Year: 1879

CRACK.


This thing" says MIR. Speaker Ran
dali, ''seems to have set in for the repub-
licans and do not see how we are go
ing to stop it, Mr.. Speaker Randall is
only one of a very large number of the
members of his political family who do
not see how they are going to stop it.
The only thing they can think Of as like
ly to stop it is to turn about and kick the
dead rag baby. But that will not stop it.
People are not going to forget the fact
that Mr.. Speaker RanoalIs party dand-
led and nursed the rag baby until it's life
was extinct, and that Mr. Frank Hurd,
who declared on the floor of the house
that there were twenty members on his
side who would spurn the miserable brat,
couldn't muster half a dozen when it
came to the pinch. People will not put
faith in the sincerity of the Bourbonlead-
ers if, in this dismal hour when they are
cropping in the valley Of humiliation,
! they turn about and rend their own off
spring. Confession may be good for the
soul, but it is not calculated to promote
the success Of a political party.


But the principal difficulty in stopping
the current Of public opinion which is
setting SO strong ly against Mr.. RandalPs
party is the difficulty of obliterating the
party record on the national question.
Mr.. Randalls party has chosen to place
itself in the attitude of an anti-national
party, and it is for that reason more than
any other that it is condemned by public
opinion. 1t has deliberately marked out
for itself retrogressive and revolution
ary program. 1t has attempted to coerce
the president into acquiesence in it's re-
volutionary measures. 1t has denied the
power Of the nation to prevent and punish
fraud and violence at national elections.
1t has denied the power of the nation to
protect citizens in the enjoyment and ex,
ercise of their rights and privileges. It
has reasserted the doctrines out of which
grew secession and rebellion. It has pro-
fitted by an apologised for political assas-
sination That is the main reason why it
is condemned by the opinion Of the civil
lied part of the naticn, and why Mr..
Speaker Randall cannot see how to stop
the tide of the adverse opinion. It is i'm
possible to oblitera5e the bad record of
the two last sessions of congress. 1t is i'm
possible to tear down the platforms ap
proving the course. of the party's repre-
sentatives during those sessions. 1t is inn
possible for the party to transform itself
into something different from what it has
proclaimed itself to be. h-


The only thing for Mr.. Speaker Ran
dalPs party to do is to adhere to its anti
national doctrines, and preach them cour-
ageously and increasingly from the house
tops. They should fetch the real leaders
of the party from the south, and put them
| on the stump in New York. They should
fetch Barksdale from Yazoo, and set him
to explaining the party methods in the
| sovereign state Of Mississippi, and tell
how easy it is to cause majorities to dis
appear at the muzzle Of the shot gun, and
how impossible it is for the nation to exc
cute it's laws and protect its citizens in
sovereign state They should fetch Hill
and Gordon from Georgia to explain the
new system Of slavery, and show how
| easy it is for Sovereign state to ride
rough-shod over the supreme law of the
| land and set at defiance the will Of the
nation They should fetch Wade Hamp-
ton and Hamburg Butler from South Car
olina to tell how they dispose of obnoxi-
GUS postnasters in their state, and to ex-
plain their impudent demand for reins-
statement Of postnistress who assumed
| the office of censor of the press, and con-
fscated such polite al literature as seemed
to her unwholesome. They should fetch
on number of southern state judges and
governors to explain how they shield the
rufians who not only defraud the reve-
nue., but also murder revenue officials,
and how the southern sword Of justice
falls upon those officials, instead of their
murdere1s. They should send for Black
burn to explain the wiping out program,
and for the extinct Ohio chieftain to de-
fend the policy of starving the executive
| into submission to the will fthe confede-
rate brigadiers.


All this might not stop the current of
public opinion that is setting with so
much force against the anti-national par
ty, but it would be the honest thing to
do, and perhaps the best thing under the
/ circumstances. It probably would not be
the best thing from the point Of view oc-
cupied by the party chieftains, but it
would be the best thing for the country,
because it would result in the disbanding
of the reactionary anti-national comblna-
ton, and the organization of a new op-
position party, with it's face turned to-
ward the future instead Of the past
Chicago Times.


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