The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-17

accessions OF strength to their efforts. 1t Is
equally notorious that very large
and respectable body of Democrats,
men as pure of motive, as clear Of judgment,
as devoted as patriots and as resolute of ac-
ton as in any ranks to be found, are not sat
ishod that the late Dallas convention re-
Elected the will of the people or spoke the
ideas of the day either by some of the NOM
nations or the platform selected. And
among this class are citizens less mindful of
political record or the party lash than of
what they conceive to be conscientious con-
sistency. To their minds the accident of a
nomination has not magical power to
transform on eternal principle, nor even to
alter the esse nee of an admittedly correct
measure. Again, there are many Democrats
who, although they will sullenly support the
conventions ticket, have not their heart in
the work, and within the inner recesses of
whose bosoms, on the crucifxion Of disap-
pointment, we read: Sacrificed to party
fealty." And yet these are such as believe
that the dictates of their judgment and the
whisperings of their conscience ought not to
be enslaved by any Draconian code of parti-
zansbip. They too arc of such as
believe that the principles and the true policy
of a government of the people, for the pco-
pile and by the people, ought, by express
stipulation, be the objects of the understand
ing and not Of the hope, of the present and
the future and not of the memory. They
cannot readily gain their consent to endorse
the expression of Louis XIV when positive
PROFESSIONS were encircling him; "The
monarchy, yes the monarchy is very old but
it will last my time" Be these things re-
grettnble or not, they are nevertheless living
facts. The muttering is too distinctly audi
Bile, 100 clearly ominous, and extends over
too large surface to be disregarded by either
the Democratic party or the patriot. Mr. j.
S. Mill in his work on government said some
where great moral and political revolutions
are usually heralded by growing PRESENT.
ment ofsome approaching crisis as the influence
of the distant cataract ia felt in the increas-
ing rapidity of the current long before its
heavy sound is heard.' Detocqueville, in
his Democracy in America has on more than
one page distinctly expressed his apprehen-
sions that the majority in power might not
rataot tho will Of Tho oot,,al p,,p riool ma
jority in the nation, and as the Democratic
sentim ent is that representative government
is thing June espece) of concessions and
compromises, it may sometimes occur that
the party leaders, failing to soften the asperi
lies OF the weaker body, might cause to fall
70 pieces at blow the work that many
years had built. These automatic PROPOSE
tons, applied to warning parties or to ad-
verse factions of the same party, are Of equal
significance. They were all outspoken resi-
dents of our mind when we recently
sought to open in the Democrat
ic household the door of reconcile
ment in the matter of the lieutenant.gover-
norship, end failing therein subsequently,
pleaded at their hearth-stone for the adop-
ton Of the minority platform. But our
earnest labor was in vain, the value of our
fears was not duly estimated and, to use the
not very classic or elegant, yet quite forcible
language though unnecessary taunts of the
opposition, we were "sat down on and got
left" As for our personal selves this has
been our fate before The last gun at APP
pomsttox drove the last nail into the coffin
of despair where lie all our buried hopes;
the last opinion of star chamber commits
sion nearly four years ago, in slavish obedi-
ance power and in strict adjustment with
congenial instincts conveyed the dismal It'd
iugs of defeat in the very midst of victory,
and so, like "patience on q monumen'
smiling at grief," we are not yet
wholly disabled in the game of surrender.
As for the effort of this independent move
ment we regard it with neither alarm nor
disfavor. Not with alarm because the attain
ment of success to its banners is in our
Judgment one of the things that cannot be.
An inspection of the vote of two years ago
determines this view. By reference we find
that. Oran M. Roberts polled l57, 992 votes;
w. II. Herman, Greenbacker, 55,0SS; A b.
Norton, P publican, $3.50. Here Is Dem
ocratic majority of nearly $4,000 votes. AS
Stunning proportionate gain on either side
and there will be required over 10000 dissat-
listed Democratic voters who will not merely
sulk but who will 60 over to the adyersar v.
We do not believe that the state will witness
any such scene. The HERALD does
not approve the composite and speckled
ticket, although We are free to say that we do
not witness the movement with muchdisfavor.
Yet we oppose Ii because the motive of the
movement, viz, the defeat of the Democracy
in this state, is not one that commends it.
self to the head or the heart. 1t starts out
like guilty thing upon fearful summons.
The HERALD is an independent paper, bat, as
has been again and again explained in these
columns, from the standpoint of real, true
Democratic principles. When the party or
any section of 1T, in our judgment, goes
astray, we shall never hesitate to say so, cost
what it may, but we shall always eight il out