The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-10

ago that HreSluencleS OF the L nlJed states
are not 50 easily won that they should be
readily surrendered when won Four wears
ago it was not the rights of one man but
the rights of a great party, the rights of
suffrage in this country that were at stake.
/ The Democratic behavior four years ago
was spiritless. cowardiy, and these qualities
are not winning, and the effects of that
surrender were felt yesterday.
/ Memphis Appeal.
There was the mistake of nominating
+ English instead of Mcdonald or Hendricks
of Indiana; the gross Encouragement of
+ the canvass by the Democratic National
Committee, which, directed by Barnum
never rose to anything like an equality
with the great issues at stake. There was
also the want of bold and aggressive can
yassers to meet the great speakers of the
Republican party, the weight of whose
names alone was a tower of strength. To
this must be added the indiscretions of
some of our Southern speakers, who. en-
amored of national fame, went about
speaking in several of the Northern States,
in every instance making arrows to be shot
by Republican orators with fatal precision
at the bulls eye of the Democratic target.
(Our usually we'll posted friend of the
Appeal ought to know that neither
Mr.. Mcdonald nor Mr. Hendricks could
be induced to accept the nomination.
When in a desire to compliment Indi-
ana, the Convention nominated Mr..
English, retired statesman of respec-
table attainments, the delegates did
not know that they were nominating a
skinfint, and grinder of the faces of
the poor. Otherwise they would not
have touched him with a forty-foot
pole.)
n. Y SUM-
When a party abandons its successful and
deserving leaders; when party allows its
enemies to dictate who shall and who shall
not be its nominees when a party opens
its campaign by raising a white flag and
beating a retreat, that party has shown
itself to be worthy of defeat, such signal
defeat as has just overwhelmed the Democ-
racy For ourselves, we struggled against
the inevitable from the beginning with
consciousness that no folly could have sur
passed that of making any change in the
Presidential ticket which had carried the
country once, and then had added to its
previous strength the issue of having been
illegally deprived of office.
Courier Journal
We are willing to believe that the disas-
ter which has overtaken the Democratic
party is a defeat of the people. II is
a defeat of the politicians. The poll
ticians of the Democratic party, ignor
ing moral forces and disregarding the logic
of the situation, undertook to play a game of
battle-door with the Republican politi-
tians. To do this they deserted a great
This was IA recoverable |
bIunder. Begun upon low tone, it failed
to give out from first to last one breezy,
note. In spite of the captiva-
ting personality of Gen. Hancock, the ear
" days of the canvass which were devoted
to the foolish work of smirching the charac- |
ter of Gen. Garield-fell stale, fiat and I'M
profitable ON the country. The squirt of ac- /
tivity, which, ssizing upon local compli- |
cation in Maine to hammer out q few lnrid /
sparks that dazzled and misled us, was
practically lost by identifying our nomi-
nee with the Greenback rUtfenneas; and no
sooner was issue taken with the tariff plank
ia our national platform than, instead Of
doctrine a. old ~ tho Demo-
cratic party, Gen. Hancock WIS induced 10