The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-03-25

which have degraded and imperiIed the
party have been vigorously discarded. -
That won't DO; the country can't be con-
WINGED that the describing of one set Of
Republican rogaas win bot be salloWed
BY the induction into their places Of anoth-
Or. The party is utterly corrupt, and must
be entirely and completely overthrown.
The vital point in tho Republican cam
paign and in the National Convention
will not be what is said, but what Is done.
Fine professions Of reform, with candidates
who are themselves constituent parts Of
the thing to BE- reformed, will not carry
the country. Would the Convention de-
clare for honesty, economy, and purity Of
administration, and then nominate Gen.
Babcoek, OF Gov. Shepherd, or General
Schenck, or Gen. Butler? Certainly not.
Yet the reasons which would forbid such
nominations are equally conclusive against
that Of any candidate who has been the
defender aud abettOr Of such Republicans,
and who is Of the same school Of political
morality This effectually excludes all
Republicans ofprominenee, for they have all
abetted and defended the lax morality Of
the Republican party, which has made its
very name reproach.l There is deep
and general dreadof Democratic success in
the election Of this year, well there may
be, for the Democratic party is terribly an
earnest in this campaign, and mean to
make such an effort to redeem the govern
ment from Republican corruption as ii
never made before but there is an
equal indignation with the corruption that
has been developed under Republican aus
pices. And that indignation will defeat
the party if the party cannot prove by il
nomination that those who have CONTROL
cd, controlno longer. [Itwillbe sheer folly
to attempt to convince anyone ofordinary sa-
gacity that the cunning and corrupt man
ayers in the Republican organization can
be thrust aside for others of better type.
The idea is too absurd to be entertained
by any but a visionary dreamer.1 If it
could be known that the influences which
have ruled were to continue to rule at the
White House, the Republican party would
be already defeated. I'VE make no doubt
that Il Is. The people have no faith that
the Republican party has virtue enough
left to inaugurate reform within itself;
it is utterly debauched and nothing but
its complete overthrow will satisfy them.
Safety lies in breaking with the recent past
basOlutely and utterly. Wehave been some
times classed with the grumblers. But is
it those Of US who have grumbled, who
have insisted that good policy--if no more
required the favoring Of men like X. H.
Dana, jr., aud Judge Taft, and not Of such
as Shepherd, who have harmed the party,
or those who have acquiesced in every
thing, and vehemently and vociferously
fiattered and defended every gross and
startling error Of the Administration ?
The issue in the election Of this year is
immense and vital. Let not New York
fatally mistake the situation. If her Re-
publican delegation goes to Cincinnati
pledged without discretion to the support
Of her brilliant Senator, Conkling, it will
60 pledged to the fortune of the cleyerest
and most unshrinking courtier of an Ad-
ministration under which the Republican
party has been well-nigh ruined.
The sentences in brackets are interpretations Of
our own.-Eda Adr.