The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-06-18
The DemOraIized Democracy.


National convention in New York, on
the 4th of July, and who shall be can
didate for President? The contest
among the candidates now appears to
be between Pendleton and Chase. A
sharp quarrel is raging among the Dem
ocratic papers. Elizabeth Cady STAN
ton, in closing an article upon the Dem
Ocracy, in the RevOlution, says:
"They have at last admitted that the
war with Great Britain is ended, that
General Jackson is dead, and that the
"nigger' is slave no more. Having
got their eyes wide open, if they will
now only mind their p's and as in the
coming July Convention, with the Chief
Justice for their schoolmaster, and Uni
versal Suffrage for their text, they will
give law to the nation. But if, in a
moment of weakness, they look back
ward tor inspiration, thick darkness and
death will again encompass them, and
their sun will set to rise no more for
ever. Remember Lots wife"
We are afraid that E. Cady Stanton
has not been working in the Democratic
team long enough to know much about
that party. The Democracy might
take Chase for candidate, for when a
man once commences to fall, there is no
telling how low he may get; but the
idea of the Democracy favoring Uni
versal Suffrage, is too ridiculous for any
sensible woman to entertain for a sin
gle moment.
The Democratic party got small
majority in the Ohio Legislature last
fall, and instead of extending suffrage,
this Democratic Legislature attempted,
by enactments which all knew to be un-
constitutional, to take the ballot from a
large number of persons who were legal
voters under Democratic constitution
and the decision of Democratic Judges.
Also, the vote was attempted to be
taken, by special enactment, from Grip
pied soldiers and college students.
Mrs. Stanton is a very weak politi-
clan, or very ignorant one.
Here is an editorial from the N. Y.
Day-BoOt, another Democratic paper,
which exhibits more sensible view Of
the Democratic extremity:
"ATrEMPTs 70 BETRAY THE DEMOCRACY.
One day last week, a daily paper Of
this city, protesting to be Democratic,
came out with long leader, to show
that no future action of the Democratic
party, or of the Federal Congress, can
ever legally Or possibly interfere with
the negro supremacy in the South
which has been established there by the
illegal Rump Congress and the Mon
grel party. The same paper, several
months ago, in a cunningly constructed
article, declared for negro suffrage every
where, North and South, as a thing
which was sure to come at no very
distant day. But that article brought
upon itself such universal condemna-
ton from the Democratic press, that it
at once backed down, or pretended to
do 80, and for some time proiessed to
be opposed to negro suffrage. But
now, at last, the negro foot clearly
sticks out again from beneath its pro-
fessed robes of Democracy. Not only
the negro's foot sticks out, but the ne
gro's head, body and all, stands plain
to view The position Of this Demo
cratic paper (heaven help us is in no
essential particular different from that
of Sumner, Wade and Wilson on the
permanence of negro rule in the South
And this negro supremacy article was
followed the next day by another ex-
tended leader on "The Democratic
National Convention, iu which the
nomination of Mr., Chase is put forward
as a thing foreshadowed by the wishes
of the Democratic party. "The two
candidates whose merits are most keen
ly canvassed," we ore told, care Mr..
Pendleton and Chief Justice Chase"
"But we beg to demand, where the
merits of these ':two candidates" are
discussed among any body who can
call themselves Democrats without a
blushi AS between these two candi-
dates, if Mr., Pendleton does not have
more than nine-tenths of the Conven-
ton, then, indeed has the Democracy
sunken to a level of decentralization and
shame painful to contemplate. The
man who does not perceive that the
nomination of Mr.. Chase by the Dem
ocracy would be an end of the Demo-
cratic party, under its present organic.
alton, is fool. Nor do we conceive
it possible that there is, in the whole
United States, such thing as a single
intelligent and honest Democrat who
is for the nomination of MFR. Chase -
The nomination of Mr., Pehdleton by
the Mongrel party would not more sur.
prise and disgust the rank and file o.
that party, than the nomination o.
Chase by the Democrats would do the
same to all the consistent and honest
men of the Democratic party. The
Tribune, referring to the democratic
editorial above referred to, calls it (
"backing down" on the part of th'
Democracy. But it will find that the
Democracy has not Nhacked down,