The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1871-12-15
The Democratic Party and the
Presidency.

nv kebs.OlF.tttC t'eGuy unO Ill
Presidency.
ifccrtain journals protesting TO u
Democratic were conducted by me
who had eaten Of the insane root a
who lad deliberately resolved to Il
their unjust 10 distract and destroy Il,
Democratic party. says tho True Amer
lean, they could not employ method
better suited 10 that cnd than they ar
using. We refer 10 the New YorI
World aud two or three other paper
whose Democracy is not like Caesar d.
sired his wiir should hr. above suspicion
which are colinicmauciny tho absurd ans
Unreasonable idea that the Democrats
party should abandon the country 10 IL
lrnemics aud attempt to marshal its AL
bercnts under men who have no syinl,a
thy With Democratic principles. We
have no idea that the great mass of III.
Democracy who arc Democrats from
principle, en-, be persuaded to run atlcl
strange gods" by the lilnc-scrvrrs who
IN their lack Of principle and their slorl
sightcdncss, would seek sucrcss tlroug!
cxpcdicnts certain To bring disaster in
stead. Ifthcy could. it would not he
through the persuasion Of journals whicl
they have reason Ia believe arc actuatc.l
more by a hatred Of the Democratic par.
lty and b! motives which aim al its DIES.
truciion than by any other feeling.
The Democratic party can pcrsuc but
one OF two courses in tho coming con-
test. Either il must hold aloof alto
ycthcr. as party. making no HOmima-
tions and leave the country TO be mis-
governed and the people to be robbed
four years longer by the knavcs ais,
plumdercrs now in office. or il must
nominate a Democrat, in whose patriot
ism and honesty Of purpose the people
will feel confidence, upon platform of
principles which shall summon the peo-
pie 10 the rescue Of free institutions and
popular rights, and with such "a candi-
date and such Il platform fight the good
fight against corruption and usurpation
in Office. The first we do not consider
As practicable. The Democracy OF this
country will have IL candidate and will
assert and struggle for their principles
whether those who assume TO be leaders
give them candidate or not. Ii those
who have acted the part Of leaders Of
late years arc convinced that they are
no longer wanted in that capacity, let
them step aside, and their places will be
filled, but 1t must not he imagined that,
because leaders have incurred the dis
pleasure Of tho people, the party is will
ing TO acknowledge any share in tho obi
UNI by committing suicide.
There must be new organization,
say the would-be teachers OF Dcmocra-
cy. IL they mean by this that the Dem
ocratic party ought TO disLand they lit
tie understand the party. The Demo-
cratic party, which is the out.rowth Of
the principles Of free popular govern
Incnt. cannot cease to exist as long as
Tree institutions have All existence. =
Neither defeat nor trcachery can destroy
i. for its principles do no. depend upon
success for their vitality or upon the
fidelity Of men for their prcscryatiom.-
But IL by new organization is meant that
certain men WHO have been too much in
Inc front ranks should be sent TO the
rcar, we do not believe Democrats will
object. They will not OBJ
ect, in the first place, because they care
Iery little for men, and only regard
hem as lhc representatives of princi-
pies. They will not object, in the Sec
Dnd place, because there Is no doubt
hat TO the vacillation, the tcmporizing.
The folly and the sc'iisl.ncss 0! men. the
Democratic party owes tho result il suf-
Tered in the last Presidential campaign.
But the Democratic party las good nrn
IN its own ranks, without seeking them
and il does its duty when i.
presents one Of these good men TO the
country, and gives the people an oppor-
nj to Ia. ~. l...A, AZ.
rulers who arc eating out their substance
and destroying their free institutions.
Cowar,ls arc not fit to lie party lead
crs. and that the papers that hint at the
Of tho Democratic party
are either towards or traitors, is shown
by the following table. giving The Dem
ocratic vote from 1s24 to 1863. See
how, year by year, this great army hes
grown:
VOTE or TIE UNITED STATES