River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-02-23
A DEMOCRATS IDEAS OF THE DEMOCRAT
IL PARTY.

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| A gentlemrn of this county who 70
many years trained with the Demo
cratic party. of which he was one
proud, scores the Democratic party o
the present day in the following cans
tic language:
Mr.. EDIToR:-A western edito
thus opens stated call to his politi
cal friends: "There never was bet
ter time than now for the Democrats
party to get itself in active training
for the presidential canvass" Thi
call naturally suggests few thoughts
prominently, about how much of ;
Democratic party is there in existenc'
at this particular period of time to ge
into training, and if the small fry pol
iticans and larger creatures of tina
peculiar breed known as Modern De
mocracy should get ON dress parade
what purpose they would have in view
outside of getting their itching palms
into the money bags of the people
would be something for the curious Il
investigate. There was time wher
the Democratic party had principle
to support, defend and advocate, an(
when it had leaders who were capa
BILE, honest and courageous enough t
maintain that principle in the legisla
tive halls of the Nation as well as or
hastings and the conventional was the
convention, it was the Jeffersoniar
principle of free government, but oui
modern Democratic leaders have de.
generated, either from mental or NOR.
al deformity, to the low plain of driv.
cling demagogues. The great princi.
pies of free government incorporated
into the organic law of our country by
Jefferson and the noble and true men
who labored with him to the accom-
plislment Of that end is practically ig'
nored or secuted as an idle dream by
our modern Democratic solons. More
than one hundred years have passed
away since the organization of our
Government, and during that long
period of time many political parties
have rose and fell, but no party ever
presented such sickening, disgusting
spectacle as that of the Democratic
party of the present hour; party
claiming to be a national party with
one set of principles for one section
of the country, and another set for
another section, can never conceal It's
hypocriiy or cover up its attempted
deception. Divided into warning fac
lions, the leadership of each faction
is ever on the alert for bargain with
the common enemy, and itching palm
for the gold their treachery may COM
mand. These creatures take brides
without remorse and accept the charge
of being infamous without shame.
This Is the party and these the KIND
of leaders who are TO get into train
ing for presidential campaign.
What beautiful spectacle that great
Democratic army would present on
dress parade with John Kelly as the
commander of one wing and Samuel
Randall of the other. Randall, the
representative in congress of Rotten
Borough in the purlieus of Philadel-
phia the recipient of a back pay steal.
the man who on the floor of congress
boosted of the theft and gloried in his
shame. The whole grand array I'M
der the command of gentlemen George
Pendleton and Dan Voorhees,, the two
stalwart Democratic leaders of the U.
s. Senate. whose vote confirmed to the
bench of the Supreme Court for life,
Stanley Matthews, a railroad attor.
new, the man who in the senate cham.
Der of the United States covered the
toga of the senator with the gown of
he lawyer and pettifogged in the In
terest of a monster corporation, II
would be interesting to hear these
WORTHLESS harangue their grand army
Kelly, for instance, expatiating on
the purity of the ballot box, Randall
on the beauties of back pay steal,
while Pendleton and voorhees, thun
dered against corporate power ano
railroad influence.
But to this has the great Democrat
ic party of the past finally degenerat
ed. That party which for fifty years
directed and controlled the destinies o.
this great Republic, reared it from it,
| infancy to the stalwart proportions O
mighty nation, respected through
out the world and proclaimed every
where by the friends of liberty ant
the rights of man as the wisest ant
best government on earth. Such
| party should have existed always. Blu
fallen, fallen like Babylon of old, i
| written all over its decayed carcass
The ruin of this one great party is no
traceable to its principles or its doc
trines, but to it's leaders, degeneratinl
| into mere time serving demagogues
/ it's pretended statesmen learning
$40 steal
| Their private perquisites from public veal
| And guardians Of their country's sacred hre
Like Africk's priests let out the name Tor hirc.
This in connection with the crow
of petty professional politicians VIII
in every and all Democratic cities
towns and districts
s'Swarm upon its breast
Like vermin gendered on the lions crest,
has destroyed all confidence. all re
spect for either its leaders or its pre-
fession of principles among the pee
pie, and the sooner it disbands the BET
ter it will be for the American people
ID. NJ.
| In speaking of the introduction c
bills during the present session of til
legislature an editorial corresponden
of the Eau Claire Free Press make
the following significant suggestion:
'.Strange, 1t may seem, but few Z
them, by their titles, attract after
ton as of general concern. Local LEI
islation was restricted, some yeal