The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-09
Y EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA

man who can really save the country. The
taxpayers Of New York kindly provide the
money for this great missionary enterprise.
No one supposes that the money raised here
is devoted to the service of the public-if it
were, we should not be able to boast of
having the worst paved and the worst lit
streets in the civilized world. Some of this
money goes to enrich ex-bankrupt chair
makers and adventurers from could Ire
land, and part of it is prudently devoted
to the consolidation of the new power which
has been built up among us during the last
few years. No one can fail to see that it
would be a capital Investment for the Demo-
Gratis to spend few millions in winning the
next contest for the Presidency With Hoff-
man in the White House, it is very difficult
to say what might not be done for the eleva-
ton of mankind. The system under which
New York is governed, and which gives so
much satisfaction to the E0ening Post and
many respectable citizens, might then be ap-
piled to the nation at large, and the blessings
of free government be for the first time
enjoyed, and the regeneration of the species
finally accomplished. Where there are
now two or three corrupt judges there
might be soon two or threescore, and
q state of things would arise to which the
annals of Rome in its later days would afford
no parallel. This is naturally an inspiring
thought for any true Democrat, as Democrats
90 nowadays, and we cannot wonder that the
party is extremely we'll pleased to see Repub-
licans saying with Dr. Watts sluggard, ''You
have woke me too soon, let me slumber
again." Under our new patron saint, the
blessed Saint Patrick himself (whose life has
been most obligingly forwarded to our Office,
as one step toward converting the heathen),
we may confidently look for an era of which
George Washington and other old-fashioned
patriots never dreamed.
In the meantime, however, we hope there
are some people here and there who will keep
their attention fixed on what is going on in
several parts of the country. AS Democratic
principles once more gain ascendancy in the
South, the spirit of 1861 is reviving The
nearer the Democrats approach to power the
more is the South disposed to shake off the
incubus which the war left upon it. Let Hoff-
man be elected, and the work of Union m en-
| will be undone as fast as local circumstances
will permit. There is not much excuse for our
deceiving ourselves on this score. "The war
is not over" cried the Rebels and their SYM
pathizers in 1865, and we may be pretty sure
they meant what they said. They are already
giving us a taste of what we may expect
when Republican apathy and Republican
quarrels have allowed Hoffman to slip into
the Presidents chair. In our opinion, the
country needs the Republican party now as
much as it did during the years of the war,
but we are aware that this opinion is not
shared by many Republican leaders. 1t is q
suicidal policy for Republicans to go on
hacking each other with their own weapons,
but then it happens to be the policy much
in vogue just now, and of course the Demo
Gratis are very eager to pat the combatants
on the back. There are many Republicans
to-day who would prefer the Democrats and
free trade to their own party and protection.
There are others who think that the whole
duty of man in the present year of grace is to
keep up constant nagging at President
Grant. 1t is all very fine to say that the
''heart" of the country is ''sound, but great
causes have ere now been entirely ruined by
much smaller degree of carelessness and
indifference to public questions than we now
find prevailing. If Senator Sumner would
give us his views on this subject, he might
do greater service, and act more in accord
ance with the high reputation which he en-
joys, than by concentrating all his thoughts
on San Domingo.