Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-08-27
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a serious family disturbance in consequence.
The Liberal Republicans. as they are caiied'
remembering the treatment which their ieao-
ers received at the hands of Senator Ihur-
man and other Bourbon magnates IN the
Democratic Liberal Convention, whlch as
sembled at Columbus after the residential
election, last Fall, were suspicious OF new
propositions, and reluctant to enter into an
alliance again with party whose name had
SO long been associated in their minds with
disloyalty and corruption. They declined to
meet the Democracy in State Convention,
and issued a call for themselves. which was
and is denounced as presumptuous and in
sultng. Two hundred and fifty thousand
Democrats are not ready to sell out to an in
significant squad of disappointed Office seek
ers," says the ally of last year. ''Your or
ganization is a stencil in the nostrils of all
honest men," reply the Liberal Republicans;
'powerless for good and doomed TO death,
unless you abandon your ancient name and
+, faith, adapt yourselves to the living issues OF
to-day, and forgetting the past, consent to
march forward to victory, with new leaders,
and under banners which your old men have
never SEEN" An impossible gulf is therefore
fixed between the two, and each must now
pursue its own way and seek its own fortune
as best it can.
| But misfortunes rarely come singly and
| bad enough, but the Democracy was destined
to be yet more sorely tried. Treason devel-
oped itself in their own camp. Many of the
old leaders, heretofore honoredland confded
in, regarded rs wise in council and brave in
the field, whose clarion voices had 'ralied
the boys" in many a hard-fought battle,
whose names were tower of strength, dis
gusted with long continued and unvarying
defeat, dissatisfied with the plan ofcampaign,
conscious OF many and oft-repeated mistakes,
ashamed of the past and hopeless for the flu
ture under the old name and management,
marched out of the Democratic camp, keep
ing step 10 unaccustomed music, with their
eyes fixed on banners bearing new and strange
devices They have bivouacked by them
selves, and are inviting recruits from the old
army and deserters from the Republican
ranks. How powerful this organization NAV
hereafter prove to be, ii is impossible now to
tell. There are many reasons why Demo-
Gratis should join it; there are none at all why
Republicans should give ii countenance.
They are satisfied with their own organiza-
ton, and propose to remain with it. If the
time shall ever come when the Republican
party shall be 'powerless for good" as Pugh.
/ Cunningham, and Caldwell, Collins and
Ewing say the Democracy now is, or SO far ad-
vanced toward decay as to be spoiled as
Groesbeck says the Democratic party is. then
we may be ready to join some new departure
But the Republican party of Ohio stands to-
day upon the history of its achievements for
the last seventeen years, upon its unchanged
position, upon the honesty of its purpose and
the justice of its cause. 1t is united, well or
gained, and hopeful, conscious of its strength
and carrying with it the prestige of continued
and almost uninterrupted victory. Practi-
cally, the fight this Fall is between this pow
| erful organization and its old enemy the
Democracy long disheartened by defeat, de-
spondent on account of promises broken and
hope deferred, divided in sentiment as to the
best means of securing future success, and
weakened by the departure of the young and
progressive Democracy, who, conscious of
the objectionable mistakes which were COM
mitted by the leaders OF the party during the
war and which have been repeated since,
would gladly escape from the memory and
odium of the past, to seek their fortunes I'M
der a new name, and surrounded by new as
sociations. The goth Of July and the 9th of
August Conventions should be regarded as rep
resenting the two wings of the democratic par
ty in Ohio; for although few influential and
reputable republicans, for whom l entertain
high respect, took part in the Both of July
Convention, yet it was controlled by the dem
ocratic element, and the name of e-lone
democrat was placed at the head of the ticket
The great body Of the liberal republican par
ty will vote the republican ticket no doubt
for the reason that it will be evident, as the
campaign progresses, that the choice is be-
tween that party and the re dictionary and un-
regenerate democracy. IT the new party
shall succeed in teaching the old democracy
that its only remaining mission is to die and
be buried out of sight, it will merit the graft
tude of mankind.