New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-03
. THE PRESENT DEMOCRATIC ADMINLs
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When, in the course OF recent debate, MI
Washburne spoke of the present Democratic
" Administration the reporters tell us that
Mr. Randall cried out, " with an air OF aston
"ishment,p "The present whatV whereupon
honorable gentlemen laughed" at Mr. Kan
dall's establishment" perhaps, and perhaps at
Mr.. Randalrs impudence. For our own part, we
are inclined to sympathize with Mr.. Johnson.
Like the Western patriarch, he has done his
% level bestn to be Democrat; and if he had
been in the fnI flower of the faith and the
full communion of the church it would require
a good deal of ingenuity TO show how indeed,
he could have acted, or how in word he could
have spoken differently. We appeal to Mr.
Maloney of Illinois. who voted in the Demo
cratic Convention for Mr.. johnson with a
great deal of solemnity If man who Ito use
the words of Mr. MalOney) has done more to
" Viudicate the unity Of the Government. and
" the equality and sovereignty of its States,
than any other living mano-if such ire
mendous YindicatQr is MT a Democrat, pray
what is he 7 or what is a Democratf And
what, may we ask, was the meaning of that
highly respectable vote which at first Dir.
johnson received in the Democratic COnven-
toni 1t dwindled, it is true; it is equally
true that Mr.. Pendleton's vote dwindled.
Is MT Mr.. PendletOn a Democrats Mr.. john
son failed to receive the nomination, but 80
did Mr.. Pendleton. Again we ask, is MT Mr.
Pendleton Democrat Is Mr.. Johnson
to be laughed at and sneered at Is he
to be ignored and insulted, is he to be treated
as if he were not a white man, simply because
he has had losses and has met with misfor-
| o,,I -, .I,o onI of
public life finds himself pennilessi Our SYM
pathies are always with the injured, no matter
| by what incredible faulty the injury may have
been invited and if nobody else will speak
for Mr.. johnson, we will. If he has been
great sinner he has already been great suf-
ferer; and it so happens that no blow
from those whom his inordinate ambition
sought to betray has inflicted upon him a
wound half so painful and incurable rs the
stab in the back which he has received from
those to whom he humbly carried the spoils
of his treason, and who showed them
selves little reluctant to accept these
offerings of peace and good will. 1t is in evil
dence that from the very first Mr. johnson
meant to do his best to help The Democratic
party and it requires no evidence to prove that
he has helped it, so far as it has acquired
strength at all, by lending his aid on all Qcca-
sons 70 embarrass and defeat the Republicans.
A man may reasonably DO supposed TO know
upon which side in political division he him
self belongs, aud it is hardly probable, if Mr..
Johnson had not considered himself Demo
GRAFT, that he would have written his begging
letter to F. w. Coggill, in which, under SEM
blance of indifference, he piteously implored
the Democratic Convention to have mercy upon
him. Because the orange is squeezed, and
has been cast into the kennel to decay. we
are not precludcd from asking who squeezed
it and fattened upOnIts juices. Is there a man
in his senses who. believes, if there had been no
Democratic party to applaud and encourage
him, that Dlr johnson would have treated the
country to those extraordinary antics which
have been at once. its wonder and its shame
This is nit by any means the. first time that
treason has been loved and the traitor despised;
bat while the record remains, the advocates of
the Democratic party will find it phil work
to Try to make distinction between the acts
which they appatded tothe echo and the actor,
in whose face, if we may may use the figure,
they have now yoided their rheunL Here is n
man who has been playing for several
years into their hands; who has re-
ceived whatever support in Congress they
had to offer; who has been defended on all
occasions by their orators and their newspa-
pers who Is the sworn foe of the only party
which opposes them; who secured a highly re-
spectacle vote, at first, in their Convention !;
who even now, in spite of their ingratitude,
is willing TO exert his official influence in their
behalf; who is ready to accept their platform
as he would have been ready to accept their
nomination; and to this man, because his ad
mnstration has fallen into disrepute, they re-
fuse the name of Democrat, in spite of his
own vehement protestations and nauger the
melancholy walls of The National IntsHisencer /!
This Is pretty policy indeed for n party to
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