The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-10-29
\ POLITICAL REVOLUTION AT HAND

Elections for congressman and state OIL.
GERS will be held in about half the states of
the Union next Tuesday week. The outlook
is decidedly adverse to the republicans in
ey ry direction They are, since their over.
throw in Ohio, fighting with the energy of
despair. The country seems to have made
up its mind to condemn that and try the
democratic party while. There is wide
spread dissatisfaction with the reckless OK.
travaganco in appropriations by the last
congress and the failure to convict
notorious knaycs who have stolen millions
from the public treasury. There is
a general revolt against the tariff and the
Internal revenue taxes which fleece the
laboring men of the whole country out of
fully half they daily toll to earn and hand
1t over to the factory owners of New Eng.
land, and rings of corrupt men who hang
around Washington and wax lat Off those
who work, The country has at last be.
come indignant and aroused, and is de.
termined to restore the government to
honest hands. The trial of the star-route
thieves opened the doors and windows of
the "whitei scpulcher" and exposed to full
view mass of rottcnness and foul cor,up.
ton which hasdisgustcd every honest,man
and woman in America. We know not
what else is behind-know not whether
this is but one of n hundred similar cases.
| We do know that ms soon as an honest
man, Mr., JAMES, WAS appointed postmaster.
general and had DoUsEY and BRADY
Wrought to the bar OF justice, he was dis.
missed from office and sent TO private life.
We want such men as Mn. JAMES nut back
there, want JAMES at the head of every
department, and JACKSON in the white
house, We want the books Overhaulcl for
thepast twenty years, ltisopcnly charged in
the partisan press that some of the cx.sec.
retarlcs olthe treasury can be proven greater
rogues than ever BRADY or RoBEsoS dared
to be. Leaders OF political parties might
as well accept the fact first as last. They
cannot maintain ascendency long save upon
pure principles of honesty. 1t is possible
and often practicable for them to trick
themselves into positions, to trick money
from the public treasury, to trick measures
OF moro cunning than honor through both
houses of congress, SUCH for in.
stance, as the act passed at the last
session ostensibly for the reduction OF
duty upon WOODEN knit goods, but which
actually doubled it, but sooner or later
they will be condemned at the polls. In
the empire state of New York the situation
of the republican party is simply despe.
rate, II is split into factions, which hate
each other worse than they do democracy.
The ghost of GARFIELD still stalks among
and rallies the "half.brceds" against Score.
TAIy FoLGER, the stalwart candidate for
governor. The halwarts, headed bv PRrs,.
pHNr ARTHUR, are irantioally appealing to
their party pride and begging them to sup.
port the regular ticket receiving In reply
that FoLGrR was nominated by an act of
forgery which he himself admits is true,
RoscoE CoNSLlNG hates both. lie refuses
to help either side. "AcnuLrs sulks
in his tent" But the most
extraordinary expression, showing the wolul
political depravity of our times, that ever
fell from the lips of a president was uttered
by PRESIDENT ARTHUR tho other day.
He told his cabinet frankly that the only
way to carry New York was bv bribery, TO
openly purchase tho vote for sac In omen