The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-31
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From the NJ u Tribune.
General Rosecrans has rendered his party
senuine service, which, after one or two
more quadrennial fioggings, they will be wise
snough TO thank him for and profit by. For
The present, most of them will affect not to
have read or seen his letter. It is so frank,
SO square, so soldierly, and therefore CON
trasts so strongly with the pandering to their
worst passions and preiudices whereto the
Democratic masses have been accustomed by
their favorite oracles, that it will seem to the
majority the voice of an enemy rather than a
friend. They will have learned how to prize
it just few days too late.
A great many calm, sagacious observers are
saying:-"The Democratic party must elect
the next President. They have lost three
times in succession, and their luck must
change next time" But luck has favored
them already to no purpose. They lost in
1860 because they quarreled and threw away
their chance, though they had half u million
more legal voters than the Republicans. They
were beaten then because they were far more
intent on defeating each other than on de-
feating us. In 1864 their prospect was fair
until they held their convention, made sur
er-tothe-Rebels platform, and nomi-
mated Mcclellan and Pendleton thereon
then they were doomed past help. When
party makes platform which it thenceforth
denies or evades and nominates a ticket half
of which is an invincible reason for not nomi-
mating the other half, intelligent politicians
know that it has no chance to win that cleo
tion. Had they nominated Guthrie or Hen
bricks with Mcclellan, and simply resolved
that they were for peace at the earliest mo-
ment when it could be had with a restored
Union, there would have been very different
sort of contest
So in 1868 Grant and Colfax made very
strong ticket, and could hardly be beaten;
but ticket composed of Chase and Hancock,
or Chase and Hendricks, or Hancock and
Hendricks, would have given us all we could
do to defeat it. Seymour and Blair, on the
other hand, were known to be doomed from
the hour of their nomination: we doubt that
one tolerably sagacious blackleg staked a
dollar on their success; and when the gam
blers decline to bet on a Democratic victory,
you may safely presume that such a victory is
not to be. There were no other two men
named at their convention who would have
been beaten so badly as these were.
Will the party have gained wisdom by
1872? We think not. The intermediate
elections will, of course, be interpreted as
showing O strong current in their favor.
Light votes will be cast, and three-fourths of
those voters who only come out in great emer-
gences are Republicans. Temperance and
liquor will draw off thousands of votes from
the regular Republican tickets, and the Demo-
cratic arithmetcians will count all that our
majorities fall below those of Grants as so
much gain to their side. By the time their
next national convention meets, the captains
of fifties and bar-room oracles will fancy that
they can elect whomsoever they prefer; and
that will lead them to prefer some one who
can't be elected. In short, they will rur
themselves aground, as they have thrice
already done. The fact is they can't beal
prosperity.
The national debt is rock on which they
are sure to split, if there were no other. As
party, they hate those who lent the money
that was one essential means of our nationa
triumph-hate it because it put down the Re
bellion. If they had full swing tomorrow
they would cheat the public creditors, no
(probabIy) by voting directly not to pay, bu
by abolshing tax after tax till there would b.
nothing wherewith to pay. They can't for
give those whose money clothed, fed, ant
paid the armies that made the famous marcl
to the sea and conered Lee at AppomattoX
And their hate is so binding that they can
help showing it, even when it darl1ens thei
prospects to do so.
In point of fact, they gain no votes by pro
posing to pay the debt i'll 9reenbacks or pat
roniZing any kindred device of repudiatiol
and general ras }ality They moly feed fat AZ
ancient grudge, while they alarm the timi
holders of bonds, and compel them to dt
their little all for the Republican ticket Blu
their detestation Of the bond-holders is so in
tense that it ove1powers prudence and drown
the reno nstrances of policy. They rush a
the debt like wild bull at a scarlet cloak
and are pierced where they had madly at
tempted to gore.
On the whole we judge that it will take a
least one more crushing defeat to render tn
skull of the Sham Democracy pervious to tn
influx of common sense.
THE NEW DOMINION.
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