New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-26
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pations. If they desire a change of parties IN
power we may be sure that they have IN NINA
definite benefits which they think may thus
be secured. But what are those beneftsf
Are they financial or industrial2 Or do they
concern the purity of civil administration;
the treatment of the Southern States, the
treatment of the colored race, the freedom OF
elections "the subordination of the military
q" to the civil power" or the foreign policy of
the country2 1t is well, at the very threshold
of a campaign, to examine what antclpatlons
of benefit to result from change are in
dulged, and whether they are reasonable
Change of parties certainly would mean
change of financial policy There are some
persons who want changes as to money, some
as to modes of taxation, and some as to the
public debt. What benefits are promised or
anticipated As to money, the platform or
the Democratic party promises no change
whatever, but the past acts OF the party
promise a fatal one. As to taxation, the
platform of the party promises a. change
which would be most injurious; but the past
acts of the party promise do-nothlng policy,
with continued agitation and threatening. but
no change whatever.
If the country wants change of policy as to
money, none is publicly promised by the Dem
ocratic party. All that it dares to propose
"honest money, consisting of gold and silver
"and paper convertible into coin on demand"
the country now has, through Republican
measures and efforts whic1 Democrats have
stubborny resisted and loudly denounced On
the face of things 1t is plain that tho Demo
cratic party knows that the country does not
L. flat nd thnrl
fore does not dare to propose any, but pro-
fesses to abandon the hostility to Republican
measures and policies which has marked its
course hitherto. If there is to be any change,
if is to be obtained by stealth, trlckery and
fraud by getting power through false pre-
tenccs, and then using it contrary to pledges,
and contrary to the confessed desire of the
country to maintain the g honest money, con-
vertible into com on demand" which the
Republican party has secured for the public
good.
Yet il is certain that large majority of
| active Democrats desire that very change, and
hope to bring it about by the success of their
marty. For proof we have the votes of nine
tenths of the Democratic members of Con-
gress, at each session for several years. the
open alliance of the party with Greenback
men who have the manhood and honesty to
| declare that they mean to effect great changes,
and are utterly hostile to the hard-mOney
policy; the nomination, for most important
offices to be filled next Fall, of some Of the
widest and most extreme sOft-mOney men in
| the country. such as Landers, Democratic can
dldate for Governor of Indiana and the re-
heated declarations of the Democratic party
| To- tv nf States a chan a.
| in this direction is not desired by the Demo-
cratic party, then It is dishonest in its al
hances and nominations if it is desired, that
party is trying to effect it by dishonest means
and false pretences.
Those who want reversal of the Republi-
can policy. repeal of resumption. an over
throw of the National Banks, and an unlimited
or greatly increased issue of paper not 80 con
"yertible into coin on demand" or only into
depreciated silver, are nearly all in the Demo-
cratic party. They cast three-fourths of its
votes. They are working for the success of
the party, knowing that, when it has sue
ceeded, they can control it as they will, and
can thus bring about the radical soft-mOney
changes desired. The nO-change or hard
money platform is cheat. The party knew
that it could not get power by the votes OF
New-York, Connecticut or New-Jersey if its
| real purposes were known, and hence tried to
hide them.
The people are not in favor of this change,
as the Democrat know. For the country has
tried the Republican policy and now enjoys
its grand results. Business thrives in every
part of the country. More men are employed,
at comfortable wages, than ever before under
any administration more employers get taiI
return for their capital more investors than
ever before get satisfactory interest more
| merchants than ever before can look back to
good profits, and forward to a large and
healthy trade Now the people decidedly dc
not want to change from this most desirable
condition. which has come to them after years
of struggling. They differed very widely
"a To the wisdom of the measures
adopted by the Republicans, not because any
mart Of tie people did not desire prosperity
but because some believed that the measures
choserr would not secure that end. The Re-
publicans insisted that great prosperity would
at once result from resumption, and the END
moves that they were right. Bnt whether
the methods were the best or not, the major
ity of the people do not want To change now
that the desired end has been reached. Ii one
wanted TO migrate from Europe TO America
and. though not believer in the safety ant
excellence of certain line, had beer
obliged to take it, he would hardly be silly
enough 10 turn back, as soon as he hac
reached the American shore in safety. an,
cross the painless and perilous sea again, TO
the sole purpose of getting to America by
better line.
1t ia enough for practical men that they hav
got across in safety, aud are on the firm land
where they wished TO be. When the Demo
cratic party or the Greenback party insist