Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-04-08
The Point.

The article upon the democratic party
which appeared two weeks since in the
FREEMAN has Occasioned the hundred
ewes of our democratic neighbor to pro
trude in wonder. 1t is not strange thai
the argus or any other democratic sheet
should bristle with explanatory sentences
Mt sight of paper telling unwelcome
truths of its own party. 1t is not strange
that they should start when all the tradi-
tionarv usages learned in the 4" school ei
democracy are thus violated.
Our ncighbor is too kind when in clos
ing he offers to &" clasp hands across the
bloody chaSm." We have no desire to be in
the democratic fold, and what ails our own
party Is that it did mt sift the material that
came to it from the - old-time democratic
party" We do MT want to 90 and are
not Just now extending invitations to come.
The republican politicians are not of such
sanity character that we should not fear
the effect upon them of having more disin-
terested patriots from the democratic ranks
numbered with them.
The point which for the good of tile
country. now needs to be impressed on the
people i, that the corrupting tendencies ut
work in the republican party need to be
stopped and that Mt once. or the party will
90 where the democratic party has gone
into limbo-there to wander about in
the fog and talk of great principles that it
has not put in practice for years. 1t is in
danger of becoming 50 democratic that its
continual talk shall be cant; cant about
past greatness, and want of knowledge of
present death.
The existence of the Democratic organ
ization in the country. and its isolated
successes in these times e. purifying
corpse. it rises as it rots, y necessitates the
making of this fight for the publication of
politics inside the republican party. Our
most corrupt republican politicians know
that the people know the triumph of the
democratic party rs at present organized,
would be 4 change from bad to worse.
These politicians presume on this knOwl-
edge. and so the resolute old body of the
unlamented deceased cumberS the ground
As badly as it infests the air
The FREEMAN knows of many honest
men inside the democratic ranks whose
aid for honest q ,yernment would be great,
and it knows that these men represent
large masses in that party. In them it
has confidence. In the organized political
machine labeled Democracy" and in
what that machine grinds out in the way
of government, it has no reason to have
hope or faith. 1t has no fears that the
country will 90 into the hands of that or
ganization. In state here and there. re-
publicans, disguised with the bad doings
of certain leaders, vote the democratic
ticket as Il choice of evils and the result Is
taken by the original :" unterrified " rs a
sign ofreturning life. These spasms will
continue only so long as the republican
leaders fail to act up to their declared
principles.
At the same time it is certain that by a
persistent course of tisregarling the
wishes of the people on the part 81 repub-
lican leaders and by the acquiescence Of
the great body of honest men of the party
in their wrong doing for the sake Of har-
monv, such spasms will become chronic
and we shall really see the dead alive
Aswe said, we do not fear this result, for
we have faith that the people in the replb-
Iican party will take hold and purify the
Organizltion-make it such that it shall in
the future deserve success as it did in the
DAYS when it first won it. When the party
is put on this basis, Is we believe it can
and will be, by the square determination
of the rank and file that it shall be, it will
command as well as deserve success
Whether this shall be done or not is to be
seen. Shohll the worst come to worst
and the republican party come to be ma-
chinery owned by men like Butler who
received their principles and training in
the odd Democracy" principles and
training that they never have departed
from, any departure that may be made
will be away from and not toward the
party that lost III swift succession It's honor,
its honesty, and its loyalty-llhee things
no one of which it has ever visibly re-
gained.
CONNECTICUT ELECTIoN.-Mondlyt the
Democrats again carried Connecticut high
and dry. The detection of Jim Gallagher
I on Z I Al.
New Haven did not change the result.
The vote in all but seven towns is Charles
r. Ingersoll, democrat, 1886; Henry B.
Harrison, republican, 1929; Henry D.
Smith, prohibition. 4,564. The vote last
year was Ingersoll democrat, 4j,Oj9;
Haven, republican, 1925, and Smith pro
hibition, 2,541.
The legislature is thoroughly democratic
in both hOuSaS which will tri,-n +bat ,,a,t,, =,