St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-07-25

it is itself, as the author of the rebel
lion, the sole cause of the extraordi-
nary necessity for the great increase
of revenue, puts forth the banner OF
revenue REFORM" under which 1T
covertly battles for free trade, but
quivers and recoils from any deep cut
of tariff duties on Louisiana sugar,
or South Carolina rice, or Pennsyl-
vania iron, or Tennessee marble, or
North Carolina peanuts, or Florida
oranges, these being largely products
of democratic districts, and districts
therefore dangerous to touch with
free trade reform. Once the demo-
cratic party was wont to declare and
repeat that the executive power had
increased, was increasing, and ought
to be diminished; but in spite of
President Cleveland's many and
frantic vetoes; in spite of his deposit
ing sixty millions of public money in
pet banks without interest and with
out law; in spite of his appoint
ments, without the advice and con-
sent of the senate, of ministers (minus
the title) to negotiate treaties; in
spite of his attempts to govern con-
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ecutive favOrs in order to effect the
repeal of all duties on wool and to
prevent the repeal of the internal tax
on tobacco, the party made no pro-
test against the undue exercise of eX-
ira ordinary executive power, which
seemed to have reached a growth
not less colossal than uuder the adj
ministration of General Jackson,
when Calhoun denounced the demo
cratic party as bound together by
1.-The cohesive power of public plum
der" To secure a reelection, besides
his reported financial contribution,
the President set forth in his annual
message his free trade political senti-
ments, which, had they been previ-
ously known, would undoubtedly de-
feated his first election. AS a candi-
date for the third time he may have
the support of the New York Tam
many society, but with no vehement
adherents elsewhere.
While slavery existed, the demo-
cratic party had many constitution
al axioms and dogmas with which it
strove to buttress the so-called obi
vine institution The obliteration
of slavery appears to have d1mmed
many of these gems which once gilt
tered in the platforms of the party,
and now it goes into a presidential
campaign untrammeled by any of its
ancient maxims, save that ito the
victor belongs the spoils." Its old
doctrines of measure and policy seem
to have persisted, hardly to be found
on tomb stones, though some stray
traditions may here and there be
left to memory dear" Many of its
great men were lost between 1861
and 1865, and some joined the Union
party never to return.
1.-The times have been
That when the brains were out the man
would die"
The democratic party, however,
has been resurrected, and has in its
ranks able, cultured and brilliant
men; yet it survives with some odium.
1t has a fixed capital of the saloon
syndicate in the North, and 1852 solid
votes in the South, determined to
maintain its organization and disci-
pline by iercely denouncing or shoot
ing all deserters; but, with the gener-
al distrust of its lack of nearly all
sound national principles, its chances
of political success have been serious
ly diminished. - [Senator Justin S.
Morrill, in the July Forum.