Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-07-16
The Parties.

THE Republican Conventions of Maine,
Ohio, and Pennsylvania have lately made
their various state nominations, and their
action was of the kind that shows great
party unanimity. The present Governors
'0f the three States were renOminated, and
the manifesto Of each Convention is main
ly a resolution to hold fast by the st0tu
Quo Upon the pending Fifteenth Amend
ment the Ohio and Pennsylvania Con-
ventions are very emphatic, urging its
ratification while Maine, having al
ready ratified, has sufficiently expressed
its opinion. sc. fl-|Q
simultaneously with the wise action of
the Republican Conventions we have the
pathetic hope from the Democratic jour
nails that the managers of their party are
about to show that sagacity which for
many years they have not shown, and the
prayerthat some things may be considered
settled even BY a Democratic Convention.
In the light Of experience such a hope
and prayer are wholly unreasonable. The
instant that the Democratic party drops
the appeal to ignorance and prejudice
which the agitation of the negro question
furnishes, the simple inquiry for every
voter will be whether the Democratic
party is likely to offer more faithful
treatment of the reconstruction policy,
and more generally economical and dis
Greet administration than the Republican
party. This is a question to be decided
by experience and comparison, and is one
frons which the Republican party will GER
tainly not shrink.
II is difficult to speak of Democratic
principles and policy; for what are they |?
Kentucky is thoroughly Democratic
Site, because of the Acknowledgement ef
part of the population, which is indeed a
Democratic policy. But is there any
thing in the condition of Kentucky that is
so superior to that of Ohio, for instance.
that the people of Ohio should wish to
exchange? New York is an exceedingly
Democratic city, and Chicago is Republi-
can. Is Chicago anxious to fall into
Democratic carer Do the people of Ohio
and the citizens of Chicago suppose that
their taxes would be lighter if they were
delivered over to the supervision OF Tam
many and of Messrs. Sweeney, Tweed,
and Halls Has the Democratic party, as
such, ever been renowned for superior
honesty and economy? Is the character
of the great mass of its supporters such as
to promise higher tone in politics? Are
the antecedents and training of the party
such as 10 inspire confidence In its devo-
ton to the principles that have triumphed
In the war and at the polls?
The very appeals of which we have
spoken answer all such questions. The
most strenuous and excited exhorter to a
change of the tactics of the Democratic
party is the New York World Yet, for
obvious reasons, that paper is not a fair
representative OF the party, and is there
fore not trusted, except with great reser.
walton. However clever and sparkling its
treatment of political questions may be, il
is felt not to express the average feeling OF
the party. But its position is stronger
than it was year ago. Then it advocated
a concession of certain settled points and
the nomination of Mr. Chase, with ar
antirepudiating platform In every poin
its advice was disregarded by the steady
old managers, and the World had its re
Venge by seriously urging the party tt
change front at the very moment of the