The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-11-09
The Whole Story.

The troubles that beset the Republic
an party are not only unusual but ex-
traordinary in their character. In the
whole history of political parties in the
United States they have no parallels, no
counterpart. The tribulations of the
Republican party result from Repub-
lican depravity, innate vileness and
viciousness, the outgrowth of corrup-
ton. Other parties have made mis-
takes, have sought the public good by
methods which proved to be fallacious.
Not so with the Republican party. II
has sought its own aggrandizement by
means which were execrable, that bore
the stamp of infamy. Its professions
have in every instance proved to be
worse than dead Sea fruit" They
were put forth to shield duplicity, and
as consequence the country is, even
now, garnering a harvest of shame,
degradation and crime such as never be-
fore humiliated any land beneath the
sun. The facts should be forever kept
before the people The zigzag lines
the Republican party has crawled; SER
pent-like, since it escaped from the
womb where it was quickened into be-
ing. are to-day as vivid as lightning.
What has been the outcome? What the
fruitsp Look at the White House and
say why Arthur. is there. clothed with
the powers of the Chief Executive of
the Great Republic? The whiz of Gui-
teau's bullet, and the dying groans of
Garfield tell the story, and it is enough
to make snakes rattle their tails,
protrude their tongues and show
their fangs. The very Devil him.
self in all his "going to and
fro in the EARTH" never before beheld
such a hellish exhibition of greed, hate
and ambition. It required only about
four years for the Louisiana Returning
Board periurers, purchased by John
Sherman for Federal offices to seat
Hayes, to bear the bitter fruits of
assassination, and make it possible for
Chester A. Arthur, the man who fur
nished the Star-route thief Dorsey with
''soap," to carry Indiana for Porter and
Garfield, to creep into the Presidential
chair through a pus cavity and Car
fields shattered spine. 1t would be an
exceedingly easy task to point out many
other interesting results which have fol
lowed Republican methods to maintain
a very high "God and morality pres
sure" but we have space just now to
refer to the nomination of Judge FolgeI
as the Republican candidate for Cover
nor of New York. 1t was a grand
gathering of Stalwarts and Half-breeds
"a sort of a Republican salvation army
keeping step to the ..God and morality
hallelujah hop with banners and bands.
In council Folger beats Cornell. The
Half-breeds stand aghast in the pres.
ence of a revelation of powerthey could
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ter is all explained; Folger's name is
forever linked with Republican forgery
and fraud, and the Republican party o.
New York shivers and shakes, bends
and writhes, squirms and squeals
crouches and curses, as the lightningi
flash its frauds and forgeries over the
country and flash back the unutterablt
detestation of such a party. Th'
Louisiana chalice. filled to the brin
with fostering falsehoeds. purifying
perjuries and satanic stratagems, b,
the fiat of fate has been placed to tn,
lips of the Republican party of New
York, and as it drinks it strangles ant
struggles. The New York Times say
that '.it ought 10 be evident to thos'
lent tricks by which the will of the Re
publicans of New York has been de
feated that they are the logical and nee
essary consequence of system whicl
must be broken up if the party is t.
have any security for the future. Th'
forged kilograms, the lies of the ma
chine managers, the bribing OF dele
gates by offer of Office are only the ex
treme forms of an evil which has beel
growing for many years in the Repub
lican party, and of which the root is tn
spoils system" That tells the who'll
story. The Times has the boldness t,
confess, and thousands and tens of thou
sands of honest Republicans are leavin,
the Republican party. They will toler
ate it no longer.-I1adidna State Se1ltinel