New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-07
TILE DEMOcRATIC RESOLHES.

THE DEMOCRATIC RESOLVES.
| What queer lot of people they are who get
| together in Democratic Conventions! And
what funny piece OF work they make of it
! when they come to do their resolving There's
no end to the ridiculous things they say, MOI
any limit to the high-nying polysylabes they
| take for it. The fooling they do with history,
and the havoc they make with facts are simply
/ bcwidcring. Sometimes they fasten one end
of the mother tongue on to the party, and start
off with resolution of such length that no one
| Convention could hold up the sag of it, and no
human being knows what it is all about; and
they seem to think they can pull the party ont
Of the mud in that way. 1t is like trying to
pull q load with an india-rubber rope. They
think they are making great Roadway when
| they are only stretching the rope and walking
away from the cart. Then, at other times, they
| appoint committees on resolutions, who, when
| their reports come in, seem to have put the
whole party vocabulary into pot and built
| fire under il, and, when it got piping hot, to
| have ladcd it out in buckets to scatter over the
| land II appears not to make much difference
what the resolutions say if they are only good
and long" and beaI down strong on the OppO-
sitIOn.
Take, for instance, the resolutions adopted
| on "Wednesday by the New Hampshire Demo
Gratis. Th cy are not long, to be sure, but they
| more than make mp in crOOkcdncss what they
| lack in length. They begin by affirming their
| devotion TO tho principles embodied in the
Constitution, and consistently maintained by
| " the Democratic party OF the UniOn,' when
| everybody knows that the party, or Il majority
! OF it-majOTity then and nOW-waS III OpOn arms
against these principles for ut least four years.
! Then they dcnOunCc the sO-calcd Republican
| marty, its doctrines It's methods aud its control
ling minds, ns the persistent enemy of our free
| Government just see how easily they forget
| Why, anybody could have told them that the
Republican party was organized III 1856 not to
oppose, but to sustain free government and free
institutions, while the most superficial eXamna-
ton of the record would have shown them that
in these twenty -four years it has pclslsLcntLy
opposed tho enemies of free government,
wherever found whether openly leading armies
for its destruction at the front, or cOyertly in
citing riots and instruction in the rear;
whether engaged in multiplying laws for the
protection OF citizens, or in breaking down the
National credit by schemes Of reputation
These resuivcrs rattle out their dCnunciatiOns
tory.
Then they especially drnoGnce that most in
| famous act Of uSurpatIOn whcr by the deter
"mncd will of the American people, cOnstitu-
tionally expressed at the polls, was most out
"ragcously dclicd aud the shameless creatures
Z" of conspiracy and fraud installed in place oil
" the lawfully chosen President and Nice-Presl-
q dent of the United States" To speak of the
two highest officials in the Government as
"sbamclcss creatures" is not unusual, to be
sure. They used worse language about Mr..
Lincoln. Great allowance is to be made for
habit. even for bad habit. But even q New
HAMPSHIRE Democrat ought to have found ont
by this time that what they call IN infamous
net of usurpatOn," was done with the sanction
of Democratic Congress and upon the judg-
mcnt of Il tribunal proposed by Democrats, and
composed of Judges of their own choosing.
They are mt liberty, of course to call their op-
moments Shameless creatures ON the whole,
that is mild language for thrm-but they really
ought not to go back on 4 tribunal OF their own
creation That shows CaTclessnCsS. They cX-
press prcat anxiety, too, about tho right of the
citizen to "cast his ballot unintlmidatcd by
" Federal bayOncts," and call upon their repre-
scntativcs in Congress to "perseyere i'll the
"maintcnancc Of that right" Bless their dear
hearts there has been no Infringement Of that
right since "Fedcral bayOnets" were used in
Buchanans time to force Democracy and
Slavery upon Kansas It's the shotgun and
revolver that they must be thinking Of-the
weapons with which the South is made solid for
the Democracy.
We fear our Democratic friends are getting
mixed in their facts, us well as loose in their
specch. They would do better not to trust
themselves on resolutions. They have pretty
nearly learned the lesson Of silence In Con-
gres5 their recent State conventions show that
they know enough to keep mum On the subject
OF Presidential candidates what they want to
learn now Is to get. along without resolutions.
Mr.. atom" Waller, the versatile and agile
chairman Of their Connecticut Convention,
sounded the safest keynote for them tho other
day when he said, "What do VIC want of resolu-
tons anyhow 7" and thereon moved and
seconded tho indefinite pOstponement of whole
batch of them, put tho motion, declared it car
red and adjourned the Convention before any
delegate could so much as say General Jack
SON" The party should say to.its conventions