The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-09-23

Ek Z AkCkkT ELECTIONS
The success Of the Republicans in
California success scarcely expected
by themselves the results of the
election in Maine, would seem to indi-
cate a vitality in the Republican organi-
zatlon quite sufficient to maintain Its
supr. mscy ID national affairs and IN the
great majority u State governments.
-Ar1 vet, piradoxical as it is, the evil
dence Of disirtegralion, Of disagreement
l1d dissolution Of thus successful party
patent to every body!
rhere is among Republicans a wide
spread conviction that the objects ana
purposes Of their party are accomplish
ID; hat the reasons for it, existence
have ceased; and, without question, a
ms lrty of IT. masses are wholly OPP
posed 20 the proscrptive and fiscal pol
icy Of Grant Boutwell,, Jay Cooke (
Co But with these convictions, avow-
ed and admitted, the Republicans carry
the elections. 1t is curious spectacle.
A successful party with its power Of
discipline gone, the faith and enthusi-
asm Of It's adhereutS gone, and, in their
stead, a consciousness Of the dishonesty
Of its leaders, a conviction tha: it, pol
icies are disastrous to, ana it, aims sub
versive Of the common veal Of the
country. Curious as the phenomenon
is, it Is easy Of explanation.
A Republican ready to break away
from his party, who is shocked with the
incapaci.y and corruption Of its leaders,
who is hostile to its policies, may yet
prefer these 10 the restoration Of the old
Democratic party.
Ii rs the old Denies ATTIC party whict
keeps The Repablican party from disin-
igrating--which assures its continued
success. The Republicans could not
have carried California without The 20
tent aid Of the Democratic party; and
without its aid they will not be able II
re-elect General Grant next fall. With
ITS aid W. shall put no limit to the sue
cess Of the Republican party. Give tbe
people chance to express their real
convictions at the balIot-box, without
the probability Of restoring the old
Democratic party, and the day Of Re
publican success Is at an end. The
people do not know what the restora>
ton Of the Democratic party might
mean. In the Southern States its news.
papers say it would mean the endors-
ing OF the results Of the civil war
and in the Northern States its news
papers and conventions, in the main,
are silent, or their utterances are hesi-
tant and dubious.
As TO methods Of government and
policies MI nistration, il does nor
appear NaaS the people would gain by
the restoration oT the old Denl ooratic
party. TIE Old Democrats part, haS
had. for the last ten years, but cBe
function, and that is TO perpctuate the
Republican party; aud we do not zee
that his Junction is losing any of its eff
fec;ive energy.
There is one glorious exception to this
condition of the Democratic party, and
that We find in the State Of OHIO. There
the organization has been wrested from
the management Of those who would
keep 1t as 1t has been, and new lie
and vigor and purpose--a new depart
ure--has been given 70 it, which awak-
ems the enthusiasm Of the people. There,
IN It's platforms, in the speeches of lis
orators, 1t confronts the vital questions
Of the hour, and pledges itself to such
policies as will renew the energies OF
the nation, wearied under the burdens
of monopoly.
We do not say the Ohio Democracy
will be successful, this fall, in the new
departure. We do not know the number
of those who, for the last few years,
have been running the Democratic
party as a tender 10 the Republican en-
CINE. We do not know how many
Democrats there are who, in the event
of close contest with the Republicans,
would not vote directly for Republican
ascendancy.
In short, we do not know how the
Ohio Democracy may be treated in the
house of its professed friends. fit i.
defeated at the coming election, it will
be done by those Democrats who want
the GrantBoutwell policy to prevail /;
and. in order to make certain this result,
would keep their organization tied to
dead issues, and pledged, if successful,
to such measures as would double the
burdens of the civil war.
We believe that one half Of the Re
publican voters honestly and earnestly
wish for the adoption of the fiscal policy
which constitutes the departure" Of
the Ohio Democracy. We know that
nol;cv to be identical with that OF the
7 shor nartv. and If. under oil these