The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-05
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Democrats Wearing Their Laureis with
Dignity and Forbearance.

Democrats Wearing Their Laureis with
Dignity and Forbearance.
1t has been grievous disappointment
to our Republican friends to find that
the victors in the late election still per-
sist in wearing their laurels with be-
coming dignity and torbearance, and
that the disgraceful scramble for office
which was so repeatedly and conf
IDENTIFY predicted has not yet taken
place. Why party, after such a sig
nal victory over corruption, reckless
ambition and INSCRIPTIONS misrepre-
sentation. could act with such marked
moderation and discuss National
questions and the change of adj
miniS:ration so temperately is some
thing that those who have been so long
fattening at the public crib can not
get through their heads. In their
chagrin and surprise they even accuse
the Democrats of hiding beneath their
good-natured imperturbabihty some
dark designs against the peace and well
fare of the .''party of moral ideas, and
that some terrible revelations will
be made after the fourth of
March. We beg these timid
people to possess their souls in peace
| and not grow hysterical over creatures
of their own imagination. No such
thoughts trouble the Democratic mind
The only danger to the party of moral
ideas" from the return of the people to
power will be the bringing to light all
unSavory documents bearing upon
! frauds, malfeaSance in office. plots
against the interests of the people and
records of deals, rewards for party ser
vice by offices irrespective of other quail
| ificatiOnS. There is a general belief pre-
vailing that in the pigeon-holes of the
departments are to be found countless
documents of this kind. some of them
| involving even more than the good
name of men who have stood high in
| the councils of the Nation. Should any
of these escape the general destruction
of compromising records, which Will
| undoubtedly SignaliZe the last days Ol
the Republican regime, they might
prove exceedingly inconvenient.
The attitude of the Democrats. since
| their great victory, has found admirers.
however. among fair-minded Republi.
cans, one of whom has Remarked: u;
must be conceded that the Democratic
party is bearing itself in victory with q
decorOuS dignity and moderation that
are happily disappointing. The reason
for this is simple enough, being founded
upon the Democratic Interpretation of
! their triumph. They feel that the peo-
pie, who had so long suffered from the
selfish, partisan, spoil-grabbing meth
DDS of Government to which they have
been so long subjected hailed with de-
light the opportunity to rid themselves
of sNch an incubus and to welcome a
conservative party pledged to purify
the Administration from corruption, to
restore economy, to revive respect for
law and to reduce taxation to the low
est limit consistent with due regard to
the preservation of the faith of the Ma
ton to its creditors and pensioners.
The Democratic party enters upon
its high mission of IefOrm in govern
ment with due sense of its Importance
and of the expectations formed of it
by the people who called it into power
The President-elect is deeply impressed
with the weight of res possibility placed
on his shoulders, so forcibly set forth
in the farewell letter of Mr.. T'ilden.
Twenty years of continuous mal-ad-
ministration under the demOralizing
influence of intestine war and of bad
finances have infected the whole gov
ernmental system of the United States
with the cancerOus growth of false
constructions and corrupt practices.
Powerful classes have acquired pecuni-
airy interests in official abuses, and the
moral standards of the people have
been impaired. To redress these evils
is work of great difficulty and labor.
and can not be accomplished without
the most energetic, efficient and per-.
sOnal action on the part of the chief ex-',
ecutive of the republic" The nation
viii find in President Cleveland just
the man for this Hcrculean task and in
the Democratic party the means to
correct the evils of Republican misrule.
Albany argus.