The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15
The Facts as We Find Them:

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defi's statesmasnhip which does not
please the Republican politicians. He
strikes at the foot of the great issues
which fills men minds in Considering
the Presidential question. He tells us
that the Government has become ''a
menacing factor iii elections;n that it
uses its myriads of office-holders, its al
liances with vast pecuniary interests,
It's unlimited command of money levied
from its dependents and contractors to
corrupt voters and overthrow the will
of the majority; that no reform Of adj
ministration is possible until the people
drive out of power a party which is
'.under the dominion of false doctrines
and animated by enormous. pecuniary
interests in the perpetuatiop OF existing
abuses"
and feeds upon them. The Republicans
would submit to the people a PROPOSE
ton for tariff reform and set them to
disputing as to the amount of reduction
that should be made in the duties on
iron and steel.
The Tribune describes the accusa-
tions which it says Mr.. Tilden makes
against the Republicans as ''vague and
nebulous," and thinks they serve to il
lustrate show admirable on the whole
has been the career of the Republican
party.
But the accusations do not come from
Mr.. Tilden. He simply points out to
the Democracy the facts of the situation
as they exist, in q plain, unembellished
manner.
1t was Republican Secretary Of the
| Treasury who carried the Whisky Ring
| frauds into the White House and laid
them down at President Grants door,
through the pocket of his private secre-
tary. 1t was quarrel of Republican
rascals over the spoils which led to the
| impeachment of Grants Secretary of
War for the Post-trader. frauds. Re-
publican papers, and among them the
Tribune, denounced the Credit Mobilier
scandals after Republican Congress
man had exposed them, and charged
James A. Garfield with presenting "a
most distressing figure in the investi-
| cation. 1t was the falling out of Re-
| publican thieves which first exposed the
| Star-route frauds. It was the Secretary
of the Republican National Committee
who told of the purchase of Indiana
|
the story of the sale of Supreme Court
Judgeship for 100000 and who ex-
| planned that some of the wealthy Star
route robbers had paid bribes to es-
] cape Indictment. 1t was a Republican
office-seeker who murdered President
Garfield. 1t was Republican ex-Post-
| master General who swore to the belief
that a plot existed to kill all who were
concerned in the prosecution of Repub-
ican robbers when the President was
assassinated. 1t was q Republican ex-
Attorney-General who testified that he
lett Arthur's Cabinet because he saw
that no one who desired to send the
Star-route thieves to Jail could have the
friendship or The moral support of the
present Republican Administration.
Republicans are the denouncers of Ar.
thur as the beneficiary of an assassina.
tion his own conduct helped to bring
about. 1t is on Republican authority
that the machine methods of this State
are denounced as Infamous and that the
Republican leader and boss, Johnny
O'Brien, is accused of violating law and
practising frauds for the accomplish
ment of his objects.
In the greatest political crime of thi:
generation, the overthrow of the will o
the people in the election of 1876 and
the theft of the Presidency for thu
fraudulent Hayes, history, and not Mr.
Tilden, is the accuser of the Republican
party.
Is there anything "vague and neb
ulous' about these facts? Are th'
bribes received by Republican Con
crosses for subsidies and land grabs
the naval corruptions under Robesol
and Chandler; the repeated Treasury
robberies; the enormous fees of tn
political Star-route counsel; the '.settle
ments" effected by friends of the Ad
ministration; the general dishonest,
and decentralization in all the public de
partments- are all these vague an,
nebulous,'' or are they notorious truth
known to the whole country?
., Mr.. Tilden takes these facts as h
finds them. He tells the people tina
before they can hope to accomplish an
administrative reform they must driv
from power this self-accused and sell
convicted party. He reminds the peopl
that against a corrupt, unscrupulou
power intrenched behind myriads G
office-holders and an unlimited CON
mand of money from dependents, cor
s tractors and corporations. they have
\ hard battle to fight. There is nothin
! "vague and nebulous' about this.
is the plain utterance of truth, an
g should open the eyes not of Democrat
s alone but of all honest Republicans t
:. the work required of them in this elet
ton, if they desire to save the Republi
,. from eventual destruction. 70,
i World.