The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1883-07-17
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VI Tue ciFli service, -tnat means put:
ting no one bot RspHblicans on guard
to night; that is the elevation OF the
put lie service "In the enactment OF
series Of wise public measures which
have given the country unexsmpled
prosperity. have given the best assurance
of its purposes for the future"
This is the kind of literature that our
Republican brethren always start out
with. The first tbihg they do when
they start platform is to get their backs
to the future and their faces to the past,
and then point with pride to the past.
Their national platform, adopted at
Chicago In 1880, consisted in series of
pointings with rride to the past, and
this is a specimen OF it. Nov, tberB
are two kinds of past There is the
past. which vain man of bad charac.
ter gives Il, himself You know fhe cid
story that there are some men who, Il
you will approise them at what they are
actually worth and buy them at that, and
then sell them at what they think they
are worth, you will have made your for
tune. The same thing applies here:-ff
/ could
Buy the Republican Party t
ut it's worth and sell.it at the valuation
they put upon it in that platform, t
would have two barrels instead of one.
As l read that platform in the cars to-
day. 1t occurted to nie to apply the rtle
Of Burns poem: K
10 wad some power the giftie gle US
Te see eurssls as ithers see u.s." ~ -,
And try to write out my idea of the past
Of the Republican party. You know |
have some knowledge on tie subject =
They say l have. The Commercial says
so. They say ] have been there, and
seen them on the inside. So. l wrote
out on piece OF paper my idea OF what
the first plank of Republican platform
ought to be, provided it was written by
d truthful historian, one who was not en-
gagged III washing her flee.
Resolved, That the Republican party,
in fostering and encouraging the most
gigantic corruptions known in modern
times, in perterting to base and selfish
tlses the agehcies of government which
the people intended for the a
General welfare,
IL the, theft of the Presidency and Vice;
Presidency, remaining not only unpun.
ished, but actually rewarded with the
spoils OF Office conferred by the benef:
ciafies Of the fraud on its perpetrators,
in the establishment and maintenance of
the whisky ring, the conversion 5f its
profits to Republican party dsss and the
acdnittal from punishment of it's pros
moters, Ii the wsste bf public funds id
star route frauds by high officials of the
administration and Of the Republican,
party machine, the use OF the moneys
so stolen to corrupt elections, and tbd
escape of the conspirators from punish.
ment, in marked contrast with the COM
dign punishment with which the Demo.
cratic party, led by Samuel j. TiIden.
visited the New York City ring thieves;
Tweed, Sweeney, Counelly and Genet;
In the use OF the civil service OF the
government, through
Jay Hubbellism
and other like agencies to corrupt the
ballot box; in the destruction Of the
American navy, Sheteby the glory won
on every sea for the tisti0ial flag by the
heroes Of two wars, by Hull and Deca-
tur, and Baiubridge and Stewart, who
conddered the navy of ENGLAND, and by
Farragut and Porter and Foote during
the rebellion, has been converted into
shame BY Robson and Chandler, in the
obliteration OF our mercantile marine.
so that the high seas are hardly tSEched
by an American keel, while trifiing
streams known only to tie geographef
are secured in search Of river and har:
Dor jobs. In the waving of the bloody
shirt and the cultivation of sectional am
mosities long after war had ceased, and
when the cultivation Of .ftaterhal affec-
ion and the methods of peace had be-
some duty, furnish urgent reasons for
Change of Government.
md fully explain the reason why sd
many of the ablest and best Republican
eaders, Including the honored names Of
Seward, Chase. Greeley, Sumner; Adams,
rrumbuh, Palmer, Curtin, Julian, Gas.
sius NJ: Clay, and Rufus 2. Spalding, of
,ur own State, have fled from afiliation
with the Republican party as from the
,o1tagion Of pestilehce A
THIS Is the way read history. This
series of jobs and frauds have put to
shame the leaders of toe Republican
party, and driven those great names Of
hose great men who were the prices
md honor and glory Of the Republican
party dlrihg the rebellion and the years
hat followed sitter the rebellion, out Of
he party. This is tue history, and not
he false statement of self adulation;
With which the Republican platform be-
yins. -
After reviewing the records OF both
parties and giving some sound advice Oh
he coming contest. the Judge conclu4
led amid much enthusiasm.
Humor in the Stomach.
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