The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-10-09
The Great Westeln n Re,olut:on.

Unless the shrcwdest and most care
full observers completely misconstrue
the signs OF the times, the greatest
pol 'tic;il revolution of the present year
will take place in the West. Ohio. In
diana, Michigan, Wisconsin. Iowa.
Kansas and Illinois, besides some
smaller Western States are in apparent
readiness to repud:ate the Republican
party, to which they have adhered in
every Presidential year since 1850, with
the exception of Indiana in 1875, and
10 enlist under the banner of Change
and Reform.
Republican intolerance, bal faith,
greed and corruption have gradually
! prepared the way for u great rcvolu-
| tion. The '.insolcnce of power shown
by the Republican party for nearly a
quarter of a century; its ruthless taxa,
ton of the people for the purpose OF
amassing huge surplus in the National
Treasury, which it controls; its az
gressions on the personal rights and
liberties OF the people; its undue favor
itism of monopolies and corporations:
It's open, defiant corruptions, have by
degrees kindlcd the indignation which
is now prepared to break out into u
consuming fir..
The French Revolution was seeming
ly the work of a night. The uprising
OF July II, 1882, took Paris by sur
prise. Yet it need not have done SO.
The infamies of the Regency, the
weakness of the King, the insolent
usurpations and outrages of the mobiles,
tine wrongs of hard-toiling people,
pinched BY hunger and driven to des-
pair, had for years given sufficient in
dications of the gathering of the ter
rible storm which suddenly burst over
the Nation.
The pending political revolution in
the West has had ample provocation.
The Republicans have ground down
agricultural labor, while driving ra l.
roads over it's neek and pamperlns
favored interests. They have given
away hundreds of millions OF the pub
lie lands to wealthy and grasping Coz
porations, putting the 6cna.fde settler
under the power of monopolies. II
all their policy they have abused tn,
: Western section of the country in I
greater degree, probably, than any
other. The Germans, who have fiocket
to the West, have found themselves
! under professedly free Government
! stripped OF their personal privileges
, and amusements and placed in strait
waistcoat of other peoples intoieran
notions and pre-, ,udices.
: 1t is desirable that the wave of po
litical revolution should come from tn
= young and vigorous West. 1t will b
+ the more irresistible because it VIII bea
on its crest the rugged honesty of th'
!. broad prairies. 1t will be victory al
the grea.er and more sig enificant il VOL
by States which are marching on lik
an army of giants and which have re
E NAMED faithful to the Republican par
; ty as long as it was faithful TO itself. |
j. will be victory that will stay, that vii
e know no reverses. that will grow wit
!, the growth of the West and b
. strengthened by the wisdom and patri
otism with which i: will bf7used,
5 New York is pledged 10 the Demo
Q cratic cause. So are New Jersey, Con
4 4 necticut and other Eastern States. Blu
+ we shall all gladly hail the West as
leader in the great revolution and sha
+ feel that our common triumph will b
:. made doubly glorious If it is to be th
f signal of the emancipation of the Wes
e ern States from Republican thraldon
e NJ T. Wor'd.
t The Republicans realize the fat
e that Mrs. Lot NJ. MorrilI's testimony
y |. very damaging and are leaving Il
IF stone unturned to break it down. Bu