Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1885 — Democratic Dead Issues. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Dead Issues.

All observers of the -lib-ift opinion will agree with the Indianapolis-/ewma''when it says: High tax and local regulation of the liquor traffic is the platform towards which the practical thought of the country is rapidly converging. • ■> It is a suggestive thing that nearly, if not quite, all the frauds attempted against the suffrage 1 * would inure to the benefit of the Democratic party. This is the case, universally and -without question, in all the Southern States. The Garcelon steal in Maine was for the benefit of the Democratic party. The MackinGallagher steal in Illinois was for the benefit of the Democracy. Only Democrats could have profited by the rape of the ballots in the court-house ill this city. The frauds in Franklin county and the frauds in Hamilton county, Ohio, w ere for the benefit solely of the Democratic party. It is also to be remembered that every safeguard thrown around the ballot-box. every law passed for the purity of elections, every amendment which would make fraud less easy, has been consistently and persistently opposed by the Democratic party. These are simple facts, known to everybody; and they carry their own moral. Indianapolis Jon nal.

Those who can remember the course and conduct of Andrew Johnson, during the reconstruction period, can well believe that Mi- Depew’s re velations regarding that troublous time are essentially true. His egotistical and abusive speeches against Congress, in which he abused that body in the grossest terms; the well known recklessness and dissipation .of his personal habits; and the suddenness with which he turned from a vengeful persecutor ot the Confederate leadeis to their strongest friend and ally are strong proofs of Mr. Depew’s assertion. A drunken, egotistical bloat,, who traveled about the country denouncing the loyal Congress as “This slump of a Congress, this fragment of a Congress,” and xvho knowingly alio .ved a prostitute to peddle out his executive pardons by hundreds to Confederates at so much apiece, was the kind of man from -whom such things were to have been expected.

Hou.' Fred Hoover, who was very influential in gerrymandering the State as it is, doffed his hat tor an Indian agency, and was among the first appointed. Gxfard 7 ribune The is not wholly correct in the above paragraph, buti it is doubtful if the exact truth isi any more creditable to Mr. Hoover. < Instead of being “very influential i in gerrymanding the State,” he clearly recognized the vast and inexcusable wickedness of that infamy and announced his intention of voting and speaking against it. But Mr. Hoover heard from Senator Voorhees about that time and learned that self sacrificing patriot was the especial patron and friend of the gerrymander. Nothing more was heard from Mr. , Hooves in opposition to the gerrymander, and when the Senate came to a vote upon fbt? question, he took hie medicine and voted for the measure, He knew which was The right side of the question, but —there has an Indian Agency in view and, as The Tribune well says, “he doffed'his hat” smotluered his conscience and, voted against his convictions and the rights of ~his countrymen. Bilt this is a “reform” administration, and Mr. Hoover is probably a reformer/

Some of the measures democrats Have Advocated Which are non I>cad From the (’leT< !:in<l Lender. Slavery was democratic, and it is dead. 1 Inflation was a democratic doctrine/ and it is dead. State rights was a democratic doc- ' trine. It is dead. I Secessoion was a democratic doctrine, and it is, dead. ■ ' '■ . All purely democratic doctrines, are dead or dying. Nullifioatibn was a democratic doctrine, and it is dead. , " The Dred Scott decision was democratic, and it is dead. Free trade has long been democratic, and it is dying. Squatter sovereignty was a democratic doctrine’. It ts dead. An absolute fiee yvhisky traffic is ddmocratic, and it is dying. Repudiation of the public debt was democratic, and it is dead “The war is a failure" was a democratic doctrine, and it is dead. The fugative slave law was a demqeratio ineasme, :mdit is dead-. Opposition to specie payments was democratic, and it is dfead. Illiteracy among negros was the.cprner of democracy. It is dying. The Knights of the Golden Circle was a democratic organization, and it is dead. The Southern Confederacy 7 was 'a aiemocratic institution. It -is everlast. ingly dead, John Morrissey and Boss Tweed were great democratic leaders, and they are dead. “This is a confederacy and not a na lion, was tire democratic doctrine, and it is eternally 7 dead. Tneidea that one Southener could whip three .Northeners was democratic, and it is dead. Jes! Davis "and Sam Tilden are both distinguished democratic leaders, and they are almost dead. The opinion that Union soldiers were “Lincoln dogs” and “hirelings” was democratic, and it is dead. "The law forbidding the carrying ot abolition papers in Southern mails was democratic and it is dead. The idea that a humanjjfiing is not a man because he is black,, was a democratic doctrine, and it is dead. The business; of breeding negro babies in Virginia, .Maryland and Kentucky, and selling theih down the river for SS. per pound was democratic, and it' is dead. Tissue ballot frauds, ballot box stufting, carrying elections by murder and intimidation, the killing of men on account of their political opinions, are democratic pratiues which must cease with the growth of education in the South.