The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-05-21
Two Months-The Result.

The highest compliment that the
Democrats have ever paid or can pay
to the Republican party they are pay
ing now in the pretended adoption of
Republican policies and principles as
their own. To do this is not easy or
plea SAINT for them. Men of any self
respect find it unspeakably humiliating
to admit that they have been lying like
cowardly scoundrels in every political
campaign for years. Yet the Demo
Gratis have to do that, or to do 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, with
out proving that his assertions about
the finances for years past have been as
full of untruths as an egg is of meat.
He has been asserting that there was
an enormous surplus, which ought to be
spent in clearing off debt. Mr.. Hendricks
and Mr.. Randall unblushingly. said it
was 800, 100000 or more. Every Off
cial statement of Mr.. Manning, the Dem
ocratic Secretary of the Treasury, tells
them that they have been lying. The
Democratic orator and. editor persisted
for years in asserting that the Repub-
ican statements were crooked" and
fraudulent; that they were cunningly
devised to conceal the truth and to hide
the robbery of the people 10y Republi-
cans. Mr.. Mannings statements, COM
pairing 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
&lo& l.
pack of falsehoods. 1t is not pleasant
to admit all this. But the Democratic
administration is forced to do that, or
else 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 reputa-
ton for honesty and his 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. Attempt
ing to pay some sort of respect to it,
they involuntarily prove that they were
untruthful when they called the Re-
publican officials "rascals," and assert
ed that the public service had been
crowded with incompetents. If the
old officials were really rascals-if, in
fact, any accusation whatever of i'm
propriety, however flimsy, could be es-
tablished against them-they could be
put out at once, in strict accordance
with civil-service rules. Not single
one has yet been so removed, except in
few cases where charges had been in
vestigated, and removal virtually de-
cided upon, 10y the previous Republi-
can administration. Hundreds of men
have been turned out whose up
righteousness and efficiency have been
officially admitted, in order to make
room for persons in harmony with the
new administration; but no rascas have
been found to remove, and no incompe-
tents. Nearly hundred thousand
persons still retain office, after Demo
cratic administration has had the power
to remove them for two months. be-
cause no fault can be found with them.
The net result of two months under
Democratic rule is to prove that the
Democratic party gained Office by per-
sistent, stupendous, monumental false
hood. Republicans await tho develop
ments of the next two months with
serene satisfaction.-NeiU York TTib-
a1le.