New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-10-09
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Eleventh hour repentance comments ltselI
ONLY 70 Infinite wisdom and Infinite mercy
VIII the American people forgive the Dem
ocratic party its many sins, because OF ITS
tarly and enforced repentance Is to the pub
lie credit. the currency and the tariff Z Posi-
Div. for we are a long-sui1eung and much
forgiyIng people, but for the fact that the
Democratic party is striving more desperately
than ever at the South and at the North to
secure votes by fraud, and at the North to
secure votes by gross Misrepresentation Oh It's
aims. The party which tries to cheat the
people on one point Will cheat theih' IL 1t
cam on every other
To-day the Democratic party Is trying to
convince voters that it is now and ever has
been in favor of protection. Even such free
trader as Mr.. DOrshemer raises i'll New York
his well-drilled voice for Democracy as the
only party which can be trusted to MAINTAIN
the protective principles. General Oarheiu'
this free-trader objects, is not suil1uently
protective for him. Mr.. Randall is going up
and down in the land with the same plea. 80
in Ohio and III Indiana, no efforts are spared
TO convince the Democratic voter that MS
marty. and his alone, Is Jealous for the pr0tec-
| ton of American industry. But what Is the
use of living about this matter Z Does not the
| whole country know that the Democratic
marty has formally resolved that it means to
have "a tariff for revenue only I What that
nhrase means the Democratic party continued
to show for fifteen years ended with 1851,
for it then demanded a tariff for revenue
only" and, having the power, maintained a
| level or horizontal adj r0lOrcm duty without
any discrimination in favor OF home manufac-
lures Is 1t not marvellous that men fancy, at
this late stage in political contest, that they
can pretend to be supporting the very cause
against which they are committed by their
platform, and by all the acts of their party for
many years9
So it is as to resumption and specie pay
ments. Less than three months before re-
SUMPTION was accomplished. the Democrats in
nearly every State voted that specie resump
ton was impossible, and. if effected, would be
| ruinOus. Now the same party processes, in
certain Eastern States-but not elsewhere-to
be most anxious for the maintenance of the
very measure which it stubbOrnly and malig
nantly opposed. 1t is not yet one year since
the ablest and most extreme intlationlst III
Ohio was supported for Governor by more
| Democratic votes than were ever gwen to any
other candidate for State Office in that
| State. and at this hour the Democratic party
is doing its utmost and worst to elect, as
Governor of Indiana, the most reckless repu-
diator III that State. Its candidate for the
Presidency has just congratulated Mr..
Plaisted. the Greenback candidate in
Maine. upon his supposed election, as a
" glorious result" And yet we are told
that the Democracy must be trusted as hard
money party.
1t is in the same spirit doubtless, that the
Democratic party tries to pass itself off as
the party of free and pure elections Less
than one year ago that party was threatening
TO stop the wheels of Government unless it
could strip the United States Supervisors of
all power to prevent frauds. Even at this
hour the hotels in Columbus and indianapolis
are crowded with the basest scOundrels of the
hasest sums of Eastern cities, who have gone
West to manage gangs of repeaters in behalf
of the Democratic party. In this city, too,
stems taken for the prevention of fraud ex-
cite ungovernable indignation toward United
States officials, and men who know enough to
he thoroughly ashamed of themselves talk of
using force to stop the discharge of duty by
those officers. And yet the Democratic party
pretends to be i'll favor OF "a full vote, free
"ballot and far count"
The people of this country are in no mood
to be cheated. They know what the Repub-
hcan party wants-hOnest money, a tariff that
protects, and free and fair election. They
know that the whole history of the Democratic
marty demonstrates its hostility to these things
II was hostile to honest money when it voted
in 1873 that resumption was impossible. and
in 1879 that resumption would fail. 1t wai
hostile to protection when it voted, four t.
one. for the Wood tariff bill in 1879. 1t wal
hostile to purity of elections when it threat
, ened. within the last year, to break up thu
Government unless 1t was permitted to repea
or nullify the United States Election laws