The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-09-27

from others mainly in having eyes in the
back OF its head Unable to see any
thing in front of itself, going through
the world blindly, smashing itself
against all sorts of obstacles. denied
prescience OF the future or comprehen-
sion ct the present, the Democratic par
ty existed as an ill-tempered, unayailing.
stubborn and stupid protest against the
past. Often its criticism of bygone
events was sensible, often senseless: oc-
caslOnally 1t was right, but more often
wrong, IN regard to events of the pres
ent or future but it's principal and dis
tlngulshlng function in life was to find
fault because the doings of Yesterday
lad not been to its satisfaction. Chron-
ic opposition to everything new or use
full or PRACTICAL chronic unhappiness
about every step forward, and every eff
fort for the improvement of the country
or the race; these were the qualities
which made the Democratic party well
known as the brake on the car of human
progress. At present Democracy is
wretched because the Presidential cleo
ton was settled by legal and peaceful
means, and did not disgrace self-govern-
ment by anarchy or deluge the land with
bl0od.
According to Democratic platforms.
Mr.. Hayes was not elected, and his in
auguration was the monumental fraud
of the country, and every Democrat
ought to sit back on his launches and
howl about 1t for q century to come. On
the whole, the American people have
some practical common sense, and they
are not much inclined to waste time in
asking whether this howl is with or with
out reason. During the Presidential
election, the Democratic managers did
what they could, by fair means or foul,
to secure a majority of electoral votes,
and 1t is not now a matter of doubt that
they secured some by most brutal, cruel,
unlawful and revolutionary means. Yet
there was grave doubts as to the result.
Had the decision been left to the compe-
tent authority, no one believes that it
would have been favorable to Demo
cratic pretensions, and the Democrats
therefore demanded an extraordinary
and extra-constitutional tribunal for the
settlement of the disputed questions.
Some Republicans thought it wise to
humOr them; others objected that there
would be as loud and as long a howl
raised by Democrats if the disputed
questions should be settled by any trib-
unal conceivable as if those questions
should be settled by the Vice President
of the Senate The spirit of compro-
mise prevailed, however. The tribunal
demanded by the Democrats was Great
ed, and its decision is now undisputed
in law or in fact. But Democratic con-
ventions solemnly call upon Democratic
voters to lie back and howl because the
decision OF the tribunal Of their own
creating was not in their favor.
Meanwhile the Republican party is
paying attention, sometimes wisely and
sometimes unwjsely, to the living ques-
tions of the present and future. 1t is
not always wise, but it is never and no.
where so incomparably stupid, SO mex
pressibly idiotic, so phenomenally con-
temptible and ridiculous, as to carry it's
eyes in the back OF its head. It wastes
no breath in growing about past defeats;
It's DeTter elements waste none IN BOAST
ing about past victories Especially, it
is nowhere so absurd as to whine or howl
about the unsatisfactory decision of a
tribunal created at its own demand. The
Democratic party has monopoly of
that extreme stupidity, and it's place in
American history is fixed once more by
the contempt which practical men feel
for it's behavior, Business prays for re-
lief. Capital and labor struggle. JUS
tice joins issue, foot to foot, with repudi-
alton. The whole land cries for meas
ures Of practical benefit to trade and in
dustry. But the Democratic politician
sits himself down and howls because q
tribunal of his own creating did not de-
eide according to his wish.-NeaO York
Tribune.