The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-03-06
DEFEATED BUT NOT pIsMAYED.

AHSlo ID " Cluhh Ol bO'Culltu DbulO-
cratic papers which have been in the
habit, after every check or reverse of
the party since the war, Of crying out
for realignment, reorganization or re.
construction Of the party. The papers
and men who give utteranoe to the SEN
timent wofully mistake the tone and
temper Of the rank and file of the party.
While interested and selfish people,
falsely called leaders, undoubtedly do
hold the sentiment, but it is borne Of u
great fear for the safety Of the positions
they hold, yet the earnest and true
men, who hold to their old allegiance
from conviction, and who do not stand
ready to barter principle for place, are
as true TO the old traditions and doc
trines Of the party, as they ever were.
And further, defeat only serves to knit
them moro firmly together, to call forth
still greater devotion, and inspire still
more heroic action.
According to these time servers and
our Republican foes, the Democracy
ought TO have died and been decently
inferred years since, and yet last No
vember it polled nearly a half million
more votes than did the Republican
party with all the prestige Of its sixteen
years lease Of power and all the patron
age grasped by corrupt and ruthless
administration, and not only did it do
this, but decent people all over Christ
endom accord il the honest electoral
majority sufficient to seat its candidates.
Out Of this result il has been cheated
by the boldest conspiracy ever yet form
ed in the history of this nation
Not only should it fail to disintegrate,
but it should gather closer and closer
together, and grow and add to its
strength until it becomes force too
mighty for the puny schemers who have
tricked it out Of its recent glorious
triumph. They are no true patriots,
and have never been true Democrats,
who suggest or urge the propriety of a
new alignment because of the disastrous
ending of the gallant fight of last No,
vember.
Hayes will have no bed of roses to rest
his political carcass upon. At best he
has hostile majority in the lower
House. the House, which must pass
on the civil list of the American auto.
crat, and now his party, using him as a
figure'head, has eXosperated and out.
ragged this hostile majority, and we pre-
dict that he will gather more of trouble
than fame in the office to which he has
been advanced by j. Madison Wells
Wnat lrlghtiul retrogression this
advancement marks How would the
bare suggestion of its possibility have
impressed Washington, Jefferson the
Adams, jackson and others of the
earlier chief magistrates of the nation
The Suspicion Of faint" of which Pres
ident Grant spoke, will stick to Hayes
throughout, and will poison and embit
ter his every moment of official life and
will weaken and enervate his admins
tration at home and discredit it abroad
No, the roses will not cluster thickh
about his presidential pathway, and
humble and insignificant as we are, We
would not pay the same fearful price
for q similar distinction. No, the De
mocracy will not disintegratc, but such
success, achieved by such means, will
surely work the speedy disintegratior
of the Republican party.