The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-06

pap and primers be necessary If the BODY
and brain of an Alderney calf find develop-
ment without them, why not human being?
What te do with future babies is one of our
most vexinR national problems Just now;
women are trying to shirk them for their
higher duties, and men have not yet consented
to take them up. "Put them under blue
and sowsi J" Was ever relief more timely !?
We look upon it as providential interfer-
ence on behalf of the Advanced Female.
But why should the benefit of this great
discovery be left to posterity? WHY not root
Tammany with blue glass? or the Capitol |?
If the glazier can supply abnormal virtue,
and wisdom, and knowledge at the expense
of few panes and putty, let him go to work
Though it destroy the occupation of press and
pulpit glass is less noisy reformer than
either. But stay! We reckon without our
will develop only the germs already present.
Can we hope it will make practical reasoners
and genial, gracious gentlemen out of the
material it has there TO work on? The most
violet of lenses did not turn his swine into
grapes. The barrow pig offers us a signifi-
cant hint. Its greed and viciousness in
creased in proportion with its muscle. Let
us be cautious. The slight want of suavity,
for instance, percephble in General Buffers
character might develop, in the space of
time needed to make butting OK out of a
calf, into a character unpleasant for the
country to deal with. Imagine. too. Mr..
Carpenters personal graces and powers of
speech under the prism for six months! The
nation may carry its debt, but there are some
weights under which it would totter and fall.
DEMOCRACY, PAST AND PROSPECTIVE.
From The -Four Quarters.
A recapitulation of the vicisstudes of the
Democratic party and their causes in the past
ten or twelve years, as a matter of history
and premonitor against..their recurrence
may not be inopportune at this time.
In 1860 the first of its series of national
defeats occurred.
Why?
Because unwisdom and sectional jealousy
pre- vailed in the Charleston and Baltimore
Conventions, and extended to the people,
In 1864 it had its second national defeat,
and wherefore?
1t went before the people with declara-
tion that the war was failure and should be
stopped. The first assumption was not borne
out by fact; the second did not reflect the
sentiment of the mass of voters, and both
together not only served to bring out the full
vote of the Republican party, but arrayed
every family in the North who had a mem Der
in the army against the Democracy as we'll as
the Democrats in the field, who could ot
consistently vote one way and fight the oppo-
site.
In 1866, '67, and 6S the party had the
advantage of a demoralized and disunited
opposition, and might have come out of the
Presidential campaign in the latter year with
flying colors, but for the ''shilly-shally, T"
''wishy-washy" sophism of 'greenhacks for
bonds" With some of our would-be leading
journals, especially in this State, Pendleton,
the father of this hobby, was the man to carry
us on to victory. He was the only competent
and available man we had, and his greenback
doctrine the only one to rally the masses
against the ''bondocrats. The one had the
effect of disgusting all the reasoning or think
ing men of the party, the other of arraying
the capitalists of the country against us in
advance; and when Pendleton and his ism
were both ignored in convention the masses
who bad been schooled to his standpoint by
an unwise and precipitate press became luke
warm, and those who were interested in Gov
ernment securities, having lost faith in the
party, either let the election go by default or
voted direct with, and perhaps contributed
their means to, the support of the party whose
position on and advocacy of the stability of
the national indebtedness were unequivocal.
Now, after so many defeats, are we to profit
by the lessons their experience has or should
have taught us, or are we again to be de-
feated through the bliv advocacy of defunct
or impracticable dogmas by self-constituted
dictators, whether at the heads of clubs, or
party, or purported party organs? No editor,
however wise, has a right, even before a con-
vention, to lay down an ultimatum to the
party, and after the representatives of the
people have assembled in State Convention.
and the majority have adopted platform,
we conceive it to be the duty of every
party organ to conform to that platform, and
any paper claiming or receiving the patronage
of the members of the party that does not do
SO is fraud, obtaining money under false
pretenses, and should be so proclaimed by
the Central Committee, that the unsuspscting
may not be misled by its false teachings
We have now a fair field in prospect and
with the criterion OF the past to guide us, we
should regain our lost gro1ud. Let wisdom,
prudence, justice and unanimity of action
inspirit the campaign, and success is certain.