The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-10-14
The Democratic Plan

From time ImmemnOrlal, it has been
the policy OF nations at variance with
and Uarlng with each other, when dis
trustful OF the power of force to conquer,
ana destroy, to use In its stead strategy
ana cunning, to gain by weakening the
power OF their enemy-and to that end,
5ney nave, by artfull sowing the seeds of
uissension and dlscord, arrived. Guile has
oiten done the work that force would
1aii to do. What is true of nations is true
VI parties, and the plan of operations ad
opted by the democratic party. to carry
On this tall campaign, is but the old story
repeated. Against the republican party
arrayed In solid phalanx, they know they
can make opposition, and every assault
would only be ruinous In the extreme
TO themselves; defeat SO repeated has
learned them that lesson. In their plat
form they have artfully interviewer clauses
that would appeal TO local prejndlces and
local pride; they have adopted clauses
that appeal directly to the purses OF men
Hvlny IN certain portions OF the State;
appeals that OF all ever made, are the
most powerful and the easiest understood.
They have caught up the dying echo OF
the inspiring strain that years ago reused
and thrilled the great heart OF the nation,
and Seek TO make 1t as powerful as IN
those days that are gone. They accept
facts that despite their opposition are
accomplished, and rejoice with a JOY I'M
speakable at the happy cousumation.
They touch upon chord that thrills re-
-sponsive in every loyal heart, the saddest
yet the hottest of all emotions that can
Cypress it The mild and angelic man
zler in which they allude to the rpubllc
AN party, is one, calculated to allay every
Eeellng of anlmoslty, and to dlspel every
lingering doubt or fear, while they very
energetlcally sustain every dogma that
Is In the least calculated 70 disturb the
harmony OF the relations existing between
those who so to~make up the republican
party. Lately, they have had special
meeting, BY this, Is meant the chief men
of the party. those within the inner circle.
who form, and frame. direct, and govern
the actions OF the democratic party, it
was a meeting with closed doors, sub
70 ~ affair, but from some leaky brother, |
the fact has leaked out, that the lnten- |
ton of the democratic party this fall, Is
to carry on quietly, their plan OF oper-
ations, and to make their approaches by
unseen ways rather than by assault:
heir is the work of miners, working
Underneath the surface and not exposed,
rather than the forlorn nope, that with
lie wild hurrah, rushed wildly up and
yer the ramparts sweeping all before
aam with their own nvlnclble power
ct while they work thus silently, 1t Is
he no less surely: and it behooyes every
publican to stand ready, to pat on the
rmor, aud continue the fight to the
loriouS triumph, and not-lulled by
,ta security, fail By their own lmbecllity,
either to be led by the belief that the
emocratic party Is, or ever can be any
hing else than it has been the last lew
ears. the determined foe to every moral
! soc al REFORM No mat er how zealousy
ney may take W the cause OF any sect
n society whn may favor reforms In
oclal affairs, 1t is done with an eye single
one purpose, aud that is to obtain the
troll lc affairs of the State and
hen after that al. isms must stAud
.side; they willthen have accomplished |
What they are now striving for. 1t Will be (
he old story repeated, craft and cunning |
winning, where force would have failed. /
-Raciae journal.