National Republican., 1880-09-14
rnE LEanRnnMAIN on Nv.

usually out Of the question.
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THE LEGERDElJAIN OF 1T.
1t seems like legerdemain, the way things |
are managed by tue republicans. There is
no democratic orator, no democratic editor
and no apostate republican that does not
groan in spirit and wear sackcloth coated
with ashes in view Of the misrule inflicted
upon the country by the short-sighted and
vicious policy of the party in power, and
by the disreputable men who are kept in
ofico after they have been so fully and so
many times exposed II is very strange.
1t is more than strange; il is unaccount-
able that party so completely shown up,
so stepped in corruption, so hardened in
villainy so destitute of character, so vile
in principle, so reckless in expenditure and
so lost to shame, dares go before the people
and ask for another four years opportunity
to steal and cheat, to oppross and ruin the
people. The world never saw quite the
like before. It never saw quito the same
results following in the train of iniquitous
and ruinous management In New York
city, when the democrats ran their race of
theft and corruption and were found out,
there was n regular cyclone of condemna-
tion, proceedings by grand juries, consta-
bles, detectives and jailers, rush for for
eign parts by such eminent citizens rs
WOODWARD, CONNOLLY and SWEENEY, n
hiding of eminent statesmen like OAKEY
HALL and TWEED, and big collapse in
city scrip and securities. In such states MS
Virginia, Arkansas, Georgia and other happy
communities where democracy has had un-
disputed sway for many years, and corrup-
| ton and extravaganza have abounded, the
state bonds are among tho first things to
show sensitive feeling consequent upon
mismanagement, become difficult of nego.
tiaton and run down to fifty or forty cents
on the dollar in spite of all that can be
done and yet it is quite the reverse with
the republicans. No one presents their
case to the grand jury, there are no indict-
ments, the constable has no demand in his
vocation, and the SHERMANs and RANIsEYs
and MCCRARYs go at large without fear and
apparently without shame. Even that
scoundrel of q secretary of the treasury,
charged by Senator DAVIS of West Virginia
with a steal Of two hundred millions, is
still at large, and, for aught any ono knows
is spending the money in travelling expenses
to make speeches over the country against
the only honest candidate, HANCOCK. The
bonds, moreover, constantly appreciate and
public credit improves every day The
question now arises, Why should the re-
publicans be allowed to perform all their
| wicked fcas of management, bag their
stealings and keep their places in society
uumolested, while not mothers son of n
democrat can make Off with halEompty
county cash box in New Jersey without being
pursued over the sands of that domain by q
battalion Of constabes and bounded into
Jail or penitentary? This is said to be q
country Of equal rights, and yet n small
steal by an agent OF the democratic party
causes public alarm, and is visited by swift
retribution, while the GRANTS, the BOUT
WELLS, the MoRRILLs aud tho SuERMANs
so their way and laugh even in the very
| faces of GLOVER, SPRINGER and DAVIS of
West Virginia, and 80 to sleep with nerves
uudisturbed while those lynx.eyed experts
are overhauling the books and heaping up
the damning evidence of their great ras.
calty.
This thing must be accounted for. There
is no reason for the parlialty shown. Per-
haps there is a change approaching. There
were signs Of it in 1865, in 1s12 and in
1876, but the criminals got away and have
held their own, keeping the plunder and
their loothold in good society, with q fair
chance of extending their foragng opera
tions well into the future. The nomination
of HANCOCK is u sign but then, all signs
! fail in dry times, and these times are politi-
cally dry, Economically speaking. Still
we can hope. The Democratic Jackson
association, born when the great California
tree was Il sapEng, survives to-day, and is
living on hope Why need any despair =?
The Vermont election might have been q
sign, but wasn't The old farmers in that
state are ignorant and easily corrupted by
the delusiye folly of good times, which is q
snare. When the abounding intelligence
and virtue which hide in the lower wards
of New York city find expression the signs
will improve. Let us still hope. Hope on,
hope ever.
THE Hon. CHARLES II, ADAMS and JOHN
/ NJ u ~ tvy Of tba 81 faanth Navv Vnrty