Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-07
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Not Difficult to Explain.


No one who rejects seriously, needs TO 90 far
for an explanation of the overwhelming defeat
of the Greeley coalition in this presidential
election. That coalition consisted almost wholly
of the democratic party, which, as a national or
sanization, has a record, spirit, and pui.
pose, no; capable of being hidden and nowhere
misunderstood The attempt of this party TO
hide itself under the "Cincinnati platform"
during the canvass, was feat of cleverness very
much like that of the ostrich which attempts to
get ont of sight by sticking its head in the sand
Everybody who thinks at all, knows very well
that the republican party and the democratic
party represent widely different principles
aud aims; and, as the popular Judgment has
made il certain that the country will not 90
back to the old condition, there is nothing left
for the democratic party but TO ego out with
the tide" The principles and aims to which it
is committed are at war with the changed con-
dition and resolute progress Of the nation. They
belong to the dead and not admirable past,
when the slave power ruled u.s. and the sooner
they are dismissed and left behind with the use
less rubbish Of time, the better will it be for all
concerned
The coalition really meant restoration of the
democratic party; and that Mr.. Greeley himself
believed that party to be now what it had been
heretofore, was manifested in many ways. 1t
was shown at the beginning by the immediate
and startling change in the character of the
New York Tribune. That journal had been
among the foremost advocates of measures
TO suppress kukluXiSm and prevent out
RACES against the rights of citizenship; but
when Mr. Greeley became a candidate for the
presidency, seeking and expecting to be sup
ported by the democratic party, the Tribune be-
gan TO talk like a veteran democratic organ. 1t
talked of kukiuxism and "bayonet rule, like
copperhead of long standing, and was soon able
10 rival the best of its democratic contempora-
ries, in this method of dealing with grave public
questions. Why was this, if Mr.. Greeley really
believed the democratic party had been "con-
verted'? He did not believe it; and his position
as a democratic candidate made il necessary for
him and his organ 10 adopt the democratic style
towards The republican party. He and the Tri-
bune underwent a great change; and this was
necessary because there was no change on the
other side. Did he suppose this fact could cs-
cane observation? Il really. served to nresent
more clearly the issues actually before the conn.
try. which the baltimore convention souoht 70
conceal. 1t made plain what he sirnifed as a
candidate on that side which the people have
decided shall not prosper.
If Mr.. Greeley had not been made Hind Inv
his ambition to be president. he would have seen
that his election was impossible. He would
have understood thar the peonle will not restore
the old democratic party to power in this wav
nor in any other wav. And he would have com.
pretended what he himself was. necessarily. 10
many of the democratic voters. as candidate
for tho vro-i1o,e,, 1f ,t,o-a ,,,,lI H., -,
another Horace crooIo,, ~ ,,o ola sor+ /, f.o,
cborqe or the Tribnno ,,I,a. tonio ha Ill
have found in rho ostonisr,;ro nngition IS o,,n
Horace nc the dap,ocrotic and Tor,,,,o,,, oor,1i
5o,et How, G.orr,,,,, Ia ,,,orll -
our Horacsl what aood Of ,,itnnora
lion vopld have hoen ronrod ont o,,ainst IT,,
The rrihune von1d boyo on,dono 81, -.
former torr;Gc +lrnlor all ,;,,,,,,;,,,. ar.;...
the democratic r,rt,. o,,1 ,hos, H. "a -
But this was not nccess,r,. 20 ,,,a,,o ,po sitno
tion understood nv those who 40 ,ho votin,,
Tbarefore Tho dosor,,ol loco,4 - A.. C.,oIs,- ?;