The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1880-11-05

IN fNtNiFli Hnu tNCittuf Nohi-
paign IL ended, anil the Democracy
has suffered an inglorious defeat. To
those who have watched the turn Of the
tide since the Indiana disaster. il was
not a great surprise; but the magni.
tude Of il surpasses even the most
sanguine Republican. We are moi
among the II told you sos and are
not prepared to say that our original
favorites, Tilden and Hendricks, could
have won, but with better leadership,
We might have done better. The
great trouble with the Democratic
party is that is has no leader. and
even IL il had, there is no likelihood,
judging from its many dissentions,
that it would follow. A party that
allows such cut threats rs John Kel-
ley TO dictate TO il, deserves defeat,
though we sorrow as those without
hope that il got its deserts. New
York was lost to us just for such
knuckling, and the Democracy awak.
ems to the truth that Mr.. Kelley and
his brutal band are not so all power.
full as was imagined. We have all
along thought that the nomination Of
that Indiana fossil was a sad mistake,
and he would never have been nomi-
mated except for the fact that he had
a "barl;" but when the Democracy
laid the ilattering JUNCTION to its soul
that he would put it on tap, it reck-
oned without its host. English might
have given an hundred thousand to
carry his own State-but he didn't,
and that was an end of it. Against
General Hancock no one can say
aught. He is the embodiment of the
great soldier, the wise statesman and
the true gentleman. He would have
adorned the Presidency with a lustre
equaled only by Washington or a
jefferson. His election would have
insured cessation of hostility be.
tween the sections and united the
whole country into one common broth
erhoOd; but the Republican party
the party of fraud, corruption and
hate-would have none of it. 1t re-
iected the noble man, and in his stead
elected one who-if the crimes charged
and proved by his own party are
worthy of belief-ought now to be
serving term in the Sing Sing or
some other Penitentiary, instead of
being exalted to the highest Office in
the gift of the people. There are in
deed grave fears for the life of our
system of government when such men
can be elected, and it shows that no
matter what manner of man the Re-
publicans may put up, they can, by
money extorted from its hundred
thousand office holders, buy him in
to power. These are dark and gloomy
days for the Democracy, and hope
seems almost gone; but the grand old
party, which has manfully and hon
estly withstood the adverse winds of
so many years, and proclaimed so
its eternal principles, will
continue to live, and, as sure as there
is just God, will finally triumph.
Cast down, but not altogether dispir-
tied, il will rise again, and in 1884
stand ready to resist Grant, the would
be Emperor, and his hirelings. 1t
was black day for the country when
I decided to take Garfield instead OF
Hancock, and although "hope de-
erred maketh the heart sick" we
have an abiding faith that the fascali-
y and dishonesty in high places that
will be developed during the term of
uch a man as Garfield, will cause such
revolution in the public mind that
lis party will be driven from office
md into the disgrace that it merits.
The old saying that il thief is given
ope enough he will hang himself, will
Ne again fulfilled; and in the mean
ime let us not waver in the cause of Z
he right, but be prepared for the vic
Dry that finally awaits us. :