New-York tribune., 1879-10-14

Th..c alc some mcI wlo are dissatisfied
sth tlo Republican party. Ia f.c', chat pal,y
enjoys thc advantage tIat cons .det.h.r
number of 3D.. a.a,rents arc 1T all times dis
satisfied ~ith il, a4d keen To critic.se if .u1
swilt % oppose it if it does not suit taem.
Nor Is this new thing thonsh every uan
WHO Is suddenly seized with the idea tiiat Dee
must represent ,he wisdom and the purity of
the universe by scratching" is apt TO sup
ro.c that no one else ever had the same idea
before. The truth is that the Republican
party la, been in q state Of perpetual insHr-
r.c.!Ou for twenty ye-rs; as paItE, 10 Ha-
been al iusUIcclDn against slavery, South
om domination, Scecs 'on, 0li other ancient
Lcre-i,s. and 40 the some time II has con-
tuually had CD deal w.tA Instructions against
Itself among those Of It's own members VINO
want 10 hasten the march of events, and t0
Driug the millennium sooner than 1t D. Dos-i-
blc 10 bring il by the action Of the minority
o. free people. So tlc party las be-
come well used to load anG earn
Est protests from mcn who think Them
selves far in advance OF 1T. Their cries
are expected and disconcCIt no one. At this
time. perhaps, there are fewer Republican
insurgents than "a any previous time since The
val +; the party j, sinsuluiy united and rc-
solved. Gst there are some. Now ana then n
R.nubican .iscS NJ 10 declare that hc is not
content with the progress which the party as a
whole is naLng. and proposes 10 20 of by
himself on a moral scouting eXpelltion. \
few of hose Republicans can De found even
now, aLd for them a single question may be
of service.
What better thing can now be accomplished,
10y the free votes oi a majority OF the people,
than that winch the Republican party aims to
accomplish Let us not waste time III saving
that there are better things which Nigh, be
accomplished, if the people were willing. This
is not a Government of theorists. The plain,
practical. everyday citizen does the ruling
here. Men who do not like that soIi Of
Government, and who want to be ruled
by an aristOcrscy of intellect, or viz
tue OF temperance, OF patriotic dislntcr-
estcdne,s. or literary culture and classic
gracD. must 20 somewhere else. This countr.
is ruled by the plain and practical people who
constitute the majority, and 50 it viii be ruled
10 the end The question f0r men OF sense is
not what ought to be- done or, III some other
stage of existence, might be done, but what
now can be dOue.
1t i possible, of course. to vote for Demo
crauc candidates. That IL the only logical
expression of desire TO defeat the Repubh-
can party because II does not do well enough.
For the Republican or the Democratic candi-
date will succeed. and all the political side
shows. which threatened to amount to some
thing n year ago, have been thrust ont of
sight in the overwhelming interest of the
man question, whether the ruling force ia
this Republic for four years To come shall be
that force winch is mainly embodied in the
Republican party, or that which Is mainly
embodied in the Democratic party. The
man VINO does not consider & 1T the Rcpubl-
can force is. on the whole, the better,
The more Trustworthy. and the more entitled
to rule. ought to vote for Democratic candl-
dates directly, and to work for them with
might and main.
The Republican Adullamites do not wish
Democratic success. They only want to pun
ish the Republican party because it has not
conf0rmed to their wishes In trying to pun
ish it they consent 10 the success of Il party
which they consider infinitely worse. They
forget all the grand things that the Repubi-
can party has done for justice, for human
and for honest money, and consent to its
defeat as far az their individual votes go,
because il has not done more and better.
Since II has not done everything, they yirtu-