The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-11-27
Disgusting Party Cant.

Disgusting Party Cant.
Some of our republican exchanges are
carrying at the head OF their editorial col
umns the following extract from a recent
paper by that Pharisee of Pharisees, Sena-
tor HoAR, of Massachusetts, in the North
american Reriew:
But, giving our democratic brethren all due
credit for individual excellence, the fact re-
mains that the men who do the work OF piety
and charity in our churches; the men who adj
minister our school systems; the men who own
and till their own farms; the men who perform
skilled labor in the shops; the soldiers, the
men who went 10 the war and stayed all through;
the men who paid the debt and kept the cur
rency sound. and saved the nations honor; the
men who saved the country in war, and have
made 1t worth living in in peace, commonly,
and as q rule, by the natural law OF their being,
find their place in the republican party, while
the old slave-owner and Slave-driver, the sa-
loon-keeper, the ballot-box suffer the kuklux,
the criminal class of the great cities. the men
who cannot read or write, commonly, and as
rule, by the natural law of their being, find
their congenial place in in the democratic par
~.
This sort of disgusting can't is a part of
the stock in trade of the republican party.
That organization-the most corrupt politi
cal party which ever existed in this or any
othercountry-ha during its entire career.
claimed to possess a monopoly OF the
virtue, intelligence and patriotism of the
American people, There was never much
foundation for this claim and there Is less
to-day than there ever was. 1t is not true,
and never has been, that ''the men who do
the work Of piety and charity in our
churches; ;" "who administer our school
systems ""who perform skilled laborin the
shops" "who went to war and stayed all
through" etc, etc, are more largely re-
publicans than democrats. 1t is safe to
say that one-half the membership Of our
Christian churches isattached to the dem
ocratic party, and in this half are included
but few of the pharisees and hypocrites.
the men who make merchandise of their
"piety," who divide their time between
running class-meetings and Sabbath
schools, and buying foaters in
blocks of FIVE and doing other political
rascality. Most of the professional
Christians-the lying, stealing, trading
fellows-tbe fellows who borrow the livery
OF heaven to serve the devil in-the fel
lows whose cant, and hypocrisy and hum
bug make them distasteful to all sincere,
right-thinking persons-the Pecksnifs
with whom this community is perhaps as
sorely afflicted as any other on earth-be-
long to the republican party. They seem,
somehow, to find its atmosphere congenial
to them. GEORGE F. HoAR himself, by the
- a.
As to the claim that the republican party
supplied the soldiers who put down the
rebellion. it has been too often exploded
to be worth wasting any powder on now.
Even more ridiculous is the assertion
that the skilled laborers in the workshops
are republicans. Probably there is not
one factory in ten in the United
States in which a majority of the
skilled employees are not democrats The
democratic party has always been the
party of the workingmen-the party of the
common people-andis so in a larger sense
to-day than ever before. That is, indeed,
its chief glory, and it is one reason why it
is especially distasteful to persons like
GEORGE F. HoAR.
The party OF Grantism-of the whisky
ing, the Credit NIobilier, the star route
frauds, and the freedman's bank swindle-
The part which stole the presidency in
1876 and bought it in 1850 and 1SSS-the
party of QUAY, and DUDLEY, and DORSEY,
md WANAMAKER and CLARKsoN II this
party prating of its moral superiority is
indeed a spectacle for gods and men.