The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-07-16
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THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Question orits Future Policy and
management.

Ihe auestiOn OIits Euture Policy and
management.
From the cincinnati Ennnirer.
The democracy want men Who will rep
reesnt the present and future-not the dead
past. The party cannot be sacrificed mon
the altar of pride or %antiquated and veneer
able resentments. Political organizations
should take the same measures to secure
success that an individual does in ordinary
business life. II is an old but true adaRe
that politics sometimes makes us associate
with strange bod-fellows; but, nevertheless.
in the tide ofhuman vicissitudes, we must
accept them.
From the New York World, June 25.
II is with no small qualification that we
find several of our demoeTaiio -eotempo-
rariss in the west expressing sentiments
similar to the above. When, about a year
ago, the World offered the party similar
advice, was perhaps a little too much mad
vance of the march Of opinion for its coun-
sci to be justly appreciated; but experience
has so fully confirmed the soundness of it's
views that most Of the leading ~orgauaHof
the party are now advocating them. IL is
obvious enough that if Che democratic par
ty which is as yet q minority, Is ever to
gain control of the government, IL must
accept the cooperation of some Of Its for
mer opponents. There was, last wear. hum
dreds and thousands Of republicans who
were notmerely willing but eager TO inin
us, If we would have so far humored their
p~redjucices as to bury one or two dead is
sues. That opportunity was flung away
and lost, not deliberately, but by the hasty
and ill.considered action of the democratic
national convention, in its closing hours.
The protractod struggle to nominate a can
didate for president left the convention so
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that Gen Blair was nominated for vice
president without due consideration, and
the party became committed to an issue
which made defeat inevitable, The hasty
and unfortunate domination made in tho
teeth of the Worlds advice, prevented our
getting n single recruit from the hundreds
of thousands of republicans who had
watched the convention with anxious in
t%erest, in the hope that il would construct
a bridge on which they could only pass
over into the democratic ranks. Instead
OF a bridge, the convention erected bar
rier. 80
All The signs Of the times indicate that
tue democratic party instructed by oxpe-
rience, will not repeat that unfortunate
blunder. Nothing is more certain than
that the reconstructed South, with the ne
groes all voting, Will participate in the next
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or not, we cannot change it. BY n vain
struggle against it I'VE shouldnot merely keep
the negro question open MS q topic OF ira
ton after 1t is closed as a practical issue,
and repel from the democratic party multi
tudes of citizens who have no objection 20
its cardinal principles. II was not wise to
make northern white men vote WRONG. Nv
~ obstinate and abortive attempt TO pre-
vent the southern negroes from voting at
all. Before the demoorutic party can sub
vert the reconstructed governments. il must
first CONT into power. lift cannot gotcon-
troll Of the government so long as the ne
groes vote, il can never get control OF it at
all. But if it can gain power in the PIES
ent state of suffrage, there is no reason Why
il may not keep power In the present state
of suffrage; 80 that after n national victory,
the party may not deem it expedient TO de
priye the negroes OF a franchise which is
found on trial 10 be not inconsistent with
democratic ascendency. The question who
vote, is less important than how they vote
and matters have advanced TO such q pass
that it will be easier for the democratic
party TO succeed with the suffrage back TO
its old limits. There is no reason why we
should despair of controlling q part Of the
negro vote; but it is quito certain that we
cannot Gust the negroes from the privilege
of voting in season to deprive any party adj
vantage from their exclusion. Now, the
men who have heretofore acted with the re-
publican party approve of negro suffrage;
and they are no. likely come over to us
as long rs 1--WE insist that that issue is
not settled. But If, by accepting the stu
alton, we recruit hosts o former republicans
into the democratic party, we can easily by
using them as missionaries, bring over
quite a proportion of the negroes also.
Since, do what we will, we cRnnot prevent
the negroes from voting, it is wise to pur-
sue such n course as will induce some of
them to vote on our side.
There can beno doubt that, apart from
the reconstruction and negro questions,
the p~reponderating sentiment of the coun-
try Ii in favor Of democratic principles and
measures. Since the creation of our cOlos-
sal debt, financial aud monetary questions
have become far more important than they
were before he war; and even before
the war, or rather before the slavery ques-
ton absorbed and swallowed up all other
issues, financial and monetary questions
were the chief hinges of our national poll
tics. From 1924 until the annexation of
Texas, they were the battlefield of our po-
litical' parties; and those protraoted debates
resulted in the com plete triumph and as
cendancy OF Democratic principles. They
will again be Endorsed by the public judg-
ment as soon as the public Judgement is
free to act disencumbered of the prejudices
which have been ~fostered by the long negro
controversy As our state conventions
will soon meet, 1t is desirable that, in the
platforms they adopt, they shall not give
AN advantage to the enemy by Harvesting
dead horses to the democratic coach.
GRANT TREMBLING.-The Washington
correspondent of the New York Herald
says that President Grant is extremely
anxious about the result of the approaching
election in Pennsylvania, and that he has
an idea Geary will be defeated. He did
not want Geary to take the nomination,
and it is said thstjust before the meeting
of the republican convention in Philadei,
phia he sent n confidential agent to Geary
with instructions to say to him that If he
would decline the nomination he would
provide him with a place as good Us that