Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-10-17
AMondsrful Old Party.

n w onueriui Olu FaEtys
We have seen the Democratic party
being shot to death for treason.
We have seen it plotting to destroy
the Union.
We have seen it shooting down men
to keep them from voting the Republic.
an ticket.
We have seen its members hocking in
great numbers after renegade Republic
ans, kicked out OF the party as black
sheep
We have seen it fighting sound cur
rency and an honest debt
We have seen its members tumbline
over each other to claim credit for that
currency
We have seen it nursing the rag
baby"
We have seen it shedding tears over
the mangled remains of free trade
We have seen it stuffng ballot-boxes
and forging election returns.
We have seen it masquerading in
sleeps clothing deceiving the wool
grower.
We have seen it prowling around
watching q chance to gobble up every
sheep in the country.
We have seen it weak and starving,
strong and fat, hungry and thirsty
satiated and with thirst quenched, play
ing the pious racket, doing the infdel
act.
Shooting '.niggers'' in Louisiana,
kneeling for the ''colored'' vote in
Ohio.
Praising the Dow law and the Scott
law in Waybackville. bitterly denounc-
ing all temperance and Sunday laws in
Metropolistown.
Playing the devil in Industrious city
and raising sheol in Indolenceburg.
Passing as a tough in Tough alley
and as an apostle in Church avenue, in
short representing all deviItry with the
versatility of satan himself
We have seen all this. Yet we have
never seen the Democratic party SO ut
terly rotton, SO fearfully demoralized,
SO thoroughly degraded, so yiciously
aggressive, so immoral, so imbecile, so
ratified, SO detestable, so unstable, so
unreliable, as now
Especially is this the case with the
Democratic party in Ohio Utterly rot
tent has SO vitiated the political at
mosphere, that the question 'How
man votes can you commando is no
longer asked, but ''How much Doodle
can you furnish?''
Fearfully demoralized- has taken
the back track on every question of good
public policy, simply because the Re-
publican party is always to the front on
the forward march on all questions of
public good.
Thoroughly degraded 1t has sold its
honor to the Standard Oil company for
a mess of oleaginous pottage
Viciously aggressive aims to de-
stroy, the Dow law, all Sunday laws,
the registration law, and allow intem-
perance, vice fraud and forgery to stalk
through the land unmolested or unre-
buked.
Immoral 1t caters to the most
vicious elements of society and depends
on these elements for large percentage
of its support.
Imbecile-It has lost all conception of
the principles, honor. integrity, and
patriotism of the founders of the party
and has substituted therefore, bribery
Of the voter, corruption of the ballot
box, forgery of election returns, thievery
and the aggrandizement of the party at
the expense of the country.
Unreliable le-You don t know this year
where you will find the party next. In
it the laws of gravity are strictly OBJ
served and the trash, the dirt comes to
the surface and stays there, while the
gold sinks to the bottom
This arraignment is the more severe
because it is literally true. The old
loathsome carcass, Democracy, we be-
hold to-day has not the remotest resem-
blance to the brilliant young Demo-
cratic party of years ago. The old car
cass is on its last pegs. Let it be
decently inferred and u fitting monu-
ment of axle grease be raised over its re-
mains to commemorate its qualities and
represent its virtues-Coshocton Age.