The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-27
to help it they know not 1t stand tribute to
Republican craftsmanship and Republican hon

The Republicans at the Gloss of the war were
confronted with national debt Of s. $50 600, 600,
or a debt of $7S. 80 for every man. woman, and
child, white and colored, in America Like the
blunderers that they are, they went to work to
pay this debt. and in nineteen years they have
reduced it to $50. 50 per capita, while reducing
the taxes at every Congress for the last sixteen
years, except the present Democratic Congress-
in which every move in that direction
has been thwarted in their vain wrangle over
tariff that should look both ways. The Repub-
licans, while paying off the debt, as no other
nation ever did have, in their laundering, so inn
proved the credit of the country that its obliga
tions now draw but 3 per cent instead of ~
and the annual interest to-day is only
ei e ISL &c cents aa per capita whereas
But it is needless to pursue their history much
further. Democrats being the judges, the Re
publicans have Numbered from the beginning.
L they have ever proposed anything that the
Democrats did not oppose, history has failed to
record it, though the outcome Of these twenty
three years has been so glorious that the Demo
Gratis themselves would like to claim the
paternity of about everything-the war, eman-
c1pation, acknowledgements, greenbacks national
banks, tariffs-everything But perhaps the
greatest biunder Of the party in all these years
is its eternal failure to provide offices for all its
deserving men. Thousands of these are to-day
found IN some antagonistic party lighting the
Republican party as relentlessly as though every
fiber of its being was the personi6cation of
corruption. Nothing so clearly proves corrup-
ton as failure to reward modest merit
with fat office; hence the most violent abuse
that IS now heaped upon the Republican party
comes from this class of t'reformersa But 1T
would be hard on the Democracy to cut off this
supply of talent. By their own confession,
there IS either want of competent men in their
regular ranks, or there is such stigma attach
ing to the record of those who were
to Democratic manners born, that they
take to their inmost hearts and promote
to the foremost places those who were
most pronounced in their Repubiicanism until
the supply Of Offices gave out The youthful
Colonel Gray, with his five months service on
the banks of the Ohio, is more than match for
Joseph Il. Mcdonald, the veteran senator, or
for the venerable Manson, the hero of two wars,
for no other reason than that he was brought up
In the most ultra school OF Republieanism. And
now, forsooth, they demand change of officers
that they may profit thereby. We will see them
happy first,
Finally, judging from Democratic elamor, the
greatest blunder of its long and eventfnI life is
found in the fact thatit has gone and nominated
James u Blaine for the presidency, and it was
done, too, almost by reclamation; the eminent
statesman, the scholarly gentleman, the honored
husband OF cultured lady, the head of happy
family whom no American will blush to
greet on terms of equality in the Nations
mansion For that matter, however, it is not
remembered that the Republican party ever
pleased the Democratic party in its nominations.
1t is more than likely that it never tried to-
Judging from the course of the Demo
cratic party toward Lincoln, and Hayes,
and Grant, and Garfield, even the
carpenter OF Nazareth, the son of Mary,
would not escape their forgeries and vltupera.
uons II now on earth and nominated for the
presidency by the Republican party, for no man
has been found pure enough to please them
Neither could any degree of success prevent this
clamor for change of administration, while
s 81 q change implied changd also of officers,
tnougn they IN all cases have approved after the
thing has been done. Nevertheless whenever a
Republican confronts u Democrat he is ex-
pected to sing
The h 4 intakes Of my life have been many
And thsy come 10 me ard rnoreo
But he does it with significant twinkle Of his
eye, which says, But don't you wish the results
OF your political blunders were as gloriousl
What would you give if you could show the out
come OF less than quarter of century to be
the emancipation and acknowledgment of
SIX millions of laboring men: the sub-
stltutlon of a sound currency, and plenty
OF 1t, for the miserable shin-plasters Of Demo
cratic days; the reduction Of interest from u
per cent to q and surplus in the treasury of
millions instead of not q dollarP And now NON
honor, do you think the people Of this country
are going to restore these old Democrats to
power and to return to these old Democratic
ways and days. just to please few hungry
office -seekersl Not much
Finally, comrades of the Tippecanoe Club
there comes to us in this the evening Of oni.
life, an unspeakable comfort in the abiding faith
we have that the American people will never
again return this unchanged Democratic marty
70 power. we fought it in our youth with our
ballots. and in our maturer life with orr bayo-
nets, and we shall bequeath to our children our
CONVICTIONS that 1t is essentially corr,1ut az to
men and unseund as to policy that it never can
De trusted with power. The few Republicans
who are entieed into its ranks in homes Of ofsca
are not sufficient to redeem it. Thew NAV save
it from Immediate dissolution, but when we
consider the magnitude of the work we must
ask about these seekers after the Ioayes and
nshes the pertinent question that the dis
sciples asked about the loaves and fishes them
selves, What are these among So manv7
Though they were the very salt Of the earth az
they profess to be, they are not salty enough "a
save party with such record Of blood. not
curing the war only, but through its Copiah
county system of terrorism everywhere practiced
IN the regions of pure Democracy The indie
pendent Republican movement of 1872 had MANY
elements OF strength until it went into the bow
els OF the Democratic party. The people
promptly rejected the incompatible co,nno1i,id and
1t was so nauseating to Mr.. Greeley that he went
crazy and died of its effects
Ii IN the future the Republican party shall
grow corrupt, or shall fail to align itself with
the new issues which the advancing material,
social, and moral interests of the country shall
bring to the front, other political organizations
will arise which shall voice the will Of the neo-
pie, but never, never will the American peoule
again lntrust the helm Of State to party whose
uaoiS' 90 ~ iIS DriHS ana ltS structure, is found
in the identical men and measures which they
rebuke 50 signally at the polls in 184O and again
IN 1861 and 1865, by the arbitrament Of the
sword II may hnger yet for decades in the
unconquered South, and find congenial spirits il
the Chicagos and New Yorks Of the North. but
the reading, thinking, tax-paying and school
supporting American viii never again be gov
erned by the Democratic party To us the news
from Maine has peculiar charm. Just forty.
four years ago, with just such news from that
skirmish line we sang
Maine went he'll bent, for Governor Kent
And we knew what was to follow We knew
to-day what this 20, 600 majority means
Madame Ristori's Return.
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