Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-09-12
From the Chicago Times of the 23d ult
'Principles, Not Men,

will be found in another place. He
lean not think that the course of the
Times is dictated by purely fealty to
Democratic principles - Why can he
not think so? He suspects the only
reason is, that by the phase ''fealty to
Democratic principles" the Wiscon-
sin party understands obedience to
the behest Of King Caucus" whereas
the Times understands it to mean
something very different from that
AS the Times understands the phrase,
"fealty to Democratic principles" is
fidelity or faithfulness to those princi-
pies, and necessarily excludes the OPP
posite idea of treachery or unfaithful-
ness to those principles, which would
consist in giving political SUPPORT to
their enemies. Why does the Times
give its support to Judge K@rner?
Not because Judge KNrner is the
nominee of a convention called Dem
ocratic;'' in fact such is not strictly
the case It is because the Times
finds that Judge Kerner is a Demo
crat; that is, he is a believer in and
supporter of Democratic Purposes
He is therefore a citizen, being capa-
BILE and trustworthy in other respects,
who can be trusted as tho agent of
Democratic principles he is therefore
a candidate whom Democrats can sup
port consistently with ''pure fealty to
Democratic principles." DR.. Gree
ley, on the contrary, is an anti-Demo-
crat; that is, he islan enemy to~Demo
cratic principles, and ''ferocious ad-
vocate'' (as he says fimself) of anti
Democratic principles. He is there
fore person who, even were he cap
able and fit in other respects, cannot
be trusted as the agent of Democratic
purposes he is therefore a candidate
whom ''pure fealty to Democratic
principles" requires that those who
recognize the inferior obligations Of
feaity to principles should oppose.
When the Wisconsin critic says
that the nomination of DIR. Greeley
was the ''direct result of the Times
teachings he implies that the Times
| has been teaching treachery to Demo
cratic principles. Yet the Cincinnati
movement which the Times advocated
was a movement for the resurrection
of Democratic principles; a move
ment for commercial freedom, for
free trade government, for decentrali-
zation, for equal justice for all men, all
| States, all sections, and pursuits. The
nomination of one who is the most
conspicuous personifcation of the op-
posite Of all these Democratic doc
trines and purposes was not, then, the
result of Democratic teachings, but
was a result which placed those teach
ings at defiance, and completely re
versed the whole movement. 1t was
the result Of a corrupt and infamous
political trade, TO which some of the
worst political corruptionists that live
were parties else it could not possibly
have happened. Surely the Wiscon
sin critic will not say that the Times
ever taught the selling out of Demo
Gratis and Democracy to their worst
enimies, by corrupt political traders
F'It was surely choice between men,
says the critic. It was the choice oi
the most ferocious enemy of Demo
cratic principles in the country, and
one of the most corrupt politicians
in the country, over such friends as
and supporters Of Democratic princi-
pies as Charles Francis Adams ant
David Davis. The making of such ;
choice involved the abandonment oil
the purposes of the movement; that is
the abandonment of an earnest anC
sincere effort to resurrect Democratic
principles. The Times never taugh
the abandonment of Democratic prin
ciples, and cannot do so while it be
lieves thot in strict adherence to thost
+ principles is the only hope of free gov
t ernments on earth.
But the Wisconsin critic seems tt
experience no such difficulty. Will
him, to abandon Democratic principle
= seems not only an easy matter, but
| matter of duty eff Grant and Gree
: ley are of the same political school, i
it not the duty of Democrats to SUP
port Greeley, their own party nom
! inee ?" Such is his strange interrog
e atory to the Times, a journal whic
| cares nothing for Grant, and nothin
, for Greeley and nothing for the me
who nominated either of these polit
clans of the same anti Democrat
|, school, but which is uncOmpromising
r ly opposed to the school, and whic
e will continue to oppose the schoo
o though all the party convention
which Office seeking corruptionist
s. could pack between Baltimore an
d Tophet should sell out to its leadin
e professors. 1t matters not by wha
name the party conventions might &C
vertise themselves; the questio
e whether they are the servants of Den
= ocratic purposes or an anti-DemC
n cratic purposes is one which the Time
10 knows of no way to determine but b
i their actions. Suppose the devil ha
~ resolved to get control of the Chri!
ST tian Church, and after many years
r. ferocious villiication of Christian
r. had built up q powerful party whiC
f. had got possession of all the ecclesia
tical officers, and had nominated b
~ fellow Beelzebub for Archbishop
a Suppose the minority, adhering
re Christian principles and opposing tt
" opposite principles held by the devil
- party, should desire to overturn tt
y dominion of the devil in that portic
III of the Lords vineyard, and to th
end should commission some pio
is elders of their party to nominate {
IN opposition candidate. And when t
- elders had met, suppose the de'
should come also by his faithful emf
We saries, and by wiles we'll known to hin
to self, Frank Blair, Reuben e. Fento'
rk Seymour and H. Greeley, should hun
ra bug majority of the elders into mol
49, mating the devel himself as the cane
10 date of the Christian party, again
SIS BeelAebub, the candidate of the devi
h, party. The Times would put to Il
oil Wisconsin gentleman his own que
tinn stIf Raalznhnh and the dnuil q