The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-07-21

opposition" We desire to give him tn,
benefit of his denial, with the materia
points which he makes, and such extract.
from his letter rs will do him justice, and
be of interest to our readers. To enable
them to understand his position We viii
state.
1st. That he has been n Democrat from
1882 onward, being at that time enthusias-
tically in favor of Andrew Jackson, and
having bet all his spare change on his cleo
ton.
I'd. That if we could get into power We
could not administer the government on
Democratic principles.
Then he asks: "What can we do best
and most consistently ~
In reply he proposes that all Gin favor
of progress, reform, the maintenance of
civil liberty, the prot ection of persons and
property, a just tariff, equal taxation as far
as possible, repeal of :he anking law,
and no paper money except such as is issued
by the government, complete revision of
the civil service system, and the dismissal
Of the sixty thousand useless officers now
fastening like parasites on the public
money, redemption of one thousand mill
ion of bonds nth treasury notes and giving
us circulation on which to do the ordinary
business Of the country, and reform in ev-
cry department having control ofthe funds,
the restoration of our shipping to its SUI
premacy in the interest Of commerce, and
the removal of the outrageous protection to
few mOncpolies, thus relieving the labor
ing and producing classes from burthens
they cannot longer bear" shall 20 into the
new american Party"
Further, be proposes to put all the oppO-
nents of these doctrines and policies into
another new party which he proposes to
name the Anti-Amcrican" party. Then
ne gives two reasons for this course.
LIST, His reverence for the old name
Democrat, sit is venerable and associated
with all that is great in the past There
leave it. Don't disgrace it by letting him
who wears it sit "cheek by jowl' with
Niger in the jury box, or the senate cham
Der, on the wool SACK and
I'd "Whcther we will or no, the coun-
Try will divide into two great parties soon,
or into many small ones hereafter
Mr.. Reeve is a stranger to us personally
and while we desire to do him Justice, we
do not propose to be forced int o an argu-
ment as to why the grand old Dem ocratic
party should not in this year of grace, COM
NIT an act of Jclo dc Sc. 1t is enough to
say that we are just entering into cam
paign which bids fair to bring success to
our party; our organization is united and
harmonious honest people are looking to
us to redeem the country from the ruionous
rule of ralicalism. To abandon our organ
ization in the very face of n reckless and
desperate foe would be recreant to the in
terests of the toiling masses, and to permit
the advocacy of such policy in our col
umns is more than we can grant Con-
New York and Oregon have given
us examples Of success Let us work to-
gether and Indiana will follow them to tri-
umphant victory. We hope that our friend
Reeve viii see the very large enterprise he
has mapped out, IN such good and prac-
teal light, as not to take too much stock an
IL, but be ready before the ides of October
to put on the old harness he has worn so
long and return to his early love.