The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-11-24
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DkM0CHAllG AsCsNDANCf,
All The political signs point uner'
rlngly 70 democratic aseaHdanoy as one
Of The probabilities, nay certainlies, Of
The next few years, That Morton Is
dead aud Blaine is hop du combat Is q
strong circumstance In arriving at thi.
conclusion, no one one viii deny With.
out the bloody shirt prescription and
persecution, the radical party Is uolh-
ing Liberal republicanism, which pro,
poses to be fair to the south and which
proceeds on the theory that the war is
over aud reconstruction an accomplish.
ed fact, is too nearly pure democracy to
entitle it to win under separate ban.
ner Mr. Conklings fears of an ALI
ance in the senate strong enough 10
give the democracy the casting vote in
that body are well grounded. Not,
with the president republican, with 4
majority in the senate and the innu,
merable host that fills the Offices of the
government, is the republican, or ultra
wing Of that party strong enough to
contemplate the three years which lie
Immediately ahead with the least de-
gree of complacency 1t is
ominous that Pennsylvania has
broken the shackles which have
bound her to rndicaism for all these
disastrous years, in which her iorges,
furnaces and mills have stood idly rot
ting into dust A democratic victory
in Pennsylvania means something per,
manent aud lasting. Her plodding
methodical, phlegmatic people move
slowly, but surely; and no argument is
quite so potent with them as the mute
silence Of her manufactures, 10y which
50 many men live, or by whose inactivity
so many men starve or are converted
into phrenzied mob to waste and de-
stroy. The people Of Pennsylvania have
not forgotten that under the benignant
sway Of democracy want and starvation,
and men, women and children begging
for work was unknown There was an
old and true saying, "As goes PennSyl>
yBnia, so goes the union" As that state
went democratic at her last election,
Mr. Conkling plainly reads the hands
writing on the wall, and gathers no
crumb of comfort from any part of the
lesson he there learns
When Mr., Hayes turned his back
square!y upon the bloody shirt wing Of
his party, the death knell Of republi-
canism was sounded throughout the
land Thoughtful men of his own as
Of the democratic party, understood
that fact, and il was to that circunl-
stance, perhaps that the country acqui
esced in the frauds 10y which Mr.. Hayes
climbed to power. We are now told that
it is his purpose to unite all reasonable
elements OF republicanism to the re.
mains OF the old whig party, and thus
endeavor to meet the self ass erton OF
the advancing hosts Of the renewed
and redeemed democracy. If this
effort of Mr., Hayes shall succeed in
giving us again the honorable opposi,
ton Of the old line whig policies of tn,
past, and if it destroys and expunge.
from the politics of the nation that
sinister sectionalism which has been al
| the bottom of all our woes, he will
have accomplished a work which
will send his name down to
the future with a halo equal to any Of
his great predecessors We repeat that
in view of this policy, it is of little con'
sequence what name shall be given tc
the party which Mr.. Hayes proposes tc
| form, fesuscltate or resurrect, Let II
only prove firm and worthy to contend
with the democracy, one which seek,
the good OF all the country and people
without reference to politics or section
al lines and we will take care that the
prestige of the party under which the
government grew to its enormous pro-
portions, will not be lost, But that the
years which lie before us will bring
newer and fresher honors for the old
and we'll tried principles of democracy
we do not fear. So let Mr., Hayes 90 on
and Conkling croak and Blaine die
and the country will be safe in any
event.