The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-09-08

/ sWOre shame. Ii you near any Dem0cratlc
member say Congress did nothing, ask him
how often he helped TO break a quorum
| when questions of the highest privilege were
/ before the House. Ii he should sing to the
1 key note" OF the platform upon the subject
| OF corruption in Indiana elections, ask him
| what about Chalmers? and if his answer is
not satisfactory ask him who introduced
| the ~bar'F and mule buying" into Indiana;
and if he gives that up, ask him if he sympa-
| thizes with the charge that Nh. English was
too economical of his "Shekels" in the last
campaign.
RIVER AND HARBoR BILL
On the subject of increased appropriations
/ at the last session OF Congress- Gen. Harri-
| son said:
The next item of increase is in the River
and Harbor bill, which carries 81, Isl, 015 more
than the same bill did last year, / voted
against this bill on its original passage, and
again when the question was Shall the bill
/ pass the objections of the President to the
/ contrary Notwithstanding" Mr. Voorhees,
/ voted for the bin on both occasions. l shall
spen no time here in justifying my vote. 1
/ have seen no occasion to regret it since. But
I ask again if the extravaganza which they
charge upon us is located by Mr. Hendricks
or Mr. Mcdonald in this bill, do they dare
/ publicly to include in their condemnation
the Democratic Senator from Indiana who
voted for it? Mr. Hendricks knew all the
facts when he reported in the convention
! resolution approving" Dir. Voorhees, Will
he think it fair in this campaign TO condemn
/ Republicans who voted as Mr., Voorhees,
/ did? Possibly the resolution approving Mr.
/ Voorhees, course is to be understood in the
same sense as Mr.. Hendricks approval" of
the Baxter bill when he was Governor of lis
diana
C1yIn-sERvTCE REFORM
WANT to assure you tonight that am an
/ advocate of ciVil-Seryice reform. My brief
] experience at Washington has led me often
to utter the wish with an emphasis which [
do not often use, that | might forever be re-
leved Of any connection with the distribu-
ton of public patronage. | covet for myself
the free and Impoverished support of my fell
/ low-ctizens, and long to be able to give my
time and energy solely to those public affairs
that legitima6ely relate to the honorable
trust which you have committed to me. 1t
| IS easy for theorists to make suggestions
/ upon this subject which, i'll their opinion,
/ would cure all existing evils. l assure you
| it is more difficult to frame q law that shall
4 be safe. and nrw'tinal in its annlcation 1
know that several Republican Senators gave
much thought and study to this question
during the last session. believe the next
session will witness the enactment of law
which, if it does not consufimate will atleast
auspiciously begin this reform That there
are sincere advocates Of this reform in the
Democratic party, as in our own, do not
deny But that this reform would be intro
| duced by that party if they were to come
now III the control of the Federal patronage,
| do not thiiik any sensible man believes.
! In some of the States aid IN the Senate Of
| the United States the Democratic party to-
| day controls the patronage. Need l say that
| in the Appointments made there we lind no
suggestion of ciTil=SafviCe reform.
Mr. Mcdonald in his recent Speech said
that he entertained a strong feeling of dis
like to the Republican party But as for his
/ party, | will give ten good reasons why L
| don't like it to every one, good or bad, that
| he can Present against mine. A man who
| has preserved his Affection for the Demo-
| cratic party for forty years must have very
| tickle taste. He has not liked the same thing
/ two consecutive years, unless his affection
! stopped with the name and ignored all that
| 1t covered. The old Turk who married seven
! consecutive Naneys could as well claim that
| he had lived with one wife. True he might
haNe aiaefaad tie eriyeXaTd and l, say nay9
first placed his aff6Gtidn upon the Democrat
ic party it was a free-soil party, and he sym.
pathized with the demand that the capitol
should be removed to free soil When the
second Nancy came on it was pro-slavery
party, but his affection did not Waver-he
stuck to the name. will not 90 over all the
familiar and mournful changes. | could fol-
low it through more numbers than / have
! used in my illustration. The latest utteranGe
| of bis party on the tariff question: con-
cession to Mr.. Voorhees, new departure
cannot be pleasing to MI. Mcdonald, but it
is in a Democratic platform-the name is
still there If Mr.. Mcdonald and Mr.. Voor-
! hees are both satisfied with the tariff plank
it is because it is like the amendment decla-
ration-another iuggle
The course of the Democratic party has
been characterized by shifts and eXpedients.
| This criticism has Democratic authority. 1t
is confessed to-day in our State by hundreds
of Democrats, who attribute their constant
defeats to the fact that the leaders never
make two fights on the same line. Our de-
feat in Indiana in 1880, says Mr.. Voorhees,,
was caused by our tariff for-reVenue only"
plank, and forthwith the ground is changed
ave can get votes and campaign fund from
the liquor men,, says a Self-cOnstituted
leader at Indianapolis, IF we will make
platform to please them, and forthwith the
negotiation is contaminated Democratic
blunders have come to be one of the certain
factors of the uncertain sea of politics.
Given one blind well in a forty acre pasture,
! and it is a safe bet that tie old horse will be
in it within ten minutes after he is turned
loose And yet these leaders, who have led
their party only to defeat, abate none OF
their confidence as guides.
They are losing nothing either, of their
well-earned reputation as public scolds.
Since 1860 they have sat i'll the cage to which
public opinion consigned them, chattering
ing and regenerating a constitution and
country which they had torn was going on
outside: or, to change the figure, they are
discredited witnesses who for twenty years
have been annually approaching the great
inquest of the country with their accuSa-
tions, and instead of being accepted in the
witness-box have been put in the dock.
/ can excuse much to that blind attach
ment which, having become habit, contin-
ues after the object has lost all resemblance
to that which first won our regard. But
what reason shall young men give for yield
ing their allegiance now to the Democratic
party? The morale Of a retreating army
may be preserved if the leader is bold
enough to assault now and then, persistent
enough to fight twice on the same field, and
true enough always to show the same flag,
and give the one battle-cry. l can under
stand how brave men can be recruited on the
morrow after defeat for an army like that
Disaster is good background on which to
throw up picture of faith and courage
But what Of an army that fights for mega
tions-whose battle-cry is i dislike the Re-
nublican partylp When soldier falls with
that cry on his lips does he leave any inspira-
ton to the comrade who touched elbows
with him? What of an army that never
takes the -offensiye-never seiZes an outpost
of principle and lays it's dead about it;
never fights twice on the same fields al
ways patching the flag to incorporate the
obtained at the expense of principle?
Well, l can understand how some whose
names were on the original muster-rOll may
continue to obey the order to fall back by
sheer force of habit But what hard time
the recruiting sergeant must have! He must
begin his work very far i'll the rear, or he
will find himself on the outpost before he has
J persuaded his man And then there is an
other danger-the flag under which the en-
listment was made may not be up when he
reaches camp.
Felow-citizens, do not defend all the
; practices of those who have represented the
: Republican party in public places Some OF
! them have unquestionably been evil That
most of these had Democratic precedent may
be reason why they should talk more char
itably, but is no reason why we should ex-
cuse or perpetuate them But | do affirm
} | that the Republican party has always beer
| the promoter of loyalty, liberty anC
? social order, and that the coun.
try has given an rrevocable verdict
of approval to all those great principles and
achievements which brought it into exist
ence and have characterized its history. YET
even the belated approval of the Demo
cratic party is written upon them.
!; ARIZONA covers an area Of Y, 600, DOC
!, acres Of land, four-tenths Of which Is
NIL, eroI 1,eo7in0 TT Is larger than New