The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-08-27
Yo~il Parties

among the most lnteulgent minus controlling
the policy of the Republican organization TO
mount the Democratic platform. 1t has be-
come evident to the Republican leaders, who
have any political expectations for the future.
that their party must take up new position,
and adopt some new ideas, il il would long re-
tain its supremacy. Its former principles are
no longer objects of contention. The repeal Of
the Missouri Compromise, the Fugitive Slave
Law, slavery itself, the war. negro suffrage
these, and all other questions which once fg-
ured so prominently in political warfare, are
no longer in the arena. As issues, ''they are
numbered among the things that WERE" The
enthusiasm Of the war has abated, the original
antagonistic elements which compose the
party organization are reasserting themselves
in dangerous divisions. The party is weaken
ing everywhere and slowly losing ground, as
State after State passes into the possession of
the Democracy. The South cannot be de-
pended upon for the future, notwithstanding
six years of Congressional interference. The
old enthusiasm, the combative element, is
wanting. The party is losing its intense hold
on the affections, the respect, and confidence
Of the people.
Republican politicians see this as plainly as
the enemy. Hence, We find ambitious men,
who are looking forward for political prefe r.
ment in this State, as in all the States, evinc-
ing strong, manifest disposition to save
their fortunes by clinging to some Democratic
plank. They tell us in one breath, as Mr..
Fitch told us in Elko, that the Democracy is
party of the pasta pre-revolutionary relic
bound in straight-jacket to old traditions
and ideas having no connection with the
nineteenth century; yet with these express
ions warm on their lips, they, like Mr.. Fitch,
with the greyhound's keen scent on the trail
of popular favor, in the next breath attempt
to absorb the Democratic decalogue into their
own organization. They are down " on the
Democratic party, but they want its princi-
piles; they denounce the Democratic wagon,
but are constantly trying to " catch a ride be-
hind" they revile Democratic platform,
but are all the while endeavoring to steal
some of its planks. The Chinese question is
only one of ::cTT instances. Mr.. Fitch would
have us believe that, whatever his party may
be, he is for free trade. land for the landless.
American commerce, repeal of income tax,
etc; yet we all know that the Republican
party is under the absolute control of high
tariff leaders; that it has granted away millions
of acres of the finest land on the continent to
railroad corporations; that it has swept the
American flag almost completely from the
ocean; and that it has maintained the income
tax against the protest of men of both parties
all over the country.
Radical politicians stultify themselves when
they talk about an antiquated fossil Democra-
cy, or why their anxiety to edge on the Dem
ocratic platform by pnndering to Democratic
policy just before an election? Their con-
slant effort in this direction is an involuntary
refutation of their assertions. They feel and
know that the Democracy embodies the real
progressive sentiment of the nation-n pro-
erosion tempered by moderate counsels, and
controlled by conservative, constitutional re-
straints, but all the more powerful, active, and
certain to win in the end. The Republican
party is the real FOSSIL for which the Ameri-
can Republic has no longer any use. 1t was
the war party, and its soul died out with the
war. 1t lived on agitation, strife and corrup-
ton. 1t is not adapted to times of permanent
peace. It's mission has ended. 1t is n relic
of the war. 1t was not founded on reason,
but on passion. The mass of the people are
returning to their sober senses. They are
turning their faces away from the past, and
looking now toward the future. There is q
contest looming up in that future which
will soon swallow up all others - the
struggle between great interpretations and
the people-between capital and labor
between oppressive tariffs and free trade-a
struggle for bread on one side, and for contin-
ned extortions on the other. In this fight the
Democratic party will be, as it was in the
olden days of peace. the party of the people,
and that party is bound TO control the future
destines of this nation. The young, active,
vigorous Democracy of this country are its
future rulers. None appreciate this fact bet
ter than the KEEN ambitious Radical politi-
clans. The New York Times, n Radical pa.
er, never made truer statement than the
following in n recent article on the future Of
parties: at is quite certain that on subjects
OF this nature the Democracy will utter no
uncertain sound. They will keep living issues
before the country, and Republicans must
make up their minds to face them or suffer"
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The Territorial Enterprise says, ave expect
to purchase Democratic votes by the dozen
next Fall, and should tho contest DO close,
1--WE may purchase the committees, and
through them the entire party in counties