Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-05-15
naiIp aennrbet Journal.
Augusta, Thursday Morn'g, May Is, 1879
What Next I?

nat Next!
What will the democrats do now that
they are beaten in their revolutionary at
tempt? They will back down. There is
nothing else that they can do. Some of
them are mad and crazy enough to adjourn
Congress and go home without making
appropriations for the government, but the
wise and sober heads of the party will OPP
pose such rash and perilous course as
that. The future contest over the appro-
priations will be almost entirely within the
lines of the democratic party, between
those who favor passing the appropriations
and those who oppose such a step. No
doubt the fight between the two factions
will be of very serious character, with
results reaching into the future. Bad
blood has been aroused. and elimination
and recrimination between the Bourbons
and Conservatives has commenced in ear
nest. 1t is their fight now The republi-
can party is solidly united. The Presi-
dent and his Cabinet and the republicans
in Congress are unit, and they are en-
Enthusiastically sustained by the whole re-
publican party of the country, which was
never more united. or more full of courage
and hopefulness, in its best days.
The condition of the democrats would
have been far better than il now is had
they gracefully surrendered at the first
veto. prompt yielding then would have
saved them loss of character. loss of good
temper, and better preserved the unity
of their party than it can now be done,
The republicans have gained two victories
instead of one the democrats have suf-
fered two defeats-the last the worse of
the two-whereas they ought to have been
content with one. If they have any dis
erection they ought to know by this time
that the proper thing for them to do is to
get out of this fight as quickly as possible
and start for home. TO meet their unhappy
constituents, many of whom have declar-
ed within short time that they have had
enough of Confederate leadership and
more. Democrats who went through the
first rebellion without leaving their party,
are profoundly disguised with this
attempt of the Confederate brigadiers to
starve the government into an endorse
ment of the principle for which they
fought it four years and got whipped, and
don't hesitate to say So
The revolutionists must surrender.
Soothing syrup cannot save them. They
have already made up their minds to do it.
But they want to pacify the red-hot fire
eaters as much as possible, save their par
ty from being shattered in pieces, and
steal away from the field of disaster as
quietly as they can. The Washington
correspondent OF the World says; while
1.-THE message has created good deal of
feeling, there is no doubt that wise coun-
''cils will in the end prevail. No caucus
''has been called and it is the present
''intention that none shall he called
Enough consultation has been held to
point out the course that ought to be
taken by the democrats. There is no
doubt that a number of both houses are
lin favor of adiourning without passing
1.-THE army appropriation bill, bat Il ma
'.jorty is against any such course This
is good democratic authority for the state
ment that the appropriations will be voted,
but it hardly needs democratic authority
to make that evident. There is no escape
from it,