, 1872-11-14

THE CHICAGO DAHL
there was detection OF Republicans from him
equal to the four years. natural increase and to
the votes received from DemocratB Was this
Democratic division due to personal objections
to Greeley, Or does it signify the decay and dis
! solution OF the party? In other words, is the
Democratic party organization capable OF resur-
rection?
The Democratic party has been defeated four
| times in succession, in 1860, 1864, 1853, and
1872 In the last contest, though strongly aid
| ed, the party showed that it had lost that CO.
hesion, union, discipline, and devotion to regu-
lar organization which had marked it's history.
In Maine, 3 large percentage Of Democrats re-
fused to vote for d purely Democratic ticket. In
Pennsylvania, they refused to Totefor Buckalew,
an honest and able Democrat, voting directly for
the notorious Hartranft or not voting at oil. In
| Ohio, they refused to vote for General Wiley,
| General Morgan, and other leading men OF the
party, thus giving thai State to the Republicans.
In Indiana, they voted in large plumbers for the
Republican State ticket, candidates for Congress
and Legislature, knowing that the latter body, it
Republican, WAS to elect Morton to the Senate.
Even in old Berks County, Penn, that never
fa1tered during the last fifty years, though Buck
alew and Heister Clymer, two Of their neghbors
and well-known Democrats, we're candidates for
Governor and Congress- there were q
thousand Democrats who either voted the Re-
publican ticket or did not vote at all. It is
| questionable whether, in the Northern States,
there are more than five Democratic candidates
for Congress who received enough Democratic
votes to elect them. Had it not been for the
detection from Grant, the Republicans would
| have elected an almost unanimous delegation to
Congress. OF course, after the October cleo
tions had shown that tho Democratic organiza-
ton had lost control Of the members Of the
party, and that the latter Were openly and avoW-
| edly supporting Republicans for State Offices and
Congress against the regular Democratic nomi-
ineos, the result On the Presidential election was
| easy to anticipate. Another reason show
ing that the Democratic organization had
lost it's control WAS that in all parts of the coun-
! try the Democratic voters OF Irish nationality
| we're the most conspicuous in the support Of
| Grant, or rather Of the Republican party. In
Philadelphia, and in all the cities and towns Of
| Pennsylvania, and in afaine, Ohio, and Indiana,
without any hesitation, they voted the Repub-
/ 1ican State tickets. In tho November election,
the Rame class OF voters in all the cities Of the
country, and more notably III New York and
| Chicago, voted the straight Republican ticket
! without scratch. In this they we're not de-
tered by any Of their previous antipathy to the
negro, because in this city there were ten Irish
men who voted for Grant to one negro.
| The Democratic party has, therefore, lost the
Irish vote, which has left it permanently.
It has lost, a}so very large part of
| the native vote. It has gained moth
| ing from any quarter. The Liberal
Republicans who voted With it in the recen-
| election are not likely to unite permanently
! yith party that has shown ITSELF incapable Of
| holding its own voters.
Nor is this all. There is dcep-rooted antag-
onism between the Democrats OF the North and
those in the old Southern States. The latter are
| just now exceedingly bitter toward Northern
Democrats, who, they say, have again deserted
them. In Kentucky, the party is torn asunder
by two factions,--the Bourbons and the Progress
sives. The Southern wing Of tue party asked
The North to vote for Greeley, and large Sec
ton Of the Northarn Democrats without wait
ing for the election of President, went over to
he Republican party. The Southern Democrats,
thus abandoned, say that they must make their
own tor1os with their local conquerors and, after
having t#ics asked the North for deliverance
and been refused, it is quite probable that the
whole Southern Democracy heartily approve the
declaration Of their press, that they wilI haVo
more to do With the National Democratic party
The party in power Fill, therefore, not have
anything to dread from any revival Of the Demo-
cratic party as such. That there viii be Al op-
position is necessity which exists under all cir
cumstances. What shape it shall take, and what
elements it shall consist OF, will depend upon the
behavior of those entrusted With the executive
and legislative branches Of tile Government in
the recent election.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE FIRE.
The London Standard is widely aBtray in
speaking Of the Boston Fire Department. as a
volunteer force, in our sense Of that term,-
i. e., as distinguished from disciplined and
paid fire Department, Not only Boston,