The Democratic advocate., 1872-03-09
The Labor Reform Ticket,


from many Of its exchanges extracts
favoriag the nemiuees Of the Labor
Reformers. Some Of these extracts, we
have aeticsd, have been republished in
tho Patriot as onen as two or three
times. OF course that Journal has a
purpose TO serve in doing so. What is
itg The most natural conclusion is
that it takes this course to prepare the
minds Of the Democrats to accept the
ticket Of the Labor Reformers aud to
bring about league between the Labor
Reform Party, the Moderate Republi-
caas, and the Democrats.
Personally there appears to 90 no OBJ.
lection either to Judge Davis or to
Gov. Parker. The ticket is conceded
to be a good Que. The candidate for
Vice President is lifelong Democrat
aud an able and popular man. No
Democrat will object to him, Mr., Davis
has nothing to commend him specially
to Democratic acceptance, if we except
the Miiligan case and one or two similar
decisions. He was the bosom friend, law
partner aud executor, ofsIr. Lincoln, and
by byhimappoinied to scat on the bench of
the Supreme Court Whileitis conceded
that the personnel Of the ticket is unex.
ceptionaI, the inquiry arises-how is the
question Of principles to be settled
between these different organizations,
granting that they all unite upon the
same ticket. There is wide difference
between them aud great eoutrariety
in their political creeds. How are these
differences to be harmonizedg That is
a question more easily asked than an.
swered, We appreheud; and there is
probably but one point on which they
do all agree, aud that is--oppoation TO
Grant Politics make strange bed.
fellows" some one has sagely said, and
if these discordant parties arc all ex-
pected to lie down in the same bed
together, the repose of some of them,
we think, is likely to be disturbed
And which Of them is it most likely to
bef "Aye, there's the rub" We
remember that in 1910 the Whig party
took Mr. Tyler, an anti bank man, upon
trust. The refrain of one of their
campaign songs was
.ws'll vote for Tyler, therefore,
Without why or wherefore"
AOd they did; and We all know the
ssquel-they got the very largest size
flea in their ears, aud could not get it
out. Tyler was denounced as ''trai,or,e
and his efigy burned under his window
at the White House, but he was unmoy
ed thereat, and declared that "his pulse
beat like healthful music" although
the storm of wrath ragged so fe0rfuIly
around hin. These facts are mentioned
IN order to illustrate the folly of party
going too far in search of arai2ability 10
a candidate, and Of being governed too
much BY erpediency instead Of an hon.
est devotion to principle
Well, let US see who these political
bedfellows are to be, under the proposed
Davis and Parker iripartite union
The Republican sleeping partners would
be, such men as Trumbull, Cox, Chase,
Schurz, Fenton, Ferry, Upton, Brown,
Greeley, Wilkes, Dana, aud possibly
Forney. Nov, the idea of " dirty liz.
en-, in connection with some Of the last
named parties, would be too distinct, iu
fhe minds Of some democrats, to render
sweet and undisturbed repose practica.
bic. Besides, il is not at all uurcason.
able to suppose that with Greeley, For
'ney, and Brick Pomeroy as members of
shs same happy family" the peace
add harEony of the household could
aot long be maintained It we're bet.
ter, therefore, We conclude, not to at
tempt to bring them into association.
although an active effort is being made
10 that end.