The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-07
MONDAY, MARCH Z, 1870.
GAETANIzING THE DEMOCRACY.

MONOAIi nhhNh " LOW.
GALVANIzLNG TIE DEMOCBACK.
s'wH.r policy ought the Democratic party to
pursue to obtain control Of the General and
State Governments ?" This lively topic was
discussed at the rooms of the Democratic
Association in Arch street, on last Saturday
evening, by John Campbell. The condition
of the organization makes the query specially
pertinent and important. We are told by the
poet that when 'the Devil got sick the Devil
a monk would be, and as the Democracy
have been kept out of power in the State aud
nation for the last ten years, in spite of their
most vigorous efforts, we do not wonder at
their disposition to inscribe new watchwords
on their banners, and to assume
virtues which they do not pos
$685. The force of habit, however,
is O serious obstacle to the successful assump-
tion of new character. When the Devil
donned the garb of monk he wore his un-
accustomed robes awkwardly, and the Demo-
cratic speaker of to-day who seeks to pro-
mote the triumph of his party unconsciously
gives utterance to some of the stereotyped
doctrines by which it alienated the affections
and confidence of the people Even Mr.
Campbell, while acknowledging that the
policy adopted by the Democratic leaders
has been extremely disastrous" proclaims his
adherence to some of their unpopular ideas,
and he favors, as a whole, platform which
would sink the organization deeper
than plummet ever sounded He is
especially hostile to what he terms
the 'swindling tariff" More honest, but
less discreet than the Democratic leaders of
this State, he advocates free trade as boldly
as it is advocated by the bulk of his fellow
partisans residing beyond the boundaries of
this Commonwealth. And not satisfied with
robbing diversified American industry of the
protection which is absolutely essential to its
existence in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia,
he also proposes to abolish free schools, for
this is the logical result of his proposition that
the Democratic party has nothing to do with
giving the citizen an education. Then he
wants the party to ''keep the Government
poor, to pay off the public debt in green
backs, and to exalt into dogma the doctrine
that ga national crime was perpe-
trated by the murder of Mrs. Surratt." The
ntterance of sentiments like these by speaker
whose avowed object is to open up new path
for the party, illustrates more forcibly than
columns of comment how hopelessly the
Democracy are committed to old heresies,
and how surely they would abuse any new
grant of power by placing portions of their
ancient creed on the statute-books.
But the speaker really was disposed to
adopt few new ideas He advocated the
nomination of honest men, exclusively, as
candidates for Office, and the selection of
Presidential nominee who would aid his pro-
posed efforts to win recruits for the Demo-
cratic party from the newly -enfranchised
colored voters. The gist of his new galvan-
izing process is expressed in the concluding
paragraph of his speech, wiz
GLOW shall the Democracy poll, on next Pres-
dental election day, majority OF this vote? How
vote from us? There s only one architect that can
build this bridge-there is only one man who can
poll this vote-and that man is Salmon p. Chase"
If MIR. Campbell is authority on any sub
jeot it ought to be about the Democratic
policy with reference to the negro. He has
studied that subject very thoroughly, and if
we remember Alright he published book a
few years ago which was designed mainly to
prove that the African race was SO dife-
rently constituted physically and mentally,
from the whites, and that they belonged to
such an inferior order of beings, that it was
quite right to perpetuate slavery, and totally
wrong to pretend that they were endowed
with the feelings appertaining to humanity.
Extracts from this work might serve an adj
mirable purpose as campaign documents con-
veying ''true knowledge" to the new voters
whom he expects to enlist as supporters of
the Democratic ticket. There is refreshing
GOODNESS in the idea of q man who but yester-
day classified the negro as but one grade
above an ourang-outang counting the negro
to-day as welcome ally of the Democracy.
And if the future hopes of the party are to
be founded on this scheme, its fortunes must
be indeed desperate. Even the use of Mr.
Chase cannot save his new friends from 6
worse defeat than they encountered in 1868
THE DOUBTFUL PLAYS or SHAKE
SPEARE
TX all the editions of Shakespeare's works
thirty-6ve plays are given as assuredly his
and to these are usually added PerieLeS ant
Titus Androntclts, the authenticity of which
many of the early editors and commentators
were disposed to dispute. 1t is now generally
admitted, however, on reasonably reliabl,
evidence that these are genuine but early works
written before the poet became master o
his art, and they are seldom excluded from