Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-09-04
TIE UNDERTOOK.
What Another Paper, Neu-
tval In Politics, Says.
Seymour Election a FIXED Fac,

From the New York Saturday Courier (neu,rai).
| TnH SILENT VOTE.
! The political campaign 10 practically fin
ishea, and victory won before any apparent
blow has been struck or battle DELIVERED
The Republicans arc defeat d-horse, foot
and artillery-before theT have hardly set
their squadrons in the field. We are no.
talking now as partisans. We put aside
all questions of prediction. We dismiss
any consideration Of the justics or proprie-
~ Of the result itself. Political reasons
have. undoubtedly, conduced to it in large
degree. The very thorough 70 organization
Of the Democratic party, the queuchisg Of
all fcujs and schisms in Il, and ts compact
an:on for common end, would. OF course.
have made il formida bic in any event. But
causes, many Of them superior TO the COM
mon political causes which govern a quad
fenniL election, have operated to produce
this result. Lett consider them.
Many very wise old merchants have laid
II down as business axiom that there in 4
financial convulsion in the United States
every seven years. The men rush ahead in
Wild speculation Tor ak years, and seem to
swim IN a sea Of success but on the
seventh comes q kind of jubilee Of destruc.
ton, and everything goes to smash. 1t is
much tAs samo with political par,ies-a
period OF wonderful success, and then a
torrible collapse. The jubilee Of destruc-
ton, the terrible seventh year of colap...
has ovsrtsken tho Republican party. Go
where you will, the signs ere eli the same.
Evsrywhero men say, swell, We think rs
about time for change. The Republicans
have had their chance 10, and it's about
time to give the other fellows turn. The
Republicans have had full swing for seven
ysars. and made inuumsrable promises OF
economy. reform, peace, good times, &C.,
&c. Mono 81 their promises have been
kept, and ~ are tired Of waiting for the
good time that dent como. Let us give the
other side chance, and see if they will do
better" Such 10 the common talk Of thu
great middle party" which holds to-day
As i; always has held, the balance of pows,
in the United States and every peiticiap
knows that Is that middle party goes n
goes the Union. For it 10 we'll undess&eod
by shrswd politicians and by dispassionat,
observers Of the course Of events in IN,
,, United States. from 1901 to tho prsssn,
: year Of grace, that the real and earnest fed
8 eralists and Democrats, the real whiRs and
Democrats, never carried an election by
their own unaided strength. The partie,
, which in 1901 crystalixsd FIRST around thu
S antagonistic principles Of Capitalization and
. Decentralization attracted in thos,
two directions oil the earnest think srs.-
From that time to this, men with whom
1 politics is faith, have a. conviction 10,
I them. joined either side, aud the two par
! fiaah q hal
between these two, lie great mass OF 70
ters whose political opinions yield 70 n
: passion or impulse Of the emit, 10 hsr,
= times or flush times; whs have perhaps
. neither capacity nor the antsc sdents whicI
!, AZ them in stntbora adherence to tn
o principles and fortunes Of party VIII
2 aim nj no otice and sympa.hirs with III
= party out OF power. not so much bccsus
E, they believe in it very strongly, but BE-
cause they don't believe in anything deerly
aud particularly disbeliese in the party o
"ins' because it has failed to satisfy thsi
expectation. THIS is the character an
: power Of the great third party in the natio
:, commonly known a. the .'silent vote" an,
everything indicates that this silent vot
has resolved to cast itself for Seymour an
Blair.
" Az the democratic party was overture y
q by "Tippscanos and Tyler too a. it va
.r swept down by Zachary Taylor, when hi
70 allen, vote" declared against 1t, - no,
10 that the vote has declared for it. oil shrew
. men see that it must succeed ovsrwhs
- mingly, and that with its success, the r,
L. publican party. with oil ito deeds, vanishe
10 a. a party entity, from the field Of Amer
lean politics. and that those With whom it
principles are faith and Q reality mu,
. slowly re-combins under . new nam
:. and attempt to regain popular favor b
:, presenting new issues or artfully r.
10 painting the old ones.