The Russellville Democrat., 1875-07-08
"A DEMOCRATIC lNTEK-
 REGNUM."

q
 New York-the Herald-which, we believe, claims to be inde- pendent in politics as well as in everything else, recently gave an editorial wherein the policy "IIow to save the Republican party" was marked out. If the desire laying nearest the heart of the American people, and the great object of the campaign of 1876 was ccntercd upon an aim to save the republican party, then the suggestions of the Herald would be good and timely. But the signs of the times show in the clearest manner that there is a question of far greater import weighing upon the minds of the American people at this time. The question with the honest masses of the country now is, chow to save the country? and when the policy of any party con flicts with the plain and palpable requirements necessary to this end, that party may expect to find the people turning away from it and seeking a new or different party in whose hands to place the destiny of the country. It IS this that has brought about the revo- lution in public sentiment which now threatens, and will undoubt- edly consumate the threat, to place the administration of the government during the next four years in democratic hands.
 The Herald-notwithstanding its evident desire to place the re- publican party in an attitude where it can again command the confidence ot the people-sees that ''it begins to be generally suspected that in spite of demo cratic foolishness the country Is turning it's face toward that par ty and its back upon the republi- cans" And that, 'the shrewdest men in the republican party arc making up their minds to a dem ocratic interregnum; and a good many of them are not sorry" To remedy this detection and restore the republican party to the van tage ground from which it's blum ders-to put it mildly-haye driv- en it, the Herald suggests that if the leading republicans of the different States should meet to- gether and call to them the honest republicans of the south, and in an address to the people pledge themselves, on behalf of the repub- lican party, to repeal, at the ear Hest moment, the enforcement acts and put q stop to all federal interference in the local affairs of the Southern States, that they would by this means have rcmoy ed the only really formidable ob staclc to it's success in 1876.
 To accomplish what the Herald now suggests that the republican leaders repudiate, has been the work of that party since recon
 struction. This is all it has done This is it's work and it's record and it is now seen that it has been a curse to the country. A
 death bed repentance will hardly
 save the party. The old cry t'
 unload for the campaign" is ''to'
 thin" to be of any avail. Plat , form promises do not take wei
 with the people-thcy have learn
 ed by experience to distrust them : Whenever any party, while Il power, has conducted itself il l such a manner that it becomes ) necessary to unload" to enter new campaign, the people should ? not trust it with further lease O | power. This is the sad plight o :, the republican party at the pres 3 ent time. The country demand $ q change, and all parties can mali
 up their minds that we will hay
 it in 1876.
 Written for the DEMoCRAr.l
 - A Suggestion.