The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-27
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DEMOCRATIC BABES IN THE WOOD.
From the ~ Y. Times.
Senator Schurz will doubtless feel much
gratifed by the fact that the Democrats of
Pennsylvania have taken him up and Gin
dorsed" him. The longest of all the resolu-
tions which they passed at their convention
on Wednesday is devoted to him. Indeed,
most articles in Democratic papers, or resolu-
tions at Democratic conventions, begin with
these words-"As Senator Schurz says, we, !"
ETC., etc. The glory of true Republican
must be to furnish Democratic politicians
with ideas, seeing that they have none of their
own. They are sheep without shepherd,
and bleat loudly for a leader. At present the
Democratic party is living upon the crumbs
which fall from the table of Senator Schurz,
or which are thrown to them by few sad
yanced" Republicans of the same school,
The New York Espress is, after all,
a more satisfactory Democratic journal than
many others of greater pretensions-says to
the Republicans, '"The Democrats are not
such fools as to play into your hands, by per-
mitting you to make principles OF platforms
for them" Nevertheless, that is precisely
what the Democrats are doing at this mo-
ment. Mr.. VallandIgham's propositions
amount to this-'Let us 60 and dress our
selves up in the Republicans clothes, and see
if we cannot pass ourselves off for the real
Simon Pure" Vallandigham has tried fight
ing against the irresistible long enough and
he now says, "It is all of no use. Let us
pretend that we are on the same side as the
enemy" Some of our contemporaries-the
Springfield Republican among them
are frequently urging us to encourage
this spirit in the Democrats. They
think that Democrats oEght to be invited on
to Republican ground. So they ought-but
it is all dream-land which these happy
family Ra.npblioonu hafora
might as we'll say, let us sit down together
and order in the millennium. The Democrats
only want to float into power on the Repub-
lican corks, and then they would cut loose
soon enough. The great and insuperable diff
fculty before them is that the policy which
might win them the North would certainly lose
them the South. They cannot furbish up
programme which would be equally salts
factory to both sections of their party. This
is what will ruin them in the Presidential
contest The terms which alone would be
acceptable to the North would be rejected
with bitter indignation by the South. The
leaders foresee the danger, and all their
skill is now applied to the preparation of
soothing mixture, which can be offered alike
to the man who fought for the Union and
the man who fought for secession. Count
Cagliostro himself would have been puzzled
to concoct such a draught and the Demo-
cIaClC QuaCKS nave CQuS lar QaQ all their
doses thrown in their faces.
Failing the discovery of a satisfactory nos
trum, the Democrats naturally fall back upon
the old line-abuse of the President. Even
this horse has lately broke down under
their weight. Somehow or other, reckless
calumnies of General Grant do not seem to
'take" quite so much as they did. The
President has gone on very quietly with his
work, doing his duty with absolute delity-
disappointing a Fenton here and there, and
making enemies because he will not be
"bullied" into the disposal of offices-but
doing all that he can to encourage necessary
reforms, to settle old standing disputes with
foreign powers, and generally to leave good
record behind him. The Fenton organs do
not like him, but the people do. The
Fentons VOW implacable hostility, but the
people inwardly despise this sort of
warfare, and will estimate the President
by his acts rather than by the abuse of
his enemies. Even the ultra Democratic
journals perceive that the President
is rather benefited than Injured by the
incessant ISLANDERS heaped upon him. The
Cincinnati C0nanOper, that fine specimen of
the surviving Copperhead, demonstrates thus
with its Democratic friends:-"Why ignore
the fact that Grant, whenever measured by
any true standard, is much safer man than
Sumner? All the impulses of the latter are
false. Grants are right in many things. Why
attempt to create the impression that Grant
has no ability at all, when events prove the
reverse? Do you suppose all our people to be
purblind?" Here we have very wise talk from
an apparently unpromising quarter. The
course of the Administration has been of q
good, sound, common-sense, and prosperous
character, and the squeals of the Fentons, no
matter from what State they hail, cannot
blind the people tothat fact. The public will
judge General Grant by results, and not
weigh him in the scales of angry and disap,
pointed politicians. Meanwhile, the babes
in the wood will go on trying to find their
way out, and making a sorry mess of the
attempt.