The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-10-01
Democratic Currency Local In
It's Value,

Its Value
Democracy changes value-as di d
the old-time circulating paper medI-
um-at State lines. Under State
Bank issues, the currency of one
State would take you only to the
border Of the adjoining State, where
the convenient broker, for 4 eonsid-
Grafton, supplied you with bank bills
that would pay fare and feed until
you reached the next State line,
where the process repeated sent you
on towards your destination De-
mOeracy travels, now a-days, in the
same style A Democrat on the At
lantic eost-provided he aeeommo-
dates his sentiments, as he progress
ses, to each loeality--starts at the
Atlantic ''gold-bearing'' Democrat,
with the "nigger" as dead issue.
Advancing to Ohio he becomes a
greenback Democrat, with the "nig-
ger" phobia on the brain, intensified
by the Chinaman hate. Progressing
to Wisconsin he favors payment of
the debt according to the contract en-
tered into-that is, he leaves it for
the court to decide in what it shall
be paid-and the "nigger" becomes
man and a political brother
Passing on towards the setting sun,
he brings up on the sands of the Pa
cifc, a hard money Democrat, with
the Chinaman as the "nigger in the
wood pile"
That is Democracy, in brief, as it
travels from the East to the West.
On the arrival at the Pacific, and
looking at his metamorphOsis, he
may well appreciate the mental con-
fusion Of the eight ole fellow who
woke up at his own gate in a cart,
having set, out from home on horse
back. His conclusion was: eff this
is Sam johnson l have lost horse,
if this is not Sam johnson I have
made a cart"
And these changes are not grad
ual-shading of imperceptibly,-so
that you cannot tell where the divid-
ing lines are. The extremes are
more nearly of a eolOring than are
the immediate stages. For instance,
Democracy in passing from Ohio to
Wisconsin jumps clear out of its
Buckeye skin. Here Democracy
pronounees upon the law-regardless
of Courts-and declares that our
Federal bonds must be paid in the
identical currency realized for them
by the Government; it declares, un-
quali6edly, against granting the ne
gro the right of suffrage, and it adds
another human phobia, by catching up
the latest "ism, pronouncing against
"John Chinaman." Such is Buck
eye Democracy. Thus taught, you
go to your berth, waking next morn
ing in Wisconsin. Going on with your
political training you find that De-
mocraey, in Wisconsin, teaches "the
"full payment of the principal and
'interest of the public debt, in exact
accordance with the terms of the
''coutract between the Government
"and its creditors" 1t also "rejoices
sin the extinction of slavery" X \
x sin every well directed effort
"for the enlightenment and elevation
"of oppressed humanity" < x :
< in every measure to broaden
1.-THE basis of suffrage, and extend the
BLESSINGS of free institutions to all
"classes of people" 1t further de-
clares that immigration should be en-
couraged, and that all immigrants
(not excepting ChinameE) should
have equal rights and security with
natives. Such is Badger Democra-
lcy.
The Democracy of Ohio have for a
Gubernatorial candidate Mr.. PEN
dlston, a man who was opposed to
the war, who is the inventor Of the
greenbaek manifesto, that decides
the question regardless of the judici-
ary, who is down" on the old "nig-
ger, rabid on the "new Niger" Chi
naman, and who declares the country
is going to everlasting smash, with
the devil for engineer, an imperialist
for conductor, on a down grade and
no stations.
The Democracy of Winconsin have
nominated for Governor Mr.. Robin
son of the Green Bay AdUOcate, a
man who broke from the copperhead
section of the Democracy, acting with
the Union party all through the war,
and who declares in the paper Of
which he is editor, that the senti-
ments of the Convention-whieh we
have given above-are patriotic and
honest principles, and says Of the
Democratic party, (of WineOrsin,
mind you) that sit stands honestly
sup to the rigid payment of every
scent of the public debit that "it
"aceepts the result of the war as
manifested in the elective franshise,
''and demands that these results shall
"not be confined to one element, but
"shall be universal. "-OteoeLaRd
Herald