Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-10-29
Acknowledgements.

THE Democratic press. is again whlstihg
j.. 80, ;to courage M. Another series OF
eIections has come and gone, leaving the
Democrats high and dry upon the beach
Of disaster. as usual. And now the Wortd,
Tynes. and lesser lights, are busy showing
that the returns Justify the prediction that
the next election will go Democratic. 1t
is really quite amusing to see the organs
of defeat 90 over the same lingo, for the
hundredth time finding consolation in the
hopes that have as often been doomed TO
disappointment The ant of the reading
books, whose perseverance IN carting home
akernel of corn is held up to youthful
admiration, and commended as an example
worthy-of imitation, had no more persis-
tence than the Democracy. 1.-The revolu-
tion," says the Times, Sin Pennsylvania
and Ohio, SO nearly successful this fall,
will go on until those two great States
release themselves from Republican mis-
rule" ae
This has been said so often that its pres
ent repetition is simply ridiculous, espe-
cially in the face of the following comics
sion: Mr.. Pendleton was beaten because
he was Democrat" Certainly. There
was no other reason possible. In every
thing except politics Gentlemanly
George" is good citizen, highly es-
teemed by all who know him. Had he
been Republican, ,he could have been
Governor of the State long ago. The re-
fusal of his fellow citizens to trust him is
solely due to his politics--because he is a
Democrat. If the party to which he be-
longs find the honey of consolation in this
fact, they are entirely welcome to it,
comb and ALL To our Republican mind
it seems very clear that asserting that
candidate owes his defeat to his party, is
equivalent to saying that said party is at
such a low ebb that even with man per-
sonally popular it cannot win. What
stronger proof could be given of the utter
generalization of the once grand army of
Democracy?
The Times reaches the climax of alb
surdity when it declares, "as for the De-
mocracy of Ohio and Pennsylvania, they
have in very deed and truth, fought
good and glorious fight, and have more
than achieved success, because they have
deserved it." How comes it that success
has suddenly become undesirable? Do
the grapes hang too high to be sweet?
This after-thought gives rise to questions
like these. One thing is certain, the
achievement of defeat is not at all difficult,
and to deserve success in the opinion of
party friends is equally easy. The De-
mOcracy of those States have therefore, on
the Times plan, a glorious future. They
are certain to more than achieve success
at every election. If, in an evil hour, the
party should abandon its present organi-
zation and name, it might share the same
fate as the Wing party did when it meta
morphosed itselfinto the Republican party.
Before that, it could, as rule, count on
more than success, but from that hour
it sank to the plane of mere success. The
chronic disasters of the party were swal-
lowed up in victory, and the state ofthings
so satisfactory to the Times, ceased to exist.
Let the Democracy take warning and be-
ware of the rock on which the Wings
shattered the bark of "more than sue
cess"
The result in Pennsylvania is important
in the rebuke it administers to ambition
aspiring to his h official honor through the
agency Of gold. Packers millions availed
him nothing. He fought, blo6 and-died.
His hundreds Of thousands were thrown
away. Pendleton did not, so far as we
know, attempt to buy his way into the
Gubernatorial Office; but he tried to win
BIZ telling thcspeoplesh ow3they might cheat
their public creditors. In both States,
therefore, the especial lesson Of the CAM
paign is the same. Ohio and Pennsylva-
mia say, in different language, but to the
same purport, precisely In politics, as in
business, honesty is the best policy,-Cs6
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