The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-03-22
R AN ROMISMS.


KANReMISMS.
ED. PRESS Our political system
has become system of gerIymandsr.
1t has no pedigree or registry-is real
ly nameless, and still can be called by
almost any name ever bestowed upon
collective combinations of men. Ac-
cordiDg to Garfield and some of his
satellites it is nation with big n :; |
according to weightier number, it is
a government of States, confederacy. |
In fact it is either according to the |
weather. The Northern States, which
before the late war nullified federal
avs with impunity, and made raids
into theSouth capturing arsenals, COM
| mitting murders, and liberating fed
eral prisoners, have never been recon-
structed. The same fealty that filed
| Northeastern Ohio with stolen horses,
and John Browns aIsepals, before
Lincoln's election exists yet Let
weathercOcks veer two or three points
either way. and the laws become 81
lent again, and anarchy reigns. The
anarchists of Chicago are not all hung.
That little episode was only like Coil
antogIe ford to Fitz James. 1t reveal
ed on every side a multitudinous
American citizenship under oath and
under arms. They find their example
and prototypes in the craze that elected
Lincoln. They have improved on
Sharp's rifles with dynamite. That is
all the difference The moral chem
J istry keeps its proportions the same
still Foraker is the same style of
Gov. Chase when he was called up to
convention"
, Our system, if we have any, is both
!. Jeffersonian and Hamiltonian, and it
is neither. In one aspect it is mon
, archy (Seward and his belly; in anOth
er 1t is democratic. 1t can be cOnsld-
cred practically as an aristocracy, and
. when the legious of strikers are taken
into account. We appear more like a
confederacy of association lists. com
: munists, or anarchists. The only com.
!, mon bond is difference and fear. 1t is
J., now the era of enrolment, enlistment
and conscription. Bushwhacking,
;. skirmishing and raids will be in order
e for some years. We have no genuine
r political beliefs. They have become
Y mixed, tangled, rotsen, The men most
J. In the public eye have become tired o.
o aiming very high when a lower level
q will net the game they are most in
need of. Why should they aspire te
anything very exalted when 1.-THE
= people ask for nothing beyond the
g wants of the back and stomach these
= satisfied, the jests of q clown on the
% stump, or in the pulpit, fit them fol
Heaven"
u How often after the South was re
constructed, did the men who had 81
much to say about themselves anC
n their great achievements proclaim t.
k the world that we had now become
'e ton had taken place, and that th;
is Constitution must be amended in var
l. ious ways to meet the requirements o
d more intelligent age than that il
IS which it had it's origin. But was 1
a Nation anything new? Had not man
1t kind seen one before the days of JEFF
1t ferson? Had not mankind seen enough
of them? The Hebrews became sicf
of a government without King a
one time and so, if recollect, SOM
fabulist wrote that the frogs tired o
republicanism upon time, and aske
:. Jupiter for King, and he gave then
log to sit at their ease OIL, and tak'
- their comfort aud it did not suit them
! Then they petitioned again, aud Ju
jupiter gave them a stork that eat then
=, up.
- There was nothing more easy thar
to have nation after our Indepen
dence from Great Britain was estab
ut lished. Less than a half dozen mel
ell stood in the way. Only few. pamph
s let's advocated anything else. The.
I'd could have been burned here as the
i. were in England. Indeed, as late a
IN 1872, the six Eastern States had unde
consideration the establishment of
Ia principality with some one of the re-
atives Victoria Del gratia, at the hea
of New England affairs on this side {
Ut the Atlantic. DEMoCRITUs.