Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-04-12
Drawing the Lines.

WHEN the returns from New Hamp-
shire came in, the Times made haste to
declare that 1.-the Democratic party
alone stands no shadow of a chance to
prevent the reelection of Grant" To
this emphatic declaration it added, by
way of clincher, "the most hopelessly
pig-headed Bourbon in the party must
now recognize the fact that the Dem
ocratic candidate for President could not
carry more than one-third of the electoral
vote"
In the same strain was the statement
made at the same time by the New York
World
"The New Hampshire election, then, is chiefly
important in that it insures the nomination OF
Grant, and prepares men OF all parties TO unite
their votes upon the Liberal Republican candidates,
If such names shall be presented by the Cincinnati
Convention as to command the confidence of
Democrats in the good faith and patriotism OF the
movement for reform"
If the New Hampshire election was
fatal to Democracy, the victory won yes
terday by the Republicans of Connecticut
was an instance of punishment after
death But the declarations quoted did
not. require the underscoring of Con
necticut TO have at this time special en-
phasis. 1t will be observed that even the
World urged "men of all parties to unite
their votes upon the Liberal Republican
candidates; :" but in its issue of Friday
last, it concludes leader by saying that
the same class of voters may easily
be persuaded to vote for an honest,
liberal Democratic ticket" Which shall
it beG The disaffected Republicans
must go over to the Democracy,
or the Democracy to them. The Times
says there is no hope of defeating Grant
except by doing the latter; the Word,
which thought so once, has concluded
that Mohammed can go to the mountain
much easier than the mountain can come
| to him. 1t ridicules the very idea of the
mountains travelling. Having proved to
! its own satisfaction that the Republican
party is Just on the point of kicking the
bucket" it adds;
"Nothng could be more ridiculous and Quixotic
| than to expect that the Democratic party (Which
dOes represent living pdnciples) will disband when
II is so evident that the rival organization is mort
bund, and approaching the last stages OF dissoly-
| ing rottenness and corruption. The Democratic
| battsriug ram will be brought into play against
walls that have no longer any cement, and are iall-
ing into dilapidation A Democratic victory can
not very much displease the Republican enemies
Of Grant. In the approaching contest, we snsll pe
like besieging army which has allies and well
wishers in the stronghold it is assaulting, though
allies who dare not excite mutiny IN their OWL
camp, lest they should be oyerpowered before the
assauiting outsiders could come to their rescue.
knowledge of these internal dissensions VIII ntus'
new vigor and hope into the Democratic party"
The Democratic party is welcome to al
the new vigor and hope infused into it by
the internal dissensions which produces
such results as the returns from New
Hampshire and Connecticut.
The anti-Grant element is stronger nov
than it will be six months hence. Tn
party lines are bound to be drawn close
and closer as the election nears. Afte
soshing around, doing the dirty work o
the Democracy in the preliminarles of tn
campaign, such sheets as the New Yor
, Tribune, Cincinnati Commercial and Chi
! cago Tribune, will crawl back to thei
r places. They cannot afford always t
q defy the public sentiment of that porto
. of the community upon which they rel
Z for support, and will not dare 20 do S
y when once that sentiment has becom
thoroughly aroused. We may look to Sc
, them sneak home, like whipped ours, an
q take back seat in the party they di
y their little meanest to break up and d
n stroy.-C Chicago J0uTaa(.