The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-09-09
THE UNDERTOW
wu,T ANOTHER PAPER, NEUTRAL
""' m POLITICS, SAYS
oOumnnr,a plnntlon a Fixed Fact

From the New York saturday Courier '"0'''4''
THE srlSr yorE'
The political campaign is practically IN
ished. and the victory won before any az
norent blow has been struck or baltie d'i''
cred. The republicans are deiea'ed-h ''a,
fpot and artillery before they have mn
H., their squadroas ia the field we "'' ~" 'H
,,ltipg now AS partisans. We put asi1e Az
ann.lioys of predlcction. We dismls' ahy.
consideration Of the justice Or propH'3 VI
the result itself. Political reasons nave ui'
doubleday, couduced to it a large 'e2'cc'
The very thorough reorganization OF we
democratic party, the quenching VI a.. '1u1o
and schistns in it, and It's compac! union 'Cr
a common end, would, Of course, have made
il formidable in any event But causes, ma
nv of them superior 70 The common political
causes which govern quadrenniaI eleC"on'
have operated 10 produce this result Icy
US consider them.
MANY yery wise old merchants la" 1t
down a. a LusiEpss axiom that there ~ H.
puDa,al coavul.iOu ia the United States eY'
ory seven years The men rush ahead IA
Wild speculation for six years, AMI seem 70
swim ia n -ea Of success but Oh tue seventh
comes Il xind Of Jubilee Of destruction, and
everything yOes to smash II Is much Inc
same with politiCa! parties--a period o. won
lerru' success and then terrible collapse
The Jubilee Of destruction, the terrible sew
enth year Of collapse has oyertaEeu the re-
publican party. Go where you "tli,th' slgts
Are all the same. Everywhere men say,
oWell We think il is about time for change.
TIE republicans have had their chance, H.
AMI its about time to give the other ieuo"s
torn. The republicans have had III! SWING
for seven wears, and made innumeraoIe
rromisey Of economy, reform, peace, ana
,,ood times, Sc. ne. None Of their promises
| have been kept, are we are tired 81 waning
t,r the rood time that don't come. Let US
,,,yo the other side chance, aud see II they
Gill Al hotter Such ID the common talk
Of the great middle party, which holds TO.
day. as il always has held, the balance OF
power in the United States and every poli.
ticiau knows that rs that middle pal.y goes,
so goes the Union. For it ID well under.
stood by ahrcwl politicians and by dlspas'
sionate observers Of the course OF events ~
the United States, from 1901 TOY the present
year Of grace, that the real and earnest ieu'
eralists and democrats, the real wings and
democrats, or the real republicans aud dem
ocrats, never carried an election by their
own uuaidcd strength. The parties which
in 1901 crystalized first around the antago
nistic principles Of Capitalization and decen.
,ralization attracted in those two directions
all the earnest thinkers. From that time tC
this, men with whom politics is faith, have
"a conviction led them, Joined either side
and the two parties have been very near bal
anced. But between these two, lie greal
mass OF voters whose political opinions yield
to the passion or impulse Of moment &c
hard times or flush times which. have, per
haps, neither capacity nor the antecedent
which fix them in stubborn adherence to thu
principles and fortunes of a party who ain
| At 10 ONCE and aympalhine with the par
! out oil power, not 50 much because they by
| lievG IN il very strongly but because the
don't believe in anything deeply, and paruc
ulaTly digbclievc in the party of Ems be
cause it has failed to satisfy their eXpecti
t.sns. This is the character and power {
the third party in the nation, commonl,
| known ~ the "silent vote" aud everythln
| indicates that this silent vote has resolved I
cast itself for Seymour and Blair.
Az the democratic party was overthrow
by "1ippecanoe and Tyler too" as it wa
swept down bv zachary Taylor, when IN
silent vote declared against it,BO,now that tn
silent vote has declared for it,ail shrewd me
zee that it must succeed overwhelmingly
aud that, with its succcss,thc republican pai
~. with all lta deeds yauishes, as a part
entity, from tho field Of American polite
and that those with whom it, principles a
3 faith aud reality must slowly re eomoi
- under II now name, and attempt to rcga
]" popular favor by presenting new issues
q nr.fuljv re- painted old ones