The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-08-24
SPIRIT OF THE POLITICAL PRESS.

The Mobile Register thinks it will be
shame if the departure" is insisted
upon, and allowed to disturb the harmony
and endanger the triumph of the Demo
cratic party. Ii insists that it is fire.
brand, say what men will, and that every
patriot hand in the Democratic ranks
should be swift to seize and cast it from
out the family circle.
The New York Times thinks that there
is one point in Senator Schurz' speech
at Chicago with which but few will dis
agree. 1t is his clear aud forcible expo
sure of the dangerous nature of the
Democratic opposition. Instead of deal
ing honestly with national questions, the
Democratic party always treats them in
a way to excite suspicion. 1t nowhere
presents frank and ineligible pro-
gramme. 1t denounces monopoly, but
has rot word to say against the pro-
tectionist ideas of Pennsylvania Demo-
Gratis. 1t declaims against taxation, and
voted against its reduction. 1t finds the
ku>Klux bill unconstitutional but it
has no fault to find with the Ku-klux,
aud no other remedy to suggest for the
disorders of the South. ''Our policy"
said a Democratic paper OF Georgia, a
few weeks since, is to get IN - and
there is not single leader in the party
whose views seem to rise above this high
debased conception.
The Philadelphia Sunday Republican
announces that it is ready to prove that
$4,000 is to be raised by the Democra-
cy as {. corruption fund in the present
canvass Sixty thousand dollars has al
ready been subscribed, $1,000 has been
assessed upon the policemen. The OBJ
iect is to make the Legislature Demo-
cratic, and to elect Mr.. Wallace as the
successor of Mr.. Cameron in the United
States Senate.
The Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt, mem
Der of Congress from New York City
(IVth District). and editor Of the Citizen,
sees breakers from the forecastle of the
Democratic ship, and gives up the old
hulk as doomed to destruction. He says,
in the last number Of his paper: AS
matters stand at present, Democracy is
almost sure of defeat in 1872 )" and fur
ther on, In language still more positive,
he comedies that the New Departure, the
anti Orange riot, the exposure of Tam
many's rottenness, ,(though. in his opin-
ion. of slight consequence in their ope-
ration on New Y orkers), have produced
their effect in the country, where, with
the aid of the anti Catholic feeling they
hare dug the grare Of Denaocracy, and
toiU bury Il IN the approaching Presilen-
tai election" Evidently MIR. Roosevelt
has been spending the summer In the
country. Can it be that he has been max
ing Lake Mahopac his place of sojourn
The New York Times says: 1.-The
honest Democracy of the city should de-
| vote all their energies in the coming elec-
| ton to secure an anti-Tammany delega-
| ton to the next Legislature. The Ring
will soon commence laying their pipe,
| aud pulling their wires to secure their
usual victory in the fall election but
| they will have to work against fearful
odds this time; every reputable citizen,
every honest man will be against them,
and it will only require a fair election and
an impartial count of the votes to secure
! their defeat by an overwhelming majority.
The wilful neglect of so many honest
citizens in all our large cities to vote,
moves the St. Louis Democrat to say
1t ought to be made dis-eputable not to
| vote. lie who selfshly fails TO vote is as
thoroughly bribed as the wretch who
| pockets a dollar for his vote. The intel
llSent and respectable citizen finds HIM
SET at present just too comfortable, or
too lucratively engaged, or too much in
| danger of loosing few dollars, or of fail
| ing to make quite as much money as he
might, and so declines to vote for con-
sideration. In effect. his absence from
the polls counts just one vote on the side
| opposite to that he would have voted for
| Thus. he has voted for the enemy or for
| a bad man. for a consideration. This is
the naked fact, and it ought to brand the
nou-yoter with dishonor.