New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-11-18

bers are famed all business energy and enter
prise is quenched.
Now il is encouraging to observe the Dem
ocratc party manifesting any genuine concern
when q real or fancied peril threatens the
country's business. The loss or impairment OF
National credit has always been considered by
competent authorities the browning disaster,
the result and sum Of all disasters which can
bcfal a countIy's material interests, to say
nothing of it's moral interests. And yet the
Democratic party has engendered, absorbed
or allied itself with every agency which
threatened to stain our credit. IL the Demo-
cratic party had stayed away from the polls
last week how many votes would have been
cast into the ballOt-bOxes by men. or for men
who advocate the issue of more paper promises
to do duty as money; who favor an IRE
dccmab.e and fuctuating currency; who nave
some patent plan of getting rid OF debts with
out paying thcm7 There never has been III
the country any sentiment i'll favor OF naked
repudiation, OF of reputation III any OF It's
captiyating DISCUSSES, which was not gen
Grated within that party or dld not
receive the bulk of It's support from
that party. 1t is cheering auguly, then'
when this party. of winch 30 little could be
reasonably hoped, breaks out with zeal to
hover over ami protect from harm our bual-
ness interests.
l. is comforting also to observe that DEM
ocratic organs recognize the fact that cordial
and iraternal relations between the sections
are an essential condition of our material
prosperity, and that thcy urge this rs a rea-
son why the fires of sectional strife should
nnt l.a nm l.
rent to inquire how it happens that there are
any cmbers to fan. 1t was not the Nolth
nor the Republican party that kIndied the
original coufa-Tatiou. They ,troVe as BEST they
could to pat out the fire. IL seems that thcle
are smoudcliug cmh"rs left Where are they
and who are nursing them7 Certainly not the
North. It was warmth from another source which
lately slrramcd ont toward the teyer-smltten
cities on the Mississippi and the Calf. 1t ought
To he remembered, too, that the Government only
PROPOSES to exercise in all sections Che same
kind of authority. As to the single point OF
communicative Federal supervision OF cleo
tions-!hclc was more energy displayed last
week III Cincinnati, New-GOlk and Jersey
CITY than in all the Southern States
together. But Ncw-JcIscy and Ohio do
not complain that the embcrs are
famed and business is palsicd. Isn't 1t
possible. after all. that rifle clubs and tissue
paper ballots in South Carolina, brazen frand
in North Carolina, Louisiana and Florida,
fragrant Outrdges against popular suffrage,
defiant violations Of individual rights, and all
these boastIully made use OF to solid
ify the South into an aggressive attitude
toward the Nortli-iSnt it barely posi-
bic that this condition of things is rather
favorable than otherwise to keeping alive the
cmbers Il this is 50 it might be well for
Democratic organs to counsel the Democrats
of the SOUTH the only Democrats who consti-
tute a party with any organic life i'll IT, to
make one effort to behave themselves to
reasonable extent like law-abidmg citizens in
other States. 1t might happen then, that even
if an abandoned Administration should
actually endeavOr TO execute the laws OF the
country, the breeze thus raised would find no
embers to fan. Certain 1t is that if the en-
bers are once fairly cold we shall not be likely
to hear the astounding complaint that the
business interests of the country are imper-
rllled by the enforcement of law.