Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-05-24
Political Porspeets.

The Democratic party was never bet.
ter its foes never worse armed for con-
fiict The only advantage its enemies
have consists in their tenure of plunder
and power; the first has corrupted the
morals, the latter the forms and facts
of free government. Twenty three
years of absolutism has begotten polit-
ical debauchery and the Republic be-
comes a despotism. A gilded class Of
plutocrats shapes legislation. sways the
Senate, corrupts the House, pollutes
the bench. A richly pensioned nobili-
ty dsnces about the White House,
while only subsistence is doled out to
the true heroes of battles. The pub
lie domain, won by tolls and sacrifi-
ces of common soldiers in Mexico and
by the satecraft of Jefferson, is taken
from the people AMI transferred to
half hundred Huntingtons and Dill
Ions, while revenue and banding sys.
tens, fastened upon popular industry,
breed myriads Of tramps and heggars
on the one hand and a gorgeous sris-
tocracy on the other. Splendor and
opulence crown the governing class;
rags and penury the toilers in mills
and mines and fields In twenty years
of absolutism pseudo Republicanism
has Instituted in free America every
vice of society and government that
distinguishes hoarieSt despotism of
the old World. Even Africans, given
the ballot that the supremacy of the
party in power might be continued
and perpetual confess the vices of
their self-styled benefactors, and
white men, as never before, are
aroused to sense of dangers lmpend-
ing over their liberties and their
rights as industrial and political fac
tors. The pendulum of popular i'm
pulse and passion, thrust violently to.
ward Capitalization and imperialism
bv secessionism, now moves backward
toward federalism, as distinguished
from consolidation on the one hand
and dis;ntegration on the other, and
in the surely coming triumph of the
Democracy the original union of free
States, as instituted by our fathers,
will be reproduced. At that point the
pendulum of which we were telling,
will stand still, until, we would fan
hope, time shall be no more. 1t was
peoples government; it must again
be peoples government. To restore
it to them is the mission of our party.
To govern themselves is their right.
If at any time they govern themselves
unwisely it is their misfortune. Their
present task masters must and will be
uncrowned.
With what degree of earnestness
the people contemplate these facts and
necessities, and how thoroughly the
spirit and purposes OF our fathers, who,
in lighting for colonial independence,
fought for perfect local and individual
freedom, is reproduced, is illustrated
IN the eagerness with which the re-
production in these pages of Jeffer-
sonian philosophy Is accepted by the
press of the country as represented in
the catalogue of our exchanges given
in subsequent papes of the Register.
The press and people ale recurring, as
never before in our time, to first p"in-
clples; as never before, since Jeffer-
sons theories moulded into facts and
forms of republican institutions and
republican freedom, do the people
study these facrs and accept this phil
osophy. To those who have reached
maturity since 1860 it is new reve.
lation; to the aged the reproduction Of
delightful visions of the past realized
in their youth. The whole country
discovers in propositions enunciateo
by the Democratic party the overthrow
ola detestable oligarchy and restora.
tion of the republic of our fathers.