National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-07-20

" DENTAL nomination in 1876. That dead
d" horse had better be carted of to the rem
" dering watts as soon as convenient Inc
" stencil would not be good for the health
" of the Democratic party" We alluded |
to this subject Saturday last, predicong tne
certainty of q split between the Democrate
leaders of the East and Of the West upon
the financial question. The result SHOWS
that we were not mistaken. The New
York Evening Post follows the leadership
of the World in q similar strain, fixing the
responsibility for the reputation planks not
upon ''rascally Ohio politician, but upon
the "taIl sycamore of the Wabash" MIR.
VOORHEES,, who, the telegraph informs us
is their real author. The Post Is very IN
dignant eff" it says, "there is repeated
" punishment in store for politicians VINO
4" betray their party and their country the
" turn of Mr.. VOORHEES, must come pretty
" often. for he has done worse than most
" other Democrats-he has turned his coat
" several times"
Asmere invectIvs this is all very well,
but after all, what Is the use Of blaming
Mr.. Hendricks, or Mr.. VOORHEES,, or any
BODY elsei Mr.. Hendricks Is q political
trimmer, and so is Mr.. VOORHEES,. They
are types Of men to be found in both par
ties, who always endeayor to be upon the
crest of the wave-upon what they suppose
to be the popular side of every question at
least so far as their own party is concerned
A year or more ago Mr.. Hendricks re-
solved that the Democratic party was dead.
Greeley, and Liberal Republicanism, and
an era of good feeling, and the clasping oil
hands across some imaginary bloody chasm
was all the fashion, and it really for time
seemed to the readers of the independent
press that new era was dawning-that we
were ringing out the old and ringing in the
= new. Mr.. Hendricks was sharp and shrewC
= enough to place himself in the front rank
to be a 'Ieader, " and so he made the speed
= which now returns to plague and poster him
Il for the delivery of which he is compelled
to make a stumbling, shifting explanation
II But Mr.. Hendricks was not so far astral
then, and he is not far astray now. 1t ha
e ALWAYS been his policy, and the policy
l. men like him, TO run with the hare an
II hold with the hounds. He is for repudla
&c ton in Indiana to-day because repudiatio
}, is popular with majority of his porty'
!, secession wss popular when the knights
e the Golden Circle attacked in the rear tn
is loyal troops they dared not face at the from,
e The Reputation of the Pendleton fnar
at cial heresies which Mr.. Hendricks and tn
y Democracy of Indiana has just Endorsed D
D. the Democratic organs of the East IS hop'
IL full sign of the times, q lesson to their Yves
D, ern brethren by which It is hoped they vi
le profit. The success of the Indiana Demo-
of racv would be one of the worst evils whic
could befal the country. If the Repubhca
party is to be defeated, let it be upon son
N other issue-upon some other questio
We which contains within it less of mischi
IS and of misfortune. Next to the Constit
IN ton the most sacred thing we have to pr
ID serve is our commercial honor as natio
n Next to the overthrow of.the one, the owe
l., throw of the other would be the create
OF calamity that could befal US. As the pc
rs. pl. have I'D to this time saved the one,
ey thers can be no doubt they will protect al
OK dcfenl the other. The Democrats of IND
Dr. ana have been bold and foolish and reckle
ar- enough to make the issue. We have
m fears as " how it will be met and q
DIS Ceated. @.