The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-04-28
IN. Y. Tribune.1
The ssCheap Johns" Shocked.

tOTS are giving themselves over Gn0
bargain which the Republicans are
supposed to have made with Malone
could hardly be surpassed in a Mag
dalene Asylum. Don't these gentle
men know, and know that every ybody
else knows, that the Democratic party,
in whose name and behalf this virtu-
Gus Indignation is Haunted, is paint
ed and bedizened trollop that has
walked the streets for thirty years,
trading with all corners, from the
restless Free Soiler of 1850 to the
fresh Greenbacker of to-day? The
party has not earned an honest dollar
in fifty years. Unpaid labor support
ed the Southern wing of it before the
war, and Northern Democrats always
bought the offices they held by answer
ing the crack of the slave-driver' whip
and yielding a boot-licking support to
an institution they did not and could
not believe in. They talk Of bargains!"
And with nose in the air! Why, the
hypocrites know there isn't a thing
about the old party that isn't for sale.
And nothing anywhere that it won't
buy if it can only pay in lottery
tickets-political chances Of the Ken
tucky and Louisiana sort.
Thirty years ag) this very year of
grace the Democratic party was stand
ing on its head for joy over success
full dicker in offices in Massachusetts
between themselves and the Free
Soilers, they taking the Governor and
giving the Free Soilers the Senator.
Perhaps the fact that they got George
S. Boutwell, for Governor in return
for making Charles Sumner Senator
redeems the memory of that transac-
ton. They have been standing in the
market-place ever since. Trade! Why,
the party is hung all over with pla-
cards 'For Sale and, top of every
thing, the beguiling suggestion, IF
you don't see what you want ask for
it" There was never party so poor
in principle or weak in numbers that
the Democrats could not strike up
some sort of trade with it; and it
might be added, never a party that
traded with them that did not get
cheated In this city, where they
have at least two factions always,
there is never an election in which
there isn't race between them to see
which will get first to market, and
the faction that "gets left" invariably
lifts up it's hands and rolls up its eyes,
in horror at the idea of a bargain
and SALE"
There may be States in the Uuion
where they have not traded or offered
to trade with the third party which,
under various names Labor Re-
formers" "Greenbackers," "Nation-
ais" ETC., etc.-has had votes to sell
during the past five or six years. If
there are, we do not recall them.
Flagrant instances Of this sort of bar
gaining are Maine and California,
where they sold out everything, and!
Ohio, Indiana and other Westerni
States, where they undertake to di-
vide the spoils and fell to quarreling
over the division. Indeed, so strong
is the habit or Observation-Disclosures it
is-of trade, which possesses them
that they have been in some instances
suspected even Of trading with the
Prohibitionists, which is about as in
credible as the devils taking holy@
water in barter with the priests,
1t was notorious that they traded con-l
stantly with the Greenbackers in thes
last Congress, and were more thane
ready, in the event of the Presidential
election falling into the House and
the hands of the Rev. Mr.. De La,
Matyr, to trade with that statesman!
upon almost any terms. That they
mude advances to Senator Malone no
one doubts, and it is not improbable
that we shall have before long the.
particulars Of the negotiation from
one Of the parties.
In the face of these notorious facts
Democratic Senators pretend to bel
shocked at the thought of a "bar-
gain" between the Republicans in thd
Senate and the Virginia Anti-bour-
bons. We published interviews will
few of them who happened to be il
this city in Mondays Tribune. Sen,t
ator Jonas, of Louisiana-where w
presume political trading is unknown
says the reason why the Democrat
are obstructing the public business
because they are determined to defea
as disreputable a bargain as was eve
made" Senator Jones, Of Florida
says they are fighting to prevent the
delivery of the goods in the Republic
can bargain" putting it on very higlJ
ground. Senator Mcpherson of New
Jersey, is equally pronounced and pos
tive: He says, with emphasis, that
the Democratic Senators will Aet
give their express or implied sanction
to what seems to be bargain while
for his own part he will never con-
sent to any compromise with wrong"
Senator Butler, of South Carolina,
who has been openly and frequently
charged with holding his seat in the
Senate by the terms of bargain" "
takes the same high ground and says
that, although they are anxious to go
into executive session and confirm the
nominations Of the President, they
will ''never be party to one of the
most Outrageous political bargains
that was ever made"
And so the political Cheap Johns
go on. Shocked beyond measure, all
Of them, at the idea of political
bargain" What queer spectacle it