Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-07-21
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THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
The Qucgtion ofits Future Policy anu
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From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The democracy want men who will rep
reesnt thepresent and future not the dead
past The party cannot be sacrificed upon
the altar OF pride or antiquated and vener-
able resentments. Political organizations
should take the same measures to secure
4 success that an individual does in ordinary
business life II is an old but true adage
that politics sometimes makes us associate
with strange bed-fellows; but, nevertheless
in the tide ofhuman yicissitudes, we must
accept them.
From the New York World, June 25
II is with no small qualification that we
find several of our democratic ootempo-
rariss in the west expressing sentiments
similar to the above. When, about year
ago, the World offered the. party similar
advice, was perhaps little too much in ad.
vance Of the march OF opinion for it's coun-
sci to be Justly appreciated; but experience
has so fully confirmed the soundness of its
views that most of the leading organs of
the party are now advocating them. II is
obvious enough that If the democratic par
ty which is as yet q minority, is ever to
gain control of the government, 1t must
accept the cooperation of some of its for
mer opponents. There was, last year, hun
dreds and thousands OF republicans who
were notmerely willing but eager to join
us, if we would have so far humored their
predjucices as to bury one or two dead is
sues. That opportunity was flung away
and lost, not deliberately, but by the hasty
and. ill-considered action of the democratic
national convention, in its closing hours.
The protracted struggle to nominate cam
didate for president left the convention SO
wearied out, and so impatient to disperse,
that Gen Blair was nominated for vice
president without due consideration, and
the party became committed to aI issue
which made defeat inevitable. The hasty
and unfortunate nomination, made in the
teeth Of the Worlds advice, prevented our
getting single recruit from the hundreds
of thousands of republicans who had
watched the convention with anxious in
terest in the hope that it would construct
q bridge on which they could only pass
over into the democratic ranks Instead
OF o bridge, the convention erected bar
rier.
All the signs of the times indicate that
the democratic party instructed by cxpe-
rience, will not repeat that unfortunate
blunder Nothing is more certain than
that the reconstructed South, with the ne
groes all voting, will participate in the next
presidential election. Whether we like it
or not, we cannot change it. By a vain
struggle against tive should,no merely keep
the negro question open rs topic Of IRA
tion after. it is closed as o practical issue,
and repel from the democratic party multi
tudes Of citizens who have no objection to
its cardinal principles. 1t was not wise to
make northern white men vote wrong, by
an obstinate and abortive attempt to pre-
vent the southern negroes from voting at
all. Before the democratic party can sub
vert the reconstructed governments, itmust
first come into power. lift cannot getcon-
troll of the government 80 long as the ne
groes vote, it can never get control of it at
all. But if 1t can gain power in the pres
ent state of suffrage, there is no reason " by
it may not keep power in the present state
of suffrage; so that after o national victory,
, the party may not deem ii expedient to de-
prive the negroes of franchise which is
found on trial TO be not inconsistent with
democratic ascendency. Thequestion who
vote, is less important than how they vote
anu DlutUtIb uhN6 W buCu puSb
: thatit will be easier for the democratic
partysto succeed with the suffrage back to
e its old limits. There is no reason why we
should despair of controlling part Of the
= negro vote; but it is quite certain that we
cannot oust the negroes from the privilege
of voting in season TO deprive amy party adj
v vantage from their exclusion. Now, the
men who have heretofore acted with the re.
Il publican party approve of negro suffrage;
q and they are no. likely come over to us
n as long as 1--WE insist that that issue il
! not settled. But if by acccer ting the stu.
q alton, we recruit hosts OF former republicans
into the democratic party, we can easily by
using them as missionaries bring over
quite proportion Of the negroes also
n Since, do what we will, we cannot prevent
the negroes from voting, it is wise to pur
II sue such course as will induce some O
s. them to vote on our side.
{, There can be no doubt that, apart from
It the reconstruction and negro questions
: the preponderating sentiment of the ooun
try il in favor of democratic principles anC
It measures. Since the creation of our colOs
3 sal debt, financial and monetary questions
g have become far more important than they
II were before the war; and-e before
/. the war, OF rather before the slavery ques
% ton absorbed and swallowed up all Othel
d issues, financial and monetary question:
T. were the chief hinges Of our national poll
g.. tics. From 1924 until the annexation OF
Y Texas, they were the battlefield of our po
litical parties; and those pr0traoted debates
% resulted in the com plete triumph and as
q cendancy of Democratic principles They
1t will again be indorsed by the public judg
n ment as soon as the public judgement is
t; free to act disencumbered of the prejudcel
Q which have been fostered by the long negro
0 controversy. AS our state conventions
n will soon meet, ii is desirable that, in the
s platforms they adopt, they shall not giS'
1t an advantage to the enemy by harnesSin(
i dead horses to the democratic coach.
GRANT TREMBLING. The Washington
a correspondent of the New York Herald
v says that President Grant is extremel,
a anxious about the result of the approaching
4 election in Pennsylvania, and that he ha
n an idea Geary will be defeated. He di,
4 not want Geary to take the nomination
a and it is said that just before the meeting
= of the republican convention in Philadei
Ia phia he sent q confidential agent TO Gear
~ WlbhiAlboI uuphoub w phJitD uiui tntsb IL IL
4. would decline the nomination he woult
g. provide him with o place as good as the
% ex-governor Of Pennsylvania. Geary, how
n ever refused the OFFER r10 ot. 9Fp 'f
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) THE TEA THAT 0olMs TO TIE UNITE
Q. STATES, s,--We were in tea-house at Canto
sr drinking such super6ne ten as we neye
1. tasted in the United States, We notice
at that large jars were placed under each ia
st bic, into which oil. the grounds were tossed
ID Chinese do not, as already stated, stee
ii their tea in o pot, but put it into your cup
10 pour in hot water covering the cup to. Il
II tain the steam, allowing it TO stand hv
e. minutes, draining of and reflling. Th
Is second cup is considered the best, and tb