The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-25

yersity. We had better examine into
this matter. If sne democratic corpse
is going to get up and dress itself, it
will make things lively, and we want
TO know It; we want TO be prepared
for it. We have settled down into an
easy. don't care sort OF way, and this
kind Of thing has alarming symptoms
about it. Now let US see what kind of
food they are going to eat that will
make them so weighty. The paper be-
fore quoted says: "The country has
been marshaled. the solid North against
the solid South, to the music of redo
lent rhetoric. Stump, pulpits, parlors,
sanctums, all have resounded with We
hement declarations, the one section
against the other. Parties have been
governed in their actions by their pas
sions and preiudices." Now this is
quite different from the view we took
of it. We saw solid South, made solid
by force and fraud, for the purpose of
gaining control of government they
had fought four years to destroy. The
nation had sacrificed half million of
lives, and billions of treasure, to estab-
fish the supremacy of the nation, and
trembled while the same battle was
fought over again at the ballot box,
with the solid South, aided and abetted
by their democratic allies of the North.
He says: I'VE were marshaled to the
music of redolent rhetoric =; this Is in
irony. But we know well the sweet
| ness of the rhetoric that moved our
souls. It was the silvery eloquence of
a Carpenter, Conkling and an niger
soil the impetuous eloquence of Blaine,
logan and Garfield, and the etoquence
of truth itself In the plain words OF
Gen. U. S. Grant. Farther on he says;
Parties have been governed By their
passions and prejudices." Well it is
no shame to be prejudiced in favor of
preserving the union and liberty. The
passions of the republican party were
to hate slavery oppression and treason.
It was prejudiced in favor of preserv-
ing the nation, maintaining the union
and the constitution. Here, then, we
see that while this democratic prophet
is attempting to discern the signs OF
the political sky he is standirg on and
looking from a foundation of false
hoods and misapprehensions. Now
what does he see2 While the union
and the constitution were being pre-
served, and the supremacy OF the ma
ton established. chains have been forg-
ed upon the laboring and producing
classes. But he sees the people aroused.
He says: AT last the industry and en-
rerprise of the laboring and producing
masses of the country have opened
their eyes to the imminent danger
which threatens" They see that the
consolidation and concentrated csrpo-
rate and money power OF the country
is an enemy far more to be feared than
solid South or solid North, or both.
" That the people have been led
long enough by designing politicians
as blindly as sheep to the slaughter.
The great democratic heart is throb-
hing and giving unrnistakable signs of
new life; gradually thought is taking
form and direction. The great thought
is that the industries and enterprises of
the individual man must be freed from
the domination of corporate and money
power, no matter under what form it
may appear, whether in gigantic rail-
road enterprises or tariff iniquities."
Well, it will not do any good for the
democratic corpse to let its heart go to
throbbing. The republican party struck
off the chains from four million slaves,
and, if there are any chains on the Ia
boring and producing classes, 1t is able
and willing to strike them of, too. But
If they are not able to do 1t, the masses
will hardly look to the democratic
party to free them. A party that sought
to extend slavery over all the union,
and, because the masses prevented it,
attempted to destroy the noble and
blessed structure, Is not the party the
masses will 60 to to seek their rights.
The vision of the Grand Rapids Dem
ocrat is a mess of silly bosh. Railroad
enterprises and the tariff have accom-
plished more in developing the indus
tries of the country and promoting the
welfare of the workers and making the
masses prosperous and happy than all
the measures of the democratic party
In its purest days. The Courier will
have to sit long time yet on the top
wire of the fence looking through the
goggles Of the G. r. Democrat before
the sky looks rosy enough to bring out
its democratic ensign and get down
from the top wire of the fence.
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THE CANDIDATES.
s It is proper for the TELEGRAPH to
speak of the qualifications of Mr.. Ed
ward Martin for the Office of Judge of
the Prnhakn Court he having received