Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-05-25
JERRY BLACK INTERVIEWED.

The Suns correspondent 10 York, Penn.
sylvania, reports an interview with Jerry
Black. The Judge says tho Pennsy ylvania
Democracy have no candidate to put for.
ward in Cincinnati, and adds: "If the
Democratic party can save its principles
by giving up all chance of power and place
for its men, it ought to accept the sacri.
fice." 3D. g..
Jerry" Fully, but practically that is
nonsense A political truth triumphs On.
ly in the victory Of its friends. Tho sal
walton Of the country is bound up. 10 ou'
success, and We ought to succeed if we can
We owe it alike to the memory of oul
fathers and to the interests of our children
Even partial success is better than clean
defeat, for anything which rebukes the
corruption of the faction now in powe,
will arrest the downward plunge Of oul
affairs. Our descent, if not soon stopped
will bring US to the last stage of political
degradation"
Reporter" You mean despotism."
Judge B." No; / mean something
much worse than any despotism can ever
be in civilized couutry-a Republic
thoroughly rotten"
Reporter" You think, then, that the
election of the Cincinnati ticket might at
least break the fall of the country, and
give the Democracy future chance OF
redeeming it all together?" .t4 49,
Judge B." It. might of itself work
out perfect and immediate redemption,
and Democratize the nation at once De-
mocracy means common sense and CON-
mon honesty, organized for political pur-
poses and applied to public affairs. That
is the true substance of all its platforms,
and the object of all its struggles; and
whenever man can say so much as that,
and say it sincerely, whatever he may have
been heretofore, or whatever he may call
himself now, he is Democrat. The
speeches of Trumbull and Schurz at the
Cooper Institute, in SO far as they concern
present questions, might have been made
by the poorest Democrat in the land. The
issues they made with the Administration
are precisely those which We have made
all along. They come exactly upon our
ground. They oppose the Radical party
because Of its corruptious, its reckless ex-
peuditure Of public money, its contemptu-
Gus disregard of constitutional obligations,
its shameless enslavement Of the Southern
States, its multiplied acts Of oppression
and robbery all over the country from the
hideous ruin which threatens US. IF re-
form can be now effected should we not
help them in the work it we can Or,
rather, why should we disdain their assist
ance 10 performing our own 7" ..
Reporter" But these are only the pro.
fession of faith which may be simulated
of principles which may be abandoned
of good intentions which make pave
ments in the region below"
Judge b. True enough; but we
must trust somebody, and l think the
members of the Cincinnati Convention are
worthy of confidence. There may be
among them some converts without con-
viction, who will backslide upon the first
temptation but if the Convention will
pledge itself and its constituents to stand
upon the Constitution, to restore the liber-
ties of the people, and introduce honesty
aud economy into the Administration OF
the fuances--if they will put their opposi-
ton to General Grants administration up
on the surface ground that it is corrupt,
lawless and oppressive, and if they will
crown their work by nominating candi.
date of known integrity and ability, the
jealousy which refuses to believe in
their sincerity would be very unreasona.
ble." .,liE