San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-04
The Daily Eight.
TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER. a. 1888.
DEMOCRATIC DODGES.

we find man, who always tells the
truth, he commands our confidence;
and when we find one who never tells
the truth, he never gets our conf
| denee. Parties should be held to the
same rigid rules of accountability. If
they honestly and faithfully keep
their pledges to the people, they
should be trusted; but, if they have
always failed to keep faith, they
should be treated as unworthy of
confidence. Tried by these rules how
will the two great parties today stand.
The democratic and republican? Let
us see. The democratic party, as such
first came in power in 1920, under
jackson, protesting to be the champ
ion of the people. He began by giving
all the offices to his personal pets.
The public lands were sold at public
auction, and were run up to prices
that placed them in the hands of
corrupt capital rings, out of the reach
of the poor. Jackson vetoed the Nation
al Eank, and encouraged II system of
irresponsible state banks, with which
government funds were deposited.
The result was, the people and the
government were plundered and the
country brought to the verge of bank
ruptcy. All of this was dOne in the
Hame of the honest Jacksonian dem
ocracy. Added to all these schemes
of financial robbery these new states
men that Knocked the craftsmanship
of Washington, Adams, Jefferson,
Madison and Monroe, lad hoisted for
the first time the English flag of free
trade, known now as the Cleveland
Mills heresy, to prevent home manu-
features and to deple,e our treasury.
They succeeded, but such distress
followed that the Wings, under the
lead of w. II. Harrison, swept them
out of power in 1910. In 1874 the
democrats came back on fraudulent
platform, which was in substance.
Polk, Dallas and Texas and Phifty
Phour Priority or Phight.n They got |
Polk, Dallas and Texas, but
they cowardlv backed down TO
the northern limit of Washington |
territory 40 degrees from 81 degrees |
and forty minutes, a grand country |
almost as large as Texas. Thus it was |
they won that election by a cowardly |
dodge. In lS4S this party attempted |
under the banner of Cass for presi-
dent II dupe the people again by an
other dodge, free soilism in the north, |
and pre- .slaveryism in the south; but |
old Rough and Ready Zach Taylor, |
with his silver gray Wings ran rough |
shod over them. The slavery ques- |
I; had hnan hna rho |
political camp fires from 1850, and so |
in 1852 this same old lodging party |
comes up as serenely as Satan among
the sons of God in the days of job, to
claim hearing. AS it was aware that
the people W ere weary OF the slavery
agitation, so they, that year, dc.
ciared against further agitation of
that question by congress, and came
before the people with New Hamp-
shire man on an elastic Calhoun plat
form. They elected Mr.. Pierce,
but before his term expired
his political groomsmen, JEFF
Davis and company, had thrust
into congress that deadlieSt of all
bombs of pro-slavery dynamite, which
this or any other age ever saw, known
as the Kansas and Nebraska bill.
This dangerous bomb lay with one
end in the United States Senate in
1854. but the other end was not found
until April, 1865, at AppomattoN.
Let democratic would-be statesmen
review those eleven years of darkness,
carnage, and death, the saddest pages
in the book of time, before they force
any more schemes of ruin upon our
people. The partisan feeling that
was feeble fire in 1850 had become a
fierce flame in 1856, and this party of
and lodges was taxed 10 its
utmost 10 frame platform that would
satisfy the fiery zeal of the south, and
at the same time be assuring 10 the |
awakened north. AS difficult As il
was 10 frame another platform Of de-
ceit, sufficiently guarded 10 satisfy |
these extremes, IL was yet more dill
cult 10 find man who could pose As
a figure head for another fraud upon /
the people.
But the defeat was accomplished. |
Hsllett, of Boston, vino was Talley- |
rand in platform-dupliclty, framed lis |
creed in 1856, and James Buchanan. a |
protection democrat of Pennsylvania, !
bur who had been away AT the Court |
of ~. James during the Tierce contest /
in his own party aud had been as |
dumb as an oyster on the one question |
then agitsting the nation was found 70 !
be the only available man. But as il |.
was IN that wear that the republican |
party first entered the field, We VIII /
reserve further comments ON the men /
and issues of that contest for further !
article. NJ. r. X.