Daily Kennebec journal., 1870-03-12
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PITTFUL SPECTACLE.


The New York Post is not a partizan
paper. and has not spared the republican
party of New York, but the way the demo-
cracy manage things in that State. excites
its contempt. Those who are given to
faultfinding about republican management
may take a lesson from the Post that will
be of service to them. Let them read the
following and thank their stars that the
country is not under such control as the
State of New York.
What pitiful spectacle tn. great ana
boastful democratic party OF the Sreat
state of New York is making OF ltself
1t has the Governor; the state ofhcers,
who ought to be, but are not, his Cabinet;
and both branches of the legislature. 1t
is supreme lord of the whole state. The
legislature has now been in session more
than two months, and, aside from squab-
BILE between members of the Tammany
Ring and persons whom they have often
ded-a squabble which has now, as the
astute Sweeney. prophesied six weeks ago,
almost blown over-aside from this, the
great democratic party-in power has done
absolutely nothing, except to vent little
spite against the poor negro; to talk n
little trash about Cuba; to authorize
committee of rank incompetents to Eek
anime" the life insurance companies; to
attempt to take away from citizens all
remedies against fraudulent assessments !;
and to quarrel about city charter.
That there are honest and true demo-
Gratis in the state we know; that there are
some such in the legislature we believe :;
but the honest and true men of the party
lack leaders; the men they have elected
seem to want intelligence, Or power, or
both; they have not SO far shown among
them single man with a voice-a single
man with knowledge, faith and energy
enough to take the place which gapes for
such man, and lead the democratic ma
jority straight on its proper way.
THERE'S no policy. nor any leader to
declare it. We read the World daily,
with profound pity for the able men in it
who have the courage to preach sound
doctrine. and who find SO feeble an echo
anywhere in the party they admonish.
I'VE have watched the course of affairs
ataAlbany carefully and inipartialy. Inn
portart reforms ought tobe carried out !;
and though we did not expect to see the
millennium come in with the last demo-
cratic victory, yet as honest citizens,
sincerely desirous OF the public good, We
are readyto support all good measures.
But where are the good measures !?
Where is the bold, incisiye stroke of the
true democracy? where is the courage,
where the enterprise, the audacity, the
fearless devotion to principle, the faith i'll
the people, the profound and quick COM
prehension of their needs? The great
democratic party i'll power at Albany acts,
to tell the truth, like aparcel of old wings.
1t thinkers, it advises, it brings forward
half-measures it is thinking not of the
work it ought to do but of the next cleo
ton. 1t is afraid. An old democrat, used
to getting something done, and filled
with admiration of the splendid persis-
tence and audacity of the Republican
leaders, whom yet he does not like, said
the other day ''If the democrats of New
York want to succeed, they ought to raise
two hundred thousand dollars, and hire
with the money half dozen Republicans
Ito show them how to lead a parry to sue
cess.
He was right; the Republicans have in
hcrited that spirit, clear-sighted efficiency,
that power Of accomplishing something,
which the democrats in former days pos
sessed. We have often found fault with
the Republican leaders, but no one can
deny them the qualities which fit them to
lead men and nation. They believe in
something; and they have the courage
and iniiexible purpose to carry out their
faith in practice.
As for those democrats, it seems to us
the good ones are goodies. and the bad ones
are the only ones who possess force and
determination. They control the machine
but for their own selfish ends; and the
good men of the party. so far as events
have yet shown, have neither the courage
nor the ability to shake them off. What
is the result? Already that victory which
they boasted would make the state demo-
cratic for a dozen years, is wasted I'm
less the Republicans are less able than we
believe them to be, they will regain the
state at the Eext election. And if they do,
they will deserve it.