Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-08-12
An H.rnon,s.s Democracy.

Ii the Oracle, the great Panjandrum
does not soon speak, we do NOT know
what will become OF the faithful. They
are ready enough TO believe-too ready
indeed /; il is not that they believe toe
little, but that they believe too much; IN
the rough Language of Davy Croket
things ~ mixed, and man who should
undertake. to swallow .ail the Democrat.
ic platforms which have been put forth
within few months for the guidance ol
the unterrified, would make y long fas's
before he got through. 80 ~
Ii we can imagine y Democratic poll
tician in these days making up his mind
about the question what his party't
policy is, we snail see him first consulting
the World and the generous band 81
st. TamnIany, who instruct him that The
debt must be paid in gold then turning
10 Pendleton and the Western leaders,
VINO assured him that if paid at all it il
TO be paid in greenbacks, though the
Cincinnati Enquirer will tell him ..re-
pudiation is getting to be a very respec-
table sort of word and every day makes
il more and more synonym for relief'
Puzzled here, he turns to the question
OF taxation, and the Northwestern DEM
ocrats cry out to him, with toierabie una
nlmity, that free trade is the true DEM
Ocratic policy; but as he looks down into
Pennsylvania, he hears ctcunter-cry
that a high protective tariff, the highest
possible, is the true and only Democrat.s
creed, ai ls 80 =,
But about the Chinaman? the neophyte
asks. He must be kept out" shouts
the California Democrat, '.Or murdered
if he comes in. "He must be brought
here at once. TO save the country" cry
the southwestern Democrats, eagerly
with Koopmanschaup for
shiploads of coolies.
Al least on the ''nigger' our inauir-
lug Democrat imaglnes there will notbe
Two voices among his leaders. But, alas.
here, too he hears wrangiing aud confu-
sion. In Pennsylvania, where there are
few negroes, he is assured that total ex-
ciusien of the blacks from the. ballot is
the only safe Democratic doctrine. In
New York, he is told that a property
qualification for negro voters is the only
safe, true and defensible doctrine of the
In the Southern States,
equal and impartial suffrage and the RAJ
of the fifteenth amendments on
the contrary, he will hear, is the only
true, trust worthy, correct principle for
the Democratic faithful. - --==-=zI
Now, to extricate himself from the
a, Luz dae suppose oIl t. Inqu.ilng Demo-
:an ,h eraa ,ns As s = ia.sresof'eo SUBSCRIBE
H. ot e1e uah - e .ue Psrty, anu aceept
" '.at;o 10. a.. snas 'e,s st ni - souno Oemoo
Here" cries the World and shows Gov !
lnoi thoh 'endorishent. 3hDen't
sAe .has sheet, cries the Albany Ar
~ n ne 70 Sour eiue ,orgah. ny
~ nsan, ass.S n nou.s Dilc1 oneloy, .ns
a 20 Sios:e s:; Dsnoels. 70 1ne oniy t!ue sno
ounu uisseiina'o' Vi i'enocratic Pfin-
'ipies Wan a - ,.,a A.. ~
moie anu nole pu1ziee, Ie Oemo-
! ! aVic INQUIRER .. ias. ial,s oaeH upon
ew general @ prlhelpies Ihlcn ms Iatner
,seu 's W teii hlln were Democraelc. he
eNnd GS nt;s eeonos au,nis,sas,on hn, ;nss
ouno Dehocratic uoctrlne; put instant
the New YORK ring iroWns MN doWn.
Il i economy snould become iashlonaoie.
'nat "ould become OF thenl sureiyto