The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-05-19
JUNE. 1899.

Il &
n THx PaEs1lGk-Therc can be no denial Of u
fact that the democratic party has lost the pre-
tigc Of success. Hitherto II hes marched stFaigh
ON from president to president, making it, nomi
nations and electing il candidates, with hardly
J : failure, or with only brace Of failures II
many years. It could always agree upon plat
Iform-alwsys sgrcc upon candidates IL has 60.
tered every campaign with the prestige Of sue
ccss, with that impetus, won from repeated IL
nmphs and long perpetuated power, which enabled
i g bear down all oppcsiticn. This prestige =
lost The adjournment % Charleston without
| making nOmnation--andd dem0nstratiyely ~ifA-
out the ability to make onc--is the most damaf-
| ing blow which the party could receive. Tile
party splits on the questions VI the time. Il BE-
| trays irreconcilable phases OF sentiment and
opinion. Is stops in mid career 70 breathe
mayhap to patch up peace, and TO watch the
movements OF the other parties. II ccascs 70
lead, and makes way for organizations Of greater
unity, with defined purposes, and higher degree
Of vitality
can hardly be pretended by any member Or
the democratic party that tho causes which pro-
duced the division 1t Charleston win grow les
o the Campaign advances. II ID demonstrated
before the country that upon the great question
Which looms up above all other questions IN our
national politics, the party is divided. II can
never again be consolidated without an amount
Of dirt eating ON one side or tho other, which
Will disgust the strongest democratic stomach
The rottenness Of the party as national oryani-
zation il confessed and we declare il to b. our
conviction that there can be no thorouehly or.
ganized national opposition to the success Of the
republican party in the approaching election
There wall be plenty Of opposition, and that
which VIII be sufficiently dangerous, but it win
be patched up and disjointed one
The rpnuhIicMn marty atauds fh0O hnEcpn xlx~
country as the only party that has vitality and
unity and may Heaven give it's leaders the wis
dom to appreciate the advantages Of its posi- |
tlon! " is the only party of ideas and Of prin-
ciples The democratic party has lived for wears |
on the lie that slavery was national and not SEQ
tional. The Whig party died because it tried 70 |
ignore the question OF slavery, or tried to 20 q
Tar as i could with the democratic party on this
question. After whiggery began opfnly to be one |
thing at the North and d very different thing a
the South, the doom Of that party was sealed;
and the doom Of the democratic party was sealed |
from the day on which it demonstrated before |
the country the fact that northern democracy
had ceased to be southern democracy. No more
national parties can be built, or, for q single |
campaign supported, on the idea that slavery ii |
national institution; and the party Of white |
men-tl,c party which declares that freedom il 1
national and that slayeryis sectional-s the only |
one that has national idea in 1.-THE only one /
that has strong and positive idea in it. There I
is no set Of men that know this better than |
northern democrats, and there are mnltitudcs oi |
them who will cut loose from their long repulsive
slavery, and join the party Of national ideas
the party Of freedom and the future
If the leaders Of the republican party arc al i
fully aware Of its advantages as their old ene-
mics, we have nothing to fear. Nothing ismore
apparent to the most sagacious political men Of |
all shades Of opinion than that the republican |
party has the game in it, own hands. Spring
field R7aablicaa.