Middletown transcript., 1874-01-17

ellis Of the loyalists who were carrying on
the var against "our Southern brethren. 2
he does most. assursdly come up to the
stasdard which We require Of : jefferson
ian Democrat,
But. asks Mr.. Dean, did be not by act
ing as chairman Of the State Executive
Committee of the Delaware Democracy
thereby virtually endorse tho Greeley plat
form? By no means. 1t was the general
understanding among the members Of the
Democratic party that they should eschew
all chickering's and quarrelings in reference
to Greeleyisn or anti Greoleyism. and
unite in harmonious effort to save the
State and congressional ticket from defeat
Did not Mr.. Dean himself acquiesce in
that agreement? Did he not vote the
State ticket? Did not the tickets voted
by the O'Conor Straight-Out Democrats
contain the name Of Custis w. Wright
and Of all the rest Of the nominees Of. the
Democratic party for State officials? II
they did not, then Mr.. Dean and bis as
sociates can, surely. no lenger boast of
their consistent adherence to tho Demo-
cratic party and their strenuous efforts in
its behalf. But. unless We are most gross
ly mistaken, the O'Conor tickets did con-
tain the Democratic State nominations.
Such being the case Why should Mr.. Dean
complain Of John P. Cochran for doing
the self same thing that he himself did ?
Suppose Mr.. Cochran had acted as chair
man of the State Executive Committee.
should he therefore be condemned? Would
Mr.. Dean have been willing to see our
State organization broken up and the State
surrendered, without striking a blow to
save it, to the Republican disorganizing
''progressionists? ?" Surely he would not.
Mr.. Dean complains of the conduct Of
certain u. s. officials and others ia car
rying some of cur State officers before the
Federal courts for trial for alleged viola
ton of State ordinances, and, yet, he at
the same time finds fault with men who
strove to the utmost of their ability to pre-
vent the State from passing into the hands
Of tho very men of whom he so Bitterly
complains. 1t was only by the skin Of the
teeth that We saved our State Legislature
anyhow, and had eur State organization
been abandoned and.all Democrats refused
to take part in the contest against Repub-
licanism through fear of being thought to
endorse the proceedings Of the Cincinnati
Convention, the entire control of the State
would to-day be in the hands of the Rad
ieals, and the triumph of that party at the
next election would have been compare
lively easy.
The Democracy Of this State did not Sc
lect Mr. Greeley as their chosen leader, or
adopt the Cincinnati platform as the expo
nent of their views. Nor did their dele
gates cast their ballets in endorsement OF
the action of that convention, at Bslti-
more. but steadily opposed it SO long as
opposition was Of any avail. But there be-
ing no ether course left. MANY il is true
did afterwards give their support to the
nominees of that convention in the hope
that good would grow out of error, yet all i.
with the exception Of few harmless IA
natics who professed implicit faith in the
New Departure doctrine, and the reason
for whose zeal was plainly manifested soon
after the election in their lust FIR Office,
all entered their earnest protest against
the Cincinnati Resolutions.
Mr.. Dean objects to our assertion that
gentlemen who stayed away from the polls
in 1872 will be there, if living, in 1874,
and asks what assurance We have for that
assertion. Our answer is-we know man
Of the men to whom we referred, that they
are and have ever been Democrats, true
and tried. and that. though. through q
sense of indignation and outraged feeling.
they absented themselves from the polls in
1872, rather than oppose their party. when
they could not support it. they will not
run another such risk of the State passing
into the hands of the Radicals, who under
the name of reform would overturn all our
State institutions and inaugurate the per-
nicious ideas Of Northern fansticism amsnp
US. But this is not our only assurance
for the assertion. We have heard frsm
the lips Of many Of those gentlemen them
selves the declaration that they will not be
found wanting. if at all able to get to the
polls, Al the next election.
Now. Friend Dean. we hope we have
answered ysu,' inquiries and objections to
your satisfaction, and 70 that of our read
ers. We have cndeSvor, to reply to all
vour Ouestiope r1a;oIv .n,,rtaons1v and