The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-07-15
THE INDEPENDENT. I.
RosEBURa. SATURDAY. JULY 10
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appear to be Democrats or to call |
such from the force OF cir
cuastances over which they have no
control. Furthermore, from ii e bot |
tom of their hearts they seem 10 feel
snrry for it. It is their great desire
70 go through life as martyrs. They /
court defeat they wish defeat, and
are only happy in the gloom and !
tiepths of Waterloo. A victory to
them Is something on which the Re-
publicans have secured patent. or at
least lawful right from the time to
which the memory of man runneth not
to the contrary. But how they puff
and blow before an election How
they turn out to all the stGrand Raj
hes 2 How they shout, throw high
their hats in air, and carry terehes, hire
brass bands and bet two to oRe on
glory hallelujah or All other man, until
a week before election Then they let
go all holds. The settled melancholy
of defeat gathers on all their brows
The gloomy words go out, were
gone, s'let them take it, 1--WE can't
beat them, and then they are ha ppy !
They accomplished what they labored
sor, gaze the Republicans a big scaee at
first and q bigger victory at last. They
chucklc in their sleeves at how they
scared them, and pity the poor earnest
worker in the vineyard Of Denocrcy
who really thought that the cause of
justice could triumph. From year to
year it is the same old story. I rom
the amount Of wind expended, from
the blufing and blowing, the brass
bands 'tooting," and a grand old time
generally month before election, one
would think that the woods were full
Of Democrats. Perhaps they are
They appear to be there Oil election
aay-at least they are not at the polls
Let all this nonsense be stopped
Let our campaigns be conducted on
something besides wind and air, Let
an election be something else than a
grand jollifcation and d grantler defeat
We are men enlisted in noble cause.
The solution OF American independ-
ence and all we hold dear det,ends
upon the Democracy. The Republican
party is the grandest, best organized
and most corrupt organization on God $
earth. 1t is grand because it is led
by the wealth and aristocracy of the
new world; it is the best organized
because every petty office is used to
keep it well disciplined, and it is the
most corrupt because it is used as a
vast money-making machine by It's
leaders. 1t holds to he principle, ii
has no creed except victory, Office and
money. 1t has evolved no patriotic
measure but what has been the means
oi Itching millions from the treasury.
It has accomplished no good but what
was coanterbAlanced by corruption.
With it's vast AID thorough organiza-
tion it's leaders attempt to cover up
and hide its rotteness Bot the millions
sobbed from the Navy, more millions
from the War department. and the
interior, it's miles and miles of land
given to railroad corporations, its
Credit Mobiler swinnle, its Black
Friday, it's Whiskey Frauds and its
Star Route robberies arc tho mile
stones of its corrupt career. And the
people that continue it in power have
forgotten that "eternal vigilance is the
price Of liberty"
It is against this great organiza-
ton, this over whelming corruption
which will stoop to anything to CON
tinue in power and above all this leth-
argy and seemingly helplessness of tie
people, that the Democracy must con-
tend. And to contend successfully If
must cease to be a mob. 1t must be
an organization guided by the most
advanced thought and the highest
patriotism. 1t. must lead as would
public opinion. It must send the
schoolmaster abroad Its press and
orators must net pander in the least to
the vulgar tastes of the p1pulac it
must be all this to become the great
preserver of liberty and civilization of
the nineteenth century. The great
questions of popular self-gosernment
are yet to be solved. The old govern
ments of Europe must topple and fall
and whether In the general crash the
American Republic goes down and all
is anarchy and ruin and desolation and
despair, with gnashing of teeth, de-
pends upon the democracy. t can
save all. 1t can build up, by its in
Auence and example, great govern
ments for the good of the people ali
over ,he world. 1t can save Amer
ica and freedom and beco me tue
eonseryer of liberty everywhere. 1T