Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-05-21
z E DAILY SENTINEL.
THE CnN TEST IN 1850.
TUESDAY, MAY 81. 1878.


In the last Presidential election, the
Democracy carried the country by
a sweeping majority on the popular
vote. MIR. Tilden received a quarter of
n million more votes than Mr.. Hayes.
This, coupled with the frauds which
followed In the count, lead a good
many very able Democratic Journals
to conclude that victory in 1850 Is an
assured fact. 1t must be admitted
that with prudent management the
outlook of the Democracy IS 10y far the
best. But there are dangers TO be
apprehended and gu led against.
We agree with the New York Sun, that
If the combined ard powerful effort
which is being made to identify the
Democracy with the spirit of the re-
bellion shall prevail, it will prove a
mortal faint to the party. A ship.
wreck made memorable in story fur
pishes an apt precedent for this fatu-
Gus policy. The ship was going to
pieces, and all on board appropriated
whatever they could lay hands on
the a chair, another a table, a third
q plank-in hopes to float until they
should be picked up. There was one
fool among the passengers. He seized
upon the anchor, and coil;ng the rope
attached to it round his body, leaped
into the sea The FOOLS chance to
float was as good as that of the Demo-
cratic party with the rebellion tied
around its neck |!
There are a few former rebels in Con-
rress who, if they have ever heard the
war is over, seem to think he South
was the conqueror; and there's are a few
Northern doughfaces in Congress OF
such abject nature that they PROSTATE
themselves to the names of the de-
parted institution of slavery, and, re-
Numbering the despotic sway it once
held, conceive that its very ghost may
lift some one of their number, more
fortunate than the rest, into the White
House. Vain and fatal decisions!
1t is said the Democrats will start in
the contest in 1880 with all the old
slave States solid in their favor, and
that they are certain Of the compare
lively small additional number Of cleo
toral votes requisite to q majority.
That makes easy reckoning. 1t is a
simple sum. Anybody can do it.
There happens, however, to be an
other, just as easy and just as simple.
II all the old slave States can combine,
so can all the old free States. The
only thing needed for this is an occa-
sion, made plain to the comprehension
of the masses. Then there is this diff
ference: All the old slave States com
bined still require help to elect their
candidate; whereas the old free States
combined need no help, bat in them
selves constitute a majority, and can
elect their candidate without extrane-
ous aid.
The Democratic candidate in 1915
was fairly elected. So we maintain, on
tQ0 0Vlu6uC6, az oil oNcutSs SOitoih oiu
rebels in the Democratic party traded
off the election to the friends of Mr..
Hayes. They connived at the fraud by
which Hayes was counted in, and they
now conspire with their Northern
doughface Democratic allies to block
the way to an investigation which
would and expose the great
fraud. Do men who conduct them
selves in this way suppose that the
mass of the Northern Democracy are
so BASEL born, SO absolutely wanting in
self. respect, as to continue to act, to CO.
operate with them? What guarantee
can these t~reacherous men give that
they would not again sell out the party,
on the heels of a second victory? The
North-the old free States-will not
lose sight of the fact that the Demo
cratic candidate, who, after he had been
lawfully elected was sold out by
Southern rebels, was pledged against
the payment Of rebel war claims.
1t is all very we'll to talk sentiment
ally about burying the dead past; only
we want the rebellion buried at the
bottom; that is all.