The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-11
Parties in the Fut ure-The Democratic
Programme.


Programme.
From The ~ Y Times.
The more candid Of the Democrats temper
their exultation with frank acknowledgment
OF the assistance derived from "citizens who
have not for the last few years acted with the
Democratic party" 1t ia admitted, too, that
this assistance, which has been made available
by the errors and follies Of the Republican
organization, can be counted upon only so long
rs the Democratic party occupies middle
ground. A return to Copperheadism, it is
confessed, would drive of the voters whose
help has secured victory, and force them again
into the Republican ranks. How far these pro-
LESSONS are genuine, and to what extent they
are shared by the active workers of the party,
we need not particularly inquire. There might
be some difficulty in reconciling them with the
fact that in Ohio and Minnesota the Democratic
candidates for the highest positions of the
ticket were, during the war, pronounced enc
mics OF the Union; or with the further fact
that the gains realized in Pennsylvania and
throughout the West are mainly attributable
to the efforts of politicians Of whom Mr.. PEN
dleton is the most favorable type. But these
debatable points we are not, Just now, required
TO touch. 1t is enough that the success Of the
party in this Saate is attributed by those who
have achieved it to cooperation, which nothing
but good judgment and unceasing care can
retain for future service.
BY what process, however, may these pro-
tessions be recOnciled with the practice which
is toreshadoWed on the reconstruction ques-
tion The course was comparatively clear
30 long as the hopelessness OF resistance to
the law on the part of the South was conceded
by that section of the Democracy to whose
recent declarations we refer. There was un-
doubted strength in tactics which, while re-
cognizing the power of Congress to enforce
its will, aimed at future contests for the modi-
foation of its action. The prudence which
dictated this view of the question has been
discarded since the victories were obtained.
Instead of accepting the obvious facts of
the case, and reserving effort for the period
when craftsmanship may deal confidently
with reunited country, a revolutionary
policy is laid down for the guidance of the
Democratic party. The refusal of the South
ern whites to submit to the operation Of
the law is assumed and justified. And on
the additional supp0sition that the next
Congressional elections will give to the De-
moorats the command of the House, a plan is
slsetched substantially identical with the
wild notions which have sometimes been i'm
puted to Mr.. Johnson respecting "the Rump
Congress-" Here it is, in few words:-With
Democratic House, and President in ALI
e4ioo WIN s.O es'iAS parry, 1no oOuLn6fn whites
are to upset the State organizations formed
under the Reconstruetion acts, and are to
form others IN accordance with their own
ideas, repudiating altogether negro srefrags
The Senators and Representatives ara hi ba
elected, and the latter are to be forthwith ad-
mitted by the Democratic majority. Then
''the Southern Senators, plus the conservative
Senators from the North, win form a majority
OF that body organize as such, and neither the
House nor the President will recognize any
other Senate Are We wrong In designating