Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-07-16
Political Bandits.

An amiable man, very amiable man,
he must be-unless, of course, he be Re-
publican knave-who can contemplate the
course of the party in Congress without
raising his temperature to the boiling point.
There is no precedent for it in the history of
republics, or constitutional monarchies, an
Gent or modern, unless it be found in the
reckless usurpation of political power which
marked the transition of Rome from q Re-
public to an Empire.
To the first stages of this transition the
Republican leaders will assuredly bring
this country if they are permitted to accom-.
plish their high.handed and unhallowed
measures.
The two men who more than all others
shape the policy and action of the political
parties of this country are the Chairman of
the National Executive Committee and the
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The two men who hold these positions in
the Republican party are Quay and Reed.
The first is freebooter and thief, brand
ed and pilloried before the scorn and con-
tempt of the world by the Independent and
outspoken press of his own party. His
open and avowed plan of conducting cam
paigns is BY appointing as his lieutenants
Blocks.of Five Dudley, and by securing the
sinews of war from the fat which he fries
out of the monopolists, plutocrate, trust.
pirates and tariff kings of his party.
The other an unblushing, case hardened,
copper-bottomed scamp who has converted
the Speakers gavel into rod of iron with
which ne arbitrarily dictates the course of
legislation, and CONTEMPORARY discards
well established parliamentary rules in Or
der to accomplish the wicked and subver-
sive schemes of his party. The most alarm
ing of these schemes is the federal election
law. This is the crowning infamy of the
party that sets at naught all the precedents
of law, all the precepts of morality, all the
sanctions of religion, all the compunctions
of conscience, in order to retain their grip
upon the reins of power and the spoils OF
Office. 1t is a measure that invades and
violates the domestic rights of the States
that have never before been denied or
doubted since the foundation of the govern.
ment; measure that hardly covers with q
decent disguise the object of its patrons to
control by federal bayonets the Congress.
sional and Presidential vote of the South
ern States. 1t Is force bill of the most
detestab.e type. The leaders of the Re
publican party we'll know that fair ex.
preston of the popular will would hurl
them with hot fury from their place of
power, as Satan and his crew were cast
from the battlements of heaven down to
ahysmal depths of dispair. Knowing this
they are deliberately plotting to circumvent
the wishes of the people, aud by fraud and
force keep in their own inscriptions hands
the political power, patronage and spoils of
the government. Rob Roy's rule is their
only code:
For why? Because the good old rule
Suf11ceth them, the simple plan,
That they shall take who have the power
And they shall keep who can.
We repeat that these political bandits
have become so brazen and abandoned that
they do not care to cover their rascality
with even thin disguise. At the memoir
able Pittsburg banquet two months ago
Reed declared in terms, as everybody re-
members, that the Republican party must
enact law which would enable them to
s'conduct elections and COUNT THE
VOTES" That is the point; the vote is
to be counted" so as to keep political
power in the hands of their party.
Well, one thing is certain, the fat will
be fried out of these fellows in subterranean'
and sulphurous caverns if ever the devil
comes by his due.-Lynch. Neacs.