Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1871 — The Democratic Party. [ARTICLE]

The Democratic Party.

■»rty la building magi air 1b the anticipa■ower in the elections ark able organisation, form, the prize light - -•tuners' slouch, with i, representative of a Ting the badge of his ta escutcheon Genndnnati; Mike McCoole, of St. {xxiis; Jubal Early, of Virginia; Admiral Semmes, of Alabama; Brick Pomeroy, Jim Fisk, Judge Barnard, Belmont, Barlow, Ingalls, and a majority of the San Domingo ring are representative men of the party. The Democratic party present nothing to commend themselves to public favor that they did not present m 1864, and again in 1808. They have had no chtngc of men, and have proposed no change of policy. In 1864 they resolved that the wap was a failure, and that it should be stopped. In 186 b they declared, in substance, that the war should be renewed to overthrow the reconstruction policy of Congress. In 1872 they have nothing to offer, save that the abolition of slavery, and the civil and political equality of all citizens, are failures, and hence the Thirteenth, Fourteenth snd Fifteenth Amendments must be treated as null and void. They have no policy with regard to taxation or finance. In short, the Democratic party lias neither principles nor leaders; and it cannot achieve success, except through superior blunders on the part of the Republicans. The Democratic party contains within its organization almost every element which Is dangerous to public liberty and to national safety. How it would govern the nation is shown bv the government of the State and city of New York —the only part of the country in which it has unquestioned and supreme power. The government of New York is a specimen of the government which the Democratic party proposes to give to the nation. It is a government of piunder—to rob the general public to feed and clothe an army of cut-throats and bullies, who neither labor nor produce, but arc maintained at the public expense. Y/e justly complain in this country of the expense of keeping any approach to a standing army; but the standing army of ranians, ballot-stuffers, thieves and assassins, kept upon liberal pay by the Democratic party in the city of New York, costs the public five dollars

per head to the one which would be necessary to maintain a regular army of the nme number of men. At present this Democratic government is confined to that city, but there is not a plug-ugly in New York, nor in any o.lier /.art of the country, nor any man opposed to decent government, who is notanxiously waiting for the hour when the Treasury of the United Stales shall be transferred to the sachems of Tammany Hall, and the spoils of the nation be distributed among the ruffian retainers of that organization. It is a significant fact that the first instance in this country of a dishonest, profligate, shameless, hireling judiciary was created by the Democratic party in the only portion of the country subject to its rule. There arc men attached to the Republican party, and claiming to be leaders in it, who are of no profit to the party, nor any ml vantage to the country. Rut the vicious elements which are united in the Democratic party are attracted by the common hostility to all lav; and government, and by the desire to overthrow every barrier which stands between peace, order, security of life and property, and the absolute reign of the lawless mob. There is no sense of restraint in that party. No man is questioned as to his personal or political antecedents. Nothing that he may say or do can injure or lessen his standing. Political principles arc not rcfuirod. He can vote any way he pleases. ie can vote to repudiate the debt, principal and interest, like Mungen, or be can vote to make greenbacks payable in gold, like Brooks. He can vote to repeal the tax on iron, like Cox, or to make it 100 per cent, like Randall. He can spout for protection or free trade. He can vote for taxes for revenue, or vote to repeal all revenue. He can vote to compel the miners to work for starvation wages, that railroad companies may have their 30 per cent dividends, or can incite one class ot laborers to cut the throats of another class. Upon no question of general i politics, or upon any of its details, is any Democrat expected to have any fixed opinion, except, perhaps, that no “ nigger ” shall vote. It is a party of outs, clamoring to get possession of the government that it may cariy out, en a grander scale, the New York government of robbery and spoliation. In the coming contest of 1872, the Democratic party have nothing new to present In 1868, aided by the Confederate recruits, and by (he fusion of Seymourism and Blairism, it had some hope of success; but in 1872 they have nothing but the old issues of the war to fight over again, upon which they have been defeated, outside of New York city, annually, since 1860. They might have made a respectable snowing upon the issue of taxation; but, upon that, the party seems as ignorant as savages, and, when :t votes at all, it votes under command of Kelley and Randall. It will have to enter the fight once more with no other battle-cry than “Down with the niggers,” and “ Up with Boss Tweed,” and of course will meet with as disastrous a defeat as that of 1&04, or 1808, unless it shall be out blundered in the next eighteen months bv the Republican party, which we conceive to be quite impossible.—Chicago lYibitne, May 17.