The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-05-16
The Practical Effect of a Democratic
Ticket

The Practical Effect of Democratic
Ticket.
Among the immense mass of contributions
TO current political opinion, evoked by the
nominations of the Cincinnati Convention, we
have not observed any article more to our liking
than the annexed sensible review of the situa-
ton by the Richmond Wing. 1t states the
case plainly and practically, and demonstrates
the folly and stupidity, not to use harsher
terms, that is embraced in the proposition to
make straight-out Democratic nominations. 1t
may be unpleasant to the friends of prominent
gentlemen connected with the Democratic par
ty, who are eminent statesmen and true patri-
OTIS, that the condition of things demand an
allegiance of their political ambition; yet, there
is no alternative in this emergency, and we
must either be content to do the voting, leaving
to others the rich spoils of office and patronage
or submit to another four years of Executive
domination and the encroachments of fearful
Capitalization. The people of the South can
not afford to wait, and hence there goes up an
almost universal chorus in favor of the Cincin-
natl ticket. We want peace-emphatic, un-
ending peace, and not the hollow mockery pre-
sented to our lips by the warrior President, who
rode into power upon his protesting a devotion
to peacet We care not that every Office in the
gift of the American people was in the hands
of lifelong Republicans, provided always that
they are honest and capable men, striving for
their country's good to the exclusion of per-
sonal ambition and aggrandizement. Such is
the sentiment of the tired and over-taxed
masses, as we firmly believe, and the positions
of the Richmond Wig will find responsive
chord in the breast of thousands all over the
South, whose brave hearts and strong arms
once upheld the victorious banner of the Lost
Cause We copy as follows, and invite atten-
tion to its truthful declarations:
1t is certainly in the power of the Northern
Democrats and Southern Conservatives to elect
Grant; but it is certainly not in their power to
elect a ticket of their own. If they nominate
such a ticket and attempt to carry it, they will
be worse beaten than they have ever been in
any previous contest. There are thousands
upon thousands of Northern Democrats and
cumstances, will refuse to vote for such ticket.
There has been a tacit understanding among
them that if the Liberal Republicans should
nominate a good, liberal ticket they would sup
port it as the surest means of defeating the ex-
treme Radicals and getting rid of the present
Administration. The action at Cincinnati has
fully met their expectations and wishes. II
there was any trick in standing neutral until
the Liberals should commit themselves, such
Democrats and Conservatives as we have re-
ferred to were not parties to it. They stood of
in good faith, and under the patriotic hope
that the Liberals would act in such manner
as to deserve their support. In this hope they
have not been disappointed. They will support
their ticket, whether the Democrats have q
ticket or not.
Should the Democrats, yaluing adherence to
party above everything else, put ticket in the
field, with any prospect of success, it does not
require prophet to foretell that the Swo wings
of the Republican party will be reunited, if
both Greeley and Grant have to be thrown
aside and new candidate taken up. In this
view it will be the fault of the Democracy if
the great Liberal movement, which has inspired
so much hope, should be brought suddenly to a
stop.
Should, however, the split between the Lib1
erals and the Administration party have gone
too far to be healed, and should there be three
tickets in the field, the Cincinnati, the Admin
istration and the Democratic tickets, the re-
election of Grant will be assured. This, too,
the Democrats will have accomplished.
Why have all of us hereabouts encouraged
the Liberal movement? Was it ruse to split
the Republican party in order to pave the way
for the election of Democrat3 No. We
naver ree mod that If snlit n Democrat cOuld
be run in Our real and only purpose was to
get the opportunity of supporting liberal tick
et believing that if voted for by all the oppo-
nents of proscriptive Radicalism it would de-
feat the Administration and give US O new and
better order of things. There has been no
trick or deception in the matter so far as we are
concerned-nor will we be drawn into anything
that looks like per6dy. We honestly sympa-
thise with the Liberal movement, because we
regard it as offering the only means OF defeat
ing the Administration party. Our opinion is
unchanged as IN the beginning, that the only
hope of escape from military despotisy .and
malignant Radicalism is to be found N that
movement, and we protest that Democratic
ticket can result in nothing but the defeat of
Liberalism and the reelection of Grant, or the
election of such ticket as may be agreed upon
at Philadelphia.
1t is nonsense to talk about Democratic
ticket. There is noshing but mischief in it.
To US of the South it means ruin, because it
means the, re-establishment of proscriptive
Radicalism in power for another Presidential
term..
Fashions for the Campaign.
An exchange suggests that good investment
;,,t noun would ha 1aroa sunnlv of white hats