The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-08-03
WHAT DEMOCRACY HAS ACCOM-
PLISHED.

| Like every session since the DenlocIs's
returned TO the control of the house, this
one is noted for the absence of jobbery.
The lobby has been starved out in Wash
| ington under the economical and sometimes
parsimonious management 1.-THE Democrats.
The subsidy schemers no longer give din
ners TO congressman and find il waste of
time TO buttonhole members. The Demo
cratic tendency to careful appropriations Is
sometimes carried 10 extremes, but II Is
welcome TO the country, and il is very
great change from the laxity about public
expenditures and the readiness to grant the
public property for private uses which char
acterized the Republican rule and which
occas,oned good many scandals In those
days which are now coming home TO the
party leaders in very unwelcome and en-
barrassing way.
This was said by the New York Herald,
an independent journal, the day after the
adjournment Of the last session of congress.
The fact that the sympathies OF the New
York Herald have always been with the
Republican party adds the greater force TO
its assertions. There is an additional
interest attached to the facts stated
in the above paragraph, when
1t is remembered what dire consequences
were predicted by the Republican press in
the last days Of the Republican congress,
in case the Democrats should regain con-
troll of that body. The country was to be
"baukrupted by the payment Of the Con-
federate pensions, Southern claims" and so
on. How these manufactured campaign
lies have been dashed to the ground, and
now recol on their authofed. In the short
paragraph quoted is given the key TO the
present prosperous condition Of the country
There has deem "a notable absence of job
berry; the lobby has been starved out in
Washington" The purse strings OF the ma
ton have been snatched from the hands Of
the plunderers who were devouring the
revenues Of the country and the substance
of the people for the satisfaction OF their
overpowering greed. Uuder the new
regime the extravaganza has been cut OF,
the thives have been driven from their
places, and the revenues Of the country
have been applied TO the Legitimate pur-
poses OF the government. Hence, conf
dence has been restored, the burdens OF
the people have been lifted from them,
and the country prospers. Enterprise goes
on with new vigor in rebuilding the pros
trated industries Of the country, because 1t
is assured that the harvest Of its sowing
shall be its own instead Of being devoured
by the public rings which were before
rioting on the substance Of the people.
But in the days of the great, corrupt Re-
publican maiorites, how did the nation
thrivel How could the people prosperi
Those days of dlsgraceful scandals are still
fresh in the minds Of the people, for the
same Grantsm, by bargain with Garfield
is trying to regain control Of the govern
ment. II was then, when the Republican
party was over confident by large MAORI
ties, that it turned loose upon the country q
horde of public leeches, who for voracity
rapacity and mendacity, were unsurpassed
They were always hungry. They sented Off
cial spells as the foul bird does tainted
meat. Their cupidity was always prompt
ing their cunning to devising new ring
and new schemes whereby more money
from the people might be ilched. Pecu
lation was everywhere rife in high offcia
places. There were no congressional invest
cation committees TO bring stop to thei
official pilage. Congress stood by them
Grant stood by them. The Republican
party protected them. They went on il
their couuptions and plunderings unit
the great Democratic party achieved
!, majority in congress and called halt il
their destructive work. The Democrat
broke up the rings. Their investigation
lald bare the crimes Of Grantism. The,
stopped the leakages. They cut down tn
expenses of the government S40,000,O0
per year. They enforced honesty an
economy. They brought about genuin
reform and put all this wastage Of none
into the legitimate business Of the nation
Confidence was restored and the countr
y began to prosper.
Then the country's credit reached polr