Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-08-21


THEY "0N'' OE'AsF'
y hen tine Oihclhha'l convention OF
hst year organized the alscoh''n'ed eIe-
m"n'S oil american PoI'''cS ln'o Il NOISY
and threatening parry ana, lor 'he sake
Of success Ihe l'aillhore convention oi
the prmofratic parry ADOPTED the work
prepared Tor lhelF hahoS' cana'dates'
platform ana aIi' the organs ana orators
of both parties ADVISED US 'hat oia
things .lad passed away ana al lhlhgs
had become neW; ana many people
honestly believed That the old Demo
cratic party mao arisen from lis 0iu RUS
an b"roma progressive; that the ylgor-
Oh, yHnL Cincinnati organization bad
taken up and absorbed every political
element not already a component part
@, the party in power, and that the re-
auacjation of old creeds, to form an
organization for the cOnsummation OF
government reform, was magnanlmity
so exalted, that there could be no retro
cressian. The dead past must bury its
draI and the political issues of the fu-
mre were to be the most pure, elevated
and progressive that the genius of phi
huthropy could discover. We, poor
Republicans, were denounced for our
stupidity in not seeing the reform. and
sDccred at fer our disbelief in the re-
gonoracy of the democracy.
We have watched with much interest.
though we must confess without much
faith. to see the happy marriage of the
Liberals and Democrats, fruitful and
harmonious. We have not trembled
much through fear for our own party
organization, and we are not particularly
aslomshed at the result. When the Lib
cral party of Ohio surrendered to the
Allen county movement and dissolved
their own organization, we were not left
long to doubt whether their bedfellOws
would also change their lodgings for
the cheers of the first convention had
scarcely ceased to reverberate, when the
Democracy OF Ohio solemnly declined to
take any new departure. They adopted
the stereotyped platform of forty years
ago, suggested that at the next Presi-
DENTAL election the party vote unitedly
for Andrew Jackson, and shook their
hoary locks at the presumptlye young
men who lntImated that tine war was a
failure, and that we wanted peace at
any price.
III Name Ihe olu party nave also 'e-
cared against ahys lie" ucl'ar'u'e, "''o
'o'' the world that IN tne olo railying
cry "I 9'ale SoVereiSn''y Is 10 oe io''l"
fspose Tor the troubled SOUS o, '"e ma
lon. Maryland falls quickly ih'o- heF
accustomed place IN the RANKS ana only
displays her knowledge OF passing eVeilis
by signing for 1.-THE constitution as IL
was. And so on,as fast as the old party
can get its shattered remnants together
ignores its affiliations OF last summer
Sr"idS Its late aLlles Tor any lhiihatioh
'Da' iherc IS Il change III aIIalrs' ana
calmly surveys the polIlcai footprints
OF Fierce and buchanan to ascertain the
WY" ol S'ep IoF 'Ig parry ii'''l ol III 'li9
,''u.us elgcV'ons' "eI' VIC '"l, ''"ii''
.' il inc democracy can, % anu " lillo " we =,
p',ss our , Iue."n'' ,olo' t, -" ,I' w.,
~, . 80 a ~, Io,.,''' -. 80 e,; ~ ;
Ia''y o"' va 'eis'l 49, I57"uLl;an@
. - 'l0 i'eA' - '-,' e., So,
a,y =; - az 'ulo - i's' 80 4 t ~. slt - :
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I'M ,ue l'eliool''oy "ill nov 's''Io ~, 5 y
'le oo''n.ly - WV ', ~ tho i dor
ns,e ,''@' 80 l5'' y st S'0rr1 IT,, oan novor
Como -. tto go, frart anoir onS tbe ,,orties
Of ,ho fntrro ,,,nst bo alive TO the pro-