Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1869 — Democracy and Dishonesty. [ARTICLE]

Democracy and Dishonesty.

A prominent paper of the so-called Democratic persuasion is greatly distressed at the indictment preferred against the Copperhead Legislature of Ohio by the recent Republican Convention in that State. The charge preferred against the Legislature was as follows: “That the late Democratic General Assembly, In Its reckleee expenditure* of public money; Ite utter neglect of the bualneae Interest* of the State by foiling to enact the wIMI and much-needed financial measures providing for the asaeeament and equalisation of taxation prepared by thecommlseton appointed by the preceding General Assembly; its heeUlitl Waour benevolent ard liter rary institution*; Us failure to carry out the repeated pledges of the De moentie party to teeure economy in r\e SMe; It* extraordinary length of session In time of pease, resulting In an expense to the State amounting, nor the pay or its member* alone, to more than double that of the preceding General Assembly; It* malignant, attempt* to dlefranchlae disabled aoldler* and clUaena of the State; ita attempt to take from the General Government the right to pursue, arrest and punish those who violate the lews made In pursuance of the Constitution of the United States, and the vicious acta Intended to destroy the power of the nation to preserve and protect the liberty and safety of Its elllsene, ha* abowa the Democratic party unworthy of iht trust, confidence and support of an honest and patriotic people,’' This to ft serious arraignment «l s party of profuse professions of economy and loud proclamations of immaculate honesty. But every charge made to too notorious for denial, or even equivocation ; and the Copperhead leaders of Ohio stand before the betrayed people confessedly guilty of every ooant in the indictment The Copperhead paper referred to groans over Use mischief such misconduct does to that party in owner States. It Tim no regrets for the cheating and stealing

per st, but being detected at therti to what grieves its heart. It fears that the “charges of corruption and extravagance against the late Ohio Democratic Legislature can bo substantiated,” and unterriflea, while In power in that State, hive not kept themselves free from taint” It odds: “ Inasmuch as the Democrats obtained control of the Legislature by pledge* of an honest and Sant management of sdatre, their chances for re success would depend largely upon the rejtlon of thoee pledget.” As they redeemed none of these pledges, bnt deliberately violated all of them and robbed the tax-payers without mercy or compunction, their chances of future success for a long time to oome are slim indead. Wa fully coincide with this Democratic paper when it.ssys t •' Thor* le one point connect** with the arraignment of the late Legislature of Ohio which la of the greatest interest and importance to the Democracy of the nation; and that le, that the strength of the party In any section of the country will be affected by the manner In which Democrat* discharge offidai dutles whenever they may be devolved upon them. This consideration make* the Democracy of every locality and of every State responsible to the party of the nation.’’ And it to because of the irrepressible tendency of the Democratic leaders to plunder and rob the people and be guilty of all manner of corruption and rascality that the people so seldom entrust them with the discharge of official duties, and so rarely re-elect them. The miseondnet of the Ohio Copperheads will be a warning to the people of the surrounding States for several years. For the past sixteen years the people have not, in any Northern State, with the single exception of New Jersey, voted twice in succession for the Democratic ticket. One experience generally suffices for half a score or more years. Ohio has gone Democratic but twice in sixteen years; and there is little probability of its being again under the rule of that party while the memory of the infamous and corrupt doings of the last Legislature remains in the minds of the people.—Chicago Tribune, June 97.