Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-04-22
VOL. III.



and are saguine OF success at the conven-
tion at Cincinnati. The tissue" of 1880, |
is to be the fraud Of 1876, and the people |
called upon to again elect the man who
failed to take tie place the people chose
him to fll. To rectify this great wrong
all vital questions are to be held in abey- |
ance; the need Of the people, the arro- |
gauce OF the Money Power, the grasping
greed of corporations, the plundering
schemes Of land-sharks, the cunning |
Vaccinations Of syndicates, the cry Of the
soldier for tardy justice, tie prayer of the
landless for aid to settle on the national
domain, must all be temporarily ignored.
Weaver must be suppressed in congress
for fear Democrats will be obliged to make
a record on the tabooed question of
finance. New rules are carefully devised
to suppress representatives of the people
from voicing popular sentiment. When
the debate seems to outstep the party
lines and admit the hated question, some
Republican would rise and wave the
bloody shirt, and taunt the opposite side
with all the evils bad legislation had
wrought, and be followed by Democrat
who would make partisan speech to
show the glory achieved by the Democracy.
Thus some days Conger and Garfield on
one side, and Randall on the other, by the
semblanCe OF party antagonism, would
whip their followers into line, and prob
ably laugh together afterward at the
success Of the stratagem that prevented
independent action.
The Democratic boom being quietly
worked for Hugh J. Jewett is evidence Of
their devotion to the spoils principle
Jewett Is rich, a railroad magnate, recelv-
ing for years salary $4,000, as receiver
of the Erie railroad. What more could he
desireP Viewsp That is secondary con-
sideration. Bat no one can doubt his
Democracy. pressed he would cordially
respond to every article in the Democratic
creed. Fancy such man standing before
the country, with folded hands repeating
some such creed as this:
believe in the resolutions Of '98.
believe in Thomas Jefferson and An
drew Jackson, and lift up my voice in
anguish at our departure from the sim
plicity Of their times.
believe in the Monroe doctrine.
believe that, owing to Republican rule
We are on the highway to ruin.
Ibelieve in the past, am blind to the pres
ent and dread the future.
| believe in success, to whom all
praise.
Is not this modern Democracy? A party
without principles, without leadership,
without aim, save in the one all absorbing
one Of the spois. 1t fears the past and
mourns the degeneracy Of the present 1t
would keep the young Republic in short
clothes, and wiring its hands in anguish on
witnessing the gro With of its sturdy limbs.
1t quarels with fate. Destitude of c0ur-
age, divided on the vital questions, it
clings to the scenes Of lif. as it it were not
ghost-long since dead and damned
Janus-like it faces two ways On most
questions, yet afraid to step out an follow
either. Iilden has ambition and money.
HuTah for Tllden! Pennsy lyani. may
"boom" for Hancock if she will, bu' the
"bar'l" contains Democratic arguments,
which, like those OF the Admiral in
"Pinafore," are both official aud iresist.
able.
The Democracy teek a man who not
only has money, but who is hermaphrodite
on vital issues. 'Virility is not desider-
atum. Success is the joss Of Democratic
worship, Anything TO beat Grant!
They snuff the scent OF the spolls rom
afar, and brand all questions Of the day
as minor considerations. At lhi + cent
meeting of the Ohio Democratic committee
they were nearly equally divided biw ~
Thurman and Bayard. Lat Year ever,
mothers son Of them re shot'ng lol
the SOHO idca," and currency ref rm
To sum up the situation briefly, It Is be-
cause Democracy ia under the leadership
of insincere men that Tildcn' charc {
are 80 good and his eff, ial utt.ranCes'
so irresistible.
On the subject Of finance bpth hard ant
soft, on the question nt land, there nj
difference OF fopiniOn tween them and th,
Republicans. While dn"QG,ing cj. i0ra
tions in the abstract tie Democrats
party is ready to fall dOwn and wor
ship the greatest railroad magnute O
railroad wreckpr We ave in the 'Oua
try. On the labor question u differ
not from the Republic N party. HcmIic'
B. Wnghts Land and Lean bill i've
the same dcrision AZ their hands as from
the Republicans; in the * rL session
majority of both parties voted against
resolution declaratoiy Of the intent OF tn
Eight Hour law.
By their own folly and p,rfdy thei
majority in congress has dwindled from
seventy 10 bare majority. When the ne'
Appointment Of members is made unde
the census of this year the wts'cr
States will gain largely Tue north
western States, now solidy Republican
will in some instances nearly double thei
representation, while the South will loose
But the Democracy, with the short slghte
policy of the courtesap who sacrifices bot
honor and health for temporary graft
cation, n,pursues course that has arrayGd
solid North against a solid Souti. A
their hopes for 1880 depend on a soil
South, and to secure that honor, length
day, and all else is relentlessly sacrifice
utterly regardless of the future.
Without convictions, without courag
without q soul, and with damnab
record, and the character of q polite
prostitute, the Democracy puts herself
the field for sale, asking from IL
purchaser merely living, utterly indiffe
ent whether the unfortunate individu
who purchases her embraces, possess
viydity or impotence.
. In the name of God and the people
the thing be banished from our midst.