The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-07-23

1t is all important that the Democrats
should control the next House OF Repre-
sentatives, and the loss OF one or two dele
gates from Virginia may possibly change
the political complexion OF that body. why
then risk the success of single candidate
by making the State-debt question an issue,
when Congress has nothing in the world to-
do with the subject? There is fact Of
great significance in the affairs OF this coun-
try that does not attract the universal at
tention that 1t should, and which demands
the serious consideration of the Democratic
party, while that organization in this State is
frittering away its time and strength in
the discussion OF irrelevant questions. 1t is
the demand Of capitalists and monopolIsts
for large standing army. OF the two great
political parties the Republican is outspoken
in favor Of such measure, while The De-
mocracy oppose it. In ten years OF profound
peace we have expended S532, 100000 in
maintaining a standing army, which has
done nothing but move swindled Indians
out OF the way Of railroads, and (acting I'M
der orders, to its credit be it said,) in prop
ping up carpet-baggers into offices to
which they had never been elected by the
people This has been its sole occupation.
Yet, If the Republicans were now IN
power in the House of Representatives,
we have their word for it, stereotyped
in the pages Of the Congressional ReCord,
that they would doubleday, quadruple-
this sum in proportionately increasing our
standing army. The truth is, this is one OF
the features OF the existing struggle be-
tween the advocates Of centralized gov
eminent on the one sidesand the friends OF
the system laid down in the old Constitution
ON the other. We are in transition state
between comparatively inexpensive over-
eipn State republic and that odious system
which in Europe keeps about one sew
enth OF the population in armed idle
ness to awe the remainder into toiling
for a handful of titled aristocrats. Our
capitalists spend a great deal Of vacation in
Europe, and they thus learn to despise the
homely maxims and republican principles
established by the American revolution.
They want the army increased; they want
the Government s. Strengthened; and the
Republican party would inffct on us an
immense army and its accompanying impe-
rialism. That party has been, and is now,
working our system into the whirlpool OF
monarchy. Let Grant be once again in
stalled in The Executive chair, and nothing
short OF revolution will ever get him out
OF it. The party which he represents wants
more force-not the force OF sheriff 8
posse-but that! OF file OF national
soldiers. Republican success for the
Forty-sixth Congress next fall means
u S. Grant and 900 drilled regulars in
1880. What then? He would take all else
that he might covet without asking
sspeaceably if possible, by force IL necessa-
y..n The;scenes thrice enacted in Louisiana
would be repeated in every State house in
the land, then in the halls Of Congress-, and
az stronger and more stable" government
would rise from the ruins OF the best polit-
ical system the world ever saw. Let all who
love peace, regulated by law, frown down
this attempt to imperii the success OF the
Conservative party by introducing irreie-
want issues, such as the State-debt question,
and thus making Republican imperialism
possible. Hanpden Monitor.