The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-03
The Whole Programme.

The Harrisburg Pa.) Telegraph is the
special home organ of Don Cameron,
and, in fact, of all the Cameron clan;
and its utterances must, therefore, be
accepted as the official declarations of
the Stalwart wing of the Republican
party. Yesterday that paper contained
leading article headed Presidential
Prospects ~ in which it undertakes the
hopeless task of working out victory
next year for the Radical party.
Now, the forecast of the Telegraph
amounts to little in reality as affecting
in any particular save one the impor-
tant contest of next summer, and that
one Is its view respecting the part the
South will then take. Speaking of the
Democratic hopes and the "overween-
ing confidence of our leaders it says:
ure of the States of New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut and Indiana. Admitting for the
sake of argument that these great expecta-
States of Virginia and North Carolina, most
probable supposition, the Republicans would
have majority of the Electoral vote"
Now, here we have their whole pro-
gramme in full, as foreplanned by the
Stalwart Boss of Pennsylvania, the
soi distant Boss of Virginia, who thinks
also to tag on to the tail of his little
kite North Carolina and probably Flor
ida; and in this also we have the full
secret of his declaration to the Com
mitteemen of the National Republican
party of the South who called upon
him, and to whom, according to the
National Republican, his Washington
organ, he gave ''some pleasing assur-
ances of sympathy by speaking of de-
feating the enemy"
We have asked repeatedly what
enemy he meant, and yet have failed to
receive direct and straightforward an
swer. but of course, as there is but one
enemy to the Republican National
party, and that enemy the Democratic
National party" and the men to whom
were given these pleasing assurances
were the high representatives of the
National Republican party, it follows ir-
resistibly that he me ant the "Demo-
cratic National party" and that his dec
laration was tantamount to one of full
sympathy with the Republican party.
No other inference can be drawn or
Is admissible, and so, evidently, have
the Republicans themselves determined.
There was no ambiguity of speech here.
1t was no Delphic utterance that could
be read in two ways, but direct and
emphatic declaration of sympathy, active
and cooperative, with the Republican
party, and we do not blame them for
accepting it, as they have done, in that
light.
On this declaration, which, read be-
tween the lines, simply says: You may
I rely upon my assistance in defeating the
Democracy in 1884, the Harrisburg or.
| gan of the Stalwarts, Don Cameron
own paper, predicates its belief in the
ability of the party now in power, the
party of plunder and corruption, tc
carry Virginia and North Carolina
whereby it will offset suffciency of the
votes of Northern Democratic States te
elect its President. But, says the paper,
mo one thinks that the people of these
! Northern manufacturing States named
would run the risk of a Democratic Ad.
ministration of National affairs" and il
this we have further proof of Malone.
"solidity" with that party, for in every
thing he does and says he shows himsel
the bond-slave of the protection monopo
lists of those States, and has promised
them the vote of Virginia and Nortf
Carolina for tariff that must crush ou
all enterprise and enslave the people t.
them and their personal interests fo
years to come, should they succeed il
the line marked out by these Stalwarts
And now who doubts longer that Ma
hone and his set have sold themselve
fully to the Republican party of tht
North, and promised, nay, bound them
selves, by a strong and unalterablt
pledge, to deliver Virginia and othel
States of the South over to it in the com
ing Presidential election? And thi
being the case, how can any good Demo
crat in Virginia, or any one who hai
heretofore acted with the ''Boss and hi
BROOD" continue longer in an affiliatiol
so accursed and traitorous to Virgini,
and the whole SouthP The proof Of tn
"bargain and sale" is positive, and tn
treason can only be crushed by the i'm
mediate withdrawal from the unhol,
alliance they were only induced t
make because they desired through tina
means to rid themselves of burden
some debt by placing it in the way of
final settlement, on what they believes
to be an equitable basis. This objec
having been now fully accomplished
these have no longer single valid ex
cuse for the association they forme
with his gang, and which must be a
distasteful to them now as it is degrad
fng.-Rtchmo1d State.