporting the army which crushed the
rebel Confederacy.
3. 1t assaults the Federal jury system
because that system represents the po-
htical rights of negroes, secured to
them by the war waged to crush the
slavehO]ders' Rebellion.
4. Itopposes all laws enacted to secure
fair elections of the President and Con-
gressmen through the appointment of
Supervisors because they operate as a
restriction on the commission of frauds
at the polls.
5. It assaults the theory that this is a
nation in whatever manner presented,
and supports with all it's might the
ante-bellum dogma of State rights.
This, then, is the object of the Dem
ocratic appetite" for patronage, the
motive of it's thirst for Office. The in
dividuals who hold Offices under the
Democratic party may desire them
merely for the emoluments thereto at
tached; but the motive of the party in
bestowing them is to secure the services
of an army of ofice-holders in over
throwing the idea that this is nation,
and substituting in it's place the theory
of John G. Calhoun, that the
United States is a confederacy of
independent sovereignties. It counts
for nothing-with the Democratic
party-that 100000 men laid down
their lives to establish the principle that
this is nation It counts for nothing
with the Democratic party-that the
people of the country sacrificed five
billions of treasure for an idea-the
idea that this is nation! It counts
for nothing-with the Democratic
party-that in the process of the awful
CONFUSION of civil war 100000 of
slaves were transmitted into as many
freemen, and that their blood-bought
rights depend upon the idea that this is
a nation, zone and inseparable," not
loose congregation of States, dissev-
cred, discordant, belligerent." But all
these considerations count for much
with everybody who treasures as
precious record the history of the
first Revolution. It counts for more
with those who witnessed the second
Revolution. Some men realize that the
Democratic idea renders the $2,OOO,OOO.-
900 of debt now registered against the
nation so much worthless paper! If
South Carolina may sever her connec-
ton with the Union at will, her people
may relieve themselves of all RESPONSE
bility for the payment of a dollar of
this debt. And, if South Carolina may
so reiieze herself, New York and Illinois
may do the same, and so may every
other State in the Union. If the
Union is rope of sand, neither 5
nor 4 per cents. are worth the paper
on which they are printed;
they depend upon a mere caprice,
and the men who hold them, rich and
poor alike, are liable to be made beggars
the day the Democratic party mounts
to the place of power. A proposition
to destroy the army is proposition
that the nation shall be shorn of the
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