The daily gazette., 1882-07-21
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
a sorere Arrangement.

II any evidence were neeueu Oi bne Bruuuai
but certain disintegration of the Republican
party than that which is furnished by the
ii current political events in almost every i'm
portant Republican State in the Union it
could be found in the attitude of the more
respectable journals of that party towards
its leaders, great and small, and toward the
policy that inspires them in their desperate
struggle for a continuance of the power
which for over twenty years they have so
shamefully and brazenly abused, in defiance
of the public interests and purely in pursuit
Of their own personal preferment and that
Of their servile followers. These papers to-
day occupy the same position that the most |
outspoken Democratic papers of few years
ago held, and are stronger in their denun-
citation of Republican rapacity than any
Democratic papers ever dared he during the
years of plunder, when the Republican party
was considered a thing so sacred that for
anyone to lift up his voice against it, how
ever strongly he might be backed by facts, or
n however patriotic the motives might be, was
TO call down upon his head such storm of
clamorous abuse that only the most coura-
geous had the nerve to brave the ordeal
y But there is an end to all things, and un-
less the signs of the times are exceedingly
deceptive the Republican cOrmorants have
well nigh reached the end of their plunder-
Ing career. When such hitherto staunch
Republican journals as the Philadelphia
Evening Telegraph, the New York Times
and papers of that class refuse longer to be
silent about what they know of the iniqui-
ties Of their party management, it may wen
be inferred that the hold of the party upon
Intelligent people, who are at all familiar
with the political history Of the past few
years and who appreciate the demoralizing
and degrading tendency of the course Of
those who have had the shaping of that
history, is fast loosening and must at nc dis
tant day relax altogether.
We doubt If there can be found in any
paper of either party more severe, yet
just, arraignment of che men now repre-.
senting the Republican party in Congress,
than that made by the Telegraph of last
evening Referring to that clause in wha
it stigmatizes as ''the Hubbell matchmaking
" circular" which declares that the tth
COMMITTEE is authorized to state that suel
voluntary contributions from persons EN-
"ployed in the United States service vii
=
the Telegraph says:
'If this means anything it means tina
"Mr. Jay A. Hubbell and his associat
"blackmailers, constituting the Congret
"sional Campaign Committee of the R,
publican majority of Congress, are autho
lied by Chester A. Arthur, Presdel
:" of the United States, to levy blackmail
q" the shape of voluntary contribution
upon the employees of the Government
upon men and women and children alik
for the purpose of creating political can
"paign fund to re-elect to Congress a class
men ~ho by eoerg act Of their official liz
prove their conspicuous NtftneSS 10 occal
"any position Of trust 0hateDer cho a
neither Tise nor honest, and phO should
"retegdted 10 priodte life as soon as the 0
"port"nity presents itseEf, aud ,cto ,co,,ld
A" 80 relegGted, If money .flehed from the po
"employes Of the Government mere sot ,s
"bythem TO sage Themselves from, defeat
n
Aud this is the business which the Pre-
g dent of the United States authorizes,
I" he authorizes the. Committee to say tn
he does not object to it, or, at least, ii
COMMITTEE publicly states that he doe
the attention of the Attorney General
called to the fact that the statement
made, and neither the President nor {
Attomey-General denies it. Consequent
1t must be admitted, humiliatine, d
graceful as the admission is, that
Chief Magistrate of the country coun
"nances the robbery of the poorest empIo,
OF the Government to the end that FIJI
may be raised to re-elect to Congress sol
OF the most disreputable men that {,
disgraeed Congress"
THIS is plain language and cannot
misunderstood or explained away 1t me,
that hereafter the Republican party m
look for public support from men who
willing to openly approve of the basest k
of dishonesty when perpetrated for pa
purposes, and that the day when reputa
journals permitted themselves, through
blindness of their devotion to what they c
ceived to be the interests of the Union, tc
hoodwinked into supporting men and IN,
ures that will ever remain as a standing
grace to the country, is past that the c
of the people are being opened to the ci
acter of one of the most gigantic engines
organized robbery that ever afflicted
people, and that honest and reputable &
ernment is again to be one Of the boasts