Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-11-05

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they declare that the talk of third
party, or OF a party reconstruction, is
all over, and that now the conflict will
be squarely between the Republican
and Democratic parties.
This is the clear indication of the
the signs of the time, and this is accor-
ding to reason. For, suppose that pol
iticians, who have not been able to for
ward their personal ambition in the ex-
istlng parties, could, by word, cause
the disbandment of the Republican
party, what wonld be gained by it?
What would follow? Suppose their
object to be the formation of a Prohi-
bition party to take control of the Gov
ernment, how would that be promoted
by disbanding the Republican party in
consequence ofits recent repulse? Wo'd
the Prohibition party draw from the
Democratic party? Nobody is so wild
as to eXyect this. Then all it would
have to draw its materials from would
be the Republican party. Even if these
politicians could reckon on all the Re-
publican elements, how can they make
a atriumphant party out of the material
OF that which they say should disband
because it has been beaten?
But suppose that they could draw on
ly a minority of the disbanded Repub-
lican elements to their party, then
what would be the gain? An insight
ficant Prohibition party, and an over
whelming Democratic party? Does
this look like wisdom? 1t is true, some
of them take in the Cheap-JolIn style
of adding other inducements to the Of
fered bargain, by declaring that the
Prohibition party shall be a party of
political purity. But how can q cor
rupt tree bring forth good fruit; or
pure stream come FROM corrupt foun-
tain? If their new party is to be form
ed out of the elements of the party
they choose for this occasion to call cor
rupt, how can it be any purer than the
other? They must fancy that their
own leadership will regenerate these
corrupt elemenst. But, in general, the
purer professions of those who seek
party leadership are not received as
sterling coin.
To the eye of common sense, the re-
suit of the recent elections has extin-
guished the projects for party dissolu-
tions and reconstructions, and the
third party diversions: Many have
long been declaring that the Democrat
ic party must .die before an opposition
party could be formed to cope with the
Republican. We shall hear this no
more. The Democratic party, which
kept its organization and discipline
through all its igno.niny and defeat in
elpast fourteen years, will not be like
ly to disband, nor to lose any numbers
by third parties, after its recent sue
cesses, which have given it hopes of
gaining the ascendancy in the nation.
And, as the Republican party now con-
tains all the elements that can be gath
cred to resist the Democratic party, it
is not likely that it will disband and
discard its proud record for the chan
ces of reconstruction upon single, mar
row issue; nor that, in the face of so Sc
rious contest, it will split itself into
fragments in order to indulge in the
diversion of single ideas or side issues.
The next battle for the control of the
Government is to be fought between the
Republican and the Democratic parties.
We cannot believe that, when this is
sue shall be sqnarely Joined, the Amer
lean people, with the recollection of all
that the Democratic party has brought
upon the country fresh in their minds,
will consent to place its destinies in
the hands of that party.-Cin. Gazette.