The sun., 1872-02-01
NATIONAL REFoRM TICKET
NATIONAL BEFoRM TICKET
for frssiStHi:
LYMAN TRUMBULL,
OF ILLINOIS.
fOr oit, prtsiNtni:
SAM UEl TILDEN,
or NEW YORK.
DO the Democrats Comprehend the
Sifuntiont


IL seems TO be q self-evident proposition
that cordial union OF the Democrats with
the Republicans who are opposed TO the
denomination OF GRANT and their effective
cooperation at the polls, will insure the
election of Il competent, dignified, and
patriotic President. Probably there Is no
supporter of the administration sufficiently
addle-headed to controvert this proposition,
unless il be some foolish ofliceholder, or the
editor of the Times. GRANTS partisans
may disparage the honesty and ability Of
the malcontcnts in the Republican party,
behttling their numbers and influence,
while they asperse their motives; but the
fact remains, and no intelligent man will
gainsay it, that the Democracy, reinforced
by the men OF whom Messrs. TRUMBULL,
SCHURz SUMNFR, and GREELEY are the
representatives, are numerically strong
enough 10 overcome their opponents, both
In the popular vote and in the Electoral
College.
There are half dozen large states, cast
ing in the aggregate hundred and twenty
electoral votes, all now nominally Repub-
lican, so nearly balanced between the two
partioo that tho aid of the auti-GnA MI meu
would certainly turn the scale against him.
1t only needs the consolidation of the ele-
ments OF opposition to assure the desired
result. There is no substantial difficulty in
effecting this concentration. One purpose
nnimates those who desire good govern
ment and intelligent faithful ndministra-
tion. The question OF candidates is a
subordinate one. There are good men,
Republicans and Democrats, who can be
supported by the entire opposition with
out the least sacrifice OF principle, con-
sistency, or self-rcspect.
In the presence Of the great exigcucy
that now confronts us, all minor con-
sidcrations vanish. We are contendiug
for the life OF the Con titution. II the
usurputions and aggressions of the cor
rupt dynasty now in power are to be
coutinded indefinitely, thc>, is an end
10 representative government. The sum-
mary habits ami arbitrary discipline
of the camp have already superseded the
republican simplicity that illustrated the
public life Of The nation during the first
seventy-iive years of its existence. What
is party policy, what are mere forms of ad-
ministrntion, i'm comparison with the re-
storation of the tranquility of the country
and the reinstatement of honest and ca
pable men in Office?
We have an Executive supported by
an ohsequious and seryile majority in
Congress, who regards the patronage
OF the Federal Government as his own
private property, to be conferred upon his
relations aud dependents according TO his
whim or caprice, or rs shall most effect
ually promote his schemes of self-aggran-
dizement. \ stream never rises higher than
its toutain. In all the departments of the
Government the iyuoble and grovellng
spirit OF the head of the Administra tion
manifests itself with augmented depravity.
The navy Is in State of demoTalizati on,
ships dilapidltcd anl unsea worthy, inca
pable OF coping with fourth-rate power
like spain. The civil service confessedly
requires reform in every branch. ITcgu-
lartie> and corruption pervade all the Ope-
rations of the Treasury Departments The
Senatorial investigation into the affairs OF
the Custom House, hampored and obstruct-
ca rs II Is by Executive Interference, and
partial and defective as il must necessarily
be from the manner in which the commit
tee was constituted, has nevertheless dis
closed n state of facts rejecting disgrace
upon the Republican party, and which all
the pcrverse ingenuity Of its leaders in Con-
Pre,s can neither defend nor explain.
Members of GRANTS military family are
convicted OF eXtortons ana evasions of
law, of which our merchants arc the VIC
tins; and il is in proof that the power to
in1ict these wrongs emanatcd from The
While House. His satraps are shown 10
have threatened Mr., GRrNELL unless their
illegal demands were complied with ana
the inference is Irresistible that he was re-
moved, not in Difference TO the public in-
tercst, and that his place was filled by a
man of less scluplcs and more conplai-
sanCe 10 promote the rapacious schemes of
the hungry crew that infests the Executive
Mansion.
Is IL conceivable that this state Of things
will be endured by the country TO sup
pose majority of the people capable Of
throwing away this opportunity and sub
mittng TO IA continuance of the great pub
lie wrongs which GRANT and his parasites
are perpetually practising, on mere ques-
tOn Of political etiquette or party disoi-