The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-03-16

The Republican leaders and organs
are still agonizing over what they are
pleased to term the distracted and torn
up condition of the Democratic party. !
From their tone one would be led to /
infer that everything is lovely in their
own household, and that Stalwaits and !
Half-breeds are sleeping together iii !
their little beds as quietly as kittens.
But occasionally asnarl is heard which
leads to the belief that all is not lovely
in the Republican household. Thorn
as NJ. Nichols, of " honest money"
fame, the gentleman to whom Garfield
wrote confidential letters confiding to
him great pasy secrets, has written an
open letter to the Stalwarts, charging
the crime of Garfield's assassination to
their hands. He says to them:
Cali of you who glory in the name
of Stalwart, and took part in the Wilt
fication OF President Garfield last sum-
mer, and who sought to control his Of
fetal action, or degrade and destroy
his character and reputation, are re-
sponsible for his murder, and his blood
is on the garments of the whole gang
of you, and you cannot wipe it of.
You have been dealt with very tender
ly touching your grave responsibility
for this crime, but everybody knows
that you are guilty, and you feel it in
your innermost souls. Why, you are
the most stupid fools in the world to
keep on provoking discussion of these
old matters. You stand as acknowl-
edged criminals, morally responsible,
and you are guilty of President Gar
fields murder, but against you, on ac-
count of your friends and the good
name of the community, the prOsecu-
ton and the witnesses are 10th to pro-
ceed; but when you treat mercy as
coWardice, and to guilt add lnsolence
and defiance, you are no longer entl-
tied to forbearance; so if you want
reconsideration of the decision of the
whole subject, proceed with your
abuse"
From the leading article in the Rep.
Dem. in its last weeks issue we copy
the following brief passage, which is
fair specimen of the tone and temper
of the Republican papers of this re-
gion:
"The Republican DEM
ocrat has said, and still repeats, that
! Coukling, by his vicious, outrageous,
unjustifiable, venomous and malignant
assaults upon President Garfield, was
responsible for his murder. The calm
| fiat of history will hold him to this
responsibility. And yet the man who
was not elected President, but is so by
virtue of an assassiu's bullet, has re.
warded the impelling cause of the
murder, by an appointment to the
| highest place within his gift. a great
er outrage Chester A. Arthur could
not well have perpetrated."
The st. Louis Post Dispatch, on the
other hand, serikes back at the defa-
mers of Conkling after this vigorous
style:
Some twenty years ago Conkling,
Blaine, Allison, Window and Wilson
were all Republican members of the
House together. They were all poor
at that time-very poor. They were
of about the same age, had about the
same start, and have been in public
life constantly, Blaine is a million
aire; Allison of Iowa, IN the Senate,
is another millionaire Sherman is
trehly a millionaire; Window is a
millionaire; Wilson has got to be very
rich. Roscoe Conkling, the ablest,
greatest, proudest, of them oil, is poor
| today. No man came so near to be
acting President of this country du-
ring the eight years of Grant AS COnk-
ling. No man i'll Washington, except
Grant, had such power, such influence
such opportunities. Mr.. Conkling did
not profit by them. He is poor today
and This characterizes the difference
between him and other leaders of the
Republican party"
The New York Commercial Adver.
tiser, an ultra Stalwart paper, in 6
leading article, thus expresses its re-
spect for its Half-breed brethren:
s'Our esteemed cotemporary, the
Buffalo Express, referring to the in
dictments found against Brady and
Dorsey, says: 1t requires something
like Roman virtue for President A r.
thur to push to the wall the man with
whom he lately ate salt (and severa
other things), and whom he publicly
complimented in a rather maudliL
speech as the victor of Indiana, Sc.
Why this sneer at President Arthur
Was not Dorsey quite as close to Gar
field as to Arthur? Was not Garfield
under the same personal obligations tt
him for organizing victory for the Re
publicans in the October election in
Indiana in 1880? Was not Dorsey in.
vited to Mentor by President Garfield
and complimented for his services and
his victory? Did not Garfield during
the Presidential canvass write to My
dear Hubbeil: Please say to Brady
hope he will give us all the assistance
possible | think he can help effect
lively. Please tell me how the depart
ments generally are doing" My deal
Hubbell,' the editor of the Express
may not remember, was Chairman o.
the Republican Congressional Com
mittee at Washington. He was charg
ed with the duty of collecting politica
subscriptions from the employees in the
various departments. His letter tc
Brady, who was then Assistant Post
master General, and the known heaG
OF the Star Route ring, has no othel
Interpretation than that Brady was
expected to make the Star Route
thieves subscribe to the election fund
Please tell me how the department:
generally are doing This letter tI
My dear Hubbell' was written for ;
purpose-tO be shown to the men il
the various departments who wer,
backward with their political contri
buttons. 1t had it's effect. The edito
of the Express will remember this let
ter is no Morey forgery. General Gar
field admitted its genuineness. Arthu
was hot the only man that Brady ant
Dorsey ate salt with These are no
pleasant things to recall, but the Com
mercial gives notice to the Half-breet
defamers of Arthur that it will no
permit them to glorify Garfield as
saint and write the President down a
sinner. There is no Credit MobilicI
UcGolyer or Mulligan taint on hi
garments. He has never been u cante
or a hypocrite. He has never assumes
virtue that he did not have.n
If this be harmony, then Pope wa
right in saying that
"All discold is harmony not understood"
and one would naturally suppose tba
the Republicans have need of devotin
their entire time and talent to carin
for their own family affairs, withou
manifesting any concern for thei
neighbors.
Strange PhenOm menOn.
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