The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-25


Union.
THE EMISSION" OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY.
From The NJ Y Times,
The World, whose course for long time
past has proved that it has no principles,
publishes long article to prove that the De-
mocratic party ought not to have any either
This is on the plan of the animal which lost
its tail and then delivered long Grafton to
all the rest of its kind to prove how much
better they would look if they cut off their
tails also. 1t protests against the increasing
demand of the Democracy throughout the
country for what it sLeeringly calls ''affirma-
tive issues 1t appeals to history to show
that affirmative issues never built up a cause
or party; and goes back to the beginning
of creation and cites Moses (not Moses Tay-
lor) as proof of the fact. "Eight of the ten
commandments, gravely remarks the II0rld,
''begin with thou shalt not, and of the other
two one is equally divided between positive
and negative. Christianity itself begins in
negation-undoing the effects of Adams fail
as the necessary preliminary to the creation of
q new heart"
With this specimen brick of the WuIFs
historical argument against affirmative issues,
or, in other words, against parties with prin-
ciples we pass to what the same brilliant
Democratic party. And what does the reader
suppose it is Listen. Power" says the
World, sis always stealing from the many to
the few. 1t is the mission of the Democratic
party to arrest this tendency. The Demo-
cratic party is founded on faith in man. 1t
believes in his capacity to walk out of lead
ing-strings, to judge correctly of his own in
terests, to find his own way to happiness"
Very well. Accepting this statement of the
Of 1af,, l.,
the Democratic party has kept its faith and
fulfilled its Emission"
For twenty years previous to the rebellion,
the Democratic party of this country was
the answering ally and champion of less
than three hundred thousand shareholders,
who welded supreme power over twelve mil
lions of human beings, four millions of whom
were not only not allowed to ''find their
own way to happiness" but were denied
the right even to own themselves. When
this unrighteous power, thus 'stolen from
the many to the few, sought to extend its
sway over yet other millions of freemen, the
Democratic party supported its claims and
advocated its right so to do. When, failing
in the attempt, it waged war upon the Gov
ernment, and sought to break up the Union.
the Democratic party openly sympathized
with it, gave it all the aid and encourage
ment it could and uniformly and systemati-
cally opposed every measure adopted by the
Government to overthrow the Rebellion and
maintain it's own existence. Then it was
that the World shone so conspicuously as the
mouth piece of those negative issues
which, in spite of past defeats, it still recon-
mends the Democratic party to follow. The
chief argument of the World at that time
was that the war for the Union was ''nig-
ger war, and all engaged in it were ''nigger
worshippers." President Lincoln was an
''ape," Secretary Stanton was ''tyrant, F"
Grant was a butcher" Butler was a
''beast, and so on through the entire cata-
| logue of loyal men who were engaged in
putting down a rebellion waged in the inte-
rest of the few against the many. The mis-
sion of the Democratic party has been the
same since as it was before and during the
war. It has continued a steadfast ally of the
''power which is always stealing from the
many to the few" 1t has opposed every
form of reconstruction that tended to secure
liberty and equal rights for all men, from
] the first constitutional amendment, which
forbade the restoration of human slavery, to
the last which enfranchised the negro.
But it is here in New York that the ''mis-
sion of the Democratic party" is illustrated
in its highest perfection, and it is signih-
cant omission on the part of the World that
it failed to cite this city as model for the
Btudy of its fellow Democrats in other
States. Here is city (and it is about the
only one in the United States) where the De-
mocratic party has been in an overwhelming
majority for years, and could fulfil its
Emission" unmolested. Let us see how
it has ''resisted this tendency of power to
steal from the many to the few" Com.
menciDg with secret society under the
name of ''St. Tammany, or the Columbian
Order, the political power of the Demo
cratic party in New York has gradually stolen
from the many to the few, until it now rests
absolutely in the hands of a "ring" OF
less than half a dozen individuals, chief OF
whom are Peter b. Sweeny and William NJ
Tweed. No Democrat can be nominated,
elected, or appointed to any office, however
small, without first getting the consent OF
'Peter Brains" or Boss Tweed" How
often during the past three years has the
great Democratic party of New York been
compelled to witness the humiliating spec
tacle OF mass meeting of what are called
Stree and independent voters, assembled in
some district or ward, humbly petitionina
MIR. Sweeny and Mr.. Tweed that they would
consent to nominate this or that man fol
Alderman or Assemblyman? Occasionally
some refractory Democrat has the hardihood
to run for an office without the consent OF
these Moguls of the party, but he rarely sue
ceeds in being elected and, if he does, he is
forever after a marked man, stigmatized as
traitor to his party, and singled out to bC
! crushed 10y Ayery means, foul or fair