The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-07-24
Democratic Little Games.

has sought power only, without the
slightest regard to principles or pel'
icy. 1t has asked for the confidence
of the country merely as the Demo-
cratic party. and it has tried every
"dodge" and trick, according to its
view of the popular feeling of the mo-
ment. In 1864, at the darkest hour
of the war, when the national resour-
ces and spirit were strained to the
utmost, it declared the war a failure,
and NOMINATED candidate who was
professedlv SO. The response was the
overwhelming reelection of Mr..
Lincoln. In 1868, at the end of the
war, counting upon Il reaction of
feeling, it nominated the most emf
nent of "Copperhead" sentiment.
The response was the trium plant
election of the General of the Union
army. In 1872 the Democratic party
fierce for success, threw over pre-
tense of distinctive principle, and
nominated an old protective Anti.
slavery Wing. In response was the
| overwhelming re election of the
Union General. In 1876 the Demo.
cratic party raised the cry of reform
and public virtue, and nomina ted
an old Tammany politician who had
broken with Tammany and Canal
rings, but, by a reduced electoral
majority, the party was again defeat
ed.
Tn 1880 the Democratic party, hay
ing tried every other device. abjuring
Copperheads and Antislavery Wings
and adroit politicians, dominates a
soldier whose sole distinction was
achieved in fighting battles which
the Democratic party derided as fail
ures, and hopes to renew the Wing
mpaign of 1910, and hurrah the
candidate into the White House. But
the trouble is deeper than the party
seems to suppose. 1t is not the abb
surdity of the Democratic attempt to
masquerade as a soldier party or q
war for-the- Union party, nor that IF
nominating soldier as symbol of
the supremacy of the civil authority
over the sword, both of which per-
fOrmances are ludicrOus, but it is the
deep distruSt of the party itself.
When the Democrats nominated the
Republican Horace Greeley, who had
not political principle or conviction
or tendency in common with those
who selected him, the silly trick
failed, because, however Mr. Greeley
might have been trusted. the party
hands in which he would have been
puppet were absolutely distrusted.
General Hancock is an amiable gen.
tleman. but as President, from the
very fact of his total and professional
unfamiliarity with political affairs
and men, he would be especially in
the hands of his party managers.
His strength as candidate is pre-
cisely that Of his party, and no more.
He will get the vote of no man who
does not prefer to see the govern
memt in Democratic hands.
Now there is much less disposition
to confide in that party than there
was in 1876. The cipher explosion
of.Tilden reform and public virtue !;
the significant revelations of Demo-
cratic views and plans made oy the
extra session; the Garcelon plot in
Maine. and the Morgan bill for the
electoral count; the natural and uni
versal wish of reviving industrial
prosperity not to make violent
change involving every kind of f.
nancial confusion and peril |; and the
evidence that the Republican party
is not mastered by "bosses" who are
profoundly distrusted = all these
things incline public confidence to
the Republican party, with an able.
experienced and unblemished leader
and statesman ct its head, who will
be no mans man, who is perfectly
familiar with public affairs and men,
who has been one of the most saga
cious and most influential chiefs of
the policy under which national
prosperity has recovered itself, and
who by universal consent is peculiar
ly fitted for the Presidency. Mr..
Garfield's "record" greatly strength
ems him, because upon all great ques-
tions he has been singularly sound,
and yet independent and moderate.
Gen. Hancock's utter want of record
except in war which his party de
nounced, greatly weakens him, be.
cause it leaves him necessarily prey
TO Democratic pOliticians.-Hdrper'S
Weekly.
Reactlonary Schemes.
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