The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-23

arms, ON the field, and the others engaged in
lending aid and comfort in every possible way
so dead as to require burial and to be forgot
ten. Yet they would help the independent Re
publicans, the goody goody people who were too
pure to any longer remain in harmony with the
Republican party since they could no longer hold
ofice-they would help these make change.
But the people equally abhorred the rebel De-
mocracy and the extra pious Republicans who
were willing to cohabit with them in that strange
bedfellowship which desperation in politics often
makes, and there was no change,
In 1876 this same Democratic party, resur-
rected, and as Ben Harrison said in reference to
to the phenomenon. unlike the resurrection
spoken of in the bible, where what is sown in
corruption is raised in interruption, this old party
came forth Just as it had gone under, this res
directed party met in St Louis, and, to prove
its identity struck the old note, Change! want
change and they put on the ticket that Durest
of railroad wreckers and ballotrbox suffers, Mr..
Tilden, and labeled him Reform. But, not
withstanding mules in Indiana, and shot-guns
and tissue ballots in the South and cipher dis
patches everywhere, the people refused to
change, but the Republican party went right
along, reducing taxes, resuming specie payment,
paying off bonds, building thousands Of miles of
railroads, and hundreds Of factories and school
houses everywhere, and notably in the South
and West.
In 1880 this same Democratic party met at
Cincinnati Hoping to procure Conformation of
their well known hostility to every war measure
while hostility could cripple the arm of the gov
eminent they put one Of the best Of the Union
soldiers on for the presidency. and struck the
usual key note Changei the people want a
change, but again they shook their heads and
| said, mo changer
And now again they are in the field with their
| candidate of 1884 and the burden of their,song
is the old refrain Change; the people want a
change" For the first time the import of this
| change has been stated Mr. Hendricks says
| there are 1000 officers to be changed at once
and another $4,000 as soon as the Republican
aiy lavxy ha oIaH hn
secret, SOC, 900 hungry Democrats want change
for the sake Of the Offices to be distributed;
| for there are five to ten who hope to obtain the
vacant place for every place that's tobe vacated
| And now itremains to be seen whether the voters
of this nation, who produce its wealth and con-
tribute to its prosperity are ready to change the
| line of policy under which such prosperity has
resulted for the old line which it superseded That
4 can not be a very mischievous craftsmanship
under which, intwenty -four years, the population
has increased from 81 900 600 to So 900 000 under
/ which five States have been added to the Union
under which the railroads have grown form
| 30, 635 miles to 117,717, three of these roads
stretching from ocean to ocean and aggregatng
more miles than all the world besides); under
| which most gigantic war was waged for four
years against the very men in whose interest
i this change is demanded, and without whose
solid aid it could not be thought possible and
unde which, notwithstanding this war, the pros
! perity Of every interest of the country has kept
pace with the increase of her railroads; under
/ winch the fotten currency Oh OLD OeM0cfaJlc
| times has given place to currency so sound
that any of it is equally good everywhere. and so
/ abundant that no laboring man receives orders
on the corner grocery for his work, as he did in
Democratic times, but he receives gold and sill
yer, and at more than double the wages that he
received in the times to which we are asked to
return; under which the taxation made neces-
sary by the war has already been reduced more
than half, and the war debt has been more than
half paid while appropriations have been made
lavishly for the benefit Of wounded soldiers and
their families, and for improvements of ma
tional character. The 81 600, 900 of Americans
will not be in a hurry to change from such a line
of policy merely to accommodate the 100000
| who expect to get Office by the change.
! Yet want change. want this eternal harping
upon changs Of policy to cease. Let the DEM
ocrats tell Us what they propose to do with the
currency, or with the revenue, or with something
else than the Offices if they should be forgiven
their old misdeeds and be once more entrusted
/ with power. Do give us rest from this old song.
| Change your music box to some other tune
Sing of free trade or of capital owning labor, or
Of States rights, or of free banks-sing of any
| good old Democratic doctrine once, just to see
how it would sound Give us change.
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