The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-10
THE political FUTURE.

We alluded, yesterday, to the situation
of parties and intimated that we should
further speak of the future as growing
out of that situation. We said that there
were few national questions on which po-
litcal parties were divided. We ought,
perhaps, to qualify this by saying, that
there are really no questions upon which
parties, as such, are fairly arrayed against
each other. II would be better to say that
there are few questions before the country
upon which, as such, parties can be arraycd
against each other.
The question of protection TO American
industry has been vital question in ma
tional politics When we had no great
national debt. which was taxing the inge-
nuity of statesmen to provide for and to
reduce, the question of a protective tariff
entered largely into national issues. But
with our large national debt, and the effort
among all parties to maintain, and more
than this, to build up our national credit
abroad. the tariff is not likely to become
mn absorbing national issue. We believe 10
will be conceded by all parties that "suili-
cient unto the day, is the evil thereof.
Hence, only the questions of the hour are
such as Will command the attention of the
people.
The second sessou OF the forty
third Congress will assemble in December
next. II i the last meeting of republic
can congress, which for so many years
through DAYS of darkness and doubt
through days of light and promise and hope,
has assembled at Washington. TO it the
people will look, earnestly, pleadingly,
hopefully, for such line Of republican
policy as shall lift from the party every
cloud which has obscurcd il, Have men
under the honored and almost sacred name
of republicans dis raced and DETAINED the
name they have borne, and through this
brought reproach upon the only govern
ment in the world where the people are the
absolute sovereigns, this republican con-
gress must meet the popular demand by
the purity OF the party. Men
are nothing in this great s-prnciples
are everything. 1t must convince the mas
ses of the people that whatever may have
been charged upon the republican party, it is
still the party "of the people and for the
people," 1t must disconnect itself from
the corruptions of the carpet bag" gov
ernments that have wrought ruin and des-
olation in the reconstructed states. While
it insists upon the full and complete guar
antees of all the amendments TO the con-
stitution, securing to the colored race their
inalienable right, it must see to it that the
rights of every citizen protected with
jealous care, which is the prerogativc of
every American citizen.
In brief, the closing acts of the forty
third Congress should be OF SO pure and
high character that when the people
recur to them, they shall say in all sincerity
and truthfulness-- This Congress and the
party it represents, is an exponent of true
and undefiled republicansm. The repub-
lican party in its purity and sim
pliciiy, has never appealed to the
American people for approval in vain,
and so when it shall have rid itself of
Its Carpenters, its Buffers, its Sanborns
and its Jaynes, and shall stand before the
American people demanding the approval
of the Wise and the good, we have faith
that its appeals will not be in vain. When,
therefore, the American people shall re-
ceive the last message of republican Con-
gress it is of the utmost Importance that
they shall be such as shall not only restore
the confidence of the republicans, but COM
mand the confidence of the people in their
honesty and sincerity.
We have now brought the republican
party down to that period in its political
history when, by the fiat of the American
people, party opposed to it shall have as
sumed the ascendency at our national capt.
tai. AT this point in the history of the OPP
position begins the responsibility of the
democratic party. What of its future? 1t
succeeds the. republican party to power in
the lower house of congress. Their chosen
speaker receives the honors and RESPONSE
bilties of the Hon. j. G. Blaine. Instead of
crticisers of an administration in power,
they suddenly assume the position of the
criticised. A presidential election is to &C.
cur before those who are thus called to
power and responsibility shall have surren-
dered their trusts to their constituents. In
deed, in the very act of surrender they
couple an appeal to the American people
for chief magistrate of the nation, who
shall, in Il greater or less degree, hold in
his hands the destinies of forty millions of
people. And thus it is that the present
political revolution is indssoubly connect
ed with the presidential election of 1876.
Shall the next congress place itself on such
ground as shall command the sanction and
approval of the people? If they do this,
they will secure such an endorsement as
will bring the promise of their ascendency
in the nation. If they fail to DO il, they
will meet with an ignominious defeat.
AT this distance from the campaign of
1876, we can hardly imagine greater or
more important issues than those of the
finances of the country and the status of
the negro in the reconstructed states. In
the ascendancy in the forly-fourth Congress
the democratic party must shape its policy
in view of presidential election. 1t must
say what it proposes to do on the subject
of the national banking system, it must
proclaim its convictions on the subject of
free trade, 1t must define its position ON the
subject of the expansion of the currency,
the national debt and Il return to specie
payment In short, it must lay down a
national platform on which it is prepared
TO go before the people for approval or re-
lection. In looking over the political field
to-day we can readily apprchend the diff
Guilty of reaching a harmonious conclusion