The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1882-11-24
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once moro uaclouded, and the two great
Political armies have gone into quar-
ters, the one with banners floating JOY.
ously in the breeze, with trophies nn-
numbered attesting the overwhelming
success of the cause whose righteousness
was never doubted by these who fought
80 valiantly TO up-build it, cause that
requitsd not q DemOsthenic eloquence
te impress its business upon the minds Of
the people, while the other army with
banners trailing in the dust, tinged and
besmirched with the disgrace brought
upon them by corrupt and anfaithful
leaders, it would be we'll to inquire in-
to tho causes which led to this defeat.
Many reasons have been advanced by
the vanquishsd, but none of them seems
sufficient to satisfy the inquisitive mind
Of the student of political economy who
stops not short Of tracing subjects from
cause to effect. and FROM effect back to
cause, thus linking the two together
and proving their relationship,
Those republican papers and speak
ers that led the revolt against the re-
publican party and its nominees in NeS
York and Pennsylvania, say, that boss
isu was the ground of their opposition,
and while it was apparently the cause,
jet when we reflect that the party in
New Yerk and Pennsylvania has been
led, governed, managed, and controlled
By these same bosses for years, and Oft
en- with much mere rigorous sna doubt
ful methods than were rssorted to this
year, we are compelled to look else
where fer the real causes Of this unpar-
allied revolution in politics.
Certainly 1t was not altogether ma
chine politics that produced such an ex-
tended revolt in Massachusetts, as to
result in the election of Ben. Butler as
governor, for there Arthur's machine ad.
herent, Wsrthingten, led the rsvsli
against the regular republican nOminss
for governor, who was half-breed, nom
mated BY convention controlled and
managed BY half-bresds.
The republicans of Iowa, Nebraska,
Michigan, Colorado, Indiana and Cal
Eornia have not been cursed with such
bosses as COnking and Cameron, asd
yet the revolt il these states has been
~ disastrous, or nearly 50, as it was in
New York and Pennsylvania. Besides
the control Of the party in the last nam
ed state Is, and has hssn, in the hands OF
ansi-machins men, 80 called s.
Wears told il was bossism in one
place, and the temperance question in
another, and the nelnination of belters
In another, aad 50 on ad iagfnitst1a. All
these local causes in fact, we're merely
contributing but secondary in thsir ma
ture. But mauy Of these causes have
existed in the party in one state or an
other for years, but they never led to
such disastrous consequences to the par
ty before.
But the truth Is there has been q
long train of mischisvous legislation in
congress designed, to baila up and
strengthen meneyed corporations by So
curing to them powerful monoPoliss and
often exclusive privileges, whereby the |
people at largs lave been sorely OPP
pressed That had the effect to array
all anti monopolists Of the country
against the republicans. Then again |
congress under republican rule has
souandered millions Of acres of the pub
lie domain in building railroads which,
in the hands of these bsne6ciaries, have
been used as an engine Of power to Op-
press the people IN compelling the pay
ment of enormous freights and fares, or
in controlling the legislature of the
states or even tha United States, in der
ogation of the interests, rights and
privileges of the people at large
For years they have refused and neg
lecsed to legislate for the people, but on
the contrary have turned the entire gov
ernment into machine to promete the
interests Of capital as against labor. BY
is tyrannical party methods it disfran-
chissd the voting element of it's party,
and allowed the bosses to dictate the
policy of the party, thus destroying its
purity as we'll as its efficiency. 1t
made fair promises to reform the ad-
ninistration of public Affairs but as
soon as the ballot was counted and it
Was found that they had been returned
to power and place, they forgot their
pledges and straightway went back to
tbe pool of corruption, in which they
had been reveling and this last state of
the party was worse than the first. 4
{ In this way the party became the
willing toels of monopoIies and rings
The interests of labor and ordinary in
dustries were crushed by the gigantic
strides Of corporate greed. The party
was no longer factor in promoting
good government, Those whe managed
the party macbinary became oblivious