The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-29
VOL. VII.
TIE MONEY LUNATTCS THE
WORST ENEMIES OF THE
SOUTH.

The west and South nave utterly re-
pudiated the platform of Tilden. Til
den himself Is memory of bygone
age. The Democratic party of the
West and South is not the party that
elected Tilden and was cheated by re-
turning boards. II has everywhere &C
cepted the creed defined for it by Geo.
II. Pendleton, Dan Voorhees, and Hen
ry Clay Dean in 1867. Potter and
Randall and Tilden are not of the
Democratic party of to-day. Unity OF
creed, If not unity of action, is impos-
sible, and the ascrption of Tilden's
opinions and policy, as defined at St.
Louis in 1876, to the party of the West
and South can only be accounted
for on the suppositiou that the
moderate Greenbackers would have a
pretext rather than reason for their
treason to party and to right. We &C
ceptedTilden to secure Eastern strength
when seeking to liberate Southern
States, but Hayes haYing done all we
sought at Tilden's hands, the party re
ours to its western platforms and
speeches of ten years ago, and Tllden
and the st. Louis hard-money platform
of 1876 are entombed and entirely for
gotten. The purpose they were used
to serve having been accomplished,
their mission is ended. Tilden died
the very day that Louisiana and South
Carolina inhaled afresh the air of per-
feet freedom. Lawyers are accustomed
TO say, rdtj0ae cesSdnte ceSSat ipsd ler-
the reason for the law ceasing to
operate the law itself is annulled.
The reason for Tilden's partisan and
political existence ended when Hayes
struck the shackles from these pinioned
States and 'Lord Gramercy" lives no
more. Democratic adhesion to Tilden or
his theories and policy can constitute no
reason, therefore, for the abandonment
of the Democratic party by any honest
Greenbscker. If, however, there be
those who were Erievously disappointed
when nominations were made and
honors and offices distributed by Demo-
cratic conventions, and these ambitious
gentlemen discover opportunities for
distinction in the new Organization un-
attainable in the old, we can hardly
blame them for using it. 1t is the first
occasion many great and good men of
fine parts have encountered, which
they may seize who would win noto-
riety, and if the people will run after
them, maltreated as they were by the
Democratic party, which did not COM
prehend their great worth and genius,
they may succeed in doing much harm
and no conceivable good. They may
so weaken the Democratic party, as
G ,vernor Davis anticipates, that he
may become potent in Texas, even as
Grant will be re-crowned in 1880 The
united West and South can alone give
the country conservative President.
Now that parties are disintegrated, he
will probably be chosen by the House
of Representatives, and if Tilden's
'bar'l do not control the result in
that body, and this Greenbackers' cru
sade under Brick Pomeroy defeat Dem
ocratic congressman by dividing the
party and setting up Republic
cans, these Greenbackers become
responsible for the reelection of Grant.
1t signifies nothing comparatively what
may be the result of local contests for
local offices, but if Greenbackers and
Nationals, allYing themselves with the
negroes, break the power of the Dem
ocratic party in Congress, the next
President will be Grant or Grants
appointee. 1t may be added that if
the Democratic party of the West and
South proffer satisfactory financial
platform to the people, and if the de-
feat of the Democracy can only be eff
feeted by this withdrawal of strength
by the new organization, it becomes
palpable that the widest, crsziest
"6at" money lunatic is the best friend
of 0rsnt and worst enemy of the
South.