Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-06-01
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The Herald is distressed beyond all
measure because the Democrats in Con-
gress are successfully resisting the efforts
Of the majority to perpetrate foul wrong
in giving seat in the House 10 a man who
was not elected. The same party thatput
a man in the presidential chair by fraud
and perjury who was not elected thereto,
the same miserable party that has main
tanned its hold upon power for years by
the vilest frauds, the foulest political
crimes and the most unblushing perjury,
the same dirty, lying, sneaking. swind-
ling. pilfering. sin-sodden party that owes
its existence 10 successful crime, is try.
ing its dead best to add another to its
long and damning list Of infamies, and
because the Democrats are successfully
resisting the low lived effort the HerGh
lifts up its voice and howls. The Herald
is afflicted with short and treacherous
memory or il would remember that but
a year ago when the Democrats were
trying to pass funding bill the Republi-
cans fillibustered day after dy, consuming
time and delaying legislation apd the
Herald commended their course and
encouraged them in it. Now when the
Democrats filhbuster to defeat not a
measure of public importance, and de
signed for the public welfare, but q foul
and stinking political job. the same
Republican organs that encouraged hlli-
clustering then weep and wall and scold
and rail, as those who have no hope left
in this world. And the Herald, evident
ly gone clean daft in its rage, gables
like this:
Their 1.-THE Democrats'1 course is a
confession that they are in the wrong;
that their alleged. testimony is perjury
that will not bear:the light of day; that
they are the same party of Secession and
Revolution they have been for the last
quarter, of century.
Now that is the most pitiful twaddl Q
and the sickliest sort of slush. The Demo
Gratis maintain that they are right in this
quarrel and they dare the snuffiing hyp-
ocrites on the other side to the proof.
They maintain that the testimony upon
the Republicans are trying to seat
Mackey is forged; that it is er-pdrte, that
Mackey 'fixed it, :" and that it was taken in
violation of law. The Democrats make
these assertions and can make them
good. They dare their adversaries to the
proof. So far from these charges not
bearing the light of day, they ask an op-
portunity to have them ventilated. They
only ask that the case be referred back
| to the committee and these charges tried,
and If they are not sustained the Demo-
Gratis will make no further resistance.
That is the proposition of the Democrats,
and it is fair. Why. then, do the Repub-
licans not allow the charges to be investi-
gated? II they are false, as the Herald
maintains, why do they refuse the test?
Ii they know their cause is just why do
they shrink from investigation? That il
all the Democtats ask. The splutter OF
the Republican ergans abont how the
Democrats are wickedly trying to pre-
vent the House from exercising its consti
tutional right to judge the qualification
| of its own members is the worst sort oI
drivel. The Democrats do nothing of ths
sort. They only fight against an organ
lied effort to seat man whose title TO /
| seat has not been proven and over who's,
head grave charges hang. Let thesi
charges be met and disproved and Demo
} cratic opposition will cease.
| The trouble is the Republicans are whip
ped and they are whipped in bad cause
! They have undertaken q miserably
mean piece of partisan business and cam
| get through with it. That is what give
the Herald so much agony, and makes i
Isquirm and screech abuot s.secession ant
revolution" 1t ought to remember tina
for the Democrats to fillibuster in a goot
cause, no more makes them secessionist
than fillibustering in bad cause mad,
the Republicans secessionists year ago
What is sauce for the goose issauce fo
the gander and the only consolation
u we can afford thel afflicted organs tina
were so merry over the Republican fill
] clustering last year is that they know nov
how it is themselves; and also that il
!, this conflict the Democrats are right, the,
know they are right, and the countr,
] will back up the Democratic Congressmel
in resisting the mean, low, dirty villain,
, | contemplated by the Republicans in thi
case until they give up the fight or unit
} the hereditary ruler of the Inferno
Regions can advertise a skating park il
the hottest corner of his dominions.