The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-12-15

appeared III the role OF the Wnale. Botn par
ties acted well their parts, but the people will
not not encore.
In the speech recently delivered by o. w.
Powers, Esq, of Kalamazoo, to the citizens
of this place, there is to be found an assump-
ton that the defeat of the Republican party,
in the late election, was due to the corrup.
ton extant therein, and to the purity of the
Democratic party, and the wisdom of its
measures. The causes to which the gentle
man ascribes the partial loss of power on the
part of the Republicans, were machine
politics. legislation in the interest of cor
porations, catering to the wishes of rich men,
and the squandering of millions on millions
of money gathered into the public treasury
under q burdensome system of taxation.
Admitting that there existed within the ranks
of the Republican party what is termed
machine politics" yet it is worthy of notice
that the party with which Mr.. Powers is
affiliated, has employed in its struggle for
supremacy, methods similar to those ems
ployed by the machine aye, it has gone
step farther and used the tissue ballot and
the pleasantly remembered 'shot gun policy"
Admitting that the Republican party has
sought to gain the goodwill of corporations,
it ought not to be forgotten that every
measure pointing in that direction, has re-
ceived the support of Democratic Legislators.
The granting of public lands to the Union
Pacific, and other railroads was the joint
work of Republicans and Democrats as
reference to the congressional record will
show. The passage of the river and harbor
bill, which the opposition party used as
capital in the late campaign, received not
simply the support of the Republicans but
also of the Democrats, and in speaking of
this, says the Free Press and Courier. in its
issue of Nov. 29th, the Democratic party Ibid
n bad thing when its members voted almost
en- 8Hsse for the River and Harbor BILL"
This frank statement is truly refreshing
since it reveals fact carefully ignored by
the speakers of the opposition, and it speaks
in words of self-condemnation of their I'M
scrupulousness in loading all the calumny
attached to the act upon Republican should
ers. But such is the character of the self
styled reformers.
The people hoped against hope and
waited and watched for their servants TO do
their duty" says the honorable gentleman.
That is precisely what the people did eight
years ago, when Democratic majority
placed the House OF Representatives, in the
hands of the pure spotless Democratic party,
which, then as now, was SO "interested" in
legislating for the good of the people"
And il failed 10 make the necessary appro-
priations, and threatened TO block the gov
eminent in its work. and starve il to death.
il il were not permitted to control it. More
over it ought not TO be forgotten that the
party elect, is no new organization. possess
ing new purposes and new convictions. 1t
is the same old hydra-headed Democratic
party, and when the opposition speaker re-
marked that it ought to break away from its
past record of "blundering'' and reform a
little. We heartily endorse the sentiment for
IN the course of the past twenty years il has
been very closely allied to treason and very
closely affiliated with the grog shop and the
SUM. Said Democratic Congressman Walsh,
"the grog shops are the great nurseries of
the Democratic party and but for the sup
port which the party habitually receives in
such quarters, which by elective affinity are
all its own, its chance Of winning at any
years, like certain Macedonian Prince. it
has needed some one to tell it to "be man.
Processing to condemn political shysters, it
places in the executive chair of Massachu-
sets, one of ring -leaders of the SALARY Grab"
Processing to love civil service reform. the
orators and newspapers of the opposition
have sneered at the "Pendleton bill" and
have derided the business methods which
have made the New York post-office one of
the most efficient in the country. Civil SER
vice reform, as commonly understood, is APP
piled to the large army of offce-holders who
are not elected but appointed, and implies