Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-07-24
THE MOLE-HILL BUILDERS.

Should the Republican party meet with de 4
feat this ia II In Ohio IL will have its scheming|
place hunters alone to blame. Not in the his
.ory Of parties has any platform been cons'ruc-
led that fell SO completely like pail or wet
blanket upon every honest and patriotic motive
of tho people. To crafty the aspirations of
a few schemers for Office. the convention was
called two nonihs earlier than II shou'd have
been called, and called too at a time when when
At was impossible for the farmer 10 leave his
crops 10 attend caucus or convention. This, to|
say II, st, has strong scmblanoe of pre-.
ueditalcd design. What eould have been the
nbjec, Of putting ticket in the field two mouths,
in advance Of other partiesH The age 4 farmer
tas remarked that ii wrcn cnched bin terribly tol
kick at nothing"
Ttsn comes Representative Taylor with the
bloodiest kind OF a bloody shirt speech as key
note to the campaign, over twenty years after
the war was over. This is followed up BY
a platform condemuing In the bitterest terms
the counting out Of the illiterste negro vote In
few sections of the Soath, while has not .
word Of condemua,iou for the cosatiag ost o.
over 300 600 of the most intelligent aud well
meaning voters right here 10 our own ftate OF
Ohio. Was there ever such transparent blund.
ers made by any party?
Then the patriotic platform builders insert
plank condemning Cleveland's administration
and make assertions which cannot be sustained
by fact or ayguuent, and this too Just at time
when he Is making heroic struggle against
the spoils mauipulators aud corrnptionists in
his own party and should be sustained in his
efnrts by honest men in all paries-even to the
extent Of dismpting the Democratic party.
We have already quoted the laWented Gar
field, W ho said in speech seven years ago
"The man who attempts to get up political ex
element In this country uu the old sectional
issue, will find himself without party and
without support. The man who wants 10 serve
his country must put himself in the line of its
leading thought, aud that is the restoration OF
business, trade, commerce, industry, sount
political economy, hard money and the honest
payment Of all obligations: and the man wh'
can add anything in the direction oi the nc-
eomplishment Of any Of these purposes 10 n pub
lie benefactor."
In the same train Of thought and patriotic i'm
pulse the famented General Graat adds 70 thi
sentiment. The Confederate Gen. Buckner, an
old class-maie at West Point, made a friendl,
call upon Gen. Grant last week aud had lon
Interview with him. The dying hero, to
feeble to talk, conducted his part Of tho cnuver
sation In writing. he sal d lie had ever con
tended that il there had been nobody left bu
the soldiers, we should have had peace withi
q year. Gen. Buckner gave only that portio
of the interview TO the public that he though
might iuterest The country atlarse. a paragrap
of which reads as follows:
"Re have some on ours who failed 10 nc
compish as much as they wished. or who di
mol get warmed up to the eight until il was a
pyer. who sars not had quite fnll satisfaction
Tie great majority, too, of those who did not g
into the war have long since grown tired Of Il,
long controversy. We may NOW look forwar
to perpetual peace at home and n nationa
strength that will screen US from any foreig
complication. ] believe, myself, that the wa
was worth all IL cost us. fearful as that wa,
Since II was over, have visited every State
Europe and number in the East. l knot
now as did not bsfore, the value Of our inst
,Ativus."