Evening journal., 1892-01-04

yet Mr.. Curtis does not whine that he is
trying to be a gentleman. he Is one
SLIME FOLLOWS IT EvEfYw HERE
The Republican party was formed to
abolish slavery and soutinued t., con
duct the war and restore the Uaion.
Then it was a great party with moral
ideas. Those objects accomplished, IL
became . minority party with no Id as.
Logically and righteously 1t should
have gone out Of existence, but under
the leadership Of set OF new men it
began a fght for temporary leases Of
HE It's moral force being gone, 1t re-
sorted to various expedients TO prolong
its physical life.
The first OF these was to add the
negro vote to itself The negro vote was
not intelligent, was not interested In
public sffairs-it was useless to those
who cast It and harmful TO the com non
wealtbs in which it was cast The.
friends Of the negro and all impartial
aud sensible men urged that gradual en-
iranchisement would be better for the
negroes and just to the white people.
The Republican leaders cared for nothing
/ but to Increase their numerical strength.
The Republican party WAS in the min
ority were not enough white votes
TO keep the party in existence. That
settled the question.
Negro enfran ahlsement was not con
sldered for the welfare OF the negroes,
the states or the country-it was neces-
sity to the existence Of the minority
party That wss the beginning Of the
decadenoe OF the party.
Since then 1t has besn without ideaa,
without principles, and engaged In q
desperate fight for existence.
It waded through blood to enforce
negro rule In the South and failed It
dispersed legislatures with troops; put
bayonsts at the polls saddled the various
states with about s150.0O0,000 Of dis
honest csrpet.bogger debts, till the
cowardly crews which infested every
Southern state were driven away at the
muEzle Of shot guns In tho hands Of an
indignant aud free people.
The reconstruction era furnished one
President, who Is now universally exc
Grated Then the tariff issue was adopted
This was a bid for the white vote Of the
North. under the disguise of''protectiOn. -
That put Garfield In the White House,
aud Harrison followed by bid to
700. coo pensionera, added to the re-
vamped, holder and more mercenary
bid Of the tariff.
Thus the party, still in the minority,
continues its bodily existence, after It's
virtue and It's soul have departed.
Everywhere the slime OF Doodle fol-
lows It. It's Presidents have accepted
valuable presents. it's Ca ,inet officers
have been dismissed as public thieves
In every state in the Union its machin-
cry Is either an organized spells agency
or an engine to bride, to csjole, and run
1 ia the negro or the ola soldier vote.
They offer pensions to the one, and pay
the taxes OF the other
These conditions prevailing all over
the country, It Is not strange that nearly
all the officials aud the newspapers
should be Ga a conspiracy to rob the State
o. Pennsylvania and the city Of Phila-
delphis OF millions Of dollars
Ii isnot strange that We should have had
| Reeds rules aud the Billion Dollar. Con
gross; or, tla- this state should have
degenerated iuto negro politics, or that
mayor and his colleague should grab
valuable contracts and vote the people =
money into their own pockets.
There ate thousands Of resp 'ctsbls,
honorable and patriotic men In the Re
publican party; there are thousands Of
bad men in the Democratic party, but
they are not in Office.
b While the treasurers Of eight Democratic
states have stolen and dsfsulted, th,
states have not lost hereby and tn,
robbing was done ia every case by lndi
vlduAls. The whiskey ring, the Credit
Mobilier, the Mckinley bill, the Depend
emit Pension bill, the Tonnage bill, th
Pennsylvania robbery and the Wiley
Jester scheme are conspracies in whicl
the so-called, most respectable element
Of the party are engaged end which A. e
: advocated and defended by the office
holding editors of the press.
The Democratic party msy have a fe'
rotten timbers. but the Republican part
is rotten at the top and decaYed through
I out.
The reason for this is that the part
r has no principles; Il exists as a minorit
0 party here and elsewhere by the cohesly
q power Of money the slime follows
a into is Cabinet and It's Vice Presider
o has his Office by Gctual purchase
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