The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1877-03-20
F.r.s C,... es,sa.ry notice.

The Chicago Times-which vigorous
" supported Tilden and Hendricks
through the Presidential campaign. and
which has since then been among the
most violent advocates OF the incen-
diary policy. has now given Up the
fight. IL declares the Democratic par
ty dead, aud pronounces the following
funeral Grafton over it's remains:
THAT heterogeneous combination OF
miscellaneous and peculiar office-hunt-
ers called the resurrected Democracy
has gone all to pieces again. In fact
never, since il was called up from the
political graveyard by the scheme to
make Sam Tilden the national spoils
dispensator. has it ever been anything
but an incoherent accumulation of dis
jointed fragment-a collection of polit-
ical dry bones OF all extinct party ami
mails, out Of which complete skeleton
of any kind could not be patched up.
Though assuming TO have a majority
OF nearly two-thirds in the national as
sembly, that majority was made up of
all the political odds and ends of earth.
Bourbons, Liberals, soreheads, grang-
ers, protectionists, free-traders, bull
lionists, rag-lunatics, Calhounists, ma
tionalists, men of every sort and shade
Of political opinion, holding utterly ir-
recopcilable views, and agreeing upon
nothing but the appetite for spoils,
composed the absurd combination OF
old graveyard politicians that attempt
cd TO impose themselves upon the
country as the Democratic party come
back from the other side of Stygian
river, with all the sins done in the lite
time, burnt and purged away, bearing
q new life, possessing reformed char
acter, and having a new claim Careful
ly concealed) to popular trust and con-
fdence.
Setting up enormous pretensions TO
superior political virtue. this combina-
tion of inconsistent political humbugs
proceeded systematically in an attempt
to bamboozle the country into the no.
tion that they were come TO rescue the
nation from the vast army of official
thieves that were devouring it. Thew
held a convention at st. Louis, yelled
Reform is ecessary'-selected a slip
perry New York politician to represent
one kind of principles and facing all
ways Indiana demagogue to represent
several other kinds Of principles-tied
two spawned political horses together
by the tails, and set them cantering in
opposite directions for the spoils.
"The resurrected Democratic party
humbug has gone all TO pieces for the
simple reason that there was nothing
to hold the ill-matched parts together.
There was no bond Of political cohe-
sion; no common political purpose.
There was only n common desire to
turn out the vast army of Office holders
and put new army in its place. That
was in reality the only purpose upon
which the Tilden managers were unit
ed. They were not agreed and never
would have agreed upon any pro-
gramme of governmental reform. The
cry of reform was q mere blind. The
spoils constituted the only object of
their combined effort. Sam Tilden
gone, the spoils were gone. No spoils
could be hoped for from Morton or
any other President ad interim. When,
therefore. Sam Tilden dropped out of
the possible result, the resurrected
fag-ends Of the putrid reminiscence fell
asunder. When the prospect OF OFF,
cial plunder disappeared with the last
hope OF Tilden's Inauguration. nothing
was left to hold the conflicting spoil
seekers together.
1.-The true course Of political wisdom
for the again shipwrecked spoils DEM
ocracy is, then, TO Immediately dis
band its organization, which no longer
exists as q means to any political end,
but only as instrumentallity of futile
and useless contest against the official
class for the possession Of the spoils.