Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1887 — A Thoroughly Bad Party. [ARTICLE]

A Thoroughly Bad Party.

There are of course, vast nuia1 ers of holies t. well meaning men i:. the democratic party,especially -n>jt exists, in theeountry (listrlets! h.■•ugh th-' Li<-nt:d biin l . which keens them th -re is one of *,'.e most inscrutable things in the whole range o r human experience. I ~8-ut taking "lllP'ldirß, liubetui, I as it is compoStKTjn the cities ami.; ♦owns, and this the dominant; [x>rtion in the northern states, and i; fully merits every word that isi s .id abmitjt in the very i -rcible' article quoted cisewhcie from that •; lie and unwavering Republican ' yaper,.thc Indianapolis Journal. , lit wT i , The disposition shown by the ; idontieello Herald to copy fl Cd'ir "th 1 Message of this place, pdra- ’ abusive and slamL rmis oil 1 ’ ensselae r and - does ■ no credit it to that p”.p r. Its editor knows the editor of ♦he Message, of old, and' knows him thoroughly, knows • Lis utter unreliability and his * utter malignance. The editor of i ■ v ' *■ ! tie Herald also knows the slander and injustice of ths things it persists in copying from the Sless&ge. The course of tire HefaKi”"iS ’"fain ami honorable,-as-a rule, .and we, cin. not understand why it should depart front that path in the instance and manner we have desig-: u.ded. .. The Reiublican most- earnest-' Tv the sueof the* • Rensselaer and Remington fairs, and emphatically condemns all ;>ly or unfair rivalry between the two institutions. In h'.'tice, however, we are impelled Ty st,.tethat theHhct that 4 lie tw>-' l.drs have.this year charged Their . rbTative positions on the calendar, the Renssekier-farr coming -the first week in September and the Remington the week fallowing. ‘ 'ad'of t ■' -v u’.-? . ?s -heretofoie, is R i-uss-dawr fair -manages. i-p K e.m claimed. The Remuigtc’-man-i ‘.< n m.t io in st io select- their dates for this year's Tir. and th -y -elected- the sec-oink wA.:icT.;Scp.- .. up rn v i.\t t ~■ i-iensAeb'erfai.- had I ?ea Js-ld f : ■vmc' e'ecn ret ree tbfit. the change of relative.dates'need work »ny injury to either fair, ! nt if: • - :.ny ease, the f r t'..e cinngp ought not to by ■ffttTjbdt :d to the wibhg parties.

A ta-i.n'.Oi covjSrrned lad char- ‘ ar, bad rer:u?-ition L _ba.! prh J . • . . ! wact’Cr:- a:?.’ b-tt-t rin-ttrf fef* dead, nrnTguod in .ibis’ world, rijnt 1 i 7 - '■ .-J .1 v iiol 41 theSv-xL "TtP, hn gf-r’; —tr? lives- the—;<nd the worse he gets. Siuch the ’ same rule applies to political par- ; nes. A political party is an entity. *

Like an individual it has its charncter and its inincipl.’S, good or J bad, its ruling ideas, and c introll- i -itt';?|iniltte»H*etir*iS'' meihods, practi* ces and habits, its prevailing ton- t dVHny toward- gtKid. dr et;il. The . I>. im>.- :7 • 1 11-I}’ <:.' b»-day ;•> an ' 'eXainplo of a thoro>nghly vicious I oliticil organization a p;:r!y of had pi-iiici'7 metlipds, bad lii.bils i'A.i tend 'iHE'S, bad' w 'i.s. This s' oms to be the,law of its i>eing. Not that there are n» good men in lii ■ ! )e;n. eoilic p i'A . i "Th'orcTjsTi fair Tunoriiy bf swh. No parson is .so bad that there is' net some good in him -spine feei- , ing or pnne:, i' v.'..i>-h. ;i' g.v n play and allowed to assert itself, i nriglit become a redeeming vittun. ; So no party can be so thoroug! ly i batt 4h«.t some hodest- men- rnty not be found in it. Bid, as in the lease of the indiydu d. the f '.-iihgerm and weak principle of virtue lis oi’ tci >i j i• >a ml silenced ■ more powerful and active principle of evil, so in the Democratic 1 party the influence, voice and votes <>f the few honest, men. are over- ' come and silenced by those of the ' opposite kind. A party, like an i individual, must be judged by its predominant tendencies.' It is what the majority makes it. Judged by this rule the Democratic party of to-day is thimoughly, bad,. a political imdforination, an ulcer on the'body-.politic, a perpetual menace to the peace and We lfare 'of the country. To all practical ! intents it is nothing but an orgr.n----i ized principle of evil, and iiicarn- ■ ate tendency to wrong, thcembodi inmnt es - political- malpracUce.I Undec any circumstances or coni'ditions it represents ninety-nine partsof evil ifT^rrpossible one hundred. Whatever of mischief, dis- - aster, deyr!try, disgrace, fraud or corruption exists or can be brought i into existence under a popular . form of government finds its natI urr.l home and harbor, its advo-..(rite-and defender in the Dcmo- : eratic party. There is no form of i political outrage that it has not : practiced, no 1- w fur the security- ' of the ballot that it has not violat- : effiod" OF fsolitfed’' ; fTtmd' •’ t : find it has Hot incorporated in its ‘ I code. Time and again, in hun- ! dreds of instances, in the North as ■ in the South, it has used fraud and I ; c irruption, for ? 1 and vi >!mi ce to ■ i debauch the -ballot, nullify free' i I sulTiaige and oimicoyie.the -wrfF jyfj i the people. Trom the shotgun, ; . ti:e revolver and the midnight i i raider in th-e Snitk. to the ti-sllot- ■ b 'X staffer, the tally-sheet forger, i tLC-piuiLiukiuie eraserand erosive i acid in the North, it has boxed the .eidixmcompiLSS of crime and swung : (•■■mi'h iely rounJ. the i-ii<-lo of 'f.-loiiica- Nor bas.it been sati -H > ; | with once traversing this orbit of ,' infamy: it has revolved in it ye;oWaiter year mid followed the track 'of lawlessness and crime with a ■ regularitv that cin be predicted. Every presidential election has completed a new cycle of Democratic fraud' in the South and intermediate years have been improved to practice in the North sSeE methods of fraud as iiigeuioTis' -De moeiiats-RtUl. rmconiined. .in.. pais, ilentiaries delight to invent. Of :!?-<? I'mliitudi-ious . outrages, crimes m.d frauds, not one has r been repudi ded or condemed by the party managers or press. Each new infamy has h en promptly in-?• >rp 'rated in the Dempcratie | code, and evory discovery of a new ‘ inethyd.o.f fraud l>.ih\d wiilf de-1 light 1 y the connoisseurs in crime who mam-go'its affairs. The.h n-T • ■st men in. t-he-pai'ty are as power- I less to slipi e its course as a conn- I fry ] r> ae'ier would be in a -cohg- ' rt :-s c,f thieves or a collage tutor in | a convention-of gairotcrs. If they '.-irT?uipt to protest agmiiikt the conr? mission ofcrime in the name o'i. D mocracy, ’.l.cy'arejtreated iis an .. ''-<f of the law might be who ationipted t > read a writ under a i .'.sh-Womr.i’’s v>irglow—del”g< • 1 with a bucxi’t < f llldi.’ liowevt r a 'mw individuals nii.y protest, ti e ' LgumL- . ibg'_s‘s.. fraau : .. .; I a-i in? a.-- s mim.' with a ■ mtiavss th.-.t b.-speaks a wonder- j a. i aianity for moral tilth. Lrom the sc-cut'*d Senator whose title is • .inti tl with fraud to thelocal boss v.'l.C'Se. besom, blazes with dia-1 moml ohrairmd in rndwlier' witir .a~ 7.' f. oi.e-h'.d •' the p - ■ ■' fire n:. iy to e mdbire 17,. crimes the —other —k7t commit. 1 Vi cm such' a political pariy notli•u g can be expected but evil. The,] .1 .gy. of alt honest men is t rWatch • ~!• and tighf it.— InJianatwlisAourmu. Schorl books at the I*. O. »- >- —; I hree grand excursi ms over Hire , pU, B. a ( t >. and. Caieago, Milwaukee 7 Sa E«:il 11. K, Aug. u-J, o■: 1. Oct.. 11, l"7. Half fare :»r rote al trip. Em- pytieultwad , apply to C. P. ViTugiit & Uo., rEensseTaer. ImT. Try our roasted coffees. They ■ can’t be lieat for Ike money, - j I. Laßue Bros.