Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-07-15

~ in power must always expect 10 re-
eeive. as By gravuiation. the olEal oi The
the other party whose politics are
''loavss aud fishes" as the rivers and
the sea receiva what The farther-sighted
Political Economists tell us onght 70 60
back 10 the earth from whence il eame,
are we 10 give up our faith in The pFppon-
deranee of good over evil in the world in.
the face Of the fact that the world sfiu
goes on The rats deser. falling
houses consequently there il not a rat
ia the Dcmocrasic purity to-day. De-
plete man Of all the blood he can
spare and live. and he viii have little
or no impurities Of the blood. In poll
tics. office may stand for blood. Has
a Democrat ito speak OF been able to
get Office these score years past; those
that have remained Democrats must,
iorfiOri, be pure men. But who claims
under the ConstutiOn any right TO keep
rascals from turning Democrats when
We get back into power' the same
rOgues that send these rascals to make
laws for them now as Republicans will
IN 1881 send these same identical ras-
Gals to make laws for them as Demo-
Gratis; and then the Democratic party
will, by the law Of Grayitation, be as
sure to contain the more rascals Of the
two as Newton's apple was TO fall to
the ground. What them Will the
principles of centralized power, pro-
tective tariff, class-legislation and rail-
road subsidies be vindicated as against
that of Government Of the people for
The people. by the Pecple' Grant that
the same number Of millions will be
lilched out Of The U. S. Treasury ia
the overt highway-robbery-w direct
by these same sweet singing Fra Diav-
olos decked out in new costume, and
the few honest Republicans remaining
behind like my good friend Gen. Scuy-
Ter Hamilton and Mr.. Jerome of N. Y.
wall cease to have set of principles
to fight for, because as their dele
gate from Texas owns up, take away
the Offices and the Republican organl-
zatIon ceases TO have a raisOR f efre-
pardon mean interest or principle:
why we shall have every represen-
tative rascal Of them coming over TO US
in less then three months, at the rate
such coons as John w. Forney are al
ready coming down without our shoot
ing; Big Ben of Balls Bluff has been
seeking pretext for "fo' year an mo "
TO get back-he won't be long behind.
"a little leaven leaveneth the lump :"
now leaven is a healthy ferment,
though 1t may be put into bad bread !:
thus much may be said for expediency
Democrats. But " takes a practically
impossible quantity Of rat-dirt TO throw
good wheat absolutely out OF The mar
ket; and the believers in humanity may
take comfort in the consideration that
as parties are organized. even represen-
tative rascals are obliged 10 vote party
measures, and so the few paltry millions
they can steal by bribery as individual
Democrats are as "a drop in the bucket
to the thousands Of millions they have
indirectly been stealing from the hard
worked and economical people by un-
equal taxation and other ruinous legis-
iation for the last twenty years. where
as now they will be compelled to pass
honest laws which is 'the main chance
Messrs. Editors, could not put this on
postal card, and il you find il too short
for letter, you'll have, suppose, 10
relegate il TO the category with ",hat
onconvenient bird the turkey, too much
for one, and not enough for two"
Respectfully,
GEo. S. KING, NJ. d.