The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-04-01
lam HONEST PARITY"

In Preble county the Republican
party is just now making a desper-
tie effort to get control of every
of our Municipal Township
and County governments, and that
too under the plea of being q slaw-
abiding" party, andthe only "honest
in existence! 1t requires
cheek to put forth such a claim
among people of ordinary intelli-
gence, but this party seems to pos
sess an abundance of the requisite
material. Some of them should hang
their heads in shame over their bold
ness and effrontery, but they don't,
and it is reasonable to suppose they
have lost that article if they ever had
any. They seem to take pride in
the fact that the people have condor
ed much OF their misconduct in Off
.cial positions, and their proscriptiye
and mob spirit in days gone by here
in Eaton, and it encourages them in
their cheeky business to demand that
they alone should rule and govern
this land. Wherever this party has
had unlimited sway, its course is
marked with fraud, peeulation and
corruption of the worst kind, our
own county not even being an excep-
ton, which had it not been for a lit
tie Democratic leaven that worked
itself into power and acted as a
check-mate, might have been ten fold
greater. Look at other States and
Counties where its great moral in
fuence" and its. boosted honesty has
held power uninterruptedly. Take
Iowa for instance, the banner Repub-
lliean State of the Union Jas it is
styled, and what is the history Of its
officials? Here it is from a Burling-
ton correspondent of the Chicago
Times. Read it taxpayers and then
answer the question: Do you feellike
putting every thing into the hands Of
a party that is reeking with Off
cial robbery, from the sacred portals
of the White House, down to Cor
poration and Township Treasurers:
aIs it worth while to tell of our
forty-four out of ninety-nine county
treasurers who are defaulters? Of
the one democratgoutlof all these who
was promptly sent to the p~enitentiary
according to law, by a wrtuous re-
publican Judge, and afterward par
doned out by Governor Kirkwood,
when three months of his term had
expired, with a long sermon on the
enormity Of his crime? Or, of forty
three republicans, equally guilty,
who have never been punished at all,
and never will be? OF Governor
Stones Private Secretary, Onvig,
who got off with $4,000 of the PEG
Piles money? OfRankin, State Treas.
urer, got off with all the Agricultu-
raj College funds, some $50, 200, be-
cause accidentally on purpose he had
given no bond, and the faithful re-
publican trustees didn't ask for any:
Or Brendt, assistant State Treasurer,
who also made off with more and
many thousands of dollars, and, when
indicted for his crimes, was prompt
ly acquitted by the Supreme Court,
mot because he didn't do it, but be.
cause the Deputy and not the Sher.
if himself drew the jury? But why
indefinitely prolong this ~disgraceful
list? Enough has been said to show
that Iowa, with a hundred republi-
can majority in the legislature, and
ruled by republicans for the last
quarter of a century, is governed
from n end to the other by a gang
of constituencies thieves, who, while
their official oaths yet echo from
their lips, steal all they can put theil
fingers on. This, too is done in oper
day, without. concealment, or subter
fuge, knowing well that there is not
the slightest risk of punishment
provided the.amount stolen is large
enough and mounts up into thou.
sands of dollars; knowing well thai
Iowa law adminlssNeS5y republi-
can officials against republican
syankaA,sSe+AH
that let loose -ttbe Zig fellows 'ant
caught only the ESrle ones-there i:
no penallaMfor them. r
Cleveland Plain Dedle,: A South
orn gentleman occupying an exalted
political position indone of the grea'
Southern States, and who is SO stu
ated as to know whereof he speaks
in writing recently to a friend in thi'
city says: sIf the people of the NORTH
could N masse take a trip to thu
South and the real situation of ouI
people be ascertained and the many
wrongs that are heaped upon us dur
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