New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-18
THAT TIE DEMOCRATS HAVE TO SLY
dBOUT 4 CHiNGE

ABOUT 4 CHANGE.
The National Democratic Committee have
issued Campaign Textbook" in which they
undertake to review the Republican party and
to show "why the people want a change
fly leaf requests the person receiving this book
to remit to Mr.. William II. Barnum, Chairman
of the National Democratic Committee, the sum
of 81, which, 1t is stated, will only partially
"cover cost OF same and postage" To what ex-
tent this plaintive appeal has operated upon the
pockets of those to whom the book has been
sent we have no means of ascertaning, but
we do enture the opinion that if tins is g sDec-
men OF the sources from which Mr.. Barnum's
Committee expect to derive campaign fund,
there will be much less mule buying than in
1876. The railroad passenger Weakened from
comfortable slumbcr by the stridulous news
boy may dreamily buy and pay for " Dry Rot
sat the FiTeside, or How to Make Home
"Happy,n simply to be rid of bis tormentor; but
that any man who has eyes and can see that the
country was never better governed or more
PROSPEROUS should have these 557 pages of what
purport to be reasons for q change forced into
his hands by Mr.. Barnum, and then pay Mr..
Barnum 81 for boring him with them, is be-
yond believing. II is quite possible for per-
son in sound health to listen with no great I'M
patience to the vaporlngs OF quack who tells
him he has all sorts of external and internal dis
orders but it is impossible that any such sane
person should pay the quacK dollar for lying
to him, particularly since the lies were neither
complimentary nor comforting.
The reasons why the people want change"
as presented in Mr.. Barnum's Campaign Text
tha 10, 10 nla for
adopted at Cincinnati, in which the Democrats
@of the United States" rs the first article in
their creed, "pledge themselves anew to the
constitutional doctrines and traditions of the
"Democra attic party, as illustrated by the teach
"incs and example of long line Of Democratic
statesmen and patriots" This is vaguely
stated, but is no doubt true to some extent.
These doctrines and traditions so illustrated are
not far to seek, and may be briefly stated.
They are First and above all, the doctrine of
State Notwithstanding the right Of secession
called now Home Rule; and second, "a
1tariff for revenue only" These are the only
reasons furnished in the platform why a
change should be desired. For We take it that
not even Mr. Barnum's Committee will claim,
in view of the Congressional record of the
party, that the declarations in favor of honest
amoney," the strict maintenance OF the public
"fath," or of genuine and thorough reform
9of the Civil Service" are reasons that would
operate upon the mind of any intelligent person
to make him desire a change from Republican
to Democratic administration. We need only
suppose the case of Democratic orator urging
his hearers to put the Democratic party In
power in order to have "honest money"
Every vote Of his party upon financial ques-
tions in Congress for the past twelve years. the
Pendleton craze, the initiation schemes, "the
aOhio Idea," the fat money delusion, opposi-
ton to resumption, alliances with Green-
hackers, fusion In Ohio. and fusion in Maine