Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-08-13
The Democratic Situation.

The Democratic Situation.
The West and South, democratic
sheet published in Cincinnati, thus
forcibly portrays the democratic sit
uation:
Democracy-if that is what we
call it-seems to find it rather diff
cult to discover what are its princi-
pies, at least one would think so
from its manifestations. SQUIRE
Pugh and Squire Pendleton both
mount the same stump on the same
occasion: the one cries out for
greer backs and the other for gold
The Enquirer teaches that the Gov
ernment can make money out of pa
per as well as out of any thing else
while Vallandingham shows to the
Democracy at Dayton double eagle
and twenty dollar Treasury note
and tells them that the one is money
and the other is not-that the gold
will pay debts and the paper cam
be made to pay them. The EDqui
rer goesin for greenbacks, and yet
finds hsrd.mshey Seymour just ths
thing for President, congratulsting
its readers upon ;heir happiness in
having "frst- class paper that gives
them all the news, and is true to
Democratic principles" and Mr..
Pendleton, the head and front.of all
greenbacks, prefers as Presidential
candidate, above every other-hard-
ly excepting himself-Mr. Seymour,
who jumped upon his greenback
plan and pulled it all to pieces, and
then jumped, to similar purpose,
upon its author.
In the meantime, Hendricks who
was-so it is said-beaten at New
York, in order to pay off the Pen
dleten debt, returns home in state,
is cheered all along the road, and
grandly received at Indianapolis; but
while he talks abundantly about ev-
erything else, enigmatically neglects
to rdtity; says not word about the
ticket, and seems unconscious that
there has been such a thing as con-
vention. What does it all mean /?
Where are our principles aud things2
Where is the old Democratic unity !?
Where are the fellows who sucked
Democracy with their mothers milk
and never failed to support the tick
ct? The Enquirer says that the
speech of Mr. Hendricks is exceed
ingly able and eloquent; but what are
Mr.. Hendricks ability and eloquence
when he forgets to ratify, and has
nothing to say about greenbacks
The times are out of joint; and Dem
ocratic principles-so far as appears
by the utterances of the scheme
with their, o, for light from thai
first class paper "that gives us al
the news and is true to Democratic
principles"
Then there is hitch in the pro
gramme Seymour doesn't accept
What does this mean? Is he afraid
to take hold, and feels as if he can't
afford to let go. DuIce ct decorum es
propstria naOrii, said Mr.. Seymour. Oh
Vallandigham for him-we forget
which. Then why don't he go and
NOR, as Gecorum as possible2 Such
political Turveydrop ought, at least
to be able to lie decently, if he can
not do any thing else.
Still another enigma. The En-
quirer, which gives US all the news
and is particularly true to Democratic
principles, publishing Stanton's GER
tifcates to the loyalty end eminent
services of Mr.. Seymour in pulling
down the rebellion, bearing date at
time when loyal mobs were raging
around the Enquirer office and threat
ening to pull it down over the heads
of its Copperhead proprietors; who
themselves were compelled, by al
orderly from headquarters, to ge
shivering and trembling out of theil
beds at midnight, and carry theiI
editorials to be revised by his higt
mightlness the commanding Genera
of the district. Are we not in
muddle-we Democrats--we patient
right Democrats2 Indeed, indeed
we are in a muddle.