The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-03-22
~ DAs.D DAVIS 4 GOOD ENOUGH
DEMOCRAT?

|
The paducah Nc,rs has nothing to say
in contravcntion OF most of that which
is claimed for Judge Davis. but viii say
, that ii the Democratic party has no man
. lin all its rank, who can prove himself
equal to the emergency, it will &c well
for it to close up shop and sell out to
, some Of the tail ends.
We do not understand the Macs.
Docs that paper wish TO be understood
as saying. that no man in the ranks OF
the Democratic party who has nOtalWays
been in its ranks-that citizeas who, dur
lug the late war, acted with the RepuD.
lican party, but who now act with the
Democratic party, are not in the ranks oi
that party for any other purpose Lhan to
| vote its ticket and be denounced by ultra
| Democrats: If this i the meaning of
the Nc,cS, and the Democratic party SYM
pathizes with such sentiments, then we
may bid farewell to all hope of ever
making that party dominant again. II
is in the minority and can only
become the majority by winning re-
cruts from the pres ut dominant party.
This it cannot do If it publish 10 tho
world its determination TO taboo every
citizen coming into ii who has ever been
a member Of the Republican party.
| But. in saying this, we do not wish to
| imply that the party should run after and
insist upon putting into nomination tor an
Office every prominent citizen who de-
serts the Republicans. That would be
| policy as dcmoralizing to our party n the
| policy of partisan clOse-corporationism
advocated By the .Ns,rs j. short-sighted
and mean. our position is, that we
should nominate our strongest aud best
| men, and the question preceding Il nom
| nation should not be: What t0os he :?
| but, What j. he: No matter if once he
did act with our opponents, If now lac is
heart aud soul with Us in our battle against
Radicali,m, and is capable and honest, lie
must be equal with any other Democrat
in his claim. TO a nomination ut our
hands.
| Let Us try Judge Davis by this test
| Who IL hc ;
lie was the TREND OF Abraham Lincoln.
Where is the Democrat who holds up his
hands in horror at this piece OF iniorma
: ton: Let him who is mean enough to
2 do 50, go hang himself Tor fool by
+, President Lincoln he was made Mr.. Jus
/ ,ico DaNis ,r thn 'nit.I St,t,- u,,nr.u,.
: court. Where is the Democrat who
, shakes his head at this, and deprccating
I | ly talks about men in our own ranks anC
: the bad policy of taking enemies to ON
= | bosom: We assure that Democrat he il
l mistaken in this man, Davis. He was, i
e is true, appointed Judge by Republi
;, can President, but was 50 honest in hi
= high oaicc and so devoted to the faithful
C and regular administration Of the laws
g that amid all the clamors of the civil war
o he was bold enough 10 save Democrats
It papers from destruction and Democrats
l. nccks from ropes strung to gallows b,
J. military tribunals. During all the wa
l. he wa, true TO the gcntIor impulses OF hu
II man nature; deprecated the cry fo
= blood shrank back from the policy q
% tyranny in reconstruction held up tn
Il | hands of those who labored 10 restore Ia
u Union upon foundation of renewed fra
Z ternal feeling between the North an
W South; denounced corruption; and As TIA
y result of hi political convictions left Tia
W Republican party and took place anon
FL" the men who are the true Democrats
90 the timc--amoug those who, with wi.
w forcthough, restrain the impetuous AN
~ lndscrccL and, accepting accomplishc
facts, turn their backs upon the past an
their faces to the future, hopeful OF III
ii, | ,pgcdy daWnug o! the good time COMING
IT, But aside from the corrcclncs, of Ii
politics, what l. Judge Dayi,y one ,
" the most sagaciou, OF men. He is lcarnc
~ IN the volume OF human nature, a voluuI
III abstrusc and most difficult of mastery
u" lie knows man, aud cannot easily be Il,
y celvcd by men. In the high Office OF Ill
u President he would have about him n
We rascals ltmay be possible that it IS II,
| ppliNl ~ NlEN llilNs W vs. llalalllonl
- praise in behalf of Judge DAVIS, for this
u the time Of the supremacy of rascals ;bt
he We do urge il in the hope, ifnot belief, thu
n 1t will give no 0cnsc where olcnsc woul
ut do great harm 20 his chances OF prefer
III mcnt-among the leaders OF the Dem,
H. cratic party. lie is Il democrat in maj
M ner. not dcmagoguc, but man vii
he admlrcs the simplicties OF the iorme
he days OF the Republic, aud would carr
IL these with him into the White House
he should ever enter 1t as its master
WhoSoevcr comes into contact with hin
likes him-all except the raScals, AN
40 these dislike him because they know h
70 knows them by instinct. Respected b
,t all the elements in politics opposed t
ne Radlcallsm and admired by the people
IT, he would, as Il Democratic candidate, lea
Id INTO the Democratic party all the cl,
no mehis Of opposition 10 Hadicalism an
H. thus give To the Democracy brllian
10 victory.