The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1878-09-19
Bemocracy's Death warrant

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The election held on Monday IN
Maine is likely TO prove the death
knell OF the Democratic party. PO-
litIcal prophets had predicted the
polling Of fifteen or twenty thousand
votes by the National party, OF which
the greater portion was to come from
the Republican fold. The DemOc-
racy hoped to keep their ranks un'
broken, and to march TO victory over
both their antagonists. The result
shows quite differently. COnnor, the
Republican candidate for Governor,
will have, when all the returns are in,
between fifty.five and sixty thousand
votes the Greenbsck candidate
comes next, with about thirty-five
thousand aud the Democrat brings
up the rear with about twenty-eight
thousand.
There Is no use in trying TO disguise
the fact that there is q startling and
unexpected victory for the National
party. The Democracy, enfeebled
and demoraliZed by concession after
concession TO the doctrine Of the
Greenback element, have finally sur
tus II OAt Va Nlle NsOu6AED-
siOnal districts, they even abandoned
their own C Candidate, and voted almost
solIdly for Murch, an ignorant Com
munist, whom they have possibly
elected over Eugene Hale.
The effect of this stampede Is
already seen in other quarters. In
/ Boston, the Democrats are ready to
surrender TO Butler and to support
i - o. snafna.N - hi
q nomination of their own. The
same mixed feeling OF dependency,
and TecklCssness prevails in other
places. At our own doors All exam
pie was furnished on Tuesday, when
the Democrats in the LOrain District
formerly surrendered to q National
candidate for Congress.
The Democratic party Is going
| through the same process of disin-
| tegrAtiOD that befel the Wings be-
tween 1850 and 1860. 1t may keep
up q show of separate organization
for q time, but its end has come.
The men who run the National party
are masters OF the situation, as be-
tween themselves and the Democrats.
They hold the game in their own
hands. Theirs is the mountain to
which the Democratic MRhOmet
must come. They have seen Demo-
Gratis who ought to have stood fast by
the old time doctrines OF their party,
tamely surrendeTing one after the
other. First, the demagOgues OF the
party, pure and simple-the Ewlngs,
the BANDS, the VoOrheeses, the
Springers, and men OF like kidney
then the shivering Tilden, the polite
Hendricks. and-saddest fall Of all
Ohio's once honest, hArd.mOney
Thurman. The chivalrie Bsyard
stands holding alOft the old Demo-
cratic standard, inscribed with the
doctrines Of honest money and the
prohibition OF the Constitution against
the prosecution OF banking business
by the Government. But cOrpOraIs
guard rallies 10 his support.
Those who have deserted their old
principles have hoped TO win the
greenback element into the support
Of what they still term Dem Ocracy,
but they are themselves taken pris-
Oner. Thurman came to them, hold
ing alOft the rag baby, as the Duchess
de BerrI brought the infant Dauphin
to the French Deputies, only to hear
Iuc OuluOuS u " 1OO idLO
HencefOrth there will lie practically
but two parties In this Countrywide
Republican and the GreeAbackers.
The first will be purified from its
dross, and stand forth the defender OF
sound money and the National
credit the true friend OF labor, de-
manding that the money which pays
its wages shall be the best in the
world the upholder Of the COnstitu-
tion, as its provisions have been inter-
preted by the Wisest statesmen Of the
Republic during three generations.
Its faith is pure, its courage firm, Its
ultimate triumph as certain as any
thing not already passed into history.
On the other hand, there will be
the sO-called National party F; party
that pretends to pay debts without
means I; that would give the labofer q
promise to pay money which is never
meant to be paid tnat advocates 8
currency bRsed only on faith, and
subject to endless deterioration ; that
holds to q creed which ignores Ma
tional honor and sets the most perni'
cIOus example for the disregard OF
private obligations 8 party with
political theories sCbversive OF the
sOundest principles Of the character
of our existence as q nation.
Between these two parties the peO-
pie must make their choice. The
Democrat who reads and thinks-WhO
knows the principles upon which his
party has held together through sll its
past every man who knows that in
matters OF finance as Ia those OF the
physical creation, something cannot
be made out of nothing every man
who believes in honesty and common
sense in Government affairs as in
those of individuals, will find himself
irresistlbly ImpelIed to vote with the
Republican party. The final Issue OF
the contest Is not uncertain. To
doubt the triumph Of the party that
contends for National honor and hon.
est money is to believe that rascality
is superior to integrity,-tO deny that
just God governs the universe
Leader.