River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-08
From the Chicago Inter-ocean.
HOW THEY KEEP THEIR WORD.
what follows is taken from the \

w IldU lOlIOWS 10 UtthGu IIOill uuO nd-
tional Democratic platform of 1852:
RESOLVED, That every citizen and every
section of the country, has right to demand
and insist upon an equality OF rights and
privileges, and to complete and ample pro-
lection OF person and property from domes-
tic violence or foreign aggression.
These words, like all other words in
Democratic platforms, were not de-
signed for practice, but merely to in
veigle support, and to gain or to keep
power. The Democracy have uni
formly concealed their purposes to do
wrong under Incorporating speeches
or promises about the right. AS the
devil can quote Scripture or simulate
an angel of light, when he would
tempt sinners or deceive the elect, so
they can quote the Consti tuition
whether of the nation or of State, to
Justify evil, and present themselves as
guardians of the purity of elections
while conspiring to circumyent the
will of the people.
In view of recent events in Maine,
of the proceedings at the extra session,
and of the shotgun policy throughout
the south, the resolution from the
platform of 1852 evidences how un-
trustworthy and what a hollow mock
ery of sincerity Democratic profess
sions are. On the most deliberatlye
occasion, in the most formal and SOL
emn way. under the most obligatory
| forms, the leaders of the Democracy
| are accustomed to make pledges which
they do not expect to redeem, and to
enunciate doctrines which they have
no thought of reducing to practice.
Its history, as political Organization,
| is the history of broken promises and
chronic deception. 1t has but one OBJ
iect-the attainment of power; it has
| but one motto-to the victOrs belong
the spoils; it has but one principle of
action--the end satisfies the means; it
has but one reply to outraged justice
what are you going to do about it!
| All its aims, plans, courses, and reall-
cations are contaminated with duplici-
| ty and sympathetic with lawlessness.
| Every temporary success makes 1t
| more adventurous in wrong-doing; and
every passing month develops more
and more it's capacity for artitice, con-
spiracy, and aggression. Although
many excellent men are to be found III
| the ranks of the party, their power for
good is overwhelmed and paralyzed by
| the unscrupulous motives and evil con-
duct of their political associates, who
| comprise the greater majority of its
| leaders, BY an inevitable law of or
| ganization, party thus constituted
attracts to itself the viler elements of
| the community, and repels the better,
with the result of driving out of it,
| year by year, part of those who are
| disposed to be honest and just, and
leaving behind larger preponderance
than ever of those who will stoop to
| any means. no matter how disreputa-
Bile, to gain an end. DisloyaltY, trea-
| son, rebellion, unwilling submission
| to the Union, reawakened resiS lance,
| intimidation. lawlessnesS, the shot
gun policy, domestic violence, revolu-
| tionary aggression-these are success
I siye steps in the path followed by the
| Democracy since the resolution of
| 1852 was promulgated as an article OF
political faith. These corrupt and de-
| basing methods have caused the party
| to degenerate into one dangerous to
| our free institutions; for it is now the
sworn foe of its own former doctrine,
that .severy citizen, and every section
| of the country, has right to demand
and insist upon an equality of rights
and privileges, and to complete and
ample protection of person and prop
| ertv from domestic violence.
All the apprehensions which agltnte
the country to-day proceeded from
the audacious and jeopardiZing
schemes and doings of this party to
obtain or TO keep power. 1t seems
| resolved, at all hazards, to override
| even constitutions and laws rather
than surrender place and control once
acquired. Already it is treading up
/ on the perilous edge of revolution TO
retain full possession of State against
| the verdict of the ballot-box, and is
carrying affairs with so high a hand
that many of the better class of its
own memhers throughout the Union
are forced to depreeate its course.
Public safety and good government
both demand. not merely the defeat
but the complete and lasting over
throw. of the Democracy, which is q
constant menace to the principles
| without which liberty is nothing but
a delusiye name, base counterfeit OF
! the reality.