Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-10-31
THE Democrats are desperate.
ONLY A FAULTFINDER.

The Democratic party is to-day, and
always has been, nothing but a fault
finder. Its policy for nearly thirty years
has been one of obstruction, the only
time during the period that it ever ad-
vocated definite opinion being last
year when the Solid South forced it to
an open assault upon protection to
American industries. The Republican
party from its organization up to the
present time has been open and ag-
gressive in the advocacy of wen-known
principles. 1t is the same to-day.
The Democratic party found fault
with Republicans for opposing the ex-
tension of slavery in the Territories.
From 1861 to 1889 it has found fault
with the tariff for the protection of
American industries.
1t found fault WI, h the issue of green
packs In loe2 - a financial measure to
prosecute the uor
- efSsP ,sed the homestead law and did
at a ID ats power to prevent the passage
F" that measure.
1t denounced the Union armies for in
vading the sacred soil of sovereign
States when they tried to secede and de-
stroy the Union.
1t declared the abolition of slavery an
outrage and violation of the Constitu-
tion.
1t discouraged enlistments into the
Union army mot the rebel, an encour-
aged desertions from the Union army
mot the rebel.
In 1864, in its national convention at
Chicago, its policy of obstruction led it
to declare that the war was failure.
1t demanded cessation of hoStilities
and peace with the Confederacy by ne
gotiations.
1t opposed the constitutional amend
ments giving the right of suffrage to
the Negro.
1t opposed the resumption of specie
payments and in its platform adopted
in st. Louis in 1876 it demanded the re-
peal of the resumption act.
In 1877, less than four weeks before
the day set for resumption, January l,
1873, one of its leading statesmen, Dan
Voorhees,, delivered his famous speech
against the resumption act, and he was
seconded by such prominent Democrats
as Thurman, Lamar and Bayard.
In the midst of the panic of '73-'77 it
advocated free trade, so as to divide our
home markets with the producers of the
old world.
During the Republican administra-
tions from Lincoln to Arthur, this coun-
try experienced degree of commercial
and Industrial prosperity never before
known in the world, yet the Democratic
party did nothing but to find fault and
| try to obstruct legislation.
For years Democrats have counte
nanced the bloody outrages and crimi-
nal election frauds perpetrated in the
South. The only answer they ever make
when arraigned for these outrages is a
sneer or the words, ''bloody shirt"
When Republican journals thirty years
ago were condemning the horrors perpe
| trated by border ruffians in Kansas, the
Democratic press sneered back, "poOr
bleeding Kansas" They kept up this
sneer until Sumter was fired upon
Give Democracy a chance and history
may repeat itself.
In Ohio and in other Northern States
it has opposed all temperance legislation
and has never advocated any measure
for the restriction or regulation of the
liquor traffic.
1t has always opposed all measures,
national and State, for securing honest
elections.
While it had control of the national
government it opposed the admission
into the Union of the Dakotas, Mon
tana, and Washington.
During the last four years that it was
in power its most conspicuous acts were
its efforts to tear down the protective
tariff and to dismiss ex-Union soldiers
from positions that they had filed with
ability and appoint ex Confederate sold
iers and rebel sympathizers in their
places.
Its leading party organs in this State,
Columbus Times, the Cincinnati NetCS-
Journal, the Clermont county San, the
Steubenville Gazette, the Delaware Her
aid, and the Dayton Democrat, all charge
that the last Democratic Legislature in
Ohio sold the United States Senatorship
to the highest bidder.
Yet the Democracy finds fault with
the Republican party for legislating in
favor of honest elections.
The Democratic newspapers and stump
speakers in Ohio are to-day condemning
the election laws passed by Republi-
can Legislature, yet their last Governor,
Mr.. Hoadly, said in a public speech that
the frauds perpetrated by the Democrats
in this state made him ashamed of his
party.
The Democrats of Ohio are like Dem
ocrats in other States, fault finders and
obstructionists. They are absolutely in
capable of administering great gov
ernment honestly and intelligently.-
They cannot keep step with the progress
of modern times. Their faultinding
can do no harm, but they should never
be entrusted with power.-CleceIand
| Leader.
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