The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-18

and degradation. For viii 70 be believed that
the words wrung from the bleeding heart of i
the Senator from Delaware words which
Roman might have uttered over the decaying |
Rlories of his oountry-will IL be believed |
that this sorrowful statement was received
with "Qreat laughter ?" Well might the |
aged than ever; but he stood firmly upon his
legs to say:--'sI am the friend of the white |
man. He has one friend, at least, in the |
Senate of the United States. -r
We congratulate white men generally upon
their champion. Let us write ma despef0n-
dsn!" upon our banners, aud with the battle
CRY Of salisbury and the Anglo-Saxonsl'
rush once more into the breach! Our own
views are well known. We have sought.for
Justice to the African, but we have never bar
gained for the extinctionrof white men, and
we are not ready to submit to it now. If we,
with Mr.. Salisbury, were the only white men
upon this continent, we should solemnly en-
treat him to hold up his own end, while we
tried to hold up ours. We have been much
puzzled to understand why the Senators
should have laughed" at the prospect of
their own extinction; but when all the rest of
the white men are gone, should we survive
and encounter Mf. Salisbury in bowling
wilderness of negroes and monkeys, we pro-
mise to commit suicide in his company after
the high Roman fashion.
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CLOSE
AT HAND = WHERE STAND THE
DEMOCRACY
| From then Y Sun.
We take it for granted that the Democrats
| intend to make strenuous effort to carry the
next Presidential election. II Will be high
time to do SO, unless they wish to pass into
| history along with the old Federalists, for it
| e;x cfn ibavc lad
| in national contest even by a plurality of
| votes, and twenty years since they elected
| President by an absolute majority. This is a
| long time in this fast age and if the De-
mocracy fail in 1872, they will find it very
difficult to keep up their organization by
| hopes that have been SO often blasted, and by
promises that seem destined never to be full
filed.
The Democratic party then, must triumph
| in 1872, or dissolve. But while the leaders
are beginning to look around for the princi-
pies and the candidates wherewith to make q
struggle for victory, we will call their atten-
ton to an historic PRECEDENT or fact which
bears very closely upon the main question,
and whose consideration they cannot longer
afford to postpone. From the year 1926 down
to the present time, the party which has
secured a majority of the House of Repre-
sentatives at the election held in the middle
of a Presidential term, has invariably chosen
its candidate for the Presidency two years
afterwards. There has not been an exception
to this rule in the last forty-four years; and
we trace it no further back, because it was in
1926, in the middle of John Quincy Adams
term, that the lines which have divided par
ties since the Monroe ep och began to be
clearly traced
There have been two or three seeming ex-
ceptions to this rule; but, when closely ex-
amined, they will prove to be striking exem-
plifcations Of it. For example, take the case
of the House which elected Mr.. Banks Speaker
in the middle of Pierces administration. 1t
was composed of three parties of which the
Democrats were the strongest, though still
only a minority of the whole number. The
subsequent Presidential election faithfully
reflected the state of parties in the House of
Representatives. Three candidates ran, and
though Mr.. Buchanan was chosen, he received
only a minority of the popular vote.
There is philosophy underlying this re-
markable historic fact; but we pass over it.,
and deal only with the fact itself. The party,
then, which shall carry the next Congress
will elect the next President; and hence the
struggle for the occupancy of the White
, House after the close of Gen. Grants admin.
istration will practically be carried on and de-
cided, not in 1872, but in this present year;
and it will begin as early as August, when
some Of the States hold Congressional cleo
tions. te .t.
And now, gentlemen of the Democratic
party, what is the platform of principles on
| which you expect to elect majority of the
House of Representatives this coming summer
r and fall Is it to be the financial progra,n.a.
, proclaimed by Mr.. Mungen on the door o.
I Congress, or that just delivered by Governor
S Hoffman to the New York Legislature Is i
to be an approval of the fifteenth amendment
according to John Quincy Adams, or its nulli
fication according to William M. Tweed II
it to be the forcible expulsion of Republican
a members from the Georgia Legislature, o.
q the voluntary exodus of Democratic members
a from the Indiana Legislature? Is it to bt
D free Cuba, free trade, and free voting? or is i
g to be TRADE against everything bearing thu
: name free, including the old Democratic doc
t trine of free suffrage, to be followed by
4 revival of the proscriptive Known Nothing
9 creed, with general onslaught upon all race
: of men who will not bow down and worship
: the wooden Indian over the portals of st
1 Tammany?
r We do not advise, but only suggest to tn,
r Democracy that time presses, and that the,
:. would do we'll to remove the debris of thei
: two last platforms. and erect O new one il
t their stead without delay.