The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-23

Little Eugene Hale Of Maine has been
interviewed. He talks up like q man Of
great determination. as If it was the only
chance to preserve the party By assuming
bold front and speaking brave words.
But his utterauce lacks the vim which is
bsgOtteR of confidence, and incidentally his
talk betrays his fears. He admitted the
probability that Butler will carry the state
of Massachusetts,. Indirectly he makes
an appeal to the hard money democrats to
help his party. lie says the only way to
beat Butler is for them to vote the repub-
lican ticket; IN other words if there are
three candidates he admits the probability
of Buffers election. If the republicans
Of the Old Bay State are in earnest and
dread the election of Butler as they pro-
fess to do. add consider it would be such a
disaster, what is TO prevent their dropping
their own ticket and voting that Of the
democrats whom they are endeavoriug to
persuade TO come over to them. 1t is no
more Of an effort for republicans
to hold their organization in allegiance and
cowe to the democrats than it is for demo
Gratis TO 70 them. Massachusetts is not
the only state where such talk has been
INDUCED. Much nearer home we have
similar propositions. IF the democrats
want to defeat the republicans let them
vote the national ticket is the language Of
the smOoth-tongued demagogues who have
everything to gain and nothing to loose by
the snccess Of the third party movement.
II you want to put down the
nationals cant you see the only
way to DO it is to join the republicans aud
outvote the new party. 10 both cases
such language is the voice of fear. the ex-
preston of prospective defeat, No party
that feels assured Of victory, or has reason
able expectation of success, ever thus
humby beseeches its opponents to pool
issues. The simple purport of such a
plants this, let us join to kill off the third
party and then we'll settle affairs between
ourselves afterwards. The democratic
party proposes TO make no alliances with
either.
Over and over during the past twenty
years have democrats heard it formally
announced that the democratic party was
dead-have heard its doom pronounced be-
yoDd the hope of redemption, and yet it
still survives. 1t has lived to hear itself
appealed to by its old opponents to lend a
helping hand ere they die. 1t has lived
aid survived disasters and adversely such
as no other party in this or any country
ever encountered and lived. 1t rot only
lives, but it has vigor and vitality,
sturdy strength, the capacity Of exist
euce and the adaptability ofiuture growth,
it will outlive all present parties. The
very form Of government under which our
people live creates the necessity for, aud
gives lie, endurance, and perpetuity to the
democratic party. A deviation from the
line OF democracy is deviation from the
genius andspirit Of the fundamental consti-
futon OF the government, and any wide de-
par'ure from the teachings and the rrinci-
pies which have always been the fouuda.
lion aud the strength of the democratic
party would be destructive to the govern.
msnt itself. The democratic party i .
necessity to the country, aud It's mission
is to protect and preserve constitutional
liberty and insure the rights and well
being Of the people under representative
form of government The democratic
party has therefore no occasion to ally
itself with either this or that party-it is
distiDctively party unto and tor itsel.-
1t exists because its existence ID necessity,
because IN every form Of government in
which manhood suffrage is distinctive
characteristic the essential principles o.
democracy are the true safe guards Of the
peoples suffrage rights, and substantially
their only sure means of protection a0d
perpetuation, .ga H.4.a-