The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-20

ates turned upon you with the fierce
ness of entrapped beasts; and while
men who openly acknowledged their
guilt lived forgiven or died lamented, |
You have been bounded down night
and day.
Had your honored name been can
vassed in advance of that Convention
1 doubt whether you would have re-
ceived a vote. In the fierce contest
between the men who sought to per-
petuate the Presidency in one family,
and they who were quite as willing,
but feared the attempt, and so rallied
under James G. Blaine, your name
opened a door to an escape for both
sides, and in a wild hurrah that fol-
lowed the show of such relief you
were nominated.
I put on record this fact in your
honor. To that same be it said that
you have not a single feeling, through
principle or impulse, in common with
the party that has made you its Pres
ident. God knows you have labored
long and persistently to be of that
party, and keep step to the rogue's
march to power.
Ofcourse the leaders are insincere.
They mean to secur a control of the
Government. They cannot look each
other in the face without laughing,
and enjoy the justification the event
gives of their low estimate of human
nature. But the poison thus created
lives and permeates the masses and
as fraud breeds violence and the sun
| hnnfa6 ROT hroalc cfornno the aanon-
quence of the infamy is sometimes
graver and of more importance than
the mere success of a faction in a Pre-
sidential contest.
1t is not, however, of this that I sat
down to write. I want, as a friend,
to warn you of q matter not only per-
sonal, but of public oncern.
we have among us certain evil dis
posed persons, with a heavy backing
of plunderers, through class legisla-
ton who are bent upon changing in
form, as they have long since changed
in substance, u self government.
Threatened with a loss of their ill
gotten gains, through the returning
four years. struggle of a Presidential
canvass, they seek to make of the
Presidency a life tenure, and, under
the name Of a stronger government,
escape the return of power to the
people, which is yet apparent in form
if it be without reality. -.
You know the man who is to serve
their purpose in this reasonable
scheme. They bank upon his military
record and supposed popularity (; and
certainly he is the fittest tool evil OPP
portunity ever offered. You know
that he did more to debauch our Gov
eminent in his eight years of admin
istration than JEFF Davis, with his arm
ed hosts, did to destroy in his eight
years of war. The result lie brought
about is more terrible than a violent
ending, for it is that decay which not
only precedes death, but sickens one
of the living, and so fetches a Repub'
lican form of government into con
tempt. You know that from the frs
to the last hour of his Administration
he was on the make, to use a vulgar
but expressive phraze and the asso'
ciate of prostitutes and the patron o
thieves, he made the Executive Man
sion a resort of ~plunderers, the civil
service so rotten that Republicanisn
became a by-word of reproach an(
shame to the civilized world, while
his constitutional advisers were mel
upon whom he held q lien i'll common
! with the penitentiary.
Now, don't frown and turn away
Let us, before you arc lost to a know
i ledge of truth, through an Inaugural
ton that will surround You a thou
+ sand fathoms deep withN sycophanti
, liars, indulge, as we have SO often il
the past the luxury of expressing gu
!. convictions.
} 1t was your committee that inves
l tigated that national shame called
4 Black Friday, wherein Fisk, Gould
j and Grant sought, through a use of thu
national Treasury, to enrich them
f selves al the expense of thousands o.
honest men.
1t is not my purpose to recall the
details of that infamy. The chic
criminal was tracked to the thresholC
of the Executive Mansion, and your
: committee passed a resolution calling
upon the President to appear before
, the committee and defend himsel
t from the damniug proof hat made
him the chief conspiTator.
The night of the day that resolution
r was passed you called with it upon tn,
President. 1t was after midnight be.
, fore you left the White House, amazed
and sick at heart, and at your sugges
ton, that very day, the resolution
was revoked.
1 need not say that you and l know
why that resolution was so suddenly
, abandoned. The fact that under the
circumstances it was revoked tells ST
the whole story. The very Democrats
of the committee shrunk from the
threatened exposure.
The conspirators who put this mat
to the front with this evil design have
seized upon your campaign as they
purpose to seize upon your Admins.
tration. By depriving these conspir'
ators against the peace and dignity o.
the United States of political patron
age you doom them to immediate
death. They are made up of creatures
who, while they have grown rich or
politics, would have starved in any
! other pursuit.
Were you really q great man, die
: you possess the moral courage equa
! 10 your intellect, l should expect you
az President to kill off the faction that
elected you. AS a party made up O.
measures without principles, and eact
measure shaped to benefit some one
7 class at the expense of tho industrious
, many, in its jealous greed i. shuts M
l out from the intellectual progress O.
| the world; and while in Europe
, statesmen L discussing grave ques
l tons of political economy, and tn
l people are clearing away such bar
l barisms rs tariffs, land ~tenures, civi
service reform, and corporate monop
! olies, we + shouting ourselves
: hoarse over political differences nj
man can define, while the combined
! few are accumulating propert.
l through processes scarcely one re
move from open theft. The Repub.
I lican party is a dead weight on ant
, hindrance to the conscience and intel
lect of the people. 1t ought to b
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