National Republican., 1883-08-29
The Insolent Foe.

democratic managers intend to profess entiro
concurrence with the republican party on all
measures Of public policy, and to rely upon o
campaign Of slander and falsehood against the
republican party in general, and its candi-
dates in particular, without regard TO who
they may be. There was at one time an at
tempt by some democratic free traders to i'm
press their views upon the party, but they
have been frowned down. The growing
strength Of Randall for tho speakership ad-
monishes us that the democratic party does
not intend to make stand ON the tariff
question. It will make hypocritical
pretense of favoring revenue tariff with in
cidental protection which is the only kind Of
q protective tariff to which the republican
party has ever committed itself. 1t will shout
for free ballot, while organizing tho stufling
of ballot boxes in every state whore it has
CONTROL and will resolve for free education
while throwing every obstacle in its way
Union, emancipation, enfranchisement, edu-
cation, resumption, and protection will be
emblazoned on the banners of the party
with all the desperation Of which man is
capable. The haters of every step of progress
made during the last twenty years arc to ap-
pear as the conservators of that progress, and
as witnesses against its leaders and pro-
moters. The people are to be invited
to trust the obstructionists and reactionists
because during twenty odd years of power
some Republicans have been guilty Of mis-
conduct. Tho party which at tho south con-
sists of incorrigible bourbons, and which at
the north would be disbanded IL it could not
command the support of nineteen-twentieths
of the criminal classes and of nearly all Of a
religious oligarchy which avows it's hostility
to general education and freedom of opinion
such party, Scared all over with the marks
of its own corruption, and its back gridironed
with the stripes we'll laid on by the people in
six presidential elections, proposes to try con-
clusions with the republican party on com
parison of the relative personal worth of the
members of each
Sentenced to banishment for its hostility to
the rights of man, and expelled the country
in 1860 by the American people, this brazen
offender comes back again to say that, al
though it has been wrong in every act and word
for forty years, and would have perpetuatcd
slavery if it could, and, failingin that, would
have destroyed the government and, failing in
that, would have repudiated the debt incurred
in its preservation, and would have made the
United States the slave Of Europe to produce
only the food for foreign operatives, yet II
must now have power because the republican:
are all thieves, and the virtue and respecta
bility of tho nation is all in the democratic
party. This is to be the platform of the party
which was, during the administrations OF
Polk, Pierce and Buchanan as reckless Of the
welfare Of the country as it was careful of the
privileges of slavery and of the few hundred
of supercilous tyrants who constituted the
political element Of the slave holding class
puO ubilJ up uNulici Niph
Mexico out of tho whole cloth, in order to
steal territory out of which to make new
slave states TO outvote freedom in the national
elections, and was foiled only by the dis.
covory of gold in California-the party which
drenched the plains of Kansas with the blood
of freemen in order to force slavery where
itself had promised it should not go-the
party which finally held the nations hands in
order that its enemies might prevail, and which
was Us much a part of the great rebellion as
was the cabinet of Jefferson Davis. We like
its impudence. Let the next presidential
battle DO fought on the question of good
character. The democratic party will be
shown to have improved every opportunity il
had to be dishonest and corrupt from 1915 to
1861 in its administration of national affairs
As to states, Tweed and his gang in New
York, the party bandits and ballot box stuff.
fers in tho south, the thieving defaulters in
most of the democratic states governments,
and the penitentiaries Throughout the land al
most wholly devoted to the entertainment OF
gentlemen of the democratic persuasion, will
serve to give interest to the compaign. AS TO
the methods of the party in elections, passing
by Chairman Barnum's mules, we will take
that reverend vice, that iniquity in years,
Samuel j. Tilden, and trace him from the
Empire club In 1S44 TO his cipher
dispatches in 1876, in which he stands
convicted of having personally superin-
tended the effort to bribe officials into
giving him the presidency through fraud and
crime. BY all means let the democratic party
appeal to the people on the ground OF its
superior respectability and purity. The peo.
ple, and not Mr.. Dana, will decide who "thc
rascals" are. Let the republican party choose
standard bearer known by the people to be
honest; then let all impudont pharisees and
hypocrites so to tho rear with the other spoils
mon and corruptionists, and the republican
party can go gayly into tho fight saying
damned bo he who first cries hold-onough.' ;
Keep tho rascals out. Tho democrats mus
not come,
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