The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-08-27
The Democracy Weakens-

Tribune, We hear of leading supporters o
the Democracy coming over to Grant an,
Colfax. The War Democrats, especial,
are repudiating Seymour and Blair. How
they can maintain their self-respect ane
do otherwise is more than mystery tt
us. We do not believe they can.
Mr.. p H. Sibley, a member of thu
Democratic State Committee of Caiifor
MA could not stand the Tammany Hal
ticket, and thus repudiates it:
I'm remembering that | am Democrat
/ cannot forget that [ owe higher allie
glance to the American Union. [ shoulc
be glad to remain in the American I'm
ion. should be glad to remain in the
Democratic party, could [ believe that il
doing so am not sacrificing those prin
clples of patriotism that are higher ant
holler than any sentiment of mere party
fealty.
Judge Lindsey. of Indianan, who wa,
chosen candidate for Democratic EIectol
IN the Eighth District, and who had &C
cepted, upon hearing of the nomination
at New York Immediately bolted and took
the stump for Grant. Major General
Gordon, one of the most successful law
yers of Indianapolis and the equal of any
many in the State upon the stump. re-
pudiates Seymour and is now speaking
for the Republican ticket So with Gen.
j. L. Swift and Thomas L. Stillwell,
United States Minister to Venezuela, of
the same State, Both of whom were
johnson Democrats. Hon T, w. Green
also another prominent Indiana Demo-
crat, has become disguised with his party
and left it. Hon. David Kilgore, the
johnson United States District Attorney,
heretofore a rabid johnson man, is also
on the stump for Grant and Colfax This
does well for one State. We have room
to mention only few of the OBJECTIONS
from Democracy in others. Prominent
among them are that OF Hon. Isaac n
Morris, Of Illinois, Gen. David S. Will
son, of Iowa, Thurlow Weed, of New
York, and Chief Justice Pearson, North
Carolina. The latter has written very
powerful letter,in which he expresses the
greatest apprehel sion for the peace of the
country if the Republican ticket should
fail So has the Hon. George NJ. Yves
ton of Bangor, Maine Up to the New
York Gov ention he had been regarded as
the very pillar of the pine State Dsmoo-
racy. He now says that the flag under
which Blair marches sis the black flag of
"discord and civil war for the country,
land war of races for the South and
that the men who are now controlling the
Democratic party ''are seeking not the
redress of wrongs, but the qualification
''ot their lust of power at the hazard and
ruin of their countay."
Among the disguised papers are the
Elmira IN. Y. Gazette. the only Demo
cratic sheet of the County, which, thor
oughly knowing Seymour, Indignantly
runs up the names of Grant and Colfax
the Democratic Fmaicator, of St Joseph
Missouri, which declares Seymour ''the
most magnificent of all humbugs, and
the Gern,ania, of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, which
is e1erting a powerful influence upon the
Germans of that State and the West.
But where are Republicans tarning to
the Democracy In Kentucky, says the
New York Herald. We fail to learn who
they are Speed, Barnes, Baker, Eg
inguon, Hodges, Fidler. Taylor, Mckee,
Burnham, Jackson, Scott, Benton, Wood
Goodlee, Needham, any of these
noble men faltered? Have they any such
as they, and we could mention many, gone
down before the storm Of rebel rage that
has just swept the State ike mad hurri-
cane? Not one of them. They stand
erect, and with them such converts to
Grant as John NJ Harlan, the late At
torney General of the State, Hon w
il. Wadsworth, ex-member of Congress
from the Maysville District Major Gen.
Hobson of Morgan raid renown, aud 9th
ers equally true to their convictions of
right. We need make no comment upon
these facts They speak volumes for the
power of principle The best men of
this country will all be found in the right
place in November, the war clouds will
roll away, and written in the colors of the
rainbow across them as they billow into
the east, will shine respondent the i'm
mortal words of Grant, Let us have
peace.