The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-11-14
WHO WILL BE THE DEMO CRATIC STAN
pARD BEARER IN EIGHTYf


question is very pertinent. AT the
beginning of the extra session of the
last Congress, the Democrats obtain
ed control of the Senate in addition
to the House, and had they been ac-
tuated by motives of patriotism and
their new lease of power used with
moderation, it is quite likely that in
1880 they might have. by an indul-
gent people, been let into full con
troll Of the government. But when
they, flushed with their recent sue
cess at the polls, and eager seemingly
to manifest to the nation that they
were entitled to. respect and esteem,
and that they were worthy the high
stations of trust to which they had
l,een elected, lost control Of their
senses and threatened to starve the
government to death-that they had
sworn to foster and protect, they
made grand blunder, which not
only the present generation, but the
future historian will hold them re
sponsible for and will demand an
entirely different and better explana-
tion than they yet have been able
to give.
Once the old Democratic party
bad principles and honor, but alas
how are the mighty fallen. For two
or three years the Democracy have
been cudling with the greenbackers,
hoping tocoser some of their hide
Gus mass fl fiom the public by wearing
their mantle. But, like the animal
that undertook to cover himself with
lions skin, and terrify the natives
of his favorite haunts thereby, have
suddenly been brought to grief Cal
ifornia, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa,
Wisconsin,, Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio,
Pennsylvania. New Jersey, New
York, Connecticut, Massachusetts,
and Maine, have all set down pretty
soliday upon fat money and its at
tendant heresies. And as one of the
consequences, the life of several
prominent Democrats has just been
squeezed out of them and the Demo
cratic party has suffered terrible
collapse.
Thomas A. Hendricks, Vice Presi-
dent, as he calls himself, was very
sbaky upon the money question, in '76
and is still much thu same in that res
pect. Nearly all the Democrats
whose names have been mentioned
in connection with the Presidency
in 1880, have been on all sides of the
financial issues. Ewing indorsed the
greenback fallacies and talked them
to the people of Ohio, and was buried
out of sight by the intelligent voters
of that State early in October-that
puts him out Of the way.
Mr.. Thurman is laid up for repairs
and needed rest, as he says, by the
same State that bereft Ewing of the
gubernatorial chair. H. the last Con
gress he became the special champion
of the Southern brigadiers in the
Senate, thinking, no doubt, that he
would make himself ageeabIe to the
South and get their support in the
National Convention in 80. He not
only became the leader Of rebels
ready and threatning to starve the
government to death, but also laid
aside his fe-long convictions on the
mony questions; and, for a stiff old
bourbon Democrat, he became rant
ing fatist. His own State has pun
ished him for his heresies, and elected
a legislature that will, in the coming
session, elect strong Republican,
with fixed. views on the cur ency
question; one who will sustain the
Republican party in its theory of
finances. When one of the intelli-
gence and responsibility of Senator.
Thurman stoops to give the lie to a
lifelong conviction, for the sake of
making himself the one man that
would be selected, by his party, as
Presidential candidate, it is indeed
pitiable.
Tammany headed by John Kelly,
and the hero of cypher alley are
at outs, and have been tearing each
other fearfnlly- during the late can
xass in the Empire State. Tamma-
ny has become weary of the dicta-
tion of Uncle Sammy, and is trying
to rid their party of his influence,
which, perhaps, they have not sue
ceeded in doing to the extent that
will place Tilden out of the list of
Presidential aspirants Yet his days
are numbered and influence material
" crippled. So much so that several
barrels will be necessarily placed in
sach position that large drafts can
be made upon them, without his
knowledge or consent, of course, in