New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-22

utterly blinded to facts by the merest
vagary of party superstition. Aside from
merely personal suits, the outcome of the
contest in Ohio is the blighting Of the resur-
rectionsry Democracy. 1t has stripped
whatever exists under that name of all the
make available, of the anti Grant victories
OF 1874. Though most of those victories
we're gained by political combinations Of
other names, in which Democrats" took,
or pretended to take, back seats, they were
claimed by the lingering priests of that
tradition, not merely as expressions of
popular dissatisfaction with the Grant ring
lar reaction in favor of the resurrection of
political party which for fifteen years the
country had repudiated. Upon this claim
they proceeded to build very beautiful cas-
ties in the air for the future habitation of
the resurrected Democracy. The castles
had a substantial look. and their airy
foundations were partly replaced by some
by the gains to the Democratic party name,
last spring, in Maine and California. The
grand hopes of the builders were in
tiated accordingly. But all this brilliant
vision of the political future has
ueen suddenly dissipated by the contest
IN Ohio 1t has divided the air-castle
..sainst itself. 1t has separated the builders
camps, between which no political harmony
is again possible. On the other hand, it has
practically united the opponents of the old
pro slavery party, and given them once
more political reason for exis tence. 1t
has raised up, as it were out of the ground,
thoroughly organized and united, fully
armed ana equipped hard money resump-
tiOn party, with which no small number of
heretofore so-called Democrats" are found
not merely in close sympathy but in open
and active cooperation. And this hard
money party, fighting under the Republican
name, has suddenly snatched from the
hands OF the exhumed Democracy the ban
ner of victory on which all their new born
hopes depended. Instead of the "tdal
wave" OF popular dissatisfaction with
Grantism construed by them as meaning
popular reaction in favor of the long repu-
dated Democratic party, upon which they
set out with grand expectations, they find
themselves cast in the breakers and broken
to pieces by counter current on which the
opposite party ship is sailing into the port
they had hoped to reach.
"Chere is but one way to retrieve these
misfOrtunes," says an Eastern journal, with
characteristic Ignorance of the temper af
the Western people who have inaugurated
the war for the rag delusiOn. There is no
salvation for the Democratic party but by
making administrative reform the para.
mount issue, aud reuniting the party in q
strenuous opposition to the abuses which
have prevailed in Mr.. Grants administra-
ton" This probably expresses the average
idea of the Eastern doctors of the very sick
old septuagenarian Democracy.
But unfortunately for such scheme
the professional Democratic party doctors
have not the making of the paramount
ISSUE" The paramount issue is already
made. 1t is made by the popular cry
oh ut ha Wao& rbn,, th ~
and throughout the Genre and East. too,
for more greenbacks. It is made by the
demand of the Democratic party in Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin,
Missouri the whole South aud large sec
tion of the East that greenback legal ten
der shall become the established system of
this nation. 1t ia made by the ablest and
most influential leaders of the people to be
found outside of the Republican party
such men as Wendell Phillips, Judge Kel.
ley, B. +. Butler, and the chief Pennsylva-
| mia Democrats at the East; such men as
Pendleton, Tom Ewing, William Allen,
Wash Mclean. in Ohio; such men as Dan
Voorhees,, Holman, Hendricks, Beck, Dick
Oglesby. Anderson, Richardson, and almost
all the Democratic party chieftains in the
West and Northwest. 1t is made by forty
millions of American people who are agi-
tated upon this question, and are not
agitated upon any other question; who
are discussing this question and are
| not discussing nor desiring to discuss any
| other question; who are taking political
sides on this question, and are not taking
political sides on any other; who have an
intense realization Of personal interes, in
this question, and have no realization at all
of q personal interest in any other. Deplore
this issue as the old professional trunoheon.
tiOurishers may, it is an issue made by the
people which they can not unmake nor
make over. Saws the leading greenback
organ in Ohio: "rhe people who have en-
war" Again: ''Tne men in New York
calling themselves Democrats have dug q
pit between them and the Democracy Vi
this portion of the cOuntry--a pit a. wide
and impossible as that which separates
Dives from Lazarus. They have
set up golden calf to be worshiped by the
people whom they have robbed and are now
robbing. Since they have drawn
the sword, we have thrown away the scap-
bard.'
these furious words convey a fair ex-
preston OF the temper of the Western
greenbaek Democracy, which the bullion
Democrats OF New York SO stupidity persis
in Misunderstanding. In the presence of a
paramount issue so made already-nay In
the midst of a political combat now raging
upon that issue-to propose change of the
issue is simply to propose surrender OF the
contest. When two armies are engaged in
battle, the General who expects to win does
not propose to abandon the ground of con-
fict and take up new ground. The
chances are ninety nine to one that any at
tempt to do 80 will make his enemy COM
pete master of the field. In political, no
less than in military ontests such action is
the same thing as a defeat.
There is no possible salvation for the
resurrected party in any attempt to evade
the paramount issue upon Which the con-
test is already made. There is no power
in its chieftains to put away this issue and
max. new ons. lhe contest must and
will be fought out on this line. And as the
resurrected party is, on this line, a house
hopelessly divided against itself, it Is mani
fest that for it and its house there is no
hope.-Chicago Times.