The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-11
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they can do nothing Of themselves, and
that the Democracy, truddling alone, are
precisely in the same fix, and they come
forward to the work of helping the latter
in manner which would be really mar
velous, were it not that, in helping De-
mocracy little, they hope to help them
selves great deal. They can sec success
shadowed in union of forces only i
but they can see it then only when the
loaves and fishes are secured to them
selves. To elect Democrat, on the old
and obsolete ideas of the party, they look
upon as an utter impossibility- These
must be given up. But to elect Con,
servative Republican, on the new issues
which Conservative Republicanism pre-
tends to have invented, they say, will
prove an easy task, if Democracy will
honestly join in and support them. We
do not sec why the same thing won't hold
good if operating Uice uersa; but Repub
licans, with honest, truth-loving, Joe
Flanigen, with his Daily News" at
their head, say it won't, and We suppose
it won't. They say Democracy can de-
sert old things without compunctions of
conscience, while Conservative Republi-
cans are by far too tender breasted to
embrace things which are dead and should
be suffered to rcquiescot "a. pace. There
may be truth in the argument. There is
certainly method in it, especially for
Conservative Republicans; and VIC do
not see but that Democracy had better
fall in with it.
And Republicans are kind-real clever
in their efforts to help the Democracy, or
to have the Democracy to help them,
lick the black Republicans. They are
willing not only to suggest the plan, but
arc willing also to go further and name
the candidate. With any Democrat
named as candidate they say they can
not hope to carry corporars guard of
States. Indeed, with such an infiction
even Kentucky, New Jersey and Della
ware would have to be set down as doubt
full, while all the rest, including recon-
structed Dixie, would be sure to cast
their electoral votes for Grant and Col
fax. But with Chase - the great, i'm
maculate, radical Chase - for candidate
Ia Democratic candidate - Grant and
Colfaxites would find themselves in the
same predicament as the Democracy would
with Mcclellan, Seymour or Pendlcton.
And they give the figures to prove this
- figures, they say, which cannot lie,
but figures, nevertheless, which, in the
hands of politicians, have often lied be-
fore, and which, in the hands of Joe
Flanigcn, and others of his ilk, can easily
be made to lie again. And they are mo-
dest in this, and honest, doubtless.
But there is predicament connected
with this proposition of modest Republi-
can conservatism, which may not be so
pleasing to Democracy after all. The
Democratic party is now in the midst Of
a most disagreeable job, which promises
to last them throughout the whole cam
paign and even then not be successful,
and it is q question whether they
will be willing to encounter second job
of like character ere the first is completed.
They have hard job of it now in unsay-
ing all the fulsome, laudatory things
which they have in the three years passed
heaped upon Gen. Grant. Will they feel
like attempting to make smooth the po-
litical roughness caused by the mean
things they have been saying against
Chief Justice Chase within the last score
of years? They are, it is true, somewhat
ticklcd to think of the leaning theirwards
of the Chief Justice in the great impeach-
ment trial, but that, in their estimation
is small pay for the silver pitcher earned
by him in his efforts against the Fuga-
tive Slave law, and for his swinging
around the Southern circle, and advo-
eating Negro Suffrage, instead of, as they
said at that time, attending to his duty
in the Court. They could easily bury
old notions, and old fogics on their side
but they seem to think it ga gray horse
of quito different COLOR" to compel them
to drop their own old clothes, merely to
take up the old clothes OF others. Their
lives have been made up of vehement de-
nunciations of abolitionists in particular
and niggers in general; and we should
not wonder much if, without the flesh
pots in prospect, they baked a little at
taking to their arms the father of the one
and the peculiar friend of the other. The