The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-09-11
oa JACKSON c. H. OHIO THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER L. 1873.

shallow for an intelligent people, ana tht
result was not calculated to inspire the
conspirators with eagerness for its repeti-
ton. So this year the party repudiates
its last years reputation, goes back to
its ancient faith, renounces Liberalism
adopts programme of principles to carry
at least to October, and is now fully or
ganized for defeat. The Convention nom.
mated Mr. Allen with enthusiastic una
nimity, for the party had long been in
search of a candidate. and had found
that its ablest men were not eager to
lead forlorn hope against the invincible
| Republican hosts. Already had its nom
inees for that Office measured the whole
political gamut. One year it set up a
secessionist, then a trimmer, then sol
dier with family name illustrious for
| loyal and heroic services; but the sins o!
/ the party clung like the poisoned shirt
of Nessus to them all, and they were all
| repudiated by the people. 1t now offers
| a symbol of ancient Democracy, in the
| hope that its old renown might cover up
| its recent crimes. But its representative
takes his stand on the odious record
which the people of this State have so
often repudiated The ablest leaders Of
! that party warned it of its fate. The Hon
VIM. Groesbeck said: II believe the his
| toric Democratic party is spoiled for use
Oy bAuuuCAldS SOAoUfblVAy iOA VIC
| last ten years; and shattered by many
defeats. it. surrendered at the last Presi-
dental election. 1t cannot recall that
| surrender, or the confessions then made,
and it has no longer strength for victory.
The Hon, Thomas Ewing, probably the
ablest and most popular of their leaders
in this State, said in the "new party
| Convention: "The Democratic party is
powerless by itself and Ineffective an
ally, and is therefore no longer an instru
ment of reforming American politics -
Now, if its own most trusted. leaders do
not consider it fit to Hve, is it likely that
the people of Ohio will decide that it is
fit to ruler But the Bourbons of the
party resolved to test again the strength
1 of it's old traditions and decaying preju-
dices, and of that time-honored name
which is now the main element of its
party power, and truly g..
s'There is more force in names
Than most men dream of; and lie may keep
| Its throne whole ageslonger if it skulk
Behind the shield OF some fair sounding rame."
A great American publisher says: at
| is not the conte nts, but the title of book
| that makes it sell" At station on the
Pennsylvania Central railroad boy
rushed into the cars on bitter cold
morning, screaming "Hot mince pies.
A passenger bought one, and attempting
to eat it found it frozen solid as an ieicle.
He called to the boy, saying, Boy, you
told me this was hot mince pie, and it
is frozen hard as ice" The boy replied,
''Well, | know that, stranger, but that's
| the name of EN-"
| And the Democracy with name which
implies the friend of the rights of man.
! has for years championed and defended
with all its party power, the;vilest oil
! garchy the most hideous system of des-
potism and the most defiant outrage on
popular power or free government which
| the world has seen for centuries. In its
interest, and for its defense, assaulted the
Constitution and our united nationality,
and now, when. by the conscience, the
| voice and the valor of the American peo-
! pie, that institution is forever dead, and
by it's dishonored grave nationality stands
victor, by that same grave Democracy
has stood for years sullen and uncom-
| forted mourner, refusing to accept the
inexorable logic of events, still clinging
| to the insane prejud1ces and baffied bar
barisms of a dead power, and faithful
only in blind devotion to the now impos-
sible dogmas of its old master.
Such is Democracy to day, an anachron-
ism in an age of progress.
Napoleon said "a Bourbon never learns
ANYTHING and never forgets anything"
General Comfy declares the Ohio Demo
cratic Bourbons illustrate this pithy say
ing He is only half right, for while they
''learn nothing they forget every thing;
while thew learn nothing of the demands
of this age of unpausing progress they
forget the plainest lessons of the past,
they forget that the logic OF events is su-
4 preme over the logic of party platforms,
| and that this is neither an age nor a
country of conservative reaction. They
| forget that when powerful party has
once forfeited the confidence of be-
I trayed people, and committed a crime for
which history has no oblivion, in the an
mails of the past it has never regained that
confidence with a free people, but must
stand forever marked by the hand of
| eternal and inexorable retribution.- Vain
is the attempt to arrest the uncontradict-
ed Judgment of history, or resist the ire
vocable decree of supreme justice.
Practically it matters little what may
be the position of this party. 1t is
spoiled" as a ruling power. aad its plat
/ forms are useful merely for campaign
purposes in close counties. The chair
man of their last State Convention, Hon
S. F. Hunt, fully recognized this hope
less condition when he declared, The
old guard dies, but never surrenders.
This stole heroism is a beautiful thing
when it is real 1t is sublime virtue
when it is truly martyr devotion to
principle But the old guard did surren-
/ der last fall and as Mr.. Groesbeck well
SAYS ''it is too late now to recall that sur
render, or take back the confessions then
made" surrendered its whole outfit
swords side-arms and artillery, bag and
baggage, charts, roster and camp equipage
and it is too late now to go into mock
heroics about that old guard, standing
/ it does, like Wolsey, weary and old with
service" stripped, helpless, humiliated,
but sullenly denying that they have ever
been prisoners of war. But it matters
little to the Republicans whether it dies
or 'surrenders." 1t assuredly has one or
the other to do, and if its choice is to die,
surely no one else ought to complain.
Years ago I read Persian story, which
it NAV be has a moral 1t was of one of
their Kings, greatly beloved of his sub
iects He died, but his ministers feared
to let it be known, lest the people would
revolt. So they sat the dead King on his
throne in the great hall of the palace,
and from time to time, as audience day
came, a retinue of courtiers, servants and
people passed before him, paid their
homage, and still supposed the King was
alive. AS decay began they covered the
dead body with spices, burned incense to
cover the smell of corruption, and still it
sat upon the throne. But when at last
the people found the King was dead and
they had heen deceived, as they buried
him they prepared graves for the faith
less ministers. These many years a dead
Democracy has been worshipped as a liv-
ing ruler, and for the glory of the past
received homage of faithful subjects.