The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-02-09
The Republican Party.

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fish a record of crime, POPULATION !.
Ind corruption, that will equal that
the twenty years rule of the Re-
publican party. Here is a very small
specimen of it from the Cleveland
Dealer:
Republican rule in twenty years
has utterly destroyed American
commerce, annihilated the American
navy and swept the American flag
from the high seas.
1t has developed and encouraged
monopolies and placed the people
bound, fettered and helpless in their
power.
1t has oppressed the poor and rob-
bed them for the benefit of the rich.
1t developed the Credit Mobilier
swindle, that defrauded the govern-
ment of millions of dollars, corrupt
ed Congress and blackened the name
and fame of the nation with the
scandal brought about by its expos
ure.
Through the Rings developed and
maintained in the District of Col
umbia, through fraudulent contracts,
and through the most shameless cor,
ruption, it stole millions of dollars
from the national treasury and from
the pockets of the tax payers.
1t has defended swindles and
swindlers and refused to punish
thieves when the evidence of their
thefts vas beyond dispute.
1tsplundered the Southern states,
piled up millions of Indebtedness
and organized the most shameful
system of corruption and robbery
there that the world has seen since
the corrupt pro consuls plundered
The provinces Of the Roman empire.
1t developed a whisky ring that
had its ramifcations in every state,
which robbed and defrauded the
government, and which brought its
corruptiug influences within the very
doors of the White House.
1t precipitated upon the country
a frightful panic that paralyzed in
dustry, brought thousands of people
to beggary and entailed more loss,
misery and suffering upon the people
than did the four years of civil war.
1t organized and carried out a con-
spiracy to defraud the people oftheir
choice for President, and made, by
the vilest fraud, q man President
whom the people had rejected.
1t overthrow the right of free suf-
frage, Knocked the voice of the PEG
l pie, trampled upon afree ballot, and
by forcibly holding on to power after
the people by their votes had repu
dated it, showed itself ~unrepubli
can, revolutionary and the enemy o
: flee institutions.
: 1t DISTINGUISHED the people ofthre'
states and nullified their choice fo.
| President.
t 1t held for four years Offices t.
which its only title was that by which
! a thief holds his plumber.
It has demoralized the civil ser
vice of the country, eDgendered
class of corrupt ofice-holders, an
made the public service n kissing
and a by-word all over the world.
1t developed the star route rim;
that plundered the public treasur.
of millions, and instead Of punishin
e the thieves who stole this none
honors them by calling them to a;
sist in the party councils and diree
the affairs of government.
1t has engendered an unholy mani
e for office getting, and in a quarr'
e over the spoils of Office developed q
n assassin, who, while Boosting h
S party allegiance, shot down his pa
e tvs President.
e 1t has, as the ripest fruit of ii
teachings, its principles and its pra'
tices, brought forth a llideous ASA
sin who, with the shadow of the gil
bet upon him, boasts his membe
ship in the Republican party an
n proudly points to his record as
: worker for it's cause, and defends h
%monstrous crime on the grounds th'
8 it was a work well done for his pa
ty.
It We close the record here. 1t
not all, but it is enough. Let th
e inquiring young man contemplate
and see if he a find anything
it why good citizens should regar
d the Republican party otherwise tina
with loathing and contempt.