The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-09-26

movement outside of the gre nback cry, Il is
the demand that the powers Of the Govern
ment b, used for advancing the prosI eri'y
and happiness OF the whole community.
The National leaders ssk that the National
Government be made as efficacious in foster
| ing and directing Industry and com mere in
| time Of peace As IL Is powerful in directing
and marshalling the rational resources in
time of war.
II there is any scheme that an old line
| Democrat hates, it is thu. Propose any hing,
no matter how absurd, and he 81 li-t-n TO
you with respe, l. Bat barely him at the d..
STABILITY OF turning the National Govern
ment 10 some account in fostering indastr,
and commerce, and lie loses his temper and
| and often his manners. The aygrandiZe-
ment OF the Natl ma Government is the one
thing Il, hates and dispises. Mrs Trollop-,
In isJ', was astonished at the defeat of -
member of Congress for ad socatiny the i'm
provement by ,he Federal Government n
portion OF the Dismal swamp. she could not
understand Why all paIti-- In the v-ry dis
| trict Ia b. 'rneh ted sioGld unite in cou
demnirg what ,he thought .v-'y right
minds Il person should regard As prsisewor
thy in The hizn--t d-gn--.
/ u" iests apt n
purpos, in Capitalization The Democrat.
| bell, We, in al unlimited SCI Sc ia d-c-nirsll-
zation. How can they fuse: The southern
| Democracy is still under the old tr;.ditlons.
Randolph Tucker is just whs re he was before
the var. lie has not profited by intervening
experience. He WIS for States rights then,
/ and he Is for then Yet. Pe has large fol-
| lowing as we'll in the office.hoidlns as In the
office-giving class T. pe sure thero is a
large class of ''coufederat.s," /" In-n VIZ were
not partisans before the war, and who learned
durin the conflict that Central Government
did amount to a great Geal. and that it could
be made to do what the state governments
could not attempt Bat, though Tins Is he
1 young and aggres iv. element, and may lie
| trusted TO grow, yet IL must b. remembered
| that party dicipline is veI' stIict in the
| South. The old lie Id-rs affect 10 believe that
II there is any detection 10 the Nationals OF
/ independents, there sould b. a return TO
| mi Iitary interference and carpet-bagi IN.
| There is nothing in this, but Its reiteration
will have the efiec, of keeping the column
well closed up until after the coming election,
at least.
We have copied at considerable length
from the two journals above named, because
their opinions are less colored by partisan
bias than those of the other metropolitan
papers. The ReoI belongs to no party,
and treats all alike, while the Grophie is
the only one of the big dsilie. net too
strongly prejudiced agains. the Greenbaek-
ers TO DO them Justice. The Times says:
| II the Massachusetts Lemocrats take up
Butter and the platform that Is embodied In
him, what is 10 become OF Judge Abbott, Mr..
Sa!tonstaIl, and the rest Of the Branmins OF
the old party: II is not a question affecting
them alone as individuals, but il concerns
considerable following that believes as
they believe regarding the fatal folly
of the course. But what can they
do. They Will no longer be the
Democracy of Massachusetts,, and II they
set up their own platform and their own
nominees they will become the third party,
and an i'm potent one at that. Taey will not
bring back the wanderers, th"y will win no
Republicans, and at the p Ills their showing
Will be ridiculous. The only way left open
TO them il they wish 10 administer AN effect
i've rebuKe 10 the erring parry nd al the
same time stand by the financial principles
in which they :Iieve, is 10 vote with the
Republicans.
Whether the Democratic party swallows
the greenbscks. or the Greenbsck party swal
lows the Democracy, it is pretty evident
that hereafter there TO be but two strong
parties in Mass .chusetts, and that the fl
nancial question is to be the dividing line,
between them.