The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-14
TURNING THE RASCALS IN.

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| horse thieves, he had no hesitancy in saying
that all horse thieves were Democrats. Mr.
Greeley was possessed Of excellent judgment,
and had the old-fasbioned nerve necessary to
promulgate its conclusions. Living to-day, he
would hardly have occasion to modify
his sweeping charge against the Democratic
party. The President, new to business of
magnitude such as now devolves upon him,
seems bewidered by the richness Of rascality
with which his advisers environ him. Look
ing for material out of which to construct an
alleged reform administration, he is constantly
being steered upon snags in the shape of ex
| conyicts, active convicts, and men who de-
| serve to be convicted. From DR.. Meiere down
to the last man Mr.. Cleveland has
named for office, the way has been
Tricky strewn with men who could easily
answer in the affirmative Postmaster general
Nilas's question: Have you ever been in
dicted?' It has come to such pass that Il
stranger, unfamiliar with the former genius
Of the Republic but advised of the character
of the men now being nominated would be
excused in thinking that for some unexplained
reason Mr. Villas was seeking just such
men And the good work goes right on The
man appointed postmaster at Lincolnville, Me-,
while he was yet serving sentence in peniten
tiarv, has no OCCASION to feel lonely. Mr.. c. P.
Judd, recently appointed to be special agent
| of the National Labor Bureau for Nevada and
/ the Territories, has been brought to Alamosa
trumpedup charge, either, for Mr.. Judd, re-
alizing the nature of the evidence against him,
has confessed not only the particular Of
| Tense, but further admits that he did
| Estate service in the penitentiary
and two terms in the Colorado pententiary
for like crimes. Mr.. Judd complacently de-
MES, however, that his petition for appoint
ment was urged by well-known Democrats
who presumably knew his character. P. f.
kincen, appointed postmaster at Valley Falls,
II. l., has been arrested nine times in the
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liquor law, and honest men of that locality
hope to have him removed. Coming close
| h ONE, Indianians are treated to
the spectacle of the appointment
to the railway mail service of man shameless
enough to publicly boast of having bribed fell
low members of the City Council of Indianap-
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thirty days, yet not Democrat seems to have
thought of raising voice against him, while
the brevet Democrats, or mugwumps, appear
to have been kicked so hard in the Jones bust
ness that they do not care to make any further
attempt to hold the President to his word.
This remarkable exhibit was not wholly un-
expected. It could not we'll be otherwise.
These are but the symptoms of the disease
known as Democracy. We insist, without
any consciousness of prejudice, that the Dem
ocratic party, now as ever, embraces the
vicious masses, and stands for all that is law
less and defiant. 1t is well-known political
rule that the Democratic wards in all our
cities are those wards where law-breaking is
most common. The largest Democratic votes
come from localities Of ignorance and
vice, and the Democratic party is now
in power by virtue of the maiorities received
in the hoodlum wards of New York city and
Brooklyn, without which the State of New
York would have been carried by the Repub-
Iican candidates by majority of thousands.
Bad men are appointed to Office by the Presi-
dent because his party is essentially bad, ira
ditionally immoral and profoundly ignorant
and stubborn. If convict or ex convict is
Democrat, and can manipulate ward
primaries he is good enough for Office.
and hence he is showed forward and
the President names him, under the impress
sion that the representative Democrats on his
petition knew what they were doing when
they signed it. The shame Of it is that thew
did know what they We're doing, but didn't
care to or didn't dcre to cross a good"
Democrat. Hence it is that scores of petit
tons go to Washington in behalf of men who
have been or Should be in the penitent;ary,
ana the administration is 'scandalized'
The Democratic party Of to-day is the same
Democratic party that it has been for the past
quarter Of century, during whchit has been
a stencil in the nostrils OF all honest men, 1t
is now in power by the votes of the bummers
of New York city and Brooklyn. But it is in
no wise regenerated. The handful of mug
wump salt cannot purify the Democratic sea
of filth and corruption. The profession Of re-
form and economy deceives nobody. The ad-
| miniStIation makes hlurde1,s hacausa Il has