The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-08-11
A singing Rebuke.

pouy Is looking around ana
t~heorizing upon the cause of the at
tempt to take the Presidents life.
The San Francisco Examiner, in the
following extracts, points at some of
the causes that produce unrest in the
minds of the people and nerves the
arms of assassins:
There have been times in the his
tory of this country when the expos
ure ofpublic corruption which have
been made during the past few years
would have crowded every p~eniten-
tiary in the land, and sunk the party
responsible for the crime exposed be-
yond the hope of resurrection. But
times have changed. Not the least of
the evils of this wicked rule is that it
has demoralized public opinion. The
Republican party has had sway for
twenty years and a moral pestilence
has overspread the land. New doc
trines have displaced the old fash
Toned simplicity. The old time moral
accountability seems to have been en-
tirely ignored. Crime runs riot.
Anything to win" is the highest pre-
cept of craftsmanship. Party Repub-
licanism knows no law which re-
strains political prostitution. The
workers have been afflicted with the
ulcer of moral pollution. Its political
harlots are everywhere. In the post
Office, in the Treasury. in the State
Governments, in the halls of legisla-
ton, in the Churches, and even in
the temples of justice, the moral
bawds and political knayes have been
plying their shameful business, until
the land is filled with the disgusting
recital of their crimes; and politics,
once considered honorable, are be-
coming so degraded that decent men
hesitate to enter public life.
Republican rule, from it's center
all round to it's circumference, is one
%seething, rotten mass of corruption
which there is little or no attempt to
disguise, and which is even boosted
of as if it were a virtue. Certainly it
has been rewarded as if it were a
merit. Every participant in the
Credit Mobilier fraud has been pro-
NOTED. with the exception of Colfax
and Patterson. Henry Wilson be-
came Vice President; Blaine was
made Senator and is now Secretary
of State; Allison was reelected to
the Senate; Wilson became leader of
his party in Iowa; John A. Bingham
is Minister to Japan; William D.
Kelly continues in Congress, ard is
a candidate for Speaker. The list
might be added to, but it is long
enough for this time. Then there
is Hayes and his aiders and abettors
in a fraudulent count that robbed the
country of its rightfully elected
President. Then there was Grant,
with all the shocking revelations of
corruption during his administra-
ton; and .hen follows a long line OF
such men as Belknap, Robson, Bah
cock, Boss Shepherd, Pitt Kellogg,
Tom Murphy, Packard, Dorsey,
Brady, Pitney, and old Returning
Board" Madison Wells-ugh! How
Extensively these names do smell
These and their like are the mel
who have run and still u the Re.
publican party. How the mention
of these bring up the memories OF
villainy. Black Friday-run into
the White House for its engineer,
even to the Presidents table; navy
thefts by the million; Belknap scoun-
drelism; Mulligan letters from
Blaine; Credit Mobilier fraud; Re-
turning Board villainies; whisky
, rings; Presidential steals; Star Route
monstrosities-in fact, scoundrelism
of every degree and kind, political
trickery and roguery of every pos
sible description.