Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-10-30
X-SENATOR INGALLS, ON THE
TWO GREAT PARTIES.

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precedent rather than TO be saved by
innovation. In the United States
these would be Democrats, and in
casting the political horoscope the
continued existence of the Democrat
ic party, it's successors and assigns,
must be taken for granted as inevlta-
BILE. It is imperishable, because 1t
rests upon the basis OF negation. 1t
is opposed to any change IN the stdtats
o,to. Were there no Democratic par
tyi being, it would be instantaneously
evolved upon the presentation of any
programme proposing affirmative ac-
ton by the government in any dlrec-
ton upon any subject
At every step Of our historic ad-
vance toward nationality the Demo
cratic party has been steadfast and i'm
movable in opposition. Ali that has
been done has been in violation Of the
Constitution. Since it has Oeen ac-
complished they acquiesce, but insist
that nothing more shall be done. They
opposed the coercion of the seeding
states, the draft, national banks, the
issue Of bonds, the legal tender act,
the abolition Of slavery, the prosecu-
ton of the war, negro suffrage, re-
sumption Of specie payments, the
homestead laws, railroad land grants,
and protective tariff as unconstitu-
tional, but there is no more danger OF
discrimination against Important
American industries by Cleveland's
administration than there is Of repud-
iation of the national debt or the abro-
cation Of the constitutional amend
ments.
Democrats have politically neither
conscience, courage nor convictions.
They are consistent in nothing but in
consistency. They have made no
professions they have not abandoned,
advanced no policy from which they
have not reiterated. They have alter
nately denounced and supported ev-
ery measure advanced by their ad-
yersaries and sometimes simultane-
ously, as when they have demanded
for the sugar of Louisiana the prOtec-
ton they have denied to the iron of
Pennsylvania.
Pretending to be in favor Of the
free coinage OF silver, they supported
a presidential candidate whom they
knew to be unalterably opposed to it,
and who would promptly veto bill
should it pass. His proposition for
an income tax, which sent him into
epileptic commissions during the war
as an odious, inquisitorial invasion Of
human liberty, they accept without
murmur Of protest, and under the pit
less scourgings of contempt for their
greed Of Office, they whimperingly
cringe with snarling serviIity.
Had Harrison issued an order for
the expulsion of place hunters from
the White House and their banishment
from Washington, the welkin would
have cracked with such ''sweet thun-
der'' as has not been heard since Hip
polite bayed the bear with Hercules
and Cadmus in wood OF Crete.
But Cleveland knows his accom-
plices. He treats the party as an Es-
quimau sledge driver treats his team
Of dogs. Once in harness, he gives
them the thong, and at the end Of the
journey he losses the hungry pack q
chunk Of frozen fish or decayed seal
meat in the shape Of the nomination
Of renegade Republican as q Demo
cratic secretary OF state, Or ration
Of spoiled pemmican made Of the ia
definite retention Of Republican post
masters, and lets them sleep III the
snow.
For the first time since the pusillan-
imous and vaciliating Buchanan es-
corted Lincoln to the executive man
sion in 1861 the Democracy is restor-
ed fully to the possession Of congress
sional and executive authority. The
pendulum has swung back from ma
tionalism to particularism again. 1t
seem to many, and to some who were
not Democrats, that the train was go
ing too fast. So they applied the
brake. For four years we are to have
strict construction and conservatism.
For progress, inertia is to be substi-
tuted. We are to take account Of
stock, cut down expenses, pare off ex-
cresences here and there, prune the
pension list, balance the ledger and
have the government conducted un-
der a solemn sense Of responsibility
for the discharge Of patriotic duty, as
Mr.. Cleveland so often and SO sole nm
ly says in such a solemn manner, with
so much solemnity.
The Republican party is the legiti-
mate inheritor of the ideas of Wash