Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-05-20
TWO MONTHS-THE RESULT.

The highest compliment that the Dem
ocrats have ever paid or can ever pay the
Republican party they are paving now in
the pretended adoption of Republican
policies and principles as their own. Tc
do this is not easy or pleasant for them,
Men of any self-respect find it unspeak-
ably humilating to admit that they have
been lying like cowardly scoundrels in
every political campaign for years. Yet
the Democrats have to do that or to dc
worse.
Here is the monthly debt statement
There is hardly a Democratic editor who
can print it, or Democratic speaker who
can read or quote it, without proving
that his assertions about the finances for
years past have been as full of un!ruths
as an egg is full of meat. He has been
asserting that there was an enormous
surplus which ought to have been spent
in clearing off debt. Mr.. Hendricks and
Mr. Randall unblushipgly said it was
$20O00O,000 or more, Every statement
of Mr.. Manning, the Democratic Secre-
tarv of the Treasury, tells them that they
have been lying The Democratic orator
and editor PERSISTED for years in asserting
that the Republican statements were
CROOKED" and fraudulent; that they
were cunningly devised to conceal the
truth and to hide the robbery of the
people by the Republicans. Mr.. Man
ning's statements comparing dollar for
dollar and cent for cent with those of his
predecessors, using the very same items
and differing only in the arrangement of
them, prove that these assertions have
simply been pack of falseh0ods. 1t is
not pleasant to admit all this But the
Democratic administration is forced to do
that or to let the Treasury become bank
rupt in the first year of Democratic rule,
and the latter would be fatal to all chances
of keeping Office. When a Democrat has
to forfeit either his chance of keeping Office
or his reputation for honesty and self
respect, there is no doubt which he will
give up.
The civil service reform convicts the
Democrats of untruth every hour. They
would abandon the policy and abolish the
system if they dared, but that would
cost them defeat. Attempting to pay
some sort of respect to it, they involun-
tarily proved that they were untruthful
when they called the Republican officials
"rascaIs," and asserted that the public
service had been crowded with incompe-
tents. IF the old officials were really
rascals-if in fact, any accusation what
ever of improperly, however fmsy,
could be established against them-they
could he put out at once, in strict ac-
cordanre with civil-service rules Not
single one has yet been so removed,
except IL few cases where charges had
been investigated, ana removal virtually
decided upon, by the previous Republican
administration. Hundreds of men have
been turned out whose righteousness
and efficiency have been officially adj
mitted, in order to make room for persons
in harmony with the new administration;
but no rascals have been found to remove
and no incompetents. Nearly hundred
thousand persons still retain office after
Democratic administration has had
the power to remove them for two months,
because no fault can be found with them
The net results of two months under
Democratic rule is to prove that the
Democratic party gained Office by per-
sistent, stupendous, monumental false
hoods. Republicans await the develop
ments of the next two months with
serene satisfactiop.-NesoY York Tribune