Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-10-18
imPOTENCY. OF THE DEM
OCRATIC PARTY.
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The result Of the October elections
shows, If anything were needed to do
80, the utter impotency and imbecility
Of the Democratic party. Never was
there an occasion when they could
have served their country and lifted
themselves from the dust so easily, and
yet they were unable to accomplish
anything. LAST year there was an
election In Ohio for Governor ; at that
election the party carried for their
candidate some sixteen of Che Con-
gressional Districts Of the State, but
fell short Of electiug the Governor.
This year, despite the nomination by
the Republicans Of q number of weak
men, and Of nien who might we'll have
been exchanged for respectable men Of
any party, the Democrats have failed
to make the least gain of Congressman;
on the contrary, have lost some Of the
few they had previously. In some dis
trlcts III Ohio and in Pennsylvania,
where the Republicans were disguised
with their own candidates, and, by
either running . two candidates, or
stayipg away from the polls, offered
the Democrats a fair chance of electing
a new man, the latter were unequal to
the task of doing so. The fact Is, the
party has so utterly lost public conf
dsnce that, lift could elect n candidate
by the acquisition Of six votes to Its
ordinary strength, 1t would fail to do
so. The reason for all this Is apparent.
Wherever there Is a district so Dem
ocratic that q nomination Is equivalent
to an election, that party Is always
certain to nominate q Representative
of the old malignant stripe who Is for
ever looking backward, and expects to
see slavery, Southern domination, and
the Democratic party rearise to-
gether, and In the condition they
were twenty years ago. These men
talk of taxing the Government bonds,
repudiating any further payment OF
interest on the debt, and b~ankrupting
the national credit by issuing thousands
Of millions OF dollars of irredeemablc
paper notes. They talk Of State rights
and national despotism, just as these
things were talked Of IN the Confed-
crate Congress, and freely express
their sympathy for their Southern
brethren, who fare taxed to pay the
cost of their W. subjugatlon."' This
Is the real sentiment of the Democratic
party, uas spoken and taught where
that party Is In the asccndancy. Where
the party Is In q minority, 1t Is less
outspoken, 10 more cautious, and may
even attempt to ignore their brethren
elsewhere; but the least shadow or
hope of success destroys their prudence,
and they break through their enforced
restraints ard avow the innate mallg-
nifty of their party. Then they are
defeated. There were Mt least eight
Republican candidates for Congress ut
the October election who might have
been defeated with great public profit,
and who would have been defeated had
the Democratic party the least recon-
mendation to public confidence. But
the people will not trust that party,
| will not place power In its hands, Will
not risk the national credit by giving
these men the power to destroy II.
The people are taxed most enormously
and unnecessarily. Two-thirds or
%three-fourths of the people want 4 re-
form of the tariff and of our whole
eyenue system but, In spite Of their
suffering and distress. when the choice
comes between 4 high tariff brawler
and a repudiator, they accept the for
mer. They will not touch the latter.
His associations and his party prcju-
dices and hatred5 render 1t too great n
risk to trust him with power.
The great work Of revenue reform,
| instead of being aided by the Demo-
cratic party, IA directly hindered by 1t.
| In Pennsylvania the revenue refornlers
arc placed between the Republican and
| the Democratic protectionists, who are
| forever outbidding each other In offer
ing special bounties to class interests.
In Ohio, half n dozen protectlonists
| owe their election to the Democratic
regulators who opposed them. In u
few instances the Republicans offered
| the Democratic party independent Re-
| publicans as candidates, but the Demo-
Gratis would not vote for them IN
sufficient numbers to elect them. In
| short, the party is so broken, demoral-
lied and disgusting, that Its imbecility
| and impotency are ineradicable.
That there have been errors in policy
| and errors in the choice Of men, In the
Republican party, Is undeniable, and
that these errors must be corrected Is
beyond all controversy. Any reliance
upon or expectation Of the return OF
sanity and patriotism to the Demo-
cratic party Is hopeless and delusive:
TO use 4 homely, but a very strong and
emphatic, expression, the Republican
party must kill its own !Mephitis Amer-
icana. Tho Democratic party, though
tempted by the brilliant hide and val
liable elixir, has no longer vlgor enough
| for the chase. Ours Is the duty, and
we must choose between being over
run or destroying the rermin our
selves.
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