Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-09-20
The Dorsey Disclosures.

The Dorsey disclosures continue to be |
the reigning sensation of the day. The |
blow was dealt with such vigor, and the /
statements supported with so much cir
cumstantial detail, that sweeping deni- |
ais were useless, and the Republican
party leaders have been forced to con-
tent themselves with counter attacks
upon Dorsey. Never in the history of
the dominant party has there been such
a disclosure made of its political meth
ods, and coming from q man who was
intimately connected with the party
since its rise to power, it has a force
which no amount of defence or explain
alton calBweaken.
That this damaging attack of Mr..
Dorsey hasbeen widely read and COM
mented upon by the whole country, the
course of the Republican party press full
ly proves. And that it has produced
great havoc in the Republican ranks,
the various comments of the press also
clearly shows. Coming at time when
the country is weighing the recent his
tory of that party with a view of deter
mining whether it is not the exercise of
the highest patriotism to drive that par
ty from power, it has peculiar signifi-
canoe, and the party managers are not
slow to perceive it. Snch revelations as
Mr.. Dorsey has made of the inner work.
ings of the Republican organization
ought to cause every citizen to stop and
reflect whether party capable of such
intrigues, and governed by such bad
policy, is not menace to free institu-
lions and a positive hindrance to the
welfare and prosperity of the country.
The unbiased intelligent voter can come
to no other conclusion if he compares
the statements made by Mr.. Dorsey
with the public acts and known history
of that party since the days of Lincoln.
Coupled with it's distinctly avowed doc
trines of centralization-the old Fed
eralist principle, and intensified by the
greedy grasp for continued power which
has been so marked a popularity of its
principal leaders, it seems they have
added system of debasing party man.
agement which has had no parallel in
the political history of the country.
Acting in the maxim that the lend JUS
. titles the means," they have stopped at
nothing and attempted everything
which could insure success. That apar.
ty managed after that method should
, breed public corruption, and mark its
course in our national history by ser.
les of fragrant usurpations of public and
: private rights, does not seem at al
strange to men who have a knowledge
7 of human history anu can analyZe the
' motives of men and of parties. Tha
any good can come out of such associa
ton of evil policies and wicked purpo
2 ses, no sensible men can believe, an(
c that when Dorsey lifted the veil and re
! vealed the whole rottenness of the par
i, ty managers, he told the truth, no on
doubts who has kept himself INFORMED
: upon the record of the times.
1 The whole history of the Republican
: party, eliminating in the events whicl
made General Garfield President, vii
pass in review before the people in th
1 coming great campaign and there viii
: be plenty of reasons shown why tn
& best interests of the country and th
:. we'll being of the people, demand tina
) the Republican party be deprived of ful
}. ther power and driven in disgrace froI
e the position it has held already muc
!, too long for national prosperity. 1t
y not simply change that the peopl
) want, but restoration of true demo
e cratic methods and principles, whole
d some system of public policy and a II
J. vival of honest, economic forms of &C
!. ministration. The return of the d.
! mocracy will be the harbinger of bettt
= and brighter days for the Republic, til
d end of humiliating and degrading pull
II lie scandals and the earnest of an era
Il political conscience and individual r,
sponsibility to public opinion. This
the pledge the Democratic party make
J. and if entrusted with poweri it will max
Y good its promises. es.-Anericn2a Reqiste