The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-09-23

| was ever accurate, the enemies of the
Democratic party have now rendered it
| inapplicable. The issue of the next
| campaign. and of the next, and of the
next, has been supplied by the Repub-
lican leaders in Congress- Kelley and
Kasson and Keller and Robson and
Reed and Hiscock by mere folly and
mere jobbery have done more to show
the country that change in the political
control is absolutely necessary than
could have been done by the wisdom
and the integrity of any equal number
of Democratic leaders.
Colonel Conkling put the case in .
nutshell in the interesting interview re-
ported IN yesterdays World. He said
that nothing was needed to secure the
success of the Democratic party except
that it should be Democratic in prin-
ciples and practice as well as in name"
Colonel Conkling, though Democrat
for ten years past is representative of
large and increasing number of men
who would be very glad to abandon the
Republican party If the Democratic party
will let them. To the Republicans, be-
ing the party in possession. NO issue
is necessary. It is the party that seeks
to turn them out which must Affirmative
ly show cause why they should be turned
out. The Republicans have the control
of the Federal Offices, which they are
using with an unscrupulousness beyond
all precedent to add to the corruption
fund they are otherwise amassing. and
they have a complete and efficient organ
ization, besides the "nine points of the
law" inherent in possession. It is true
they have nothing to say for themselves.
Their Congress is openly managed with
the purpose of preventing reduction of
taxation by making away with the sur
plus their monstrous taxes have pro-
duced. They are spending at the spigot
in order that they may not be compelled
to save at the bung. So long as they
can empty the Treasury as fast as they
can fill it, they have no fear that they
win be compelled really to abate tax
alton. And if the producers of the
country can be bribed with a small
share OF their own money, in the form
OF Liberal appropriations" not only
will Robson be rich and Reed be rich
and Keller be rich, but the Republican
party win remain in power until people
have had chance to forget how Reed
and Keifer acquired the money they ex-
pect to derive from the transaction. As
for Robson. he is probably aware that
social respect in his case is past praying
for. The exposure has been too thor
ough. All that he can reasonably ex-
pect is to get more money and keep out
of Jail.
This seems TO be the programme of
the corruptionists in Congress. It. is
founded, it will be seen, upon what we
believe to be the erroneous idea that the
people of this country will stand any
thing from the Republican party. They
have stood great deal, and if the Re-
publican leaders would steal in modera-
ton and with some pretense of de-
ference to public decency, the pro-
gramme might be carried through. But
when the country is confronted with
Pension bill of one hundred millions,
rushed through under suspension of the
rules. two-thirds of it admittedly to be
bestowed upon impostors and claim
agents; with River and Harbor bill,
appropriating eighteen millions and
half. two-thirds for jobs; with appropria-
tons for public buildings, mostly need
less and all extravagant, footing I'M ten
or fifteen millions more; with Robson
Naval bill, of which Robeson's advocacy
is accepted everywhere as an unmistak-
able badge of fraud, and with the North
ern Pacific job, clear plumber of the |
Treasury at the lowest estimate of six
teen millions over and above the whole |
cost of the road. protected even from
discussion by the withdrawing report |
OF Reed and the outrageous ruling of |
Robson, the country needs no further
evidene &c that the recognized leaders of |
the Republican party belong distinctly
to the criminal classes. The tissue"
whether gang ofpublic plunderers shall
be deprived Of an opportunity to steal
any more public money is one which
the public plunderers have themselves
presented to the country and to the
Democratic party. 1t is an issue upon
which it is an insult to the country to
suppose that its decision can be doubtful.
The plunderers themselves think, as we
have said. that they can bride the own
BIS not to prosecute with a part of the
swag distributed in liberal appropria-
lions. They certainly cannot do this if
he Democratic party simply accepts
he issue they have raised and puts it
before the country, so that
every voter in the land is made aware
before the Congressional elections come
IN what the Republican party has done
o entitle itself to- the control of Con-
yress for another term. Opposition to
public plumber on scale which makes
weeds thefts seem mere pilfering is {
nough OF party platform for such a
ime as this. And happily the Demo-
ratio party need only point to the rec I,
'rd Of the last House of Representa- I
ives which it controlled to show that {
n driving out a House of Representa- !
ives which accepts the leadership of I
udacious. notorious and all but avowed !,
ublic plunderers the people will be at |
east sure of not putting band of brig I
nds in control of the Treasury.-M r /,
World. II