Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-29
POLITICAL POINTS.

POLITICAL POINTS.
Truth from YazoO- why the Demo
cratic Party Is Defeated DefraudIn,
the Governments, DC.
CAMPAIGN POINTS FROM TIE N. Y
TRIBUNE.
The Republican who isn't stalwar
may as well climb a tree till yea,
from next November. The procession
will 60 over him if he doesn't.
Hendricks thinks the Ohio result viii
have no effect upon Presidential candi
dates. AS he speaks for himself he i.
entirely right, for how could it affect
those already dead?
Gen. Garfield says the GreenbacB
party has passed away like the faint
recollection of dream. Rather like the
lingering perfume of an over-ripe egg.
The Democrats were eager to cap
peal" to the people for verdict on thei1
struggles for an untrammelled ballot-bo1
to stuff. Well, the verdict has begun tc
come in, and it's tenor is that the people
think ballot-box which allows a man
to vote only once is good enough fol
them.
The Democratic statesmen were sure
the "people were behind them" in
their extra session work. They were
right. The people took that position
with business purpose.
THE PROSPECT IN NEW YORK.
Senator Chandler has returned from
New York, and is iubilant concerning
the political outlook in that state. He
predicts that it will give $4,000 Repub-
ican majority, and is sure for 1880.
DEFEATED BECAUSE DIsLoYAL.
Says Speaker Randall, if he is cor
rectly reported: "The tide seems to be
running for the Republicans, andI don't
see how we are to check it." Mr.. Ran
dali ought to know, if anybody, for no
other man did more than he to give the
Democratic party it's present attitude,
half repudiating and half revolution.
airy. His was the hand which moved
the levers when Democrats in congress
committed themselves to a stubborn
fight with the executive on a question
which they protested to consider more
important than all others. But now he
will probably say, with the Washington
Post, cit is about time for the Demo-
cratic party to recognize the fact that
this is hard-money country" So it is,
but recognizing the fact will not help
the Democracy. On these two questions,
which are one at bottom, the Democratic
party has taken its position, and it can
not change now if it would. It cannot
undo all that its revolutionary adhe-
rents have done at the south, nor can it
blot from their minds all the teachings
of the last ten years on the money ques-
tion.-NeW York Tribune.
THE DEMOCRACY AND THE CURRENCY
QUESTION.
Mr.. Hayes has expressed the opinion
that the defeat of Tom Ewing in Ohio
will not take the currency question out
of politics. "There will always be an
element" he says, "that will want a
kind of money which is cheap to make
and easy to get. The Republican party
can not cater to that element, but the
Democratic party can and will. With
one million voters of that class in the
country, we may expect the Democrats
to continue their present policy of
attempting to win them by indorsing to
some extent their theories" There is
undoubtedly certain amount of truth
in this. The currency question is not
wholly out of politics, and will not be so
long as the government continues in the
business Of issuing legal tender
notes. A decision by the Supreme
Court in the Butler Chittenden case that
congress has no power under the consti-
tuition to issue legal tender notes would
do more than any other thing to take the
currency question out of politics and
keep it out. It is question, however,
whether the Democrats will hereafter
consider the Greenbackers worth win
ming. The Ohio experiment in its out
come is not calculated to encourage the
Democrats in the policy of catering to
the Greenbackers, nor is it calculated to
encourage the latter to keep up their
organization. Still it is not unlikely
that, Notwithstanding the drubbing adj
ministered to them in Ohio, the Demo.
Gratis will distinguish themselves when
Congress reassembles by making war on
the national banks and clamoring for
unlimited coinage of silver on private
account. Beyond that they will not be
apt to 60 in their efforts to win the
Greenbackers.-Chicago Times. s
A YAZoo INDEPENDENT DEMOCRAT TELLS
SOME PLAIN TRUTHS.
A letter has been received in Wash
ington written by Judge R. S. Hudson,
of Mississippi, who is represented as one
of the ablest and worthiest men in that
state. Judge Hudson's letter is in reply
to an invitation from committee OF
what is called "The Independent sso1
Pacific Democratic party of Yazoo
county," to become candidate for the
Legislature. Judge Hudson declines the
invitation in a letter which admits all
that Republicans charge as to the situa.
ton in Mississippi. Judge Hudson de.
plores the exodus, and draws strong
picture of the effect upon the south OF
the emigration Of its laborers. Tracing
the causes, Judge Hudson says: "When
is bulldozing and intimidation to end
When are we to have free, unawed,
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