The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-09-07
TxsE NEW DEPARTURE.

/ The Democratic party contains no hon
est CONVICTIONS upon any subject, ant
has DO principle OF action whatever |
seeks only success, and is SO short sight
ed and mistaken as not to understand
that the best way to attain success Is t.
deserve 1t. The present platform of tht
party n this State is sham, and its at
tltude delJSion Every body knows
that until recently the Democrats, Nortl
and South, have contended that every
substantial thing done by !. The Republi
can party since the close # the war ha:
been illegal and void. They said the or
gan1Zation of the State governments fol
the seeded States was provided for by
the rump Congress; having no power tt
act, and that hence the government:
i which they created were nullities. that il
adopting the new amendments to the
/ Constitution these Southern States actec
under durcss and restraint; that person:
entitled to vote were denied the privilege
that the people were oy crawed by the
Inenacing Federal authorities; and thai
hence the amendments were not legally
adopted bat were and are illegal ane
void. Nor does any one believe they
think differently to-day. Does not Col
john bl. Connel, iii his letter to Senate,
Thurman declining TO take part in the
State canvass, express the sentiments oi
Il majority of the Democratic party oil
Ohio, when he says:
But in the house Of its friends, at
that Convention, were dealt the deadli-
est blows to the Democracy it has yet re-
ceived. The action there, the bIunders
or worse, in the nomination for Cover
nor, the witcherg which stole away the
reason Of delegates, and in some myster-
/ ious way caused them to forswear their
faith, and by public recantation confess
| that the mission and the creed Of the
| party since the war were false, heretical,
and wrong, has sickened the hearts OF
the honest. quiet; thinking voters Of our
party to an extent not yet fully recogniz-
ed by our leaders, who then voluntarily
walked up and sat on the ''cutty stool "
"The voters of the pertyare rot uninformed of the
false position the party is placed in. They know we
are going before tne~peopie this Fail with least
two uutruths glaringly conepicuous ON our front.
ssWfen the Convention took upon itself to declare
that the Democracy of the State recognized ac-
conllllsed facts the two latest amendments to the
stitutlon aud regarded them as no longer polit-
cal issues before the country it stated untrutn.
DO not the Democrats of OHIO now be-
lleve in the doctrine set forth In Frank
Hurd' resolution, offered in their Con,
ventIon as a substitute for the second and
third resolutions as adopted, namely:
''Res0{ced, That the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amend nents have been made
part Of the Federal Constitution by fraud
and violence, and are revolutionary and
void. -
Do the Democratic wire-pullers mean
anything more than this-that they are
willing to stulttty themselves, to swallow
their own ott-repelted words, to deny
the faith they have kept consistently for
so many years. to Impose upon their own
friends and followers a paltry swlndIe
and Il sIckenlug sham, IN order that they
may once more get into political power :?
[ have not seen an intelligent Democrat
who could look me In the face and serI
ously say that the platform adopted at
Columbus represented his own opinions
and sentiments. But it was hoped that
by certain guarded expressions about
strict construction" gentle compii-
meut TO State sovereignty, a denuncia
ton Of the i\u kIux bill, and little
abuse OF the present administration, to
satisfy the old-line party men, who care
more for principle than they do for Office
while the more am bilious and less scru-
pulous secured their own personal pre-
terment. | think | may be permitted to
say that more awkward blunder and
more transparent fraud have been rarely
perpetrated by any political party. 1t
deceives nobody, while it mortifies end
humI!lates a large portion OF those whom
it ia lsely processes to represent. If this
platform were not so at variance with ali
the past record OF Its authors, and if it
did not embody such inherent evidences
of insincerity, | should regard its adopt
ion as hopeful sign Of the times. 1t
would then be a gratifying somewhat
tardy recognition OF the good things we
have been doing for the last ten years.
But if the platform is a sincere and hon
est expression Of opinion--if it. really
means that Col McCook and Gen Ewing
seem to think aud say it does then what
need is there OF the party whose creed it
is? | would suggest, therefore, that
the Democrats disband and join US for
once, as our record is Of longer standing,
and as we have been tried in the faith.
Let Us have an election in Which there
shall be hearty cooperation aud an una
nimous vote. 1t would go far toward
securing the forgetiulness and oblivion
which our Democratic friends are now SO
persistenty courting. While the plat
form, so far as it concerns the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth amendments, is palpablc
ialsehood, it must be remembered that
more shan oue-third Of the Convention.
packed 60 adopt 1t vote against it, and
l29 voted for Frank Hurd' resolution,
The Democratic papers in this and other
States have not at all been unanimous in
support Of the new departure; but many
editors fef and say about what the De
mocracI Of Ohio county, Indiana, are re
ported TO have resolved: ''Th0t aGhea
! ,ce descend 50 ioa0 rs to barter orr priaci
pies to part0i;e of the i0ares and fishes,
tCe lcW be, and 0u1ht to be 9unaned F"