Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1873 — POLITICAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL NOTES.

The Republican party is the true anti-monopoly party. Viroqua (Wit.) Censor. Us?” The 1 Democrats of Pennsylvania have no opinions to express on the tariff question. They are waiting to find out what side of it they are on.— Pittsburgh (Pa.) Commercial. Schuyler Colfax, in response to a serenade at Eaton Rapids, Mich., said that “he could look back upon his long career and see that he had never performed a public act for which he would be ashamed to stand and answer at the court of heaven.” The Democratic party wants to be trusted not for what it has been, but for what it says it will be. The people only know it by what it has been. By that it has been judged in former years and condemned. It will be the same way this year. The people prefer a party whose past record gives assurance of good government and honesty and economy in the future.— Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil. The Democratic press mourns incessantly about the increase of public debt ana taxes, caused by its own party’s misdoing. Now, will any Democratic paper tell us when and where its party has reduced taxes or public indebtedness anywhere during the past ten or fiiteen years? If the party has done any such thing in any city or State where it has been dominant, we are not aware of it.— Columbus (Ohio) State Journal.

CST When Democratic orators denounce the demoralisation of our politics, we admit that politics are indeed demoralized, but far more so among Democrats than among Republicans, li among the latter there are too many—as there are—who abuse the power they possess, there are very few among the former who do not show by their conduct that they are seeking power for the express purpose of abusing it As an opposition party the Democracy is a failure. It would be wvU if it could be got rid of, and the field be left-frcp for a better one.— New York Times. . The Albany-fJJ. Y.) Evening Jour nal says’ of Democratic-criticisms: “If the criticisms of DemocrkiJ&- papers have little weight with the people’, it- is because they are marked by so little candor. They are now virulently assailing the Republican party and Administration as corrupt and profligate. But they have been doing precisely the same thing for the past ten years, and the accusation commands no more credit now than it did then. Its palpable falsity has not prevented them from repeating it during all this time, and the people naturally reason, if they did not examine the facts for themselves, that what has so often proved baseless is entitled to no credence or respect now.” e has got to mean different things in dilierent places, preparatory to meaning nothing in all places. The Pennsylvania Democracy readopted as its platform the platform ol the Ohio Democracy, with the exception of the free-trade plank. That they did not believe in, and rejected—although it simply resolved that tariff duties ought to be levied only* for revenue. The high-tariff Democracy of Pennsylvania has always been an unmanageable burden to the party, ever ready to defeat the party on the question of free trade. Its dissent from the Ohio platform on this subject shows that it can never again co-operate with Western Democrats nor Western Democrats with it.— St. Louis Republican. JSF'The New York Times says: Veteran Democrats of the West, who have been accustomed to look to the Chicago Times and the St. Louis Republican for their politicarihspixation, musts be inconsolable now that these, their only guides and supporters of any account, have abandoned them to their fate. The latter paper buries the Democratic party daily, and in its issue last received by us says: “Indeed, it (the Democratic party) has ceased to be a fighting power, and does not, at this time, possess a grain of influence in national politics. It has lost the faculty of attracting attention to itself. Its platforms drop like lumps of lead to the ground, though these same platforms, when proclaimed by some other party, become an inspiring war-cry against Republicanism.” tsfl'lie New York Commercial Advertiser says of the despised and rejected Liberals: Where now are the exultant chiefs who but a year ago marshaled their little but potential clans at Cincinnati, and demanded of the great Democratic party surrender and absorption? Alas! how are the mighty fallen! The men who but a year ago gave the nod to Democratic conventions in State after State, and waved the wand of.sovereignty_ovcrthe. national gathering at Baltimore, now find none so poor as to do them reverence. It is the story over again of blind Belisariu? and the penitent Wolsey. Those men wifri wore the purple come now in tattered vestments and with hungry eyes to the precincts of Democratic conventions, and find their piteous appeals for even an obelus of recognition met with scorn and “contumeliousness.” Buffalo (N. Y.) Commercial "Advertiser has a word or two on the past which the Democracy are so anxious to bury: The Democratic journals lay great stress upon the assertion that they do not seek to “galvanize dead issues;” they do not want to'“revive the past.” Of course they_do_._Mt,._And why ? Simply because they are afraid of it. A steward ■or any other servant who had been employed in a position of responsibility, and been discharged for breach of trust, would not"be apt to ask to be reinstated for the reason that he was willing to forget the past. It would be for his injured employers or friends ‘to condone for and forget the past, if they could place confidence in his promise to do better in the future. It would not be for him to say, “O! never mind that old affair, I will let that-drop.” But sueh is preciselythepoaitiop taken by the Democratic party.