The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-08-21
CLIPPINGS

n sfdFp cut lFcUl Tue fni6C0 bIdue:
The Liberals and Democrats in Ohio are
not shaking hands across the bloody
ehasm as much as they were, but are
shaking fists at each other, and making
all sorts of horrid faces.
The Hartford Post say eve are told
that the Herald has on hand at least
half dozen more of those articles on the
coming Cesar, and that they will be
published, whatever happens. The
readers of that as we'll as other journals
need some kind of light reading during
the heated term. aud a naild sort of
amusement like this Caesar business
may prove just the thing
The Philadelphia Press sums up
"the substantial results of Republican
policy, as interpreted under Presiden Mt
Grant" as follows: Its unparalleled
currency, its financial success, its reward
of labor, its comfort to the emigrant. its
trophies Of redeemed wilderness and
improving cities, and its peace with the
worId-al combind in universal content
and peace -
Nine out of ten of the men who have
eyes in the front of the head are Repub-
lleans, while the man who can never see
an event until it has passed, the men
who cling to yesterday. and vrangle
over dead issues until the new ones are
also dead, are mostly with the. Democracy.
New party schemes, changes of name or
form. will not alter this essential diff
ference in the component elements of
parties. Any party you please, built
out of the material now called Democratic
with what name or platform or candidate
you will, must still be controlled by its
majority-a mass of men who can only
see behind them. But the party com
posed chiefly of Republicans must, in The
nature of things, be the party of progress,
of true reform, Of new ideas, swift to
apprehend new needs. and adopt new
hiCtuOdo- ltt.
The World opens an elaborate editor
ial with this paragraph: There is some
thing exceedingly ludicrous in the plati-
tudes which the Liberal Republican
press continue to drone IN the ears of the
Democratic party, by way of coarincing
its members that it is dead Persons of
a funeral turn of mind have passion, as
1t is known, for attending the obsquies of
their deceased friends and viewing the
corpse - but it is not usual, we believe,
notony of the funeral sermon by ming
ling with it vehement appeals addressed
to the defunct, in order to persuade him
that he should quietly submit TO play his
do.orous part in the pageant The obit
uary discourses of the Liberal Republican
press are entirely of the letter character.
Varions are the reasons given by the
Bourbous for holding c2 to the name
Democrat, as applied to the party. The
Milwaukee News fears that If the name
/ is surrendered, some other party vii
adopt it, and thereby wis success, as it il
/ the best name ever assumed by any 20
ltical party. The News need rot feal
anything of the kind As well might .
rattlesnake fear to east off its skin les
some other reptile should crawl into i
for the popularity thus to be gained
The Democratic party has the odinm o
/ slavery upon it and the sin of the rebel
lion to atone for. 1t has degenerate,
into party, the membership of which i
largely made up of foreigners and tn
keepers of low groggeries. 1t is tn
party which made the career of Twee,
possible. 1t has the prestige of year
OF almost INTERRUPTED defeat, and i
has prolonged an unnatural existence
until it Is at loss to know how to di
deeently. No, no. We can imagine
man SO insane as to crawl into the gal
ments of dead leper, or one who ha
died from smallpox, but that any part
should assume the robes of defunc
Democracy is degree Of lunssy beyon
the scope of any reasonable Imagination
i-[Oswego Times.