National Republican., 1878-01-04
The Alleged Democratic Pro.
Erllhlne.

Some papers have way of setting up n
favOrite theory, and then insisting that it
will have practical application. Thus our
neighbor the Poa, had an article the other
day, which il printed with double-leaded
emphasis, relative to the course Of Demo-
cratic Senators in the future in relation to
the Presidential nominations for office. In
our humble Judgment the wish was father
to the thought, for at the time the article
was published there were not half a dozen
Democrats in the city with whom the Post
could consult, and there certainly was not
one who had acted with Senator CoNKLING
in rejecting the New York nominations
But no one can read the alleged Democratic
programme without conviction that it is
urged, not as a matter Of principle, but for
the purpose of revenging themselves upon
Senator CoNKLISG. We are told that of
the two Democrats who voted with Mr..
CONKLING recently, one is certain to vote
against him on the next trial, because he is o
Southern Senator and is constrained to alter
his course by the failure of CoNKLING to
carry out the understanding by which
his support was secured" This i'm
plies that there was bargain.
but what that bargain was the organ of the
Democracy fails to tell an anxious public.
For our part, we don't believe there was any
bargain or understanding about it, We
gave the Democrats who voted with Mr..
CONKLING credit for sincereity and honesty
of purpose. We supposed that they in
tended, rs Senator CoNKLING and the ma
jority of Republican Senators did, that the
President should understand that his pro-
fessions of civil-service reform were not to
be mere lip service, and that his removal of
good officers without cause was not to be
.tamely submitted to. The idea that Mr.
CoNKIIlSs made any bargain in the matter
is preposterous and the idea that any Dem
ocrat voted with him or retraned fIOm vOt-
ing for the purpose of advancing his inter
ests is none the less So We know of no
man now on the political stage whom the
Democrats would be less likely to aid by so
much as a feathers weight, or whom they
would more earnestly desire to see crushed
politically than Senator CoNKLING.
| lHOsc WHO want 10 DIlnS uDOUt u unlttu
Democracy might as well, therefore, state
at once that the object is to consolidate
the South. The people at the North
won't be deceived by any assertion
that it is to spite Senator CoSKLING and
his friends. If the Democrats are sincere
they. will vote again to reject improper
nominations. If they are mere tricksters
and trlmmcrs, they will vote with then
party no matter how wrong it may be.
The Democracy raise their voices in
shrieks of holy horror whenever anything
is said about united North, and in tn.
same breath tell us that the Democracy
cannot be disturbed in single Southern
State. In other words, solid South, with
every recollection of treason still hoverinl
, about it, is patriotism, while it is unconst
tutional and unpatriOtc to speak for Il mo
ment about u solid North. The course 0
the South has made the solid North a neces
sity. We showed the other day that il
reality the South was the Democratic party
and this accounts for the fact that ever
Democratic paper in the North, as well IA
every Northern Democrat, panders to tn
= Southern sentiment. With them the Sout
t is always right and their own section al
I ways wrong 1t must be SO in the natur