Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-04-28
DAVID DAVIS LETTER.
The Necessity of Party Reorganiza-
ton as it Appears to Judge Davis---
The Machine Rings.

tion as it Appears to Judge Davis---
The Machine Rings.
National View.
The following letter was written by
Senator David Davis of Illinois, to the
Hon. John Martin, of Topeka, Kan.
WASHINGTON, April 8, 1881.
DEAR SIR: | am much obliged for
the friendly expression in your letter.
In my judgment, the best hope for the
country is through reconstruction Of
parties. Our politics have become de-
graded into Il shameful scramble for
the spOils of Office. For weeks past
the senate, which is supposed to repre-
sent the best intellect of both sides,
has been engaged in an unseemly
struggle for small places. And now at
the very start of a new administers
tiOn, the Republican factions are ar
rayed against each other, over the pat
rOnage. Great corporations and con-
sOlidated monOpOlies are fast seizing
the avenues of power that lead to con
troll Of the government. 1t is an open
secret that they rule states, through
procured legislatures and corrupted
courts; that they are strong in con-
gress and that they are INSCRIPTIONS
in the use of means to conquer preju-
dice and to acquire influence.
This condition of things is truly
alarming, for unless it be changed
quickly and thoroughly, free institu-
tiOns are doomed to be substituted by
IN oligarchy resting upon basis of
money and of corporate power. Every
farmer in the West is bound hand and
foot by the manacles of monopoly.
Corporations prescribe the value of his
hard labor, and his crop is absolutely
at their mercy. Who proposes, on
either side, tOprotect the just rights of
the great agricultural community with
2j,OOO,O00 of population? Corporations
not only levy toll on the industry of
the farmers, but every blanket with
which their children are wound, every
plOughshare that turns the soil, and the
necessary articles of household economy
mononoly
How con rasistnnco bo succossfullv
made against corporate power, when
both the great parties are organized and
run us close corporations? Leading
newspapers recognized as Republican
and Democratic organs. are owned and
directed by crashing monopolists TO
subscryc their selfish schemes and TO
restrain opposition 10 them IN either
party. Their only politics is greed of
rnin
One marty retains possession of the
government for n ouarter of n century
bv methods which would long AGO have
condemned if to crushing defeat Inf for
the errors of Democratic leaders al-
WAYS committed at the worst time
For lOng wears past the Renublican
party has existed upon sectional apita-
tion and Inv the folIies of its onnonents
Therc are hundreds of thousands of
ru,rn and n,trintio man in hotb oroani1o.
lions who nrn rondrrad wholly mower.
less Inv tbo machine management of
rarh and who nrc noliticnllv enslaved
Inv InnLrrs vino socretIvnnitc whrnover
:, vcuol nbicrt IL IN hc roined nv CONF
binotion
poor,,r nominations d;ct,tod hy
,raCossimnI nnii,icinmo omd tho irro
.nomsihlo c,rrusos JirectnJ NV !, few
np,I';,ia,,s IonJars nnntroI Iotion.I
state and municiual politics. They nut
mn candidates. construct nlotforms and
procIaim patriotic PRINCIPLES in fine
phrases which are mere shams
Practical reform is impossibe on
INV Largo sroIc while one hundred
th9usnnd Offices and patronage rep.
resented in some five hundred million
Of annual receipts and expenditures.
orc offered os thIe nrizes of ,uccess
The p,rty in possesson. disciplinel and
led like n regular army. has an erro.
mons advantage which is somewhat
cripplcd Inv tbc hitter rivalry of IFS
chiers
Unfortunately for the Democratic
party a prejudice exists in the northern
mind that If was hostile to the union
dnrinr the civil war The fact that
tens If thousonds of Democrats many
of them foo from then slayeholding
states uoblv volunteered their service
for ond offered I'm their lives in de.
fence Of the old nar does not effect
this belief
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cllal!ces vi SUCCESS vi .ne De,hoei":.c ,,iit.
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