Some Things Never Change, Part II

As a continuation of my last post, the following excerpt is from the 1874 platform of Iowa’s Anti-Monopoly Party (the big opposition party that year – the Democratic Party of Iowa had temporarily dismantled, and the Anti-Monopolists became the chief dissenters in Iowa in the 1874 elections). Anyway, here’s another timeless anecdote of animus from a rising anti-incumbent wave:

The conduct of the present Administration in its bold defiance of public sentiment and disregard of the common good; in its prodigality and wasteful extravagance; in the innumerable frauds perpetrated under its authority; in its disgraceful partiality for and reward of unworthy favorites; in its reckless and unstable financial policy; and in its incapacity to meet the vital questions of the day, and provide for the general welfare, stands without a parallel in our national history; and the highest considerations of duty require the American people, in the exercise of their inherent sovereignty, to correct these accumulations of evil, and bring the Government back to its ancient landmarks of patriotism and economy.

Interestingly, that was all one sentence.

Read more about the 1874 mid-term elections here.