The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-10-26
RepubIican Instrumentation.

= The republican party seems go
ing to pieces by the weight of Its
own corruption. 1t has at last
reached the point where it is the
fate of all organizations of any kind
or purpose to fall to pieces when
their purposes are fulfilled. The re-
publican party had its origin in the
anti-slavery movement that culmi-
mated in war. 1t made itself the
soul of that movement and carried
it to successful issue in blood
After that was finished its mission
was to make the new order of things
effective and permanent and build
up the broken places and patch up
the government to meet the eXigen-
cies of the change in theory and citi-
zenship. 1t originated and carried
through all the amendments and
special legislation necessary to these
ends, watching jealously and fight
ing bitterly for every point, until all
were gained and the government es-
tablished securely in the new order.
1t did all of this Immediately follow
ing the war, meeting with no opposi-
ton from those who acknowledge
themselves conquered. Since then
and for ten long years it has lived
upon spoils, claiming and taking as
a reward for its labors all the Offices
and administering them with the
sole idea of profit, giving them tt
favorites and requiring no qua ifica
ton except party fealty, bringing
the whole power and machinery anG
patronage of the government into
absolute subserviency to the party
and taking everything to itself, re-
tgardless of the effect upon the gov.
eminent itself and totally ignoring
all rules of justice or law. That is
as short as it can be stated and is a
truth that admits Of no disputing
1t ran it's course as to its original
mission; it ran it's course as to
rendering its success effective and
engrafting the new order upon the
face of the government; it ran its
course as to its right to reap the re-
ward of its work; until it's grasping
degenerated into the basest spoils
system that got to be so openly cor
rupt and subversiye of justice and
morals that even it's own adherents
who have any regard for decency
and who are unwilling to see the
government jeopardized and dis
graced are leaving it and have left
it, and its old rotten timbers are
falling and crumbling away, and the
once proud ship is going down under
the waves of popular storm that
struck it broadsided in Ohio last
week. The waves are sweeping on
towards New York and Pennsylva-
mia, and the republicans themselves
predict a wreck in these states
The democratic party has been the
instrument to expose these thing.
and press them upoR the people,
and as the opposing party it steps
in to take charge of affairs. Will il
make other mistakes, with which il
has been so. w nderfuly prolific
1t behooves us now more than evel
before to be upon the alert, watch
full, earnest and united, for the gov
eminent is about to be committed
to our hands if we deserve it. How
long have We all worked and waiteC
for this Democrats in Tennessee
ought to sink their local difference
and come up solidly at this critica
time and help to secure victor,
that embodies the settlement of is
sues of immensely more imDortanc,
than a dozen state debts.