Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-22
POLITICAL COMMENTS.

fOLlIlCAL COMM EN- ISs
timely AphOrtsms---The Democratic
Party and the Result I'm Ohio.
SAYS Mr.. Jenkins, the Democratic cam
didate for governor of Wisconsin:
We now have the unseemly spectacle of
the removal of nearly every employe of the
government upon change of administra-
ton, as if the safety of the union depended
, upon the iaDitor of a custom house, who
cleans spittoons, entertaining political
opinions at one with the party in power.
It is obvious that Mr.. Jenkins has
given up all hope of being elected gov
ernor of Wisconsin. No man who thinks
he may get votes enough to elect him to
high office ever utters such sentiments
as the foregoing Chicago Times.
CIPLEs.
"Northern men with southern princi-
ples," like the editor of the New York
Nation, are respectfully invited to con-
slider these three questions: CD Do the
negroes of the south have any constitu-
tional rights? (2) Can they exercise in
full the rights guaranteed to them by
the constitution and laws of the United
States7 (3) Should they be permitted
to exercise those rights? An early an
swer will oblige. In the meantime the
Nation: will do we'll to forego it's un-
doubted privilege Of pointing out the
hardships that the whites of the south
are suffering from, the extreme peril of
permitting "carpet-baggers" to appear
in any community, and the despicable
character of the persons who have been
murdered for political reasons in Yazoo
and Kemper counties, Mississippi,-Chi-
cage Tribune.
A SPECIMEN SOUTHERN DEMOCRAT.
The New Orleans PicGyu9ae, a Demo
cratic paper of good standing, says of
Wilt, who has been nominated for gov
ernor by the Louisiana Democrats, that
as mayor of the city he was the most
expensive New Orleans ever had. His
council spent $12,000,000 in two years,
and he added So, 500, 900 to the municipal
debt. It asserts that " his administration
was the high carnival of robbery among
the politicians. It was the cap-stone to
the monument of misrule built by the
Joint labor of the carpet-bagger and the
Democratic ward hummer. 1t stands as
a landmark in our political history to
guide all good citizens away from the
camp of the professional politicians to
seek for honest and faithful servants"
THE DEMOCRATS AND THE RESULT IN
The result is sufficiently clear as to
the way the political wind blows. State
sovereignty will be more unpopular now
than it has ever been before. Some of
the Democratic politicians will even
suddenly learn, perhaps, that they have
always been in favor of national supre-
macy. The example of the Wisconsin
Democrats in turning cold shoulder to
the confederate brigadiers, and condemn
ing, through the mouth of their stand
ard bearer, the bull-dosing policy of the
solid south, will be initiated on all sides.
The anxiety of the northern Democratic
party to prove that it owes no allegiance
to the southern political captains will be
absolutely painful. Just how the
Democratic leaders will try to obliterate
their obstructive record in congress last
spring is beyond conceiving, but the
attempt will surely be made.-Chicago
Times.
THE SOUTH AND THE TREASURY-RAIDS
OF A HUNGRY HORDE.
A year ago the Tribune issued an
extra containing the various articles
upon the subject of southern claims
which it had published in previous
months. The compilation, prepared
from official documents at Washington,
brought the record of demands upon
congress for internal improvements at
the south down to March l, 1878, and
for private "relief to March 26, 1878,
and showed the enormous aggregate of
$3.50, 100000. This vast sum was stated to
be only the beginning of what the solid
south would demand. The Tribune has
caused the record to be completed from
official documents to the close of the
extra session of this year, and this
is the appalling result: From March,
1878, to July l, 1879, and
for enormous unspecifed sums, bills were
introduced into congress calling for
1851, 1861, 600 for internal improvements
in the south, and the private claims
amount to $50, 415, 942 more. The official
records, then, emitting the independent
estimates of Judge T. W. BARLEY, coun-
sci for large number of claimants,
prove that within period of less than
two years solid and disloyal south has
demanded from the treasury of the
nation, which for years it sought to
destroy, and which it now seeks to
bankrupt, q sum vastly greater, by rea-
son of the blind claims which are not
reckoned, than $1,287, 524,735. These
figures need no comment to show that
the rule of the solid south means shame
and ruin.-NeaU York Tribune.
SOME TIMELY APHOK IsMs.
In speech at Chemung, New York,
Emory A. Storrs, of Chicago, uttered the
following terse and telling aphorisms:
l. "There is no great heresy of the
past twenty-five years that has not been
nurtured in the Democratic party"
2. "Yhere is no fundamental law that
has not met the opposition of the De-
mocracy."
8. "The tendency Of the Republican
nartv towards Capitalization lias onIv in