The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-08-20
DALLAS. TEX AS.
FRIDAY MORNING AUGUST 20.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY-IS 1T
WORTH PRESERyING7

question, ana unless our lchuers,
North and South, conduct them
selves with the utmost prudence
and discornmcnt, its disruption is
inevitable. In tho North and East,
except in Pennsylvania, tho party
favors hard money and an carly re-
turn to specie payments. The Dem
ocratic State Conventions Of Ohio
and Indiana have declared for india
ton, and tho payment ofthe bonded
indebtedness of the Government in
greonbacks; while in Minnesota and
Iowa the party is pledged TO the
principle OF contraction and specie
payments. Illinois and Missouri
have yet given no party expression
on tho subject. AS for the Southern
Democracy, without underestimate
ing tho Importance of the question,
they regard the defeat Of tho Re,
publican party in tho next Prcsi
Dental contest as OF such over
shadowing Importance that they
arc not willing to be drawn
into the discussion Of u subject
which in causing us TO lose sight of
the main issue, and may DO lead to
disastrous divisions. TO the North
ern people who have not felt tho
fall weight of the Republican heel
upon their necks, MS wc have, it
may we'll seem of loss Importance
what party elects tho President,
than whether we shall have infla-
ton or contraction gold coin or
groenbacks but tho Southern PEG
pho, very naturally, look upon it
differently The continuance of
Republican ascendcncy at Washing.
ton, to us, means tho continuance of
carpot.bag ascondency in several Of
tho Southern States, and theft and
robbery by Federal officials, in
them all. 1t means that tho Fcde.
raj patronage is to be used to keep
in Office in tho South tho most
gracelcss set Of scamps to be found
anywhere outside the walls of the
pcnitontiary. 1t means everything
that is dishonest, corrupt and vile,
in our domestic policy and every
thing that is pusilanimous in our
international relations. And moro
than all to us, it means tho perpot-
uation Of Republican rule and tho
steady march of contralism, which
it not arrested, must inevitably lead
to the establishment of consolida-
ted despotism, upon the ruins of the
democratic republic instituted by
our forofathors.
There is therefore, II forecasting
wisdom, in tho attitude of South.
crn press and people on this subject,
which our Democratic friends at the
North would do we'll to heed; for
important as the currency and fin
ancial questions undoubtedly are,
they sink into insignifcance in the
presence Of the question whether
we are to have II constitutional 70.
public or an autocratic dospotism.
We hold that that is tho issue in
the next Presidential contest.
10 descend from the abstract to
the concrete, we maintain that the
reelection Of Grant, or the election
of such man, as either Morton or
Conkling, would be infinitely moro
disastrous to tho country, and espe.
cially to the harrassed and impover.
ishcd South, than either imitation or
contraction, as judged by tho enc
mics, respectively, of these meas.
ures.
Entertaining those views it is
with pain that We 500 iL~stoted that
at che contemplated grand green.
back convention, to be held, next |
month in Chicago, it is expected
that Generals Ransom, Senator
from North Carolina, and Gordon,
Senator from Georgia, will BIO pres
ont and participate in tho proceed.
ings,
We trust this outgiving is With.
out authority from those gentle.
men, and that our speakers and
press will do nothing to widen tho
breach in tho party. 1t may be-
That both tho great political parties
OF tho country have run thoircourso
and outIivcd their day and genera.
ton, and that tho elements compos.
ing them are about to roarrange
themselves on now issues If this
DO 80, and thcro is much to indicate
that 1t may DO, nothing can stay tho
catastrophe In the general disln.