The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-08-15

from the files If its contemporaries O
anathemas hurled at it duriflg the Gree
ley campaign, and reprinting them Der
6dttna ct Hter0tina against the irrecon
cilables of its old party.
With the New York World, on th,
other hand, it is not the Democrat,
party, but the Republican, that is colt
corpus. 1t calls editorial attention, il
its issue of the 18th, to o pretentiol
political letter from Chicago, pointin,
out that the revolt against the tariff ant
the salary steal has absolutely destroyed
the Republican party in the five grea
Northwestern States. and concludes it.
article as follows:
"It is hopeful sign that at last thil
organized abuse, which has outlived the
occasion that excused it's existence and
gave it significance and strength, should
fail to command the support and respec,
OF those who have chung to it with un.
wavering and -unaccountable fidelity
Deserted by the Western farmers, the
Republican party falls never to rise
again. The Democratic party in the
Northwest as everywhere else will ol
course maintain its organization and its
principles. 1t suffices that the Oranges
uphold the some principles to insure
their common victory ON the platform
of Free Trade and Farmers Rights. ~
But while the World insists that " the
Democratic party of the Northwest, as
everywhere else. will of course maintain
its name, its organization, and its prin.
ciples, it yet holds open arms towards
what it believes a considerable Liberal
organization, continuing even to foster
and pet the Allen county movement of
this State. We find still another decided
difference in the opinion as to who is
dead in the Enquirer of this city. One
of the first and most enthusiastic in the
support OF the Liberal movement of last
year. its backsliding has been as com.
plete from the one eide rs that of the
Chicago Times on the other. It is be.
Geved with the World that the Demo-
cratic party.athe old Democratic party
still lives and will live, but it has moth
ing but the profoundest disgust for any
thing that savOrs of Liberalism. With
1t. the Liberal party is the cold corpus,
and it talks sadly of "the femains" of
such Democrats as participated in the
Liberal proceedings, whether in Allen
county or elsewhere.
The Commercial, however, is the
most wholesale deadener of them all.
With it everything and everybody is
dead-dead as julius Caesar or door
nail Democracy is dead, Republican
ism is dead, and out of their decomposed
remains is to phoenix new party, of
which Halstead and Hassaurek are to be
shining lights.
The New York Post, in its issiiE Cf
the 10th, brings up the rear with still a
s.s- i,vo;t;on, to--is. pcalu W d.
inotr:cy and Liberalism, and life to no.
body knows what. 1t poi;,.s ant that
which has terminated the dead bones 0f
the old DemOcracy-which has convert
ed the Enquirer, and reassured the
World and the Boston POst-is the per-
formances of certain false Republicans
the doings of Ben Butler in Massa-
chusetts, Carpenters defense OF the
salary steal and Credit Mobilier, and
Bingham's justification Of his eotrss ~,
| the lattet. II, says the Post, these in
dividuals really represented the Repub-
lican party, there would be valid ex-
cuse for reviving the Democratic party.
But they do not, and there is where the
mistake is made. 1t continues
- Gttlc DISCRIMINATION Will be good
for some of these Democratic organs
who dream of Democratic revival. Do
they believe that the people of this
country want principles rather than
names? Aud if yes, upon what princi-
pies do the revived Dcn5crats proposs
to go before the country? Will they
urge free trade? Ask the Maryland and
Pennsylvania Democratic newspapers
and public men. Will they urge moral
ity and honesty in the Government
Ask tha majority of Democratic Con-
gressmen who voted for and have taken
the back-pay plumber, and who were
willing to overlook the Credit Mobilier
fraud. Will they urge the old Demo-
cratic principle Of opposition to the
Governments investing In internal i'm
Virginia and other States where canals
and railroads are demanded at the public
expense. Upon this point, also, it is
particularly interesting to quote one of
the very Democratic organs engaged in
the "revival movement. A few days
ago the Gineihhati Enquirer said "Tah
millions of dollars, for instance, spent
on the James River and Kanawha canal
and the slack-watering of the Ohio river
would give us navigable stream the
year round. That would be Of more
service to the general interests of the
country than anything which eould bs
done oh the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
1t is thing, in fact, which must and
will be DONE" In short, the best Dem;
ocrats are continually working at eress
purposes upon every question OF public
policy. and this extract from the En-
g"ffGr is but fair sample of the way
in which they treat their own 'prin-
ciples.'