Year: 1874

Revolutions are not brought about in a
minute. nor day, nor even year. At
present we call TO mind not single instance
where great nation, or even a State, has
been thoroughly revolu.ionized from good
to bad, or from bad to good, i'll much less
than a decade. Still, we hear the cry, be-
cause the Independents have not accomplish
ed all the good they promised in less than
one short year of their existence. ''put them
down." The question is asked, "What
have the Independents done for the peo-
ple?" We answer, what have they not
done for the people that was possible for
them to do? This they have done, and it
is more than can be said of any other party
for years. They hare kept the pledges
made 10 The people. And because they ad


hered to their pledges, they were in mi
nority, and, consequently, powerless for
good. We ask Were not the Democrats
in both the Assembly and Senate pledged to
the reduction Of freights and fares, and to
such legislation as would prevent the pos
sbty of discrimination by railroad Or 9TH
er transportation companies Certainly
they were. Then, did they keep their
pledges No. If they had what would
have been the result ? Why, if they had,
they would have been in full accord with
the Independents on this, as we'll as most all
other subjects of vital interest, and they and
the Independents united would have formed
a majority, which all the Republican monop-
olists could not have defeated; and instead
of no legislation on these and other import


ant questions, on which Democrats and In
dependents were pledged alike, laws would
have been passed regulating thes, matters,
and everything the people demanded would
have been accomplished. But when Demo
Gratis, who have claimed to be the anti-mo-
nopoly party in this and other States, break
down and join with monopoly Republicans
in defeating every measure calculated to ben
eft the people, or iajure the monopoly, what
other result than that which we have could
you expect We claimed that the unde-
filed Democrats, and the Independents
would be natural allies on all the important
questions. So they would But, alas !
how few Democrats at the trying hour
proved themselves unde6led We are
ashamed of the old party-not the party,
either but the men who have got control of
it. The rank and file of the party to-day
are as good, mean as well, and are as true
to their love of liberty, honesty, justice, and
equal rights as they ever were; but, like
the masses of the Republican party, their
leaders are corrupted. We don't say this
was SO with a majority of the leaders until
recently. But that it is SO with nearly all
now, there is no longer any doubt, and if
Democrats wish ever to see the reforms
brought about for which they have so long
Intellectually been striving, they must give
their united strength to the Independents;
for it is certainly, to-day, the ouly party in
this State that can, with the least consistency
set up claim to honesty and purity
of purpose; and don't be impatient
And, more than all, don't fall into the
opinion which the monopoly, chickadee press
are trying to impress. that because COM
paratively naught was accomplished at the
last session of the Legislature, the In
dependents are to blame. Separate them
out, scrutinize their acts, examine their
record, and then if you find they don't come
up to the standard, you can denounce them,
but pray not till then. The mission of the
Independent party is to bring order from
confusion, peace from trouble, purity from
corruption. This implies an entire revolu-
ton of the present system of corruption
and extravagance-a complete reform-but
reader bear in mind reforms work slowly.
Still you can see, can you not, already
that it has commenced to work ? This Leg
islature was much more economical, much
better in every respect than the last. If it
did but little good, it did no bad. Then
why follow longer in the blind paths of fas-
cillating, sophistical hypocrites? There is
a good party, and, if we are not worse de-
ceved than we ever were, it means good.
Join it, put your shoulder to the wheel,
help the good cause along. But don't i'm
agine for a minute that the great results
which you and the Independent party are
striving for can be accomplished in day.


Coon EVIDENCE. What better evidence