Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-24
Ea1lcaster f..teihsemcer.
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPT. "a. 1880.
The Renublican Idea.

The Republican Idea.
The idea upon which the Republican
orators base their claim to continuance
in power is that the Democratic party
will be controlled by it's representatives
in the states lately in rebellion, and that
it will he their aim to ruin the country.
The second proposition is one that is
hard enough to prove, but when it is
combined with the first declaration the
whole statement becomes too foolish to
be patiently endured by sensible Repub-
licans who think for themselves and are
not willing that they shall be stultified
in their effort to continue their party
in power. The New York Eren-
ing Post is not willing that its party shall
be put in the position of claiming that
the South with one-seventh Of the popula-
tion of the country. will first control the
Democratic party, then through it OBJ
tain the necessary votes to control
the nation, and finally use the
power thus obtained to admins
ter the government in opposition
to the interests of a majority of the peo-
pie. The proposition thus plainly stated
carries its refutatiOn Oh its face. If
Hancock and English are elected it will
he by the majority of the people, and it
will be absolutely necessary for the Dem
Ocratic party SO to govern the country
Us to retain the approval of those who
have given it the power, which it will
not want to resign. 1t will not certain
ly cater to the wishes of one-seventh of
the people 10 receive the condemnation
of the remainder and certainly secure its
downfall. Elections come too frequent
ly i'm this country to enable Il party to
he so unwise, and unless it designs to
abolish representative government ii will
be controlled in its conduct by its desire
to secure the approval Of at least q ma
jority of the people.
This seems to dispose entirely of the
Republican, claim to dread the control
of HancocE's administration by the solid
South even admitting that the representa-
tiveS of that section are SO unpatriOtic rs
to be unworthy to he trusted with power.
There is no doubt that the northern peo-
pie would he unwilling TO cOniidc the ad.
ministratiOn of the government to the
men of the South, and SO would those of
the East refuse to be governed by the
West and the West by the East. There
should be no sectional government in
this country: and this is one of the
strongest reasons why the Republican
party is not entitled to demand power.
1t is essentially sectional and admits
itself to le SO by admitting that
the solid South il with its oppo.
nents. by its own unfair govern.
ment it has alienated this whole Sec
tion. \ portion of the North has re-
vOlted against its policy and is allied with
the South in demanding Il government
which shall be in the interest of the
whole country. If this is to he i nation
of free and equal states there is no escap-
ing the conclusion that the government
must he administered for the good of all
and when We find one section that is
solid in its disapprOval Of its administra-
tion there can be no other conclusion
than that it is wrongly administered.
The only logical way in which the Re-
publican party can defend its record is
10y the claim that the interests OF the
states of the solid South are not entitled
to he considered and when il claims
this it must so farther and degrade them
from their position rs states and reduce
them to territories unfit for equal asso-
citation in the conduct of the nation.
The Democratic party is leavened by
the nearly solid South rs an element OF
it's strength, but it is not controlled by
it, unless the tail can control the body.
The great Middle States of the North
and West, will be in the body, if the
party succeeds in this election, and they
must be kept in it if the party would
succeed ut future elections. The
policy they dictate will be the
policy of the party, and the
fact that the South is solidly with
the party will diminish its influence in
stead of strengthening it in accordance
with the natural political law which
gives the uncertain voter Il COM
manding influence in the admins
tration of the state. SO that allowing
all that may he claimed for the unpatri-
Otic disposition of the South i: is evident
that it will he controlled by its allies in
the government, not only by reason of
their greater numerical strength, but by
the common interest of the party which
will force it to strive to increase its
strength in the North where only row it
has formidable opposition.
TIE splendid demonstration of the
Democracy in New York last night,
tells not only of united, harmonious
and aggressive Democracy in that city
and state, but it appeals to the pride of
the whole nation. That magnificent and
earnest display in the great commercial
metropolis of the country, is an all suf-
ficient answer to the desperate appeals
of COnkling and his stripe to the bust
ness interests of the country to support
sectional, strife seeking party. But if
any further assurance was needed that
no material interests would suffer from
Democratic success it could he amply
found in the speeches at New York last
evening of such men Us Belmont, Bayard
and Randall, who have always had the
warmest confidence of the commercial