The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1869-09-09
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or tWo mora quadrsnnial fioggings,
they will bsFwiSe enough to thank him
for and profit by. Fot the present,
most of them will affect not to have
read or seen his letter, II is so frank,
80 square, so soldisrly, and therefore
contrasts so, strongly with the pander-
ing to their worst, passions and preju-
dices wheret0 the Democratic masses
have been accustomed by their favorite
oracles, that it will seem to the major.
ity the voice Of an enemy rather than q
friend. They will have learned how to
prize it just a few days too late
A great many calm, sagaciOus OBJ.
servers 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, be-
cause they quarrelOd aud threw away
their chance, though they had Half a
Million more legal voters than the Re-
publicans, They were beaten then, be-
cause they were far more intent on de-
feating each other than on defeating US.
In 1864, their prospect was fair until
they held their Convention, made a
surreuder-to-th Rebels platform, and
nominated McCIsllan and Rendleton
there6n-thsp they were doomed past
help. Whsn'Aparty makes = platform
which it thencSforth denies or evadeS,
and nominatSs q ticket half of which iS
an invincible reason for not nominating
the other half, intelligent politicians
know that it has no chancs cOf winning
that election, Had they nominated
Guthrie or Hendricks with Mcclellan,
and simply resolved that they were for
Peace at the earliest moment when it
could be had with a restored Union,
there would have been very different
sort of contest.
So in 1868. Grant and Coliax made
very stropg ticket, and could hardly
be beaten; but a ticket composed of
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 kuwn to
be doomed from the hour of their NOM
ination; we doubt that one tolerably
sagacious blackleg staked . dollar on
their success; and when the gamblers
decline to bet on Democratic victory,
you may safely presume that such VIC
tory 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 1927
We think not. The intermediate
elections will of course be interpreted
as showing strong current in their
favor Light votes will be- cast, and
three -fourths of those voters who only
come out in great emergencies are Re-
publicans. Temperance and Liquor
will draw off thousands of votes from
the regular Republican tickets, and the
Democratic arithmeticians will count
all that our msjorities fall below those
of Grants as so much gain to their side.
By the time their next National Con-
ventiOn meets, the captains of ffties 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 run themselves aground, as they
have thrice already done. The fact is
they can't bear prosperity.
The National Debt is q rock on which
they are sure to split. ifthere is no 9TH
or. AS party they hate those who
lent the money that was one essential
means of our National triumph-hats il
because it put down the Rebellion. II
they had full swing tomorrow, they
would cheat the public creditors, moi
(probably) by voting directly not tc
pay, but by abolishing tax after tax till
there would be nothing wherewith tC
pay. They can't forgive those whose
money clothed, fed and paid the armies
that made the famous March to the Sea
and cornered Lee at AppOmatox. And
their hate is SO binding that they cam
help showing it, even when it darkenl
their prospects to do so.
In point Of fact, they gain no votel
by proposing to pay the Debt in Green.
backs or palronizing any kindred de.
vice of reputation and general rascal
ity. The simply feed fat an ancient
grudge, while they alarm the timid
holders of bonds, and impel them to dc
their little all for the Republican ticket
But their detestation of the bond-hold.
ers is so intense that it OvsrpoWers pru
denco and browns the remonstranOeI
of policy. They rush at the Debt like
a wild bull at a scarlet cloak, and ar'
pierced where they had madly attempt.
ed to gore.
On the whole we Judge that it vii
take at least one more crushing defea
to render the skull of Sham Demoera
cy psrvious to the influx Of common
sense.-N Y. Tribune.
Gen. Hayes, in one of his recen'