The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-08-29
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From the Cincinnati GazettA.I
THE POLITICAL SITUATION.
Triumph of the BOurbOns I'm Ohio.

Don Carlos. and the legitimate
Bourbons are invading Spain will
some success. So the Bourbons o.
Ohio concluded they would attack
the Republicans here with the ole
! flag OF the Legitimates flying. Thai
is right. The people of Ohio are
tired of sham Democracy, and would
prefer the genuine article. And hert
we have it, pure and undefiled. AL
that remains of the ancient regime
the Bourbons of Louis XVI.'s time
who are not yet buried in the cata
combs were at Columbus to Olsen.
tomb the bones of the old Democracy
to put on the old clothes, the but.
ternut suit with which Vsllandigham
clothed the Democracy. Here ID
Allen, Whitman, Thurman, SIfford
Hildebrand, Newman, Eshelmsn, and
all that kind, associated with ihe good
old times of Democracy in Ohio,
There was ne mistaking the color oi
this convention. The blunder oi
1872 is not to be committed again
The grest Democratic party is nc
more 10 be swallowed up by little
squad Of Libetals, and there is nc
more liberality to be professed. Says
an old Democrat to Liberal: "YOu
nominated ticket, did you p eyes,
we did" "And go you make asses
of yourselves; good-by" While
the Liberals could be made cats
paws of--for, of course, they could
be--the chestnuts were delightful to
behold, and the Liberals most charm
ing cats. But since We didn't gel
the chestnuts, and these cats were
trying to get them for themselves, il
was time to part company with the
felines for we can be no worse off
So the Bourbons come out; and the
old standard cry is raised
Whau be King but Charlie, o!
Ii it Ee possible to treat two such
fsrces SO have been recently enacted
at Columbus seriously, we would like
to speak of their objects and their
probable results. The object is tbs
senatorship. Ii another conglomer.
alton is gone into the Senator will bt
cOnglomerste, for the plain reason
that il the Democratic party chooses
/ to give up its name and organization
there is no more Of it, and It's mer
have no right to make any specia
claims. But the great Democratic
party (grest even in its ruins car
not submit to degradation like that
1t might consent to consort will
Liberals, but it can not consent TO h'
their slave. Hence it tells the Lib
erals the. in unmistskable terms, anC
defies their utmost. Now let then
20 ahead with their new party, with
out ideas or principles, and MAKE
what they can of it. 1t is enough u
say thst the Democratic Convention
has completely wiped out all the can
didstes Of Hamilton county. 1t h.I
smashed the Liberal concern a
completely as if it never existed. i
will not even be remembered, muci
less regarded. In fact, the tern
Liberal (which never meant 81
honest thing) belongs to the past
Tne world may be astonished by
sham, but don't stick to it.
Had either OF the late Conventions
at Columbus any principles ? If fthey
had, whaE WAS it?
It was possible to have got up {
new party with principles which
whether right CT wrong, would haV,
made new issues, and presented new
questions But neither the 'sLiberal'
or the s'Democratic" Convention dsr,
touch one Of them or come nea
theml They might have declared 70
"free trade" "hard money" "Do ns
iioEal banks,'' "limitstion OF rail
roads" "Womsn suffrage" ETC., etc
ANY one of these would have pre-
sented great question-new issues
What did the Liberal or Democrsti
Convention say of either Of them
NOshinS. Their voices we're as muf
fled as the mufflsd drums at q funeral
Moral coWardice pervades all thei
ranks, snd Hsham" is the only symbo
of their parties. Can that be said o
the Republican party? mol w,
are as open IS the day. We are fol
keeping the best currency we ever had
We are for the tariff protecting the
working man in the comforts OF life
We are Tor treating woman suffragC
respectfully. We shall limit the
great railroad corporations in spite
of all the power of corporate wealth,
In one word, we stand upon the great
doctrines OF human rights, Of politi-
cal equslity, OF human progress. and
the general welfare. What do Dem
oersIs and Liberals stand upon {!
Somebody said the ''Tub" was right
ed, and they were standing upon the
great tub! No doubt of it, and what
Will this come to! 1t will so ashore