The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-12-19

''hNN uut-blOuS Will Dc thoroughly ONtT- |
hauled, and the corruptions and robberies
may be probed as were those of Tam
many. The people of both parties want
this done. Generally the questions grow
ing out of the war will go by with the
dead past. The Africans are voting and
will continue TO vote. Therefore, ] should
like to see the democrats plant themselves
on the ground of giving to them liberal
aid for moral and intellectual progress
for colleges. .chools &c, to be conducted
for the exclusive benefit of this class of
citizens. am free 60 avow myself an ad-
vocate of this policy as the best means of
terrifying the republic. / am individual
y in favor of the speedy annexation OF |
the balance of the continent If Mexico and
Great Britain will consent. There will
continue another " irrepressible conflict
on the continent between the monarcbical
and democratic theories until the whole is
under one government. Under one flag
and one constitution l believe the peo-
pie of the continent would have better and
| cheaper government than they now have
under separate and conflicting forms.
Once annexed, we should have no further
trouble in ascertaining what is the extent
OF the Monroe doctrine; no more Fenian
raids on the northern borders; no more
war clouds occasioned by the fishery ques-
ton; no more disputed lines threatening
war; no more trouble on the Mexican
border; no more controversies about free
coal or free coffee; no more restlessness
about our "pent-up Utica
Correspondent-Your programme is
pretty extensive. Do you expect the de-
mocracy TO adopt that policy?
been long enough with them to press these
ideas. We know the party has always
been in favor Of getting little more land.
That has always been a tenet of the domo-
| cratic faith.
Correspondent-What effect will the
late defeats have on the interests of the
| democracy?
Campbell-Good. They will secure
Grants denomination beyond doubt.
He can be beaten more easily than any
| fresh man the republicans might other
wise have united upon. You will see that
/ am cheerful under adversely.
spondent-Yes; but others don't
so consider the situation. What do you
think of the ''passive policy?"
Campbell-In Ohio it is called the pos
sum policy. A peculiar trait Of the pos
sum, you may know, is that when you hit
him pretty severe blow he tumbles over
and pretends to be dead. When you leave
him for dead and 60 away some distance,
he jumps up and scampers off as full Of
life as ever. l am not possum democrat.
If our cause is right, we should be full of
life and make a vigorous struggle for it.
If wrong, let US say so, and abandon 1t
like men. True, we have been very badly
used in the late elections. What of that ?
The party has ofttimes been pretty badly
whipped before, and did not succumb or
play possum. You may know that / was
always wing until that party was dead
and buried. / remember how badly we
were beaten by the democracy in 1885
and 1899 We scarcely carried state ir
? the union; but we didn't go into this pos
I sum business. In December 1889, our ma
a tional convention met at Harrisburg anC
!. nominated Gen. Harrison without any
: platform. He accepted, and in his shor
e letter asserted only one principle
e that of the one presidential
n term, which General jackson
It had so warmly espoused We swept ev
,f erything before us. Yet four years after
J. wards, when the democrats had not ye
&c learned to be passive, the
le took up a comparatively obscure ma
n (Mr. Polk and with him beat the grea
ID est statesman of his day, our "IIarry {
lie the West Four years after that the VIII
ne party took up Gen. Taylor, or "Old Roug
ny and Ready" as he was called, without an
&c P PqtiSEh Re a Mhfe &c hsdn "at,
G. had never voted in his life; that he wa
of n wing, but not an ultra whig. Now, wit
ty such historical facts as these before us,
We there can be any truth in the trite quota
a. ton that history repeats itself why shoul
the democratic party now act possum an
Ks crawl into its hole and growl?
Correspondent i see you don't believ
in in disbandng?
of Campbell-Far from that. AS we
a. might the commanding general of grea
" army, long and thoroughly drilled an
Of disciplined, propose to dsband it in tn
" face of the enemy on the eve of battl,
N simply because the enemy had more NJ
a. mercal strength, although he knew tn
es opposing force was demoralzed and tina
re large portion of the rank and file woul
rs desert and come over on the firing of th
r first gun Or to use another illustration
4. what would be thought of pretende
p champion of the manly art in the pri2
ring who in the first round happened I
a get bloody nose would run to his corne
TO and throw up the sponge? Such pol
troon would never win belt. No, conco
le ding to the republicans first blood and,
r you please the first half Cozen knock
d downs, the old democracy that has Tough
: thousand battles may retire to its corner
= sponge off, take good snort of old Bour
n bon, come to time, and win the fight.
+, learned more about its pluck and bottom
f when, on the now obsolete issues, Tough
( against it than ! have learned sine
c ! have been in its ranks on the new ones
V l regret to see that some of the old 50
' chems are getting weak IN the knees
r Correspondent present your view
f forcibly. But who should be the candi
: dates
c Campbell-Ah, there's the rub. w
o can find plenty of men patriotic enough
to serve and many whom | should Xix
It to vote for. 1t is perhaps too soon 70
c this branch Of the matter to take shape
. What the masses of the people want ar,
candidates who are pure and incorrupti
( BILE men, of intelligence, virtue, an,
d capability. The matter of avaiabilit,
c should not be lost sight of. Any candi
d date who withheld his support to a vigor
: orous prosecution of the war to put dow
e the rebellion would unqucstionably be de
o feated
t. Correspondent-What about the plat
c form?
amnball-Tha host nlotforp, I bo,,