The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-08
A NEW PARTY DEMANDED,

The political history of the United
States reveals the fact that the voters
of the south have seldom if ever al
lowed partizan bigotry or loyalty to
swerve them from principle. When
ever any national issue involved south.
ern interests, party was always sacri-
feed to those interests, while at the
north, party success, and the availa-
bility of candidates, were considera-
tions of the first importance. The
Hon. ID. w. Akin, of South Carolina
in recent letter to The Augusta,
GA Chronicle, states what is too
true when he says:
"Oncs upon a time the motto-yea. the
boast-of the Democracy was "Principia
non homines.' To day its motto is Homo.
Fifty years Of life
time on southern soil has infused into my
mind that there should be principle in pol
itics as we'll as in morals: Intimate asso.
citation throughout the north for the past
twelve years excites the fear that with the
people of that progressive country politics
is trade, votes are commodities, and the
largest amount of most wisely expended
filthy lucre' will always secure victoey."
Truer words were never spoken. As
hostile as are nine tenths of the Re-
publican ,vcters, and the entire press
of the west, to the scheme of the
goldites to demonotize the greenbacks
and to the suspension of silver coin
age, should their party nominate Grant
Sherman or Hayes for the presidency,
he would receive the unbroken sup
port of his party. Principle, self-in-
terest, and every other consideration
would be sacrificed to partisan success.
The same may be said of the northern
Democracy, should Bayard receive the
nomination of his party.
Platforms are adopted, not because
the party is loyal to the principles
proclaimed, but because it is believed
that the enunciation of certain prin-
ciples viii aid the party. In, view
of the abject servility of partisan sla-
very of the north, the writer above
quoted, gives his southern associates
the following timely and wholesome
advice.
"We should detach ourselves from the
Juggernautic car of the northern Demec-
racy and for time await events, with the
hope and prayer that the better elements
Of the north. those men who wanted good
government, peace, and happiness, and 3
solid substantial real restoration of the un-
ion for the good of the whole country,
would erect platform upon which the ex-
istiDg parties should not stand, but upon
which we of the south, as union-loving,
law-abiding citizens might freely step,
feeling and believing that the purpose OF
the builders was to forget the past, and
looking no more :behind, to push right
on with all the power given US as a people
to develop the material interests and pro-
mote the social welfare of this great people.
As at present organized, the existing polit-
ical parties nre stirrers-up Of strife, and dc
not, never will, by q conflict Of ideas, pro.
mote the welfare of the masses. There are
enough Of good men north and south, oil
copgenial ideas upon all important ques.
tions, to unite and organize psrty thai
would restore the union, establish its pros.
perity, and give contentment to its people
The energies OF the entire south, believe
should be bent toward the erection OF such
a party, and when once created it should
not be called Democratic.
Such a party, and for the objects
expressed, is already organized
Knowing no north, south, east OF
west, but national in all its objects, tt
wit: "to push right on with all the
power given us as people to develop
the material interests, and promstt
the social welfare of this great peo.
ple," And its name is neither Dem
ocratic nor Republican.