The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-11-17
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ne most declsiye NctoFious over Ohlsined
" any POlilissl parry ia or country. een,
lerAl Ssou has pct carried Is many States a,
NJ. Van Rupn did ID le4O. when he gOt
seven. Picree runs far ahead of Genera
jackson in lse2. Thsrs was no q opposition
to Monroe in 1890, and but little in 1876
/, the -slsctoral vote standing. Monroe 2I8
Rnfus King 81 Ip i8o9 Mrs Jefferson re.
eei'el I7s, Pinckney u.
4 The morale Of the present victory wehop,
and think viii be lasting. The idea that Z
successful military man, however meager
his other sn'ecedents can be elected to the
Presidency, has met with rebuke too de.
tridcd To be soon forgotten.
Our whiS friends err when they imagine
Gcn. jackson was elected President merely
on account of his military fame. lie was
defeated in 1884, and elected in 1895, when
there was great dissatisfsclien with tie Ad.
minstrstion OfJno, Q. Adams. 1t was mo-
the military iamc Of Gen. Harrison that en-
ab'ed The whig party TO succeed in 1890
The hard times, confusion in the currency
general trouble in business affairs. saws a
cotemporary, had much to do with the de-
feat OF Van Buren, in 1870. 1t WAS not SO
much Harrson's military fame, as a strong
desire Of change.
ln 1913 the wings went into the array for
candidate. And Notwithstanding Gen.
taylor's popular qualities, Cass got fifteen
OF The 80 Htates, aVd had it not been for the
Van Buren, schism, would doubtless have
been elected. All this goes to show that
our whig friends place an improper
estimate on the intelligence and ponetra-
ton OF the people. They seem to have
thought that feathers and epaulettes would
take the people captive. But how sadly,
how swfully mistaken! The New York
Evening Post thus diseourses on this subject:
In the late election the wings not only
went 80 the army for their candidate, but
they took its commanding general, Just re-
turned III triumph from a successful war
Il mere military renown were as potent
with tie people as is pretended by
m INV, he would have been chosen Pres
ID ent. The result, however, has shown that
The wings were unaware of the real causes
TO which they owed their success first wish
Gen. Harrison and then with Gen. Taylor,
rs their candidates. In those cases tLs
general discomfort with their management Of
public affairs was in their favor, and ensur.
=. their triumph. In the present inst,nce, the
dissatisfaction is against them. and naturally
enoush, II has kept their candidate out og
othce. So utterly powcrless is an exalted
military reputation in securing political sup
port % candidate, that this has been one
Of the most overwhelming defeats Vet re-
corded IN the history Of the various strug-
giles for the Presidency of the United States.
The real explanation of the matter is, that
.he people have made up their minds,-as
they do sometimes when1the democrats are
in power, and as they are always sure to do
after four years experience of whig rule
toentrust their government to new hands,
The principal characteristic of the whiy ad
mlnls'raIion for !he last four yeals-waste
and encouragement of waste--plunder Of The
treasury and connivance at plunder-hss
disgusted the great mass Of tho nalion.--l
The wings sent up candidate under whom
there WAS no hope of reform; the democrats
nominated man against whom it Was OBJ
lccted by the wings that his maxims of le-
5Islation were liberaly and narrowly frugal,
The people have taken the latter for tGcir
Chief Magistrate by an immense majority in
Ill quarters of the Union.
Ii Mr Pierce should make good the ex
pectatons of his friends and the people in
this respect, il be should sclec! cabinet. as
his knowledg Of public men will easily ena-
Bile himto do. Of pure and upright men, hol.
ding the same principles Of financial econo-
my to which the people in clecting him have
given their appreciation; if be should With
stand and turn back as his office win give
him power TO do, that tide Of financial sor
ruption which has broken in upon us Of late
years, he will have laborous Adminstra-
ton, he will be involved in fierce contentious.
and become the subject Of thousand ma
lignant ISLANDERS, but he will have the people
with him; his final triumph is sure, and he
will close his four years in the midst of IN.
Vulnerable tokens Of public APPRECIATION o.
AAQCA CIJIrcgTTc uY rcrIox-o