Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-06-19

confusion where there is now order,
confidence and hopes" The translation
of this: We beg the people not to
take the offices away from us. Indeed,
one delegate was frank enough to ask
in open Conventions: .'What are we
here for but for the offices?" There is
nothing else to hold the party together,
and the wrangle over these at Chicago
has already made it impossible for the
party to retain them after the fourth
day of next March, save by Democratic
amiability.
The platform points to the history of
the party; but that defeated them at
the polls in 1876. and during the can
some things in the record of the party
which the Chicago platform omitted.
To be sure, the Republican party
''points with pride'' to the increase in
the number of miles of railroad and to
the increase of population, and to other
evidences of growth--which the Repub-
lican party could not well have prevent
ed and did not altogether cause-since
it came into power; but upon this dec
laration it cannot win the election.
The second plank defines the spirit
and scope of the Constitution of the
United States. The Republican party
cares so little for the Constitution of the
United States that we are surprised that
it took the pains to define it. The def
milton is mixed the history of the ORR
gin of the Constitution, of its creation
and creators, is inaccurately stated, and
the declaration of Federal and State
rights finally takes the shape of a state
ment of the jurisdiction of the Supreme
Court. But the country cares not so
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about the rights of the Federal Govern
ment and the rights of the State as what
it does about them.
The third plank, after saying that the
s'work of popular education is one left to
the care of the several States," declares
| this work &c must be guided, not by the
genius of any one State, but by the av-
erage genius of all.'' If this means
anything, it means that the popular ed
ucation in which the Republican party
is engaged is educating the people to
disobey the Constitution. The next
resolution pays more respect to the
Constitution for, while it admits that
"the Constitution wisely forbids Con-
gress to make any law respecting an es-
tablishment of religion" it recommends
an amendment of the Constitution to
remedy the defect.
The fifth demands protective tariff;
the abolition of polygamy; the improve
ment of water courses and harpors; and
'tthat the obligations of the Republic to
the men who preserved its integrity in
the day of battle are undiminished by
the lapse of fifteen years since their
final victory; their perpetual honor is.
| 1ege and sacred duty of the American
| .,oar,1o - Tho 10 CT of
luton will attract notice. The Repub-
licans voted against the Arrears of PEN
sions Bill little more than year ago.
John Sherman lobbied against it. The
President came near vetoing it, and
Republicans, headed by Sherman, tried
to hinder the execution of the law.
This is what they did, no matter what
they say at Chicago. These " obliga-
tions Of the Republic'' were not then
recognized by Republicans. The most
illustrious of the ''men who preserved
the integrity of the Republic in the day
of battle'' had been placed in nomination
for the Presidency before the Chicago
Convention. From the venomous Re-
publican howl raised against him in
Chicago, from the malignant attack
made upon him, we infer that this res
olution declaring those ss obligations
undiminished by the lapse of fifteen
years. was injected somehow by mis-
take. As upon the other questions, the
Republican party does one thing and
says another upon the Chinese ques-
ton. Having voted against and vetoed
mild bill limiting Chinese importation,
it asks Congress to do the thing it for
bade. And the next resolution praises
the Presidents vetoes, of which this
Chinese veto was one!
/ The eighth resolution plainly indi-
Gates that the Chicago Convention
doesn't like the Democratic party. We
think this is a fair inference from the
text of this plank.
The platform closes with joke-that
Civil Service reform Joke. 1t demands
the cooperation of the Legislative with
the Executive Department of the Gov
ernment to enforce that Hayes Civil
Service order! God save the mark!
The Democratic Congress was for
months demanding the - cooperation
of the President and of the Republi-
cans in Congress to the end of enforcing
that order, and in vain. The Republi-
cans steadily voted against ttis "co-
operation," the attempt to make that
Civil Service order effective, and day
after day filibustered against it; and il
it had been possible, in spite of Repub-
lican flibustering, to pass the proposed
bill, though, in the very language OF
the Civil Service order, it is likely that
the President would have vetoed it.
And this is another, of the hypocritica
professions of the platform, uttered
with the most brazen effrontery.-Ci,s
ciss7sGti Enquirer.