, 1874-05-12
dALVAN1ZING THE DEMOCRACY

aocurity for tl.ho Of tho guarantee.
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aA1VAN1ZING THE pEEt00RAoY'
Thcra WAS notable gathering at tho Maul'a''
tan Club in Now York City last Thursday INC
war.horaos who lanvo boen forced for so 1aany
yoars to Gully snuff the battle afar OF Without
any hopo OF really fighting in 1t mot togotno''
It was mighty assembly Of tho oxtcs, with
fow men still holding ojllco sprinklod sparaoly IN
tito crowd. Gov. MoEnory, tTo Of tho bayards'
William Dcaoh Lawrouoe, ox-Congreahman |
Fitch, Of Nevada, A,1,asa j. PARKER, g. 8. Cox, |
Charles o'Conor, 1llohard sohol1, August BEL
ulont,-tleeo and othors were thero. Tho meet |
Ing ate, drank, and mado merry over tho y'o-
torioa In Ohio, Now Hampshire, Connecticut,
aud tho towns OF Nov York. It WIS
rather gcanty mental food. Hope which
differs from the Democracy IN that 1t springs |
eternal, painted the future In glowing colors.
1fr. 8chel's opening speech o1tlted In the co',n-
try's return to tito great Democratic principles
of government" aud predicted that thoBo prin-
clploa would DO recognized, at the next election,
by tho clolco Of " President Of vlrsuo and in
tolligenco." Amasa J. Parker said that tho party
res!ed on tho doctrine Of Free Trade aud on
sound currency aud reform. Senator Dayard
declared that tho Democracy believed In tho
limitations Of power which had been almost is
nored Of late. These statomonts formed the plat
form, 30 to speak, Of tho gathering.
Froo Trade, sound currency, reform, and the
limitation Of power, nil to bo represented by d
President Of virtue and intelligence, make up an
admirable confession OF faith. But ID this Do
mocraoy2 II, as Bo1no writer's say, tho osaonco
Of humor is tho iuxtaposition OF two very con-
trary things, Democracy md reform mako to-
gothor nrst-olass joke. As for Free Trade.
the past and tho present alike contradict tho
statement TINT this Ia q Democratic doctrine.
Tho party platform Of 1864 enumoratos the
''aims and obtectB Of the organization. Frco
Trade does not appear among them. Tho p'at-
form Of 1868 jugglos with words BY demanding
" 4 tariff for reyonue upon foreign imports, and
such equal taxation under the Internal Revenue
laws as will afford incidental protection to do
mostic manufactures, aud a8 will, without i'm
pairing tho rovouuo, impose the least burden
upon and best promote and encourage the great
industrial interests OF tie country" This Jau1s-
faced resolution was meant, md VILE UNDER
stood, az disguised bid for tho voto Of
ponnsylvnnia. Tho party did not dare to say
FREQ Trade or Protection. 1t was rewarded for
trying to sit on two stools by falling to the
ground. It has, as presont not man IN oithor
House of Congress- who ia known as Free-
Trade loador, except Mr. s. s. Cox. The party
has shown for s5Aae time over since November,
ts80 in fact, an ardent desire to limit tho power
Of tho dominant party. 1t has also passed some
good resolutions about limitations, but bus never
reduced them to practice. Porhaps 1t would
haye done 80 Il the people hnd trusted it enough
to give 1t the chauce. Il has always had thta
dotrpa, and carricd 1t to IN sxtreme between 1861
and 1866. The Democracy has over bowed be-
fore State Rights, but las boon quite unable to
SEQ that the National Government had auy rights
the States wero bound to respect.
Tho question Of sound currency remainB.
In 1864, tue Democratic platform has nothing
about it. In 1868, this party TINT prates about
,ts devotion to such currency declared that tha
obligations Of tho Government which were not
expressly guaranteed redemption in gold ought
not to ba redeemed in It, that The national hon<ls
ought to DO taxed, and that there should be one
currency for "she producer and the boaaho'd'
| o." meaning . bad currency for both. Theat
statements mean, III their order, Reputation o1
tho greenbanks, partial reputation of the bonds
| and further ropudiation of the latter BY payinf
tho interest On them in legaltendors. The grea
Democrat and the great greenbackor, Goorg'
II. pendloton, dictated them. This is th'
last authontio utterance Of tho purity OF
the currency question. In 1872, 1t had NJ
independent platform. It's lnto congressiona
record docs not auatain tho Manhattan Club say
| iugs, 1ta vote in Congress was about half-and
half. The record Of the Democratic proKs Il
tho only States which have been thoroughly can
yasaed (the ninc to which cur voto-crou1ar IN
scnt) does not sustain it. Up to this mornln
wo have heard from 22b Democratic newspapers
They stand as follows:
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