The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-18
\ New Departure Demanded.

thought or brains. The trumpet
blasts of the old giants, who used
to rally the rank and file. have died
as one after another of the
great leaders have fallen or retired
from the arenatot the well earned and
deserved sweets of private life. We
have in their stead the penny whis-
ties of a lot of "small fry" who es-
say to assume the leadership of a
party heretofore marshaled and
led by really great men. Empty
bluster and frothy braggadocia can
not take the place of the magnif-
cent self-poise and sustained equili-
brium of real greatness, which with
unfaltering step and modest conf
dence has in times past led the
great Democratic party to merited
victory. If the Democratic party
expects to hold the confidence of
the masses, she must shake off and
trample under foot a lot of small,
tricky, dishonest knaves and scav-
engers, who have for a long time
been airing their inability, until
the better sense and higher integ-
rity of the people will send them
to the rear, even if they have to do
it in the very shadows of defeat.
They have invoked the:name of the
Democratic party, a maine hallowed
by the sacred associations of it's
great past, in which to do their
deeds of evil.
The Democratic party needs to
resort to no meanness to win.
Whenever in the past, victory has
perched upon her banner, it has
done it b cluse she has been true to
her ancient faith, her sterling ira
ditions, her fidelity to her consti-
t%utional liberty and whenever she
is defeated it is because, forgetful
of her illustrious descent, her high
mission, she has permitted a set of
dishonest and corrupt scoundrels
to lead her down into the valley of
humiliation. In many of the States
she has conquered because she has
spurned the contemplate methods
of her opponents and won results
from the honest and true men, who
scorn meanness and trickery as
factors in a fight for the supremacy.
In Ohio, unfortunately there are
men in the Democratic party, ready
to adopt the dishonorable and cor
rupt tactics which have been used
against us. They do not.seem to
know that there can be no perma-
nent political success which is not
founded upon correct and honest
principles. Thus has our own par
ty been led to slaughter. I'll is time,
and high time, hat the good, true
men of our party demand, in the
name of the people of Ohio, a re-
organization ofthe Democratic par
ty. The dead beats, the forgers, the
ballot box suffers, the ward bum
mers, the boodlers, the barnacles,
the rings and gangs, and all other
political vermin must be shaken
off and sent to the rear, and men
of principles, men of brains, men
who comprehend issues must take
their places. The party has been
handicapped too long by a disrep-
utable element, which is not only
an omen of defeat, but defeat it.
self. The party must.have the high
courage of its convictions, and act
upon them, and the very moment
it takes a step in this direction, the
whole band of petty thieves and
ringsters which has been it's bane,
will hunt the oblivion of merited
obscurity, as bats and owls fly to
shadows and darkness when the
rising sun heralds a new born day.
Let the party act, and act at once,
for "Now is the accepted time, and
NOW the day of salvation"