Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1845-06-12
Democratic Whigs..-WhO arc
they?

IactoVy SuFiueHess VI Tie wings, we OIL.
fered the suggestion shor, time since
tina. 1t might be owing to the fact ,ha.
they see their opponents adopting their
principles one after another, with such
avidity, that there seems to be no ne
cessity for them TO pu. forth any effort.
By remaining in this apparently inert
position they have every assurance Of
shortly seeing all their principles adopt.
ed and carried out by the loco foco
party. Some Of our loco foco cotem-
poraries are disposed to be face,ious and
ridicule such an idea. Blu, have we not
every reason to believe that the sugges.
tive inference we have drawn is the
true one! To be sure our opponents
shield themselves from the charge Of
inconsistency by the declaration that
they belong TO the progressive democ-
racy." We do no, blame them for
adopting our principles. On The other
hand, we applaud them, and think it
shows their good sense. /. would be
li,lle more honorable in them, howev-
err. TO acknowledge the fact rather than
at,emp. to cover it Up with the mantle
Of progressive democracy" and take
all the credit Of the beneficial results to
themselves. They may however deny
having stolen our principles. But facts
are stubborn things, and we will place
a few before them.
The loco foco party have virtually
adopted the Wing Tariff Of 1912. and
they have shown no disposition in re-
ali,y to destroy it. They nigh, have
done i, if they would. This IS one Of
the darling principles of the wing par.
", and the Loco focos have stolen
that.
One of the leading members Of the
Cabinet. r. ]. Walker, recommends
the Government. to adopt system Of
internal Improvements. This is wing
doctrine and they have taken that also.
strict accountability on the part Of
those to whom is entrusted government
funds. This measure was insisted on
by The wings in consequence Of the i'm.
men.e amour, Of money tina, was pecu-
lated during the administrations of
Jackson and Van Buren,. This whig
doctrine has been adopted by the pre-
sen, administration.
We see bv the late papers that Pre-
sident Polk has declared for The One
Term principle. This is also known
to have been leading doctrine urged
by the wings.
The above are four out Of the six or
seven leading principles of the wings
which the locos have adopted. We
shall soon expect TO see the leading
loco locos advocating the necessity Of
a National Bank and the Distribution of
the proceeds of the public lands among
the States and Territories. As to the
only remaining leading principle of the
wings. the necessity of the adoption Of
which grew out of the tyrannical abuse
Of power on the part Of the President
the Ve,o-even that principle. although
there was some diversity Of opinion on
the part of the wings as to annihila,ing
i, altogether. has been very recently
adopted by some Of the small fry loco
foco politicians in this vicinity. When
they found i, was our OK gored their
bull they thought the case was altered,
and therefore tried to ge, up an indig.
nation meeting agains, Gov. Chambers
for ve,oing the bill which compels the
people to vote for that dead Cons,itu.
ton in August next. Blu, i. was such
a signal failure tina. the party may con-
slider i, SANDER for us to say that they
have adopted this doubtful wing mea.
sure. We may therefore say. by way
OF explanation, tina, in their willingness
to adopt this semi-whig measure, the
small fry acted without the authority Of
the "big fishes"
We think that we have proved most
conclusively that the so.called Demo.
cratic party have adopted large pro.
portion of the principles of the Wing
party. This is all we attempted. II
the loco focos continue as they have
begun, we are not certain that we shall
not soon be the chosen Organ Of the
Democratic party or appointed to that
favorite Mission to the Sandwich
Islands, which we have SO long covet.
ed.