The Wichita city eagle., 1873-09-18
The Democratic Attitude.

In the west, where their party is in
a hopeless minority, the Democrats are
enacting the role Of farmers friends. .
and protesting to be the only men who
have the welfare Of the farmer at heart
With hay seed in their hair and hy-
pocracy in their hearts, they howl lus-
tily for reform. declare that the demo
cratic party il dead and viii never be
revived, and call on the farmers to
unite with them. the apostles of the
new reform, the saints of the new dis
pensation. III all effort to hurl the cor
rupt republican party from power and
install them in their stead. Anything
TO beat the republican party
Bat in the eastern states, where the
party is strong. there is pleasing au-
dacity in the attitude they are gradu-
ally assuming. In New York they
have not very politely shown Mr.. John
Cochrane. who proliercd them re-
newal of the liberal coalition of lest
fall, the back door and the toe of a
boot. in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and
in fact. all the eastern states. they have
done the same thing. And step by
step they are rcpudi&ting all the pro-
fessions OF the last campaign, and pre-
pairing 10 appeal 10 those old fashioned
prejudices which united the party be-
lore the liberal coalition entered their
heads.
The New York Times very peril
ncntly says that it would like to know,
as a matter of curiosity, low often our
democratic friends think they can re-
pudiaie their professions without de-
stroying their value. a few years ago
the democratic party held certain de-
fined views. 1t believed, for instance.
that the reconstruction policy of con
gress was wrong: that the fourteenth
aud fifteenth amendments TO the con
stitution was vicious in policy, illegal
ly adopted and void: that negroe,
ought not TO vote nor hold Office: and
that the safety Of the country depend
ed on placing in power the party hold
ing these views. Last year the demo-
cracv abandoned these positions. Ii
acknowledged that the questions in-
volved in them were determined, and
that it would be both vain and wrong
to agitatc them any longer. Now the
party leaders talk again about "stand-
ing BY the old land marks" about ''ad-
herring to the ancient faith,' and .'re-
storing democracy to its original
integrity"
In the west, as we have said, the
democratic party is afraid to bear it,
own name. and assumes whatever dis
9uise the circumstance or the locallt!
NAV seem to require. OF the disguise
it has adopted in Minnesota the ST.
Louis Globe says:
I'm Minnesota. the other day, there
was a so-called farmers convention
held at Owatonna, which was attended
by about one hundred delegates. The
convention was presided over by that
India rubber demagoguc, ,Ignatius Don
nelly. Mr.. o. Barton. q democratic
LAWYER. was nominated for governor.
He is said to be Il fluent talkcr and
rather popular among the people, but
is no more of talker than Donnelly,
and cares mostly for himself He
stands no chance OF being elected. how
ever, as the republican ticket is popu-
lar with the farmers; in fact. nearly
all the agriculturists of that re-
gion have been in the habit of voting
the republican ticket for years. Call
ing themselves by another party name
would not help them. The balance OF
this farmers ticket is composed of am
bilious shysters, who never held a plow
or moved swath of grass in their
lives. ."-Atchison Champion.