Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 24, Ligonier, Noble County, 30 September 1880 — Page 6

A Sound Principle of Political EconoL -~ my. - ~ It is a sound principle’ of political economy that occasional changes in the controling power of a Government are ‘essential to 4 sound®@ind healthy admin- | istration of the Government and to the prosperity of the people. Especially in a Goavernment like ours, where party rule obtains to- the extent it does, is an alternation of public .control between ‘the two parties, at intervals more or less remote, essential to the public welfare. Long and uninterrupted continuance of the same party in power perpetuates the authority of the same set ‘of men, and leads nafurally to the formation of rings and all sorts of corrupt combinations ; and x:;J_)uses, orow’ up in the public service under such conditions, #s naturally and abundatly as the scum and fungoid growths gather upon the surface of the stagnant, pond. It has always been a qguestion upon which men have differed, whether or not the existence of political parties is not productive of more hurtful than benelicent results to a country; but it is the general! judgment that asa means of securing rotation in office and a careful scrutiny of theactions of those having authority, whatever there may be of evil in them is more than' balanced. Certainly, the very end and aim’of political parties, the only thing which * makes them - tolerable, lis that they may act as a check one - upon the other, and preserve the purity of governmrént, by standing in judgment upon each other's oflicial acts; and in order that they may so act. it is necessary that the administration of the Government pass from one to the other at intervals. Human nature is much the same in all parties, as it has been in all ages of the world, and the ‘longer the sameparty or faction retains the governing power, the more does it attract to it=citi the vicious, the dishonest and the disreputable elements of the country, and the more does the’ government and the administration of public affairs fallinto the hands of those incompetent and unworthy to exercise it; and it becopes'a necessity, in order to purify what has become corrupt, to _correct what has gone wrong and to make healthy what ‘has become unsound, to‘ehange the control of public aflairs from the party which has control to the one that has not. We believe that with the Republican party this time has come, and that the publie inferests demand and need a change. The Republican party has been in power for twenty years, which is about as long. a lease of power as one party ought to have. It succeeded the Demoeratic party in control of the Government in 1860, antl we do not undertake to sav but that a change was needed then just as it is needed now. The Democratic party had been in power for a long time;, and abuses had arisen within - it, as they . will . always arise when the lease of powrer exceeds its proper ‘limit. The time will always come in the history of any party when ity retirément from power for a season is best for the country and best for itself. In its latter days the Republican party has grown corrupt. It has fostered rings and encouraged abuses. It has attracted to itself unprincipled adventurers, and made itself the refuge of demagogues. Ithas engendered public scandals that have brought shame upon us as a Nation, and instead of punishing its eriminals it has defended them, or sought to conceal their erime. The meén who are prominent in its councils, and whom it seeks to elevate to places of trust and honor, are not men in whom the people have conftdence, but are unworthy tricksters, dis’repumble politicians, and men whose integrity is, to say the least, doubtful, ‘and whose names are far fromstainless., ¢ There is grave suspicion that there are many -things, connected with the ad‘ministration of public aftairs kept con“cealed from the people that they ought to know. The collection and expenditure of the public money amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars yearly is something which' deeply concerns the people, and upon which there rests mueh obsgurity. It has been asserted and upon \f‘ery, ‘high authority, that millions {of the people’s money. have

R 2 S R ey e S S G e A e R e NG S e AR |1 disappeared and left no trace, that the Treasury books and records have | remained sa long in the hands of the | same - men that the truth cannot be! reached while these men retain control. | Itis said the.books are full of erasures, ! torn pages and similar indications of | crookedness. - All these things call for | change. The purification of the public | service and the interest of the country | alike demand it. Finally, the Republi-- | can party through its long lease. of power has developed dangerous ten- | dencies. It is always dangerous to en- | trust the same men or set of men with * power for too long a time.: Parties are | but aggregations of men and men do | not as a rule surrender power until they | have to. The tendency is always to the perpetuation of authority, by law- | ful means at first, by unlawful means at last. As misgovernment becomes the | ‘more pronotnced; as corruption: becomes more wide spread, and abuses more rank, so-does the wvery necessity for covering up iall these things prompt | the party to greater efforts to prevent | its adversary from obtaining possession | of authority. The men who have now | through the Republican party posses- | sion of the Government have been guilty of what they do not want the! people to know. - They shrink from the } investigation that they know would come if the Democratic party were to | succeed them in power.:What is thé result? Theyhaveshown themselves willing to use the mosp violent and unlawful | means to retain power.; They have struck down the ballot, quartered troops among the people, and by frauds of the most shameless description put into the President’s chair a 'man who was not elected. They have sought to carry l elections by means of bayonets a,ndi hired partisans clothed with officlal authority, and;in various ways have man‘»ifest;eg a willingness to override all Jaw and justice in order to perpetuate themselves in power.: The party has beécome not enly corrupt but dangerous, and threatens not only the public morals and the National prosperity, but has: become a menace to popular institutions and free government. It has grown not only evil, but hds become ‘arrogant in its® iniquity: and threatens to fasten itself so firmly upon “the country as to defy all efforts to dislodge it. On all these accounts we

believe that the time has come for a change. The Democratic party has put forward a candidate whose integrity of character even his enemies concede. In his hands every interest of the country will be sate. There is no patriotic citizen of any party who need fear to cast his vote for such a man as Winfield Scott Hancock. We believe that the people see the need of a change, and.see the way now to make it. It will be made this fall. ¢ The hour has come and the man.” —Cleveland Plgindealer. :

The Twe Candidates.

. Two simple questions and their an,g,_wers will show, better than anything else, the comparative standing of the itwo Presidential candidates in popular festimabion. If the Chicago Conven‘tion could be reassembled, would it renominate Garfield? No. We doubt ‘}' whether that .%em,leman could command | fifty votes. If the Cincinnati Convention could be reassembled, would it re'nominate Hancock? Yes—and with ' even more unanimity and enthusiasm, lif possible, than before. Republicins ~ave heartly sick of the bargain forced | upon ' them by circumstances, while ' Democrats are thinking better every ' day of.a candidate they began with thinking well of. The alleged availability of Gartield—which sugar-coated “the pill the third-termers had to swallow- ' —has disappeared in the fierce light of |investigation poured upon his record. ' That record’is found to be not merely ; soiled, but blotted; not merely blotted, ' but blackened. Not by rumors set in 'motion by secret enemies; not by | “‘campaign lies” coined and circulated 'by political epponents; but by public }_ddcuments prepared by Republican ' Congressmen and indorsed by the Re- ' publican press. Democrats have only | to examine the National archives and ; turn to the files of Republican journals ' to find all the ammunition they want. ' The heaviest and wickedest blows inflicted upon the Republican nominee | have come from: Republican hands—at !a. time when neobody suspected that ! Presidential lightning would ever strike | the corpse laid out by Oakes Ames and 'De Golyer. No amount of Republican ' salve can cover, much less heal, these | bleeding wounds. The friendly dagger ' cut too deeply, and the vietim will , carry them to his grave. _ : ‘ | Hancock has emerged from a similar | ordeal not only unscathed, but with a | reputation heightened and brightened |by the trial. Republican mud has been thrown upon him by the cart load, but ‘not a grain of it sticks. Republican falsehoods have been hurled at him, but these misérable inventions have only “returned to plague the inventlors.”” Republican traps have been|set | for him, but they have only caught the I fingers of the setters. It is a fact, as ;compliraentary to General Hancock as { it is cncqumging to the ' Democracy, | that if he were, to die to-day—after partisan malice has done its worst—his fame as patriot, statesman and soldier ' would rest on broader and firmer foun- ' dations-than it did six months ago. Base metal may well fear the fire, but ' gold never. ‘A public and private ca- ' reer which can be scrutinized and sift- ' ed as this has been, without discovering 'a single flaw-or blemish in great or little things, may: defy all attacks from “any quarter hereafter. The incorruptible honesty, the unsullied honor, the i dauntless moral courage, the self-sac-rificing devotion to duty, the uncompromising adherence to- principle, and -the hard common sense which Republican probing has revealed, have given “Hancock a warmer place in the hearts - of his countrymen than he ever had be- | fore. ‘ -

Such a candidate is worthy of such a cause, and . when such a candidate and cause are united victory is well-nigh assured in advance. Democrats, viewing the load Republicans have to carry in Garfield, have abundant reason to ‘¢ thank God and take courage.”” They have only to stand together and work together, only to match their efforts with the excellence and popularity of their nominee, to secure a trinmph as beneficial to the country as glorious to themselves.—St. Louis Republican.

The Frauds in Maine —The Natiousal v Committee’'s Address. : The National Democratic Committee has issued the following statement relative to the election in Maine: HEADQT'RS NAT'L DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE, } NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 1830.. The latest reliable and; official returns received from Maine are as follows: Rerturns from 428 towns give Plaisted 70,019; Davis, 70,698 y Republican majority, 679). In the same’ townsin 1876 the opposition vote was 57,499; Republican, 72,765;° Republican majority, 15266; Republican loss in 1830 from the corresponding election in 1876, 14,5687. There are 53 towns and plantations yet to' be heard from. The relative gain:in these towns as compared with 1876 would give us, -at a low estimate, over 1,00) Democratic majority.. The Republican manipulators in Maine are pretending to claim a majority for Davis, and are undoubtedly trying to doctor returns to bear out this claim. It remains to be seen whether they propose to begin in Maine to reinaugurate the frauds of 1876. Fortwo days Blaine and Republican leaders conceded Plaisted’'s election, as the Republican party did Tilden's in 1876. The entire machinery for counting the vote is in the hands of a Repulican Returning Board. Usual?}u in past years, it has o#aly required about two days to ascertain deiinite results in Maine. I'his year alltirst returns showed great Democratic gains, and it was only 'when Republican manipulators have stopped returns coming in and delayed: them until they could be - aitered that changes . were ‘made in favor of Davis. As an instance, the county of Kennebec, which usually complétes its returns in one day, was held back until after Thursday, and it 1s openly asserted by a former Republican leader that returns are kept back for manipulation. Two of the five Congressmen—Murch and ' Ladd—are conceded. Philbrick, Democratic candidate in Biaine’s district (the Third), 'while actually elected, may be counted out by fraud by a very small majority—under one hundred. In the First District, Anderson, Democratic candidate, is practically in the same position, as. the . Reg)ubliu:ms only claim a majority for Reed of 93 —thus showing that out of five Congressmen four Dem-’ ‘crats were elected. This is the best criterion by which to judge the po;l)ular sentiment of the State. Plaisted is clearly eleoted, and can only be defeated by fraudulent count. The only gains shown by the Republican party, or: claimed by them; are in Democratic counties, inaccessible by telegraph and away from lines of railways. The best evidenceof fraud proposed to be perpetrated is the fact that while the Fusion ticket shows large gains all over the State in Republican cities and countiés, ‘the Republican gain is claifned in Democratic counties. : WiLLiaM H. BARNUM, it : Chairman. S@A e 5 ~——The Republican papers are exulting over the Vermont returns as if they brought something more than the old story of the Dutch taking Holland. It is now in order for them to explain how much more significance there is in 20,000 Republican majority in Vermont than there is in 50,000 Democratic majority in Arkansas. . v .

POLITICAL POINTS, . ——The New York Tribune says of the Republican :managers, *‘victory, they believe, is possible. But the work necessary to win it has vet to be done.” When it comes to being ‘‘possible,” instead of probable, the work to win will make a proportionate demand on money and energy. _ : ——~Gen. Grant's affected zeal for a fair count of votes will not pass for an honest expression of feeling. Pf‘esident Grant aided and abetted the false count of 1876, and prepared to enforce it with the army. He should get J. Madison Wells to indorse his present utterance and have it countersigned by Casanave and Agnes Jenks.— Wasking—ton Post. : v . ——Reducing a section of Mr. Sherman's Cincinnati speech to comprehensible English it reads: ¢ When I denounced Collector Arthur for oflicial rascality, including bribery, corruption and fraudulent payments in his office, I did not mean to intimate. that he was not a man of honor and a gentleman.” What Mr. Sherman was trying to ex‘press was ‘that, although the' collector was a dishonest fellow, the General was all right!— Cincinnati Enquirer. - ——lJt is’a dogma of the Republican party that wealth must rule, whether intelligent or not. That is the position of the leaders and organs of the party. That such doctrines are antiRepublican. and inimical to popular freedom is evident even fo people who are unacquainted with the history of the Greek and Italian Republics. The mere expression of a desire to establish fully the plutocratic system of government here is treasonable, and it should defeat the Republican party overwhelmingly in November.— Ezchange. —-—Some Republican papers find it impossible to distinguish between what the North did and what the Republican party did. 'Fhe North, in opposition to the Republican party, insisted that the pledges given to Lee at Appomattox, be respected. The North was generous ; the Republican party was vindictive. The North abhorred the actions of the carpet-baggers: the Republican party approvea. The North repudiated the asvhisky-ring ,and the Credit-Mobilier statesmen ; the Republican party indorsed them. The Republican party stole the Presidency in 1876, and the North will condemn the theft in 1880.— Lowzsville Courier-Jouwr-rnal. g :

——Since the political slaughter of Grant at Chicago, Democrats generally have been disposed to let him pass unnoticed, so far ascriticism is concerned. They were willing to considerthe erushing punishment received from his own party as suflicient atonement for his sins and = short-comings. They had neither the intention nor the desire to rake up the record which brought upon him that punishment, or to aggravate still bleeding wounds by recailing the misdeeds which ‘provoked the lash of retributive justice. But now that he has deliberately and voluntarily reentered the arena, and signalized his re-entrance by an accusation emphatically contradicted by his own words, the party thus' vilifigd may be under the disagreeable mnecessity of adopting a different treatment. Democrats have nothing to fear from Grant's efforts for ‘“the success of the ticket headed by Garfield and Arthur,”” but before he gets through with these efforts he may have occasion to regret that he had not remained in the dignified obscurity of Galena, to which his collapse in Chicago consigned him. —Zurcinnge. _

——lln his recent letter to My Dear General Logan,” ex-President Grant says: ‘“ We should never be beaten until every man who counts, or represents those who count, in the enumeration to give representation in the Electoral College can cast his vote justas he pleases, and have it counted just as he east it.”’ The ex-President is a little confused in his ideas. A great many persons count. in the enumeration of the representative basis, who have no right to vote. What he means, we presuine, is, that every qualiiied voter must be allowed to ‘‘cast his vote just as he pleases, and have it counted just as he casts it.”” This is very sound doctrine, . and ought to be rigorously enforeed in practice. But what does the ex-Presi-deut think of the Republican villainy which threw out 8,000 votes in Louisiana in 1876, and refused to count them just as they were cast? He himself was an accessory in that wretched business. for he sent his friends, Mr. Sherman and Mr. Garfield, to New Orleans to elaborate the fraud apd incite the Returning Board to kptrpe,trate’ it. ' His pretentious demand to have every voter's vote cast ‘‘just as he pleases, and counted just as he casts it,”’ would be entitled to more respect if it were not impaired by this shumeful transaction.—SB¢. Louis Republican. . & b e e A Case Without Parallel, In many of the States the criminal laws permit defendants to testify, if they desire to do so, I%nd ‘there have been numerous cases in which the accused have been found guilty on their own testimony. We have never heard, however, that a ecriminal, on his way to the scaffold, found consolation in the retlection that he has been convicted out of his own mouth. - ~ General Garfield and his party are being reduced to ruin by the evidence .whic% he and his friends have furnjshed. It is the defendant testifying in his own case. No ¢ Democratic campaign lies,”’ no calumny, no slander, no cruel accusations are brought against General Garfield. The Democratic editor or speaker opens the' oflicial records of Congress, or turns to Republi¢an journals of the highest respectability, and therein finds not only the charges, all and severally, that -are preferred against General Garfield, buf the most conclusive proof of each and every charge. : ; : L ' It is not strange that the managers of the Republican case lose their temper under such unprecédented and unheard of circumstances. They can find no guide in history, no light in experience, no parallel in ancient or modern times, for no party was ever thus placed. = It has never happened before that a ‘party has selected a Presidential candidate convicted, on his own admission, of having committed, as a member of ‘Congress, an offense punishable with imprisonment for a term of years and a fine of $lO,OOO. Sl

l ~ It has never hap-pened,{ that any party has nominated for the Presidency a | man whom the reputable journals of his | own party had declared tit only to be ! ‘“kicked out of Congress,”” a man of | whom the most orthodox Republicans ,—i‘ofvhis own distriet had said: ‘*He ought | to be in the Penicentiary.” : | It will never happen again that any ‘ party will go into a Presidential contest ' under a leader hopelessly and irremedi- ' ably smirched by the most infamous of ' official scandals, convieted by his own evidence, his oath squarely contradict'ed by the report of a eommittee coni trolled by his own party, and his retirement from public life d"fimauded by the | best men and most influential journals l‘ of his own political faith. | ““Democratic lies,””] indeed! The | Democrat who -would lie.on a man 'thus -branded, thus pilloried for all ' time, thus arraigned, tried and con- | victed in the house of his friends—such ' a Democrat would disgrace humanity. |—Washington£ost P '

Belying Their Professions,

The Republican party leaders pretend to be greatly in favor of the cause of popular education’so that the youth of the country may grow up to intelligently discharge their political duties. In their Chicago platform they declare that it isté)le duty of the National Government to aid the work of popular education to the extent of its Constitutional duty. The Republican organs and orators’ in the 'present campaign grossly and shamefully belie these professions. One of the most loudly, reiterated assertions of the organs is that the political party resjpresenting in the last election for President a large majoritv of the voters of the country is engaged in a conspiracy to make compensation to the late ownersof slaves which would impose an “in%{)lerable burden of debt and taxation. Now the teachers in the schools of the higher classes where the Constitutian is made a study show that the Constitution expressly prohibits the United States from assuming or paying any ‘‘claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave.” The schoolmaster further instructs his pupils that in order to repeal this or any other provision (jf_ the Constitution a vote of two-thirds of both Houses of Congress and ratification -by threefourths of the Stafies are necessary. The schoolmaster teaches that in no othersway can any plTovision of the Constitution of the United States be repealed. But the Rei)ub'licau organs in their endeavor to pervert the minds of the youth ot the country assert that the most solemn provision of the Constitution can be evaded by judicial artitice or trick and that a n?aj’c'u'ity of the people are engaged in a conspiracy to accomplish thatend. | e In this shdmeless warfare on popular education the Republican organs and orators assert that in case of General Hancock’s election| the Democratic party intend .to pension rebel soldiers and make compensation for the enormous losses inéurred in aid .of the Rebellion. In consequence of shese partisan falsehoods a poor, illiterate, exConfederate the other, day sent in his application for a pension, and ignorant persons are making claims upon Congress for lpsses. But the schoolmuster explains to his intellizent pupils that the same organic law of the country declares that the United States shall pay no such pensions or claims for losses, and that they shall ¢ be'held illegal and void.”” To repeal this provision the schoolmaster showsthat the vote of two-thirds of the inembers of each house of Congress and-ratification by three-fourths of the Statesare required. It two-thirds of the: representatives of the people in Congress and threefourths of the States in their political capacity so determine, they can do many other equally foolish and absurd things. e 1 !

Continning their warfare on the cause of education and good sense the campaign howlers of the bloody-shirt persuasion assert that the Democrats’ in Congress with General Hancock in the oftice of President m’fan to cut up Texas into five States, and thus gain eight additional Senators in order to carry out their profig_r:xmmei of destroying the settlements of the war that .are embedded in the organ‘ic law of the Nation.! .Here again the schoolmaster comes in collision with the stalwart organs, The schoolmaster teaches that by the act of admission in 1845 Texas might be divided into four new. States, making five in all, but that the consent of the people.of Texas would be necessary to the division. The Legislature of Texas would have to define the extent and boundaries of the new States, and these provisions would have to be ratified by the pe(lple. Before this could be accomplished more than one Presidential election would come and go. But the people of Texas are as little likely to consent to a dismemberment of the. territory as are the people of New York and Pennsylvania. They are very proud of their great commonwealth with a territory: more than five times the extent of Pennsylvania and with soil 'and climate unsurpassed on the contiuent. Info this great State immigrants are pouring from all parts of the worid who have no interest in the events or the issues of ‘the civil war. The Republican organs are absurd when they talk of the dismemberment of Texas, and they wage their usual warfare on political truth when they assert that this can be done by act of Congress without the consent of the peoplé of the State. | But the school-master is abroad. The knowiedge of the Coustitution, its provisions and guarantees, does not belong to a f%»y but is the chfiap possession of the whole people. The Republican organs may occasionally play upon the fears of an ignorant citizen whose partisan prejudices will not permit him to discover ~the %ruth, but the schoolmaster is more than a.match for them in this contest.—Harrisburg (Pua.) Patriot., s ' e

. THE largest ‘library in the United States is the library of Congress at Washington, which contained 231,000 volumes in 1874, and in that year the British Museum and the Imperial Library at St. Peter’s comprised 1,100,000 volumes each. The largest library in the world is the National Library at Paris, which, in 1874, contained 2,000,000 printed books and 150,000 manuscripts, i o

| | Altogether Probable, - - When General Hancock is elected, if those who ‘do not want to see him elected may be believed, the Republicans of the United States:'will be c¢alled upon to pay Southern claims larger than the present National debt, torether with pensions losses and other matters, amounting to an aggregate of at least $3,000,000,000. But inasmuch as the mere proposal to pay out that amount will wreck the credit of the Government, the issue of any bonds will be quite | out of the question, and the money will have to be raised either by the issue of legal tenders or by taxation. |As the. Issue -of that amount of legal tenders would make them. as worthless as Conmfederate notes, it is not likely that those who have this scheme in hand for. enriching themselves will be satistied with payment in worthless paper. The last and only resort, \therefore, :will be to taxation. -

According to the opponent’s of Hancock’s election, therefore; the people of the |United States are to be taxed three billions of dollars for the purpose of enriching, at the most, three or four hundred thousand people in the Southern States. e - .

" The disposition of large masses of people to. impose burdens upon themselves for thé: accommodation of a handful of people that are to be benefited is so notorjous that it is no wonder everybody is looking forward to that scheme as the first act. of the new ‘Administration. | Moreover as, according to Hancock’s opponents, his Administration will give' up altogether the hope or expectation of collecting any revenue from the South, 'and permit the ‘‘moonshiners” and other evaders of the law\. to have their own way, this money will have to be collected at -the point . of! the' bayonet from the people of the North. But as the people of the North are almost equally ditided into two parties—the vote in 1876 being 2,800,000 Republicans, 2,750,000 Democrats—it follows that the :Democrats, -will have to shoulder half of this enormous burden themselves. That they will do this gladly, willingly; that this is all they are hoping and praying for; that for this they are working to elect Hancock, and for it mean to vote for him, and beg others to vote for him, is as clear as noonday to the editors, if not the readers, of the Republican pajpers. ’, That these papers have unearthed only half ‘the plot is evident on the face’of it. Having succeeded in electing Hancock, the Democrats will at once set themselves -to the task of ‘paying over the billions to the Southern claimants.’ But, : instead of standing up like men and taking their full share of the burden, they mean to turn it all over upon the Republicans. The Republicans alone will .be made to_ pay taxes and foot these bills. Just how this is to:be accomplished may pérhaps puzzle the man who still uses his reason in discussing political questions, but that the Republican editors who have invented the proposed debt are ingenious enough to invent a 4 way by which the Democrats can stand from under and. make the Republicans pay, no careful student of the ‘‘campaign’’ Republican journals will for a moment permit himself to doubt.—Detroit Kree Press. s ! _

| : ‘Gospel Truths. 7 | e ! | “Twenty years of power .s "l(mf: enough.” — M. Einglisi’s Letter of Acceptance. : 7 Mr. English, in taking the ground : that twenty years of continuous power is quite as long as any party should hope to control the aftairs of the Gow~ernment, and quite as long as the people should tolerate the same set of men in oflice, is borne out by .the teachings of history and the experience of humanity.. New policies and new issues are ' so constantly springing up that the old ideas must give way to the new, in order that there may be progression, and in order that the Government may ' not be corrupted from a blessing to an evil. And this peculiarity of political history is not confined to 'that of our own country alone. We may- cite in instance the reign of Victoria, crowned in 1838, and although exercising her. sway for forty-two years, thus far a - period embracing most important political events, her Ministers have succeefled one another in rapid succession ~as the ;people have demanded new leadérs and the exponents of mew poliI cies and principles. We find the same | condition of things in France, in Germany and in other Governments of the ‘Old World. The power of Bismarck, v after eighteen years, is waning, while the Emperor of the Russias is forced to acknowledge that the methods and. ideas of his fathers will no longer serve.. And thus it goes. The party that seeks to perpetuate itself simply on the claim that a change of Administration would jeopardize the material interests of the country is apt to be rebuked by the people and rele- - gated to the rear. This rotation secures the people against the rogues and knaves who would prostitute filei}' offices for the benefit of party, and who would conceal their own plunderings by a perpetual blockade against Investigating - Committees. Mr. En- | glish is, therefore, justified in/ saying that ‘‘twenty years of power is long enough.” The Republican orators and the ?{ep,ublican press seek to make light of this cry for a change that' is going up from the people. The very fact of its having come to pass that the dominant party snaps its fingers in the face of an erstwhile minority is sufficient to show all true lovers of republican government that the time for a change is actually come. No party should be tolerate({ no matter Wga,t it ‘may have accomplished in the past, when it begins to strive, by unworthy nieans, to acquire a permanent vgrip upon the reins of Government. ere | there no other reason for the success "of the Democratic party, this reason ‘alone should, as it doubtless will, suffice. The Republican leaders may Jaugh and grin at the idea .to their hearts’ content, but the hard, commonsense of the people will not be dissuaded from apprehension for the stability and integrity of the Government. ‘Mr. English has sounded & key-note in fiiving‘ voice to a common sentiment, aily growing more intense among the people—u sentiment which will in November be found sufficiently general and earnest to defeat the Repubfican party. — Cincinmaty Evquirer. e

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