The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-15
SATURDAY. AUG. 10, 1885.
Turn the RaSCaIS Out.

Gals out was being yelled from one
end of the land to the other. This
emphatic and fOrcible language was
used to fire the Democratic heart, and
was an appeal to the honest tetC in the
Republican party to go over to the
Democrats and help elect Demo-
cratic President. All this, Of course,
upon the assumption that the admin
iStrat1On of the government by the
Republican party had been corrupt
and Republican officials, as a rule.
dishOnt st. There was another as
sumption, also, and that was that a
Democratic administration would be
pure and Democratic officials. as a
rule, honest. This sort of political
clap-trap caught enough simple min
ded fools, alias mugWumps, to elect
a Democratic President, and about
the first business of the new admin
istratiOn was to 60 in search of the
large army of raScalS who existed in
the Democratic Imagination. The
search, though long and tedious, fail
ed, and failed utterly, to bring to
light the rascals of which the public
had been told so much. Not only so,
but the ariStOcratic noses of all the
Democratic smelling committees fail
ed to scent out any of the rottenness
and corruption which had grown up
under Republican rule. This, to the
Democratic mind, was a singular
state of affairs. No raScaIS. No cor
ruption. Evidently there was some
thing wrong. But the Democratic
mind was equal to the occasion, and
so the offensive partisanship dodge
was invented and for a while it was
worked for all it was worth. But
somehow it was discovered that the
offensive partisanship circular was
tWO.edged sword, and when the adj
ministration aWakes to this fact the
President quietly shut up shop and
went fishing. But the good work of
turning the rascals out is still going
on and this is the way the work is
done. In the city of Cincinnati, in
the State of Ohio, at the Presidential
election in the year of our Lord 1884,
great frauds were perpetrated upon
the ballot. This, of course, was moth
ing new in Democratic politics. OF
course Morris Thomas and Eugene
Higgins did not go from Baltimore
to Ohio to help the people to have
fair election. They were there, at
any rate, and frauds were committed,
and both of these Maryland worthless
have been appointed to important
offices by Mr.. Cleveland. AT this
same election there was a certain
Michael Mullen, of Cincinnati, po-
lice lieutenant, who, on election day,
arrested and confined in the station
house over one hundred colored peo-
pie and prevented them from voting.
They were all released, no charges
having been preferred against them.
Mullen was tried in the United States
Court, convicted and imprisoned for
violation of the Federal election laws.
Now, the strange part Of the case is,
that before the sentence has more
than half expired President Cleye-
land comes to the front and Mullen
is pardoned, on his good reputation.
and because, perhaps, he misappre-
hended his duties land various other
reasons" 1t seems. therefore, that
if the administration cannot find Re
publican rascals to punish it can find
Democratic rascals to reward, and it
seems, too, that Democratic rascals
are being literally rewarded. The
assumption that the Republican par
ty had been very corrupt turned out
to be without foundation in fact, and,
unless we are mistaken, the other
assumption that the Democratic party
is pure and its officials, as a rule,
honest will prove equally groundIess.
Let the administration go on turning
such convicted rascals as Mullen out
let il continue to reward such men as
Higgins and Thomas for their dirty
work, and the time will soon come
when the people will turn the rascals
out, sure enough.