National Republican., 1879-03-06
THE DEMoChArIC SCARF CROW.

1t is this public patronage which the Demo-
Gratis will have to fight in 1850. The number
Of Federal employees is increasing every day.
Since GRANT went out there has been an in
crease of ten or fifteen thousand. We know
that to-day the Federal Administration has a
well-drilled army of 10i,93l men and women
working ardently for the Republican party.
They are scattered all over the country. Each
employee will, during the next campaign, be
n part of the political machine. The expert.
ence Of 1916 showed that they hesitatcd at no
dshonorable or criminal work. They forged,
they bribed, they pcriured themselves, they
lied, they stole to put RUTHERFORD b. HAYES
in the White House, and the evidence is ac-
cumulating that Mr.. HAYES and his friend
ZACHARIAH CHANDLER are arranging for next
years campaign on that same basis. The DEM
ocrats must calculate therefore, upon the OBJ
stacles interposed by 1ol,03l Government en-
ployees, thousands of Whom are doing nothing
but political dirty work for ~ Republican
party.-LouisuWe Courier Journal.
| This is cry of distress under alarm.
Why has the Corier-JOuRdI been so sud-
denly aroused to a sense of danger? 1t is
no new thing for the Democrats to meet the
public patronage 1t has confronted them
| for some twenty years, and hence it is no
new antagonist. We opine that our cotem-
| DOldlg mus llStll Ub lAulb III SOlllt Vi ilo
calculations during the last two years. 1t
had hoped that its party had captured the
Federal patronage in whole or in part, while
now il ascertains that it can hope to hold
only such Democrats as have been appoint
ed to Office. That number is larger than it
should have been, but not as large rs it
might have been; and hence the Democrats
begin to despair of making it available to
any satisfactory or advantageous extent. II
is true that the Democrats will have to fight
every Republican Oifice-holder and every
true Republican in private lifein 1880. And
this is not all they will have to fight a
large number of Democrats who have become
disguised with the dishonest aud disloyal
measures and policies of that party. The
conduct of the Southern Democrats in tho
recent elections and in Congress, The disre-
lgard they have shown for the rights of citi
zenship, the contempt they manifest for tho
CONSTITUTION and the laws, all conspire Il
create feeling of disgust with the loyal
hearted Democrats at the North, which will
chrystalize in open hostility to that part,
before the battle of 1880 is fought Tn
spirit of the Southern Democrats is under
stood and appreciated, and it creates re
pugnauce in the loyal mind of every North
ern Democrat who loves his country abov
his party
The cry of fraud and fraudulent Presi
dent, in view of the exposed dishonest.
and corruption of the Democratic party il
its attempts in 1876 to corrupt the elective
franchise and bribe electors, is now laughe'
at as a ribald jest. The cry is hollow an,
: meaningless, in view Of the expositions @
the POTTER Committee. The people jeer a
il and sneer at these fraud crlers, and til
milder that cry comes up in the future tn
less conspicuous will be public contempt fo
that party.