The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-01-09
1t is true that a few Democratic name

1t is true that few Democratic papers
have expressed desire to have the Cam
eron dose repeated; and the only excuses
they offer are that Carpenter is a man of
wonderful talent, who pretends to be but
is not, in reality, Republican; and that
she will come around all right in time;'
and that it will be grand thing to have
the Democrats unite with a damnable
Republican faction at Milwaukee which,
like Carpenter, makes no effort to con
| ceal its contempt for everything that
savors of Democracy, and is at work early
and late to bolster up any and all kinds
| of Monopoly. The Democrat who is so
lost to self-respect as to toady to such a
crowd and such candidate has ceased
| to be a Democrat and belongs, body and
| s0ut, to the C0JTuptioniSts. -dppleton
| Crescent.
The coalition which some of the demo-
cratic papers of the state urge this year
is III no wise similar to the 'fusing'
through which Cameron was elected.
The mistake then made was in joining
disaffected republicans to elect man
whose partisanship is so intense that his
| mind is incapable of entertaining liber-
al view where. party is interested, and who
is not even recommended by ordinary
| ability. The man to be selected, is what
should receive attention. Carpenter has
brains and iberality. Cameron has
neither, and this is what.makes a very
decided difference in the two movements.
Carpenters ability and liberality can no
more be questioned than Cameron S
bigotry AMI mental inferiority.
And does the Crescent believe that it
is more discreditable for democrats to
support Carpenter who is a republican,
that it was for them to indorse green
back nominations, though the platforms
upon which those candidates stood reek-
Ell with foul abuse of the democratic
party? That was humiliation which
every respectable democrat felt and the
Crescent failed to raise It's voice in
denunciation of the submissive posture
which the democratic party assumed.
Verify it appears that the Crescent can
swallow camel and strain at gnat. If
there was not an abandonment of self
respect III not only humbly submitting to
the castigation by arrogant greenbackerg
but in servilely aiding them to elect their
candidates, while in exchange they heaped
upon us every indignity, then are we
ignornant Of the meaning of .'self re-
spect.
The deed which covers the republican
p Tty with infamy aud which will for
ever preclude any possibility of honest
democrats acting with them even in op-
position to the greenback lunacy, Car
peuter disapproved of. His skirts are
clear of that outrageous proceeding. Not
so with Howe who is one of his most
prominent opponents. Not so with Reyes
who represents everything extreme in
the republican party. Which is least in
keeping with democratic procedure, to
aid in electing Reyes or to aid in e!ecting
Carpenter? Carpenter is able, Keyes is
cunning. Carpenter is liberal, Reyes is
bigoted. Carpenter would represent the /
state, Reyes would represent the reeUbli- !
can party. Reyes is aided by democrats !
refusing to support Carpenter. Carpen-
tee is eided by receiving democratic |
votes. That is the situation. 1t is for |
democrats 10 choose between them.