Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-26

WAsHIEGTON, Feb. 10, 1880.
Mr. EDITOR:
Congress has now been in session
over three months, and but very little
legislation Of public character ha
been accomplished, and but very little
will be until the Confederate Demo
Gratis have revised the rules of thu
House so az, in a great measure, t.
deprive The minority Of the present
House Of any rights they now may
have under long established parlia
mentary law. There is a determine
ton to give the present Confedero
Democracy complete coatrcl of the
House, under all circumstances, utter
ly disregarding the rights of the
minority, with a view Of counting the
electoral vote next February when
under one pretence or another, enough
Republican electoral votes will be
thrown out, and the Democratic nomi
nee declared elected.
1t is the studied design Of the Dem
0crats to avoid the agitation OF politi,
cal issues, and they have placed the
muzzle on their brother Confederates.
and when one breaks out accidentally,
some leading Democrats, for the pur-
pose Of stopping discussion, will move
the previous question. They hope by
their silence that the loyal people OF
the country will forget their action
and threats at the extra session. In
this connection I am constrained to
give an extract from the Albany IN.
v Journal on
THE REAL QUESTION
The Presidential struggle will be
less an issue Of principle shan a cues
sion Of party character and public
safety La other words, the uprising
against the Democratic party will not
be SO much because it represents wrong
principles and policy as because it en-
bodies false, revolutionary and de-
structiye spirit
The Democratic party is, indeed,
utterly wrong on every essential ques-
ton of public policy wrong on the
currency, wrong on equal rights,
wrong on State sovereignty and ma
tional supremacy, and wrong On free
and honest elections. It resisted and
INSTRUCTED resumption to the end, 1t
is the pillar and strength Of every
financial hercsy and danger to-day.
1t encourages and susrains the Ku
Klux and rifle club measures of the
South. 1t denies the right and power
of the Republic to protect its own
life and exalls the States above the
ration in some Of the very elements
81 nationality 1t seeks to break
down all Che buiwarks which surround
and shield the ballot-box and 50 leave
it unguarded. On all those questions
the Democratic party holds a position
directly at war with the public wei
fare, and the false principles thus
ayowed would be enough to condemn
it.
But all this, bad as ii is, does no:
constitute the chief ground of distrust.
The fatal defect of the Democratic
party is not merely that it is false in
Judgment and policy, but false in in
herent character and impulse; that il
has been demoralized by its successive
championship of slavery and rebellion,
that thus it has lost the sense of pat.
riotic duty and public responsibility
and that it has shown itself capable
of trampling on law and precipitatine
anarchy itself fol the sake Ct clutch,
ing at power. There are hosts OF
individual Democrats who do not share
this spirit. But the party as an or
ganization under its present leadership
embodies this character and has Illus
trated it in the extra session, In Maine
and in whole chapter of kindred
acts. No matter what its principles OF
professions. such a party cannot be
trusted for a moment.
On s Saturday last tie National
Blaine Club was organized in this
city in which Hon Chas G. Williams
Of Wisconsin participated and made
one of his stirring speeches.
All honor to Senator Blaine, foi
his staunch defense of Republican
principles, but the hurculean efforts Of
Hou. John Sherman. Secretary Of the
Treasury in securing resumption Of
specie payments in spite Of all the
obstacles thrown in his way by the
Confedro Democracy, who would now
rei1;ca to see the National debt renuG-