The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-09-20


and that il they are not correc ed by one partv
they Will be corrected by the other. Party man
aseIs must not be allowed to provide only for
themselves when the party is going to the devil
we must have a change or we will be rented
horse, foot and dragoons.' A change IS de.
m inded. =
But more suggestive article
still is one appearing in the st.
Louis Republican as to the "invis-
IDLE " Democracy of the country
generally. We commend the some
what heightened extract we make to the
careful perusal of the Bourbons of this
state, before they shall be "retired to the
hospital of veteran invalids y on the 9Th
of November next. The article shows up
the present Democracy (Bourbonism) of
the country as fighting power. We
copy: se la I9ah
The state campaigns now going OH, unimport-
ant as they are supposed to be, strikingly illus.
trate the decay of the Democracy as n fighting
power. In not one OF these states, with the ex.
ception OF Texas, does the Democracy stand forth
as the exclusive antagonist of the Republican
party, while in nearly all Of them it has sunk out
OF sight, eclipsed by new party with new issues
In Iowa the Democracy has formally retired and
given place to the anti-monepolists. In Missis-
sippi it proposes to retire and give room TO the
Alcorn boilers. In Ohio peoples party,
with third ticket, contests its claim to be the
exclusive antagonist Of its old Republican ene-
my In Virginia there is no Democracy at all:
i me opposing party to the Republicans is called
the conservatives; In Wisconsin there is no De,
mocracy IN the field; the Democrats and Li5e.
raj Republicans have agreed 10 unite and nomi-
nate a ticket which shall not be Democratic, but
something else. In Minnesota the farmers have
nominated ticket; and il is not improbable that
the Democracy will Weld in its favor Tn Mossa.
chusetts the democracy have just made nomi-
nation OF a state ticket, but the party and its
ticket, both, are overwhelmed by the absorbing
Issue between Butler and his Republican oppo-
nents. Nobody in that state thinks, talks or
cares about the Democracy the only question
thought or talked Of is which of two Republican
factions viii carry the Worcester convention,
and which of the two Republican candidates
Will be elected governor. In the recent election
IN California it was pushed aside by a new
power, called the anti.monopoly party, being
similarly overshadowed as in Massachusetts
This is pitiahle showing for the party before
whose presence all other parties were ever
accustomed to shrink abashed, and which, when
u appeared on the field, occupied the whole of it,
IL has dwindled to such feeble proportions that,
In some states it is invisible, and in others it
Is insignificant. Its enemies no longer fear
u me once great autocrat of parties has
sunk, like Spain, in the European system, to a
thirdrate position. Indeed, 1t has ceased to be
lighting power, and does not, at this time nos.
sess grain of influence in national politics. 1t
mas lost the faculty of attracting attention to it.
SELF Its platforms drop like plumbs of lead to the
ground, though these platforms, when pro.
claimed by some other party, become an inspr.
ing war-cry against Republcanism. 1t no
longer possesses the capacity to prt sent living
issues to the country, and is continually morti,
hed to lind its claims eclpsed by issues presented
by others-as in Massachusetts, California, Mis-
81 slsslppi and Iowa There is but one disposition
70 De MADE OF such party, 1t mrst be retired to
the hospital of veteran invalids, that more Wig
orous lighter may take its place.