The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-08-12

questions and must he met WITHOUT equiVo-
cation or evasion.
The Times is hypercrt,,'', and inten-
tionaly misunderstands Judge Doolit-
tie. What he is reported to have said
concerning the platform of the man
opposed to Grant" is now the language
of nine out of every ten democrats in
the country, and has often been used in
substance by the Times. What was the
meaning of the famous: "Shall the
Democratic Party Live or DE- arti-
Gle? In that wise and statesman-like
article the Times appealed to the demo
cratic party and advised it to accept me-
gro suffrage. Why? Because, said
the Times, negro suffrage is an accom-
plished fact, and it is always wise to ac-
cept the inevitable. Accept this inev-
table fact, and the democracy may hope
to live, since it may then adopt "plat.
form broad enough to take in all OPP
posed to the present administration,
whether advocates of negro suffrage
or its opponents, liberal republicans,
reconstructed rebels or original dem
ocrats Of the north" Certain wise
acres asserted, at that time, that the
new departure of the Times was far
less promising than the old rut, and
that platform such as it then suggest
ed would bepurely negative. The Tines
promptly retorted upon its critics, and
denounced them as bourbons and fools
but now-who can believe Pit uses the
weapons of bourbonic fools to dcmolish
the line of political policy which in its
wiser days it advocated. The Times,
like a crawfsh, goes backward.
the democrats cannot adopt plat.
form broad enough to hold all opposed
to Grants administration, they cannot
hope to succeed; Why may not a
liberal republican stand on the same
financial platform with the original
democrats of the north? If he cannot
do so, how can the hard money demo-
Gratis, who believe in Vallandigham's
$ "hard money plank" stand on the same
platform with the soft money demo
Gratis who swear by Pendleton? Ifhe
cannot do so, how can the absolute
free traders stand on platform on
which the incidental protection men Of
Pennsylvania do not refuse to stand.
If he cannot do so, how can the "null
and void Frank Blair stand on the same
platform with the accept the situation
John Quincy Adams? The truth is,
no man, who thinks for himself, can OBJ
tain exactly the platform he wishes.
Certain fundamental principles are vi
tai. but on all side. issues the advocates
of those principles must compromise.
If they do not, they can never succeed.
This fact has not been kept steadfastly
ia dto dumoo.at;U iuiud, aud scneming
politicians have been permitted by the
party to exaggeratc side issues, transient
in their character, into overshadow-
ing proportions. The great principles
which should always have been in
scribed on the democratic banner are
state rights, strict construction of the
constitution and opposition to protection.
In the pending presidential contest the
democracy must again return to an ad-
vocacy of these principles. President
Grant and the ultra radicals have at
tempted to rob the states of all rights,
to ccntraizc all power at Washington,
aud republicans like Schurz, Trumbull,
Gratz Brown, Gov. Palmer, and even
Logan have become alarmed He has
usurped powers unknown to the consti-
tuition, and even Sumner has denounced
him as an usurper. He has sold him
self to the high protection men, and all
the earnest free-traders, led by Wells,
are denouncing him. lie has allowed
horde of thieves to take. possession Of
the public Offices, and even the callous
but not totally dcpraved portion of his
apologists are demanding reform. All
these elements OF opposition must be
united in the next presidential canvass,
aud they can only be united on plat
form such as Judge Doolttle advocates
IA platform unencumbered by any
dead issue, but broad enough to hold
the opponents Of centralized govern
ment, those who deprecate the policy
stretching the constitution to find just
ification for usurpation, and the enemies
Of the system Of protective robbery ant
3 of the thieves who swarm the land
4 wearing the collar Of Tie man of thu
= white house.
THIS AND THAT.