The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-19
The Policy Of the Republican Party.


so-ca1led Republican party has been to
strengthen the extreme opposition party
of the South. 1t builds Up the organi-
zation there which it can fight most
effectively here. 1t consolidates and
gives potency to those in the South
against whom it may most successfully
consolidate the North. Key was ian
original, fre=eating before-breakfast
secessionist. Woodcock, the Union
soldier recently elected from the In
ternal Revenue service at Nashville, has
beef sttpplaRted; by Hughes, a furious
secessionist of 1S60-61: John Hancock,
native Southern Unionist, who left
Texas and went into the Union service,
was pursued, as candidate for Con-
gress, by the tools Of the Administration
with unparalleled ferocity: With them
the original sccessionists co-opefatsd,
and by this unnatural coalition Russell,
a conservative native Republican, was
prosecuted, and by 1t Hancock, now
elected, has been twice beaten for Con-
gress. Ex-United States Senator Al
corn, a South Carolinian by birth, but
always Whig and Unionist and Re-
publican since 1865, is only too con-
servative and too decent gentleman
to be approached by the masters of the
now dominant party. Houk is its
proper impersonation. He is its beau
ideal of Southern party leaders. To
him has been conceded the sole
privilege of distributing offices and pub
lie plumber in Tennessee. He has cCr-
rupted a once respectable, honest old
Whig district, and is Its perfect master.
He urges the payment of claims and
pensions from a single county amount
Ing to a greater stim than was the taxa
BILE wealth of this county when slavery
subssted: He is THUS d claim-agent,
directly or Indirectly, for two-thirds of
the people he represents, and each OF
his clients support him that he may have
pfotracted opportunities for the eollec-
ton of their claims. Public morals are
vitiated, all decency is violated and per-
jury made commonplace through the
shameless depravity of party which
has polluted popular and official and
legislative morals, Until the people
themselves in many localities are as
thoroughly depraved as their worst rep
resentatives. "What am 1 to swear to
in order to get pension?" What
proof must l make in order to establish
ID Cldlul! 1HcSc tIiS Hoii-
est, mos patriotic aspirations of Gov
ernment-corrupted mob. Perjury is a
popularized fine art, and the great end
Of human ambition is ,consummated
when pension is secured. or an office
occupied, or ''claim" established. In
fact, the Federal Government, as
administered by the party in
power, is only device through
which owners of mills, or rails, or bonds,
or banks may plunder the people on the
one hand, while the people are only
learning how, through the same ma
chinery, to plunder themselves. Not
only are bribes proffered by Govern
ment in the shape of offices and money,
impelling multitudes to practices OF
perjury, but women are hired by the
Government pensiuning system and
codes to prefer adultery to welded life.
The whole scheme, however just and
beneficent in purpose, is full of rotten.
cess and vice. And it comes to this al
last that the concession of pension de
pends not upon the facts of case, but
what is proven, and any facts required
always can be established by adequate
proof Streams of gold flowing on
from the Federal Treasury through
bonds, offices, banks, pensions anC
claims, have corrupted and maddeneC
perhaps half the populations of towns
and cities. Toiling farmers of the interior
districts alone are unpolluted and un
bought, and to these cooperating more
thoroughly than ever before must we
look for the overthrow of a party which
has injected foulest poison into every
vein and artery of the body polite.
Not content with the pollution of it.
leaders, this Republicanism confesse
that its strength lies in the maintenance,
of sectionalism. 1t demands popular
support because it "saved the Union,
which it perpetually undermines an(
Systematically destroys. 1t corrupt
the hearts of the people and buys vote
with offices and money. 1t even de
grades the Union in the eyes of South
ern people by entrusting patronage ant
offices to those deemed most odious an,
most contemned by the people. Absur'
follies of twenty and twenty-five year
ago are practically re-enacted. Then
when fanatical Joshua r. Giddings, o
Ohio, made most intlammatory sec
tional harahgue he was most hearth,
congratulated by Lawrence M. Keitt
Iuc SWOTu anu udIuo SWdllOWSr VI SOut
Carolina, and when Keitt replied, Gid
dings and his coadjutors circulated owe
the North half a million copies of tn
pyrotechnical blazonry of sectional fury
The blessed Republican party so-calle'
and while polluting the morals of tn
whole country and organizing djstinc
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duced the war with all its dire calami
ties, and the rupture in the Union who's
parts it keeps asunder now by ever,
moral and legal force which Fedora
power may eXert.-Anaerican Register