Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-01-02
Nasty on the Passive Policy.
CoNPRDRIT Y RoADs,
(NHIoH II IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY,

fed that suthin hez got TO be done
for the dimocricy. The yoonanimis
ty with which the country hez per-
nounst agin us, is one Nv the most
remarkable things ever occurred to
me. | endoored Ohio, | stood firm
under PennsylvaDy: but when Moo
York went agin us, felt all was lost.
When the dimocricy nv Moo York
lost confidence in Tweed to the ex-
tent Nv ginin hands with the ablish-
inists, | felt that it was Nv little diff
ference wat happened thereafter, and
l took my drinks mechanically, like
one stunned. SO dazed waz | for a
week after the elections | didn't ac-
cept invitashuns TO drink over half
the time.
| notice that the Moo York World,
and other leadin dmocratic papers,
are urgin the policy NV not nominal
ing dimocratic candidate for Presi-
dent in 1872, but Nv allowin the dim
ocracy, and all the elements witch
don't like Grant, to yoonite and run
a
with the World. | am satisfied that
the dimocracy kin never elect dino
crat in 1872. 1t seems clear to me
that the indicashens are that the peo-
pie don't want a dimocrat to fill that
posishen, and am content to bow to
the will Nv the people. Dimocrats bow
cheerfulIy to the will nv the people
when they can't possibly rebel, and
that appears to be the situashen jist
now. | therefore accept the passive
policy, and am convinst that the
democracy shood not, as a party,
nominate candidate for the Presi-
dency, but shell, to save the country
from impendin room, relinquish their
party organizashen, and cooperate
with SIGH of the Republicans ez are
dissatisfied with the administrashen
to overthrow the present tyranical
administration and igogerate reign
Nv purity. My noshen was eminent
ly strategical. 1t was to make
platform, witch sed nothin in pertick-
eler, and put onto it a man nobody
ever heerd nv, and depend for the
fucher upon the fact that he he'd din
elected by dimoerats, and wood hev
to take his tone from them.
| communicated this idea to the
dimocrisy Nv the Corners, and a meet
IN waz held to give shape to our
thoughts on the subject. | opened
the ball by introdoosin the follerin
Tessolooshens
Whereas, 1t seems to be tolably
certin that eff we, the dimocrisy,
should nominate a candidate, he
wood, in all human probability, be
whaled out NV his boots, and
Whereas, While we ought to be
somewhat yoosed to the whalin pros
cess by this time, we hev never got
to likin it, therefore,
Resolved. By the dimocrisy Nv the
Confedrit X Roads, that in their opin-
ion, the dimocrisy Nv the Yoonited
States, in a sperit of liberality, and
actooated sorely by desire to rescue
the country from impendin danger,
shood decline to make nominashens
for the offices Of President and Vice
President, but shell jino hands with
dissatisfied republicans, labor reform
ers, temperance men, civil service re-
formers, and SIGH other people ez OBJ
iect 20 radicalism, on the basis, sore-
ly, nv opposishen to radicalism.
Here the thing should hev passed
and the meetin shood hev adjourned.
But Deekin Pogrsm he'd got mag
got in his he'd and he wanted reso..
luton ez follows:
Resolved, That the democrisy will
not ask for the nomination Nv DEM
ocrat, but they must insist that the
nominee pledge hisself to undying
hostility to the 14th and 18th amend
ments, and to all the measures Nv re-
construckshen, inventid and enforced
by the republican party, and in short
the entire radical policy concernen
the niger, from the emancipation
proclamashen down to date.
And the idiots passed it yunani.
mously, and before the deekin had
sunk in to his seat, Bascom to my
horror, moved the adoption Nv this
resolooshen
Resolved, That the dimocrlsy will
not ask the nomination Nv q dem
ocrat but the nominee Nv the jint
allies must pledge hisself to the re,
pudeashen NV the unholy nashnel
debt, and to all the finanshel meas.
ures Nv this administration and that
Nv the late Abraham Linkin. Eff it
is considered advisable not to 90 the
Who'll fgger of repoodeashen the
nominee shell pledge hisselt to at
least make the debt worth less by
adoptin Pendleton's greenback dodge
or somethin equivalent.
This was adopted with loud cheers,
despite all l Good do, and immejitly
Capt. McPelter arose. He sed be wuz
pleased at the perceedins. The liber.
atty Nv the dimocrisy in surrenderin
their organizashen, Nv laying it, he
might say, on the altar Nv their coun-
try could not be too highly commend
ed. He would segest, tho, that the
nominee whoever he might be, shood
be required to pledge hisself to pro-
koor the repeal Nv all Ku-Kluk legis-
lashen, to never in any way interfere
with the whites Nv the South in wat
they might desire to do, and pertick-
olerIy to hev to wunst the tax on
whiskey and tobacco repealed.
There was no use nv tryin to stop
it and | didn't. Elder Pennibacker
wuz satisfied to nominate some one
not democrat, but the conversion
which nominated him should put him
on platform in wich free trade, OPP
position to national banks and State
rites should be the principal planks.
1t wood be severe trial to him to
vote for a man who want q demo
crat, but on these condshuns we waz
wiIlin to make sacrifice.
Issaker Gavitt then sprung to his
feet and remarkt that had word
n odd ra had haan IN tba vallav