Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-08-10
The Democratic Party aud It's Allies,

Under this caption the New York
World has q lengthy double-ieaded
editorial, in which it states that the
natural allies of the Democratic par
ty at the present time are two more
or less imperfectly organized bodies
Of citizens; namely, the Liberal Re
publicans aud the Farmers Oranges.
It il not merely probable, but certain.
continues the World, that these three
organizations Cf they all deserve the
name of organizations)-the Demo-
cratic party, the Farmers Oranges.
and the Liberal Republicans-com-
prise, among them. q majority of the
voters Of the United States. 1t might
therefore seem desirable, on a super
fetal vie n, that they should be melt
cd down and blended into n power
full, controlling organization. This
is . pretty ~air-castle, pleasing to sem
timental and seductive to trading pol
iticians. but never destined to descend
from shifting cloud-land to solid foun-
dations on terra-frma.
What is Liberal Republicanism? It
10 Republicanism minus General
Grant. 1t is notorious that Messrs.
Greeley, Sumner. Trumbull, Schurz.
Banks, Gratz Brown, Farnsworth.
and the rest, would not have seeded
from the Republican party, last year.
if they had believed there was any
chance of defeating Grant in the regu-
lar Republican National Convention.
1t was personal hostility to that new
recruit, and not waning confidence
in, much less remuneration of, Repub-
lican principles, which inspired that
revolt. Mr.. Greeley, OF Mr.. Sumner,
or Mr.. Trumbull. or MI. Banks would
gladly have accepted the regular Re-
publican nomination if he could have
got it, and have fought and traduced
the Democratic party with all his for
mel zeal. They hated Grant and we
hated him; and this common personal
hatred was the bond of union in the
Goa lition last year. Now, it is quite
impossible for the Democratic party
10 dissolve and enter . new organiza-
ton Of which the basis isRepublican-
ism minus Grant. 1t would be a
sinking Of all that is valuable and
distinctive in Democratic principles.
And yet this is what the handful of
Liberal Republicans have the audaci.
~ to demand as the condition of uni
ted action!
The Farmers Oranges, which pre-
sent no such surprising demand,
make a nearer approach to Democrat
ic principles. Their supreme motive
is not personal hostility to an individ-
ual, but the protect ion Of their own
interests. They desire better prices
for the products of their industry.
They feel that they are robbed by
the railroads. robbed by the tariff,
robbed by paper money. They have
no wide-reaching, comprehensive
theory Of government; they aim only
at the redress of specific grievances.
The Democratic party entertains the
Farmers view Of these particular
evils.
The World proceeds to argue that
the Democratic party includes the
aims Of the Liberal Republicans and
Farmers Oranges, AMI that the pur-
poses Of those organizations are but
a mere fraction of the comprehensive
Democratic policy. 1t declares that
the country was greatly d~emoralized
by the war; that the Capitalization
tendencies of the Government, grow.
ing out of the necessities of the con-
fict, reached a dangerous point, and
that further entertainments upon the
rights of the people can only be
averted through the success of the
Democratic party. IAN true Demo-
Gratis" says the World. recognize the
difficulties of the situation, and feel
That a work is laid on them even
greater than belonged to the genera
ton Of which Jefferson was the lead
er. He had no such obstacles to
encounter in reducing Federal au-
thority to its just proportions as con-
front us when the patronage Of the
Government has been increased fifty
fold. His great battles and Jackson's
are all to be fought over again, and
the Democrats Of this period will not
prove unworthy Of their l%lberty-lov-
ing predecessors"
Strange as it may appear, the World
strenuously objects to the amalgama-
ton Of all the elements opposed to the
Administration. 1t says, in conclusion,
that the true thing to do is to en-
courage the other organizations. but
resolutely maintain the Democratic
standards of political doctrine; for,
unless Democracy can be again made
q living conviction in the public mind,
reforms of the Government will never
be moro than s~kin-deep."