Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-08-25

oOp10 . ait VI WHICH, lie 10 tuS
head and the fit champion. Gen.
Butler is qnite power and his letter
is so framed as to be popular with
many. The democrats will be most
injured by it as it is calculated to
draw heavily, or heaviest, where they
have few votes to spare. The follow
ing compliments to the old parties
will show the style of the letter and
the way the s'people's candidate" goes
for them:
The country has had no experience
for nearly quarter of a century of
what the democracy would do if they
had the power so that the people are
obliged to require the most explicit
pledges from them of intended action,
before we can put the government in
their hands. But the farmer and the
laboring man do know that a demo-
cratic house of representatives he's
just appropriated more money raised
by taxation than any other house of
representatives has ever appropriated
in time of peace. We also know that
the democratic majority would have
made free trade tariff. containing
all the odious features of the present
war tariff, SO far as it regards it's
monstrous inequalities, by hori-
zontal reduction of the tariff to break
down very many rising and strug-
CLING industries, and destsuction Of
the homes of our workingmen and
the home markets of the American
producers.
Who does not know that the very
| fear Of the action of the democracy
in congress has so paralyzed Ameri-
can enterprise and business, that
mills are everywhere closing, mines
shut up, furnaces blown out, and ev-
cry kind of employment so curtailed
that the mechanic and workingmen
are not earning enough to support life
/ in comfort; SO that the farmer even,
deprived of home market, and
crushed down by discriminating rates
of transportation, finds his corn,
wheat and wool lower than it has been
within the present generation. Can
the people, therefore, trust the ma
chine democracy with power, upon a
shifting, evasive, and deceptive plat
form.
| The country has had experience in
republican party rule % years, and
know the results. We therefore have
no need to look at its platform, fol-
"by their fruits ye shall know them. "
The republican party in its incep'
ton was emphatically the party OF
the people. 1t had in it substantially
neither monopolist nor capitalist. i
was as poor as was the convention Of
delegates who framed the declaration
of independence. Taking out five
, men, the rest could hardly pay thei
board bills
The republican party was formed
: upon grand and noble idea, to d.
for one class of workingmen what tn
: democratic party, even under Jeffer
D son and jackson, had failed to do
Y Their democracy only dealt with tn
+ white men. The democracy of tn
S republican party dealt with the blaci
S man, and aimed to give him freedom
: and equnl rights. For that purpos
e and that Alone was that party form
S ed. 1t was the radical party, and S
: radical party of the people, that tn
n aristocratic part of the wing party
: the old adversaries of the democrat
: of the days of jackson, merged them
s selves in the democracy without
if drop of democratic blood, as the
F. hoped, in their veins, OF though
b for the people, except as the lowe
classes in their party, and such
N them as a quarter of a century he
e. spared, and found with the democr;
lie cy of to-day largely guiding its coul
l. ellis in the manner we have seen.
le The necessity for money to carr
e. on the war drew all the bankers al
re capitalists intosthe republican part
IN The immense fortunes, almost ne
t. essarily growing sout of the vast e
en- penditures of the war, fell into Il
he hands of men who attached thel
re selves to the party that fed them,
he the iron is attracted by the magnt
c- and monopolized industries and e
lie terprises.
ic- The necessity to bind together t
in eastern and western shores of the
Ike public by methods of quick tran
) portation, giving reason for INNER
lid subsidies. granted to make thu
pi- systems of railroads across the cor
no nent with all their branches and fee
in ers, created wealth in corporate
IN and individuals, to a degree Def,
ght unheard of, in this or any other col
les try, and brought all those intere
his substantially into the republican p
ty. And if any stayed in the der
fty cratic party, they were in confede
uia ton with the. same class, to so
he range politics that whichever pa
ach came in power, capital, in all its
II ried forms, would be sure to cont
nat and the people be ground up as 6
nat tween the upper and neither n
lcy' stone" Thus it will be readily Sc
ght and he who runs may read, that
iof republican party is the party of
ick- noDolu of oorporafo ;ntoroctc II,