Daily Republican., 1886-09-16
POLITICAL DISHONESTY.
A TERRIBLE ARRANGEMENT CK
DEMUCRArIC FRAUDS.
Democrats high IN Their Parry and
High In Society Biamed for TN
b)ushing Dishonesty

by lbulRuAkI ClLlZen
Tor publication and for which space is
accorded:
! read your editorial in the DAILY
REPUBLICAN of last SATURDAY with
interest, and quite agre G
with you in some points. There is no
doubt bat what the Democratic primary
elections in this city have become. not
as you say---farces-but exhibitions OF
disgracs, brutality and outrage, such az
should make every honest man hang
his head in shame to knew tina. his
party has sunk so deep In the nire OF
infamy as to indorse such prostitution
OF justice, ard what makes Il the rlore
Calling is to know tina. such viilainy is
deliberately planpei and directed by
men In the highest councils OF our State
and nation, men who with unnlanched
cheek will stand before an audience of
their oountrynien aud profess to be
models OF honesty ard integrity; profess
to be content 10 be judged by their
works, and vindicated by the verdict of
ireemen as expressed al the ballot boz
Ana before the day waucs they are
clossted with the West scum Of lie.
PRAYED humanity plotting to stide the
voice OF honest freemen. Sc0undrels OF
the biacl est dye are courted and taken
rected to perpetrate the fouiest In iQui.
tiea thai the inventive genius OF tiend
could 6evise.
Gould 1t be possible fer mass meet.
ing to be called in this city to be ad-
dressed by some of our mort honora BILE
Statesmen, their speeches aud preten
tons to honesty po trayed in iEdelible
colors, and within two hours let the
curtain be drawn aside and expose them
IL tnclr carnival ami conspiracy with a
gang of thieves, sw winGiers and villaips,
all hail fellows well met, 1t would make
a picture at which hell woald shuaier,
and mankind despair o! the success OF
a Republican flrm Of government
Dante's Inferno might suggest tie in
iQuiiy, but certainly no living artist
could do Justice to the scene.
1t is not necessary that ! should re.
|capitulate the unhallowed practices o,
some Of our honorable Statesmen and
their companions from the purieus Of
peidition. No, no, the diegusting, sick
ening stencil already permeates every
quarter, the human jackals are daily
seen on our streets wearing the ga.b Of
respectability with their reward ia
their pockets, but our honorah States
men are ready to Resume their duties liz
exalted stations WITH countenances
beamirg with integrity, while crushed
and dishoucred public II ust bow In sub
mission to the shan ele.s libe.ti,e that
robbed 1t OF It's virtue.
But, Mr.. Editor Sou commit crave
mistake when you say that II the Re
publican party was organized and pre-
pared for a contest that every Democrat
would join to cover up the unplushing
intanV nT thfs n "A m nof nm t. 30,
hundreds of Democrats stand ready to
join baLds with any patriotic organ iza-
ticn of our people TO restore our State
to Ills once loDored position. But can
they look 10 tie Republican party as
the Noses to lead them from bondage
when they review it's course from 1869
to the present. Ia 1t too, we see every
thing 10 loathe and abLoT, First a
bastard Coastil ution arbitrarily forced
ON stricken Republic without war
rant of law, and declared to be in force
without shadow of ju.t.ce, and the
elective franchise placed in tne hands
of al inferior race, incapable In this or
any other age of self government dc
not intend To eLter into any discussion
of this subject further than 10 sav, [
believe that the fifteenth amendment To
our National Cohstltatit is lhe base of
, all ofour subseq 4ent political pro II eacy
or | may say, the iss1ef OF ali thr la-
fanny that has since followed. Ina eed
the Republican party itse.I has tasted
of its bitter fruits, and today lies q is.
ruptod and broken on the rock that 1t
planted for its opponents. From my
earliest recollection | was opposed 10
slavery, but in favor of universal suf-
| frage, never.
Why, sir, l have frequently seen
Democrats go to the polls fully resolved
to vots for part, If not all Of the Rspub-
| liean ticket, and turn away in disgut {
when they found q bowling tribe OF
half civilized and irresponsible beings,
crazed with rum, and goaded on to acts
of disorder and encouraged 10 deeds OF
violence by INSCRIPTIONS nen claiming
to be respectable and honored in 30
ciety as above reproach. Yeu may say
that other incapable and irresponsible
persons enjoyed the right of the elective
franchise; ii is true to our shame, aud
for three quarters of q century il was
The bane of our political fabiic, but in
Heavens name, did you expect to i'm,
prove it by adding three millions of the
most depTaved ane Incapable race on
earth to the list. Ga Le, DIr. Editor,
when your party took TIA fatal step il
planted the seed of 0 pestileptiAl strife
"That when the grave has swallowed
up your memory and yourselves, "
"Twill twine its roots aronnd your
caffined clay, spring from yeur b, nes
aud blossom on your tomb, and OF
It's fruits your ba6ss will eat and die
The intamy now prscticed by tha
Democratic hireliugs of unserupuloua
mastl rs il but the reflex of that mos;
infamous usurpatiun ghd gigantic fraud
OF II. B. Hayes. Each party Tor The last
two decades SEEM to be striving to out
strip the other ia aets of ty ranny aud
usurpstion, while III $50 who really have
the good of their country ut heart are
ground between the upper ard nether
mill-stonts. | have no wore of defense
for the Democtatic party as low mar :
Iaged in Delaware; let ne hear noI g
from the Republican party. They are
no longer even whited sepulchree, fer
lever the outer walls oi both aie 81
fstained and olistered with corruption
THAT the gangrene has eaten through
land honeycombed each Until they are
aliye with puirid vermin'
When the Rerubticsn party so ou'-
ragged the memory OF the patriotic
Fathers by that mos. diabcl!cai decree,
lnow known as the titeentn amend
lmsnt, scheming proh!gates III our State
al once seized hold OF the new political
Ieement, and manipulated 1t Tor thtir
Town se fish purposes. Republicans OF
Integrity weIo crowded to the back
tground, and the most unpTincipled ad
Iventuteis were enabled to co. troll their
tp.imar! elections, and dictate the nomi'
nations to suit their own bas 9 purposes,
and your Lest men were as rowerlesS
as child In a whitlwind. Violence
Ibegat violence, fraud was met by fraud