The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1872-04-04
Democratic Disgust Of I.iber-
a11sm.

Ihs Democrats are disgusted with
the Liberals The World Of yes
tcrday admits that the Republican
party cannot be defeated BY au intes-
tine schism, and breaches a strais isht.
Sout Democratic crusade. This /, q
change Of froot. The whole Demo
cratic party Of the country, North aud
South, has been looking forward to
the Cincinnati Convention and the
Liberals" as the event and party
which were to bring about a triumph
OF its cause. The movement has
been changing shape Of late, as the
characters Of the movers have i'm.
proved.
At the outset the men who advo.
Gated boiling, and who set up Rcpub-
lican refusal to grant amnesty as the
cause, and who started the agitation
out Of which has grown the Ciucinna ati
Convention, were weak and foolish
politicians who had been disappointed
Up to within very recently their di-
vision did not amount to q fartious
quarrel. There was not q statesman
nor distinguished citizen who ap.
proved it. 10 only one State hi u it
any organization or could it muster q
corporafs guard of adherents.
Wh,n the honorable and able gen.
tlcmcn who oppose tho denomination
Of President Grant looked around for
u constituency and support, their
eyes naturally fell up)u this band of
dissatisfied men. Nobody else at oil
sympathizcd with them, and so they
were obliged to acceptthis little clique
Of grumblers rs their nucleus. They
have been mouldIs it !or the good Of
the party aud y eouu,ry ever since.
They have beoRholing up to the fac.
tion the glori9us record aud tridmphs
OF Republicanism and the reasonable
history of Democracy. They have de.
clared that they have no sympathy
with this last organization, ani they
will do nothing which will promote its
success and such is tho power of mind
that the men who involuutarily have
become their followers applaud all
th"y say.
Ia these hands the Liberal move.
ment is to be feared by nobody but the
sinful association of Tweeds and Mas.
bys. Even the spriufcld Republican
says that it's first duty will be to read
the burial service over Democracy,
while the Chicago Tribune, the lead
ing Journal which has supported Lib
eralism, addressing itself to tho Con-
pccticut Republicans, radical aud lib
eral alike, says the grand issue Of the
campaign is the extiaetion of tho De-
mocracy, aud adds: " Insure that,
and the American people are free to
90 into the Presidential campaign uu-
embarrassed by the presence Of a party
which has opposed oil progress and
oil reforms, from the outbreak of the
rebellion to tho present time. The
people are then let free to do some.
thing better than hurl back and forth
tho jargon Of dead issues aud defunct
! institutions"
1t 10 just such uttsranees as these
that have disgustsd the Democrats with
tho "Libsrsh." They thought these
meo traitors 10 the Republican camp. |
but the expected aid aad comfort has
not been received. The truth 10 that,
whatever blcmishes there may be 10
tho BoPubl:cas party, It is 40 iuduits.
J. lySupcrior TO the waiting Denocrsey
that no honest Refermer will ever con.
tiuue in q course or advocate . policy
which will place the East nsmed in