The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-10-11

0RIA, KANSAS,
II no higher considerations gov
erned the action OF the democrat
&c party at the Baltimore ccnven-
ton than those put forth In the
, pamphlet from which the above
quotation il made, we may fairly
conclude that the bssest motives
lie at the bottom of its aspirations
for power. The leaders appear TO
have q loud word for the country
and low whisper for their follow
ers. They say in a loud voice,
'give US power and we'll give you
peace" and then Immediately turn
to their followers and whisper,
"we'l give them what Paddy gave
the drum, ttOo ticks in the place OF
one" They want to be Nin-
trenched again. Well, gentlemen,
this party is now out, and, in, my
opinion, it is not best, at this time,
to let it in. 1t don't look right,
it don't act right, it don't talk
right. It has not been puri-
fed by the fires through which
it has passed, nor elevated by the
alliance which it has made. It has
dragged down to its own level .
small part of the republican par
ty, by which means it hopes ito
gain the vantage ground once
more, and when there fntrenched,
it viii be in a position TO refuse
allies. or to be an ally, on any
| terms y h5ts-yF-" ~
Every movement of this party
in state as well as national con-
ventions shows its purpose to be
as thus clearly expressed. And
once it gains the vantage ground"
once it gets into power again
by means of the .,spoils" of Office,
the money of the people, it will
intrench itself there, and attempt
again to conduct the affairs of the
country upon those principles
which brought on the war, and
which the people have 80 often
voted dswn-principles which
drifted tho country into civil war,
and which in time would do it
again, or, if not that, to a peacea-
BILE dissolution of the Union, if
such thing were possible. l
know that at this idea some dem
ocrats, and, perhaps, some repub-
licans, liberal in their natures, will
turn up their noses, snuff the
breezes of both oceans, and grunt
dissent. But we have reasona-
bic grounds to apprehend similar
results from similar causes. We
have not only the repeated declar-
atoms of Mr.. Greeley for peacea-
bic dissolution, if desired by any
section of the country, but we
know that the doctrine of States
rights was held by the democratic
party as cardinal principle before
the war. 1t was this pernicious
doctrine that led the south to re-
bel. The democratic party has
never yielded this position. In
the extract from the pamphlet to
which / have referred, you will find
these significant words: eve
(meaning the democratic party
are invited to become the ally of a
party (meaning the liberal repub--
licans) which adopts our princi-
pies, and brings sufficient force to
turn the scales in our favor, with
out any danger of absorption" Is
this a bold, barefaced declaration,
without any foundation whatever?
No, gentlemen, in the fourth reso-
luton of the Cincinnati platform
the democratic party finds its life
long doctrine of States Rights in
dorsed by the liberal republicans,
without which it never would have
consented to an alliance. That
resolution says: ave demand for
the state self government, and, for
the nation a return to the consti-
tutional limitations of power"
Here this liberal republican party
adopted, as democtats would say,
sour principles" BY pledging it.
self in another resolution to cop.
pose any reopening of the ques-
tions settled by the 18th, 14th and
10Th amendments" to the constitu4
ton, it claims merely to acquiesce
in the measures of the republican
party. In my opinion the rank
and file of the liberal republicans
are deceived by the attitude of
their leaders. Parties that hold
opposite views are not apt to ally.
When they do, it is evident that
they hold the spoils of office dear
er than the principles for which
they seem to contend. But the
fact is the liberals adopted the
dogma of the democratic party
States Rights-and at the same
time attempted the betrayal of the
republican party by seeming &C
quiescence in its more important
measures. It was hardly to be. ex-
pected that men standing as high
as many of the leaders in this
movement stood, could stoop SO
low, or resort to such bare faced
demagoguery even for the spoils
of office. While 1t attempted to
betray the party from which it
sprang, it must, if successful, de-
Eceive its ally or prove false to the
country. The people have time
and again repudiated the doctrines
of the democratic party. If the
Liberals succeed to power they
must ignore the democratic party
or the country. one or the other.
It cannot prove true even to itself.
apprehend, gentlemen, If Gree
ley and some of his liberal friends
had been present at the time, Ju-
das would not have gotten, the
contract for betraying Christ. For
such q betrayal OF party and prin-.
ciple finds its parallel only in the
act by which our Saviour was be-
traYed- -. - =.
Such party as this democratic
liberal party can be no more har-
monious in its views than in the
elements of which it is composed.
These clements might be designat-
ed as the old lady designated her
table knives. She had only four,
and name for each-big butch,
little butch, cob handle and rattle
blade. In the opposition to the re-
publican party we may say that big
butch represents the regular Con
federste sOldiery; little butch, the
bush-whackers; cob handle, the
democrats, and rattle blade the
liberal republicans. This big
butch, little butch, cob handle and
rattle blade party will hardly rep
resent, should it prove successful,