New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-30
coon AnHICE WASTED.

Gen, Rosecrans has rendered MS party
genuine service which, after one or Two more
quadrennial hoggings, they will be wise enough
TO thank him for and profit by. For the pres
ent most of them will affect not to have read
or seen his letter 1t is so frank, so square, SO
soldierly, and therefore contrasts so strongly
with the pandering to their worst passions ana
preiudices whereto the Democratic masses have
been accustomed by their favorite oracles' that
it will seem to the majority the voice OF al
enemy rather than friend. They will have
| learned how to prize it just few days TOO
| late.
A great many calm. sagaclous observers are
saying" The Democratic party must elect the
"next President. They have lost three times
Gin succession, and their luck must change
"next time" But luck has favored them
already to no purpose. They lost in 1860, be-
cause they quarreled and threw away their
chance though they had Half Million more
legal voters than the Republicans. They
! were beaten then, because they were far
more intent on defeating each other than
on defeating us. In 1854 their prospect
was fair until they held their Convention, made
a surrender tot he-Rebels platform, and NOM
mated Mcclellan and Pendleton thereon-then
they were doomed past help. When party
makes platform which it thencefOrth denies
or evades, and dominates ticket half of which
is an invincible reason for not nominating the
other half, intelligent politicians know that 1t
has no chance to win 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 restored Union, there would have been
a very different sort Of contest.
So in 1868. Grant and COlfax made very
strong ticket, and could hardly be beaten; but
a ticket composed of Chase and Hancock, or
Chase and Hendricks or Hancock and Hem
dricks, would have given us all we could
do to defeat it. Seymour and Blair, on
the other hand, were known to be doomed
from the hour of their nomination: we doubt
that one tolerably sagacious blackleg staked a
dollar on their success and when the gamblers
decline to bet on Democratic victory, you may
safely presume that such victory 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 1872
We think not. The intermediate elections
will of course be interpreted as showing a
strong current in their favor. Light votes
will be cast and three fourths of those voters
who only come out in great emergencies are
Republicans. Temperance and Liquor will
draw off thousands of votes from the regular
Republican tickets, and the Democratic arith-
meticians will count all that our majorites fall
below those of Grants as so much gain to their
side. By the time their next National Convention
A. &c nd horr
Giles 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 a rock on which they
are sure to split, if there were no other. AS
party, they hate those who lent the money
that was one essential means of our National
triumph-hate it because it put down the Re-
bellion. If they had full swing tomorrow,
they would cheat the public creditors, not
probably by voting directly not to pay, but
by abolshing tax after tax till there would be
nothing wherewith to 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 AppOmattOx.
And their hate is so binding that they can't
help showing it, even when it darkens their
prospect to do so.
In point of fact, they gain no votes by pro-
posing to pay the Debt in Greenbacks or pat
ronizing any kindred device of reputation
and general rascality. They simply feed fat
an ancient grudge, while they alarm the timd
holders of bonds, and impel them to do their
little all for the Republican ticket. But their
detestatiOn of the bond-holders is so intense
that it overpowers prudence and browns the
of policy. They rush at the
Debt like wild bull at scarlet cloak, and
are pierced where they had madly attempted
to gore. .......
On the whole, we judge that it will take at
least one more crushing defeat to render the
skull of the Sham Democracy pervious to the
Influx of common sense.