Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-04-10
pEH0CRACY STRA7GHT.

The result In Connecticut has stiffened
M the backs of the Bourbon democrats
wonderfully. After their defeat in New
Hampshire they felt respondent and very
much inclined to again coddle the liberal
republicans. They sent Gordon and La
mar home to the sunny South, wishing
they had never come into New England
TO teach the yankees how to vote, and
nut Senator Eaton under bonds tol
keep his mouth closed about State Rights
until the campaign was over. Since the
election a change has come over them.
They begin to "put on airs" again, to
swagger smartly. and to make it under
stood that they are not going into any
more unholy alliances with liberals, but
will fight out the next campaign under a
straight democrat with a straight demo-
cratic platform under his feet. The way
their leaders feel may be understood by the
following which appeared In the editorial
columns of western paper. Says this
Bourbon editor: 1--WE want no more
Liberal campaigns. The democracy can
.'never win under any banner but his own,
land its prestige to-day entities it not
.only to public leadership but popular
..confidencc. The signs of the times are
favorable for and Enthusiastically point to
"a democratic restoration. and it is not
"wisdom to seek strange alliances, and
''split the growing power of the party by
1.-THE introduction Of questions that cannot
i; .sbut divide and destroy it. We want
..distinct line of policy. Democratic in
..tone and tendency. and if Charles Francis
adams and that class of men can find
..resting-place tor their political hopes
..within the pale Of a straight democratic
organization. we will gladly receive
s'them and award them such prominence
'.and recognition as may be possible. but
..no more entanglements."
This is Just what the democratic papers
in Maine are thinking. though they are
not 50 bold as their western associate.
They have stopped abusing Eaton for his
speech in the Senate in favor of State
Rights-every word Of which they en-
aorsed but condemned the utterance as in
discreet and again turned to praising
him. He has gone up greatly in their es-
timation within week, and SO has straight
democracy. The same cause however
that has drawn them towards the Bourbon
pedestal on which Mr.. Eaton stands has
made vast gulf between them and the
liberal republicans.
Fortunately for the latter they find all
things favorable for their return to the re-
publican party. The door Of reconcilia-
ton is wide open and they are invited to
walk in. On the issues which will enter
Into the campaign of 1876 there can be no
difference between those republicans who
voted for Greeley and those who voted for
Grant in 1872. The democrats are bound
TO have distinctive democratic platform,
and win fight it out on the line that such
men as Eaton, Cockrill. and Gordon Sc
lect. Whoever was a republican through
the war must spit upon such platform as
the BourDons will present unless he acts
contrary to his principles. His place is
with the straight republicans. Their prin-
ciples are his. The campaign ofls72 was
fought on personal and transient issues
which win not appear in 1876. The re-
forms which Mr.. Greeley championed
have been largely effected. There is alb
solutely nothing to divide parties now but
the great overshadowing question of Sc
curing permanently the fruits of the war.
We have good reason to believe that the
order to "get out" which is served by the
democratslupon the liberal republicans will
be obsyed by the latter with alacrity and
pleasure.