The New York herald., 1878-11-11

THE WOOL GATHERING PARTY.
A MURIATIc ACID EDITORIAL on THE DEMO
CRATIC ''REFogMERS.

A MURIATIc ACID EDITORIAL on THE DEMO
CRATIC ''REFoRMERs.
from the Chicago Times. Nov.7l
That which goes by the name of democratic party
may be hkened unto the individual that went out to
gather wool and came back shorn.
For every practical purpose party lin this coun-
try) consists in the party managers. i'll the who
seek the offices the party is organized to get who de-
clare the party purposes and give direction to tho
party activities Standing in the relation of nero-
cutor these the men who announce what .'the
party will do for the country if .the people, will
only put their trust in .it the managers and place
'it the managers) in power Tin the offices the
gers seek to hold.
Bourbons by nature, who never learn anything and
forget anything the managers of the old grave
yard party cannot forget that they. their
predecessors of the same party designation.
joyed the spoils of Office; cannot forget that their
guiding maxim was 'the spoil4 belongs to the vic-
tors; cannot forget that anything to get Office is
the rule by which the managers of that party
have always proceeded in pursuing their grand
party aim--the spoils. BY this rule they have
been acting ever since their expulsion from the
official flesh pots in 1860. In 1864. when tha
country weary OF war; and despondent over tho
proposition to compromise the national dignity and
honor by making peace with an enemy in arms.
They came back shorn. In 1868 they went out to
gather wool by the proposition to repudiate the
tional obligations contracted account Of the war.
then brought to successful issue. They back
shorn. In 1872 they went ont to gather wool thinly
disguised in DR.. Greeleys old papa government
coat. which, for quarter of a century they had
mathematical with furious vehemence. They came
back shorn In 1876 they went out to gather wool in
a reform craft, warranted to sail in two Opposite
directions at the same time, with the great cipher
reformer to steer toward honest and the ducef
demagogue of Hoosierdom to steer toward sham
money. They came back shorn. With all these les
of experience before them they still incap-
able of learning anything or forgetting anything.
Still they chung to the party rule anything to get
Office. Observing that some lunatics and idiots
making great outcry for the production of wealth
out of nothing by legislative enactment, and
fancying that the American people mostly
idiots. soon to become idiots, they went out to-
gather wool by the knavish cry for the perpetua-
ton and extension Of fagtious scheme of govern
ment swindling. Again they have come back shorn.
The result of the November ballot boxing has left
them scattered the wide field Of contest, from
ocean to hecceless scapess pitifu objects Of
the highest contempt honest feel for political
knavery and folly. They persisted in acting like men
combining the character Of knaves and fools. and
have in met the jrst reward that later.
| hnaves and fools must rrceive
Though that which goes by the name Of demo-
cratic party will continue to assert itself majority
In the national Congress opposed to the administra
ton, it is an opposition without vitality
mode of personal hostility to oficeholders whose
places its leaders seek to get As opposition to tho
ton proposing the silly and vilainous programme Of
fiat grecnback currency il s longer threatening
or formidable. As u sham money party the democrat
combination of Office seekers has reached the end of
its rope. Like the fraud" programme. the sham
money programme is played out. The party chiefs
that have been travelling that road in the hope that il
would bring them to the spoils compelled to
ceive that the country will not follow them in fat
direction.
What new course will they take? what new leaders
bring to the front to replace the fiat money hmbugs
what direction will 1.-The democracy" go out wool
gathering nextg