The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-11-08
DEMOCRATIC AND LIFE r.
Al DEFEAT.
GRANT REFLECTED.
4 Popular Majority Of Owe.
100, 900.
MORE ELECTORAL VOTES TO
SPARE THAN GREELEY
&Ast.z OBTAINED. 4.~
The BOurlOn Element I'm Il, g
D19A0crNtlc party has at
hr last 0nnlhisatcd Ats
--e. elem EMS. lie

Ni6nt or wrong, Tor veal or voc, the
bourbon wing Of the democratic party
By. the action Of its leaders, is to re-
main within the dead lines" IT,
candidate for the presidency, under a
forced leadership, assumes that those
who move and keep step TO the rest Of
the busy world arc .recrcant and apes
tate. lie and his adheren:s aud
followers are ike the enchanted warder
who nodded at the gates Of the Palace
Of the Sleeping Beauty until his beard
became white as the driven snow, and
had grown down to his knees, or like
the self-constitutedrulcr who gave out
that he lived in a lunatic ASYLUM he
cause he was the one sane spirit in a
world stricken with madness. This
element in the old acmocrutic. party has
said by it's action that Grant aud his
political associates were good enough
for re-clection. If this'was true then,
we hope he will be good enough now
that his al m inistration may have the
support Of the apostates. .ssao
Whether the democratic party out
lived the day of its usefulness or not,
there is now no denying but that like
the old Federal party, it has gone into
hopeless minority. ...'...
Needed reforms in TIE admins
tration II the affairs Of the couatiy ex-
list more or less from the highest to the
lowest Office in the land. There is no
lackAof ,fcforincIs in the republican
party 4aThcy, like the democrats, are
denied the benefits Of good local govern
Inest. because they are excluded from
the councils of the dominant party.
The question: ef share in the offices is
ofAe practical Importance to the mass
1t the people. 1t is important though.
that they be administered for the pub
lie weal. instead Of for the interest Of
the incunbents and their tile-wa tiers.
How shall this result be accomplished:
Can any thing be brought about b.
pvuting and making faces at our neigh
bprs., as much Interested in good
government as VIC arc ourselves? -.st I
Every man knows that Grant win
be stronger with his party in 1876 than
he was lie was in 1872, and that he
can and will be more easily reelected
than lie was now If reforms are
reached within the next eight or twelve
years it mus, be through the democrat
ic party, throwing aside its organization
and acting in conjunction with tho re- {
fvrm element in the republican party. /
Shall we help surround the admin
istration with the best r.c,ncnt IN he
republican party; have our State +
county and town Offices, administerel1
by the best or tie worst men in the
republican party? This is where the
matter now stands, and tae question
awaits an answer. What SHALL it be,
Eur ourselves tie answer is ready and
corresponding action will follow. Where
We have stood politically for fourteen
years the people Of this county know;
how we have striycn for reforms, they
know too; what We have failed to ac-
complish, because Of the weakness of
the element we have worked with may
nct-bc impossible witt, ! stronger POI
l..ical organization. =