The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-18
COLUMBIA. S. G.
Saturday Morning. May 10, 1921
The Democratic Party to Split.

approaching tte61Qent1al campaign Will
result in division Of the Democratic
party and its final disruption. It is sad,
in some respects, to contemplate the COL
lapse Of an organization with whose
record is linked 80 much that is great
and glorious in the past of our country,
and with the name of which the lives
and genius of 80 many Of our noblest,
purest and most gifted statesmen Of days
gone by are inseparably connected. Our
Calhoun, McDuffie. Hayne, and other
illustrious sons of South Carolina we're
Democrats Their mighty intellects sus-
tained, their virtues adorned the party.
In some way political parties become
personified, are looked upon as real and
distinct entities, and become invested
with the characteristics, and command,
IN great measure, that honor and
esteem which attach to the memory OF
their greatest champions. It is this scrt
of indefnable sentimental regard which
creates pang of pain whom one thinks
Of the death Of an old and. in its day,
useful political. party. But reason tells
US that there is not much cause for grief
in the dissolution of the Democratic
party. Neither it.no its old competi-
tor, the Republican party, belong to this
day; and it is we'll that they should be
pushed aside to make way for the fresh
and vigorous young life of Liberal
Republicanism.
We should have preferred, however,
that it should die different death from
chat which now threatens it. It was our
hope that it would quietly, peaceably
and with one accord among its members,
glide over and merge itself with the new
movement, and ndimpartthereto the impress
OF its time.honored principles. Such an
easy, natural death does not seem to be
in store for the old Democracy. Those
who have hastened her death appear to
desire the fendish pleasure OF making
her last moments the occasion of wrang.
ling, dispute and dssension. The New
York World was among the first, and
continued till the announcement Of Mr..
Greeley's nomination, to be one OF the
most earnest advocates of coalition of
the Democrats with the Liberal Republi-
cans. The entire Democratic press,
with the exception Of the Atlanta Sun
Mr.. Alexander Stephens paper-favored
the idea. This combined and persistent
course Of the press had its effect upon
the Democratic masses. They quickly
learned to look with friendly eye
upon the Republican reformers, OF
whom not the least prominent was
the honest old farmer of Chappaqua.
They became convinced that the only
hope of rescuing the country from the
military centralism to which it is drift
ing under Grant, and the corruption
and extravaganza which pervades every
department to such an alarming extent,
was to look for realization in the Gin
cinnati Convention. They were pre-
pared to receive favorably any honest
nominations that might be made, and
they have hailed with unmistakable sa-
tisfaction the name of Horace Greeley.
The World, which so industriously as
sisted in paving the way for his recep-
tion by the Democracy, now turns upon
him, and, without rhyme or reason that
would not apply equally we'll to any
other Republican, demands or urges the
reputation Of Horace Greeley, and the
nomination OF straight.out Democratic
ticket. This is inconsistent and unfair,
to say the least Of it, and accords SO we'll
with the manifest wishes of the Grant.
ties, that the suspicion will intrude itself
that the World is playing Grants hand
for him. The Democratic party was vir-
tnally pledged by the party press
among the leaders of which is the World
TO sustain tho liberal Republicans, if
the latter would inaugurate the fight
with Grans, and conduct it upon princi-
pies not antagonistic to essential doc.
trines Of Democratic faith. This they
have done, beyond all kind OF question;