The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-07-24
THE DEnocRArrc Party.

Carl SciIurz's Picture OF Its Composition
Consequences of It's success on tn,
FInhnccs-WhO Knows What Thee
VIII be?
The following passages occur in Car
SChurz's speech delivered in Indianapolis
Ind, on Tuesday:
What is likely to happen to man ele
waited to the Presidency with such mott,
host upon his back as the Democratic party
is to-day. That party as now constituted
is indeed a wonderful mixture of elements
shall certainly not question the con
victions and the motives Of the enlightened
and patriotic men that are in it, who mean
to do the best they can for the country
with the means they have; but it is NOT
unjust to them to say that many OF them
are undoubtedly not without their mis-
giyings US TO the latter, and are held where
they are by the strength OF life long asso.
Citations, by the traditions oil circles and
constituencies within which they move
and from which they have derived their
position and power; md also by the opin-
ions grown from long struggles against
what they considered, and what in many
cases may have been, abuses on the other
side; men OF good intention, laboring I'M
der the disadvantage Of seeing their aspi.
ra,ions and eudeavors hemmed and BAT.
fed by followers and by circumstances
which they cannot control.
THE SOUTHERN ELEMENT.
There is the Southern element, OF which
shall certainly not be inclined to deny
that marked improvement has taken
place in the temper and aspirations OF
many Of its leading men, who have cast
the old ambitions OF the war period be-
hind them, and are now with patriotic
spirit endeavoring to serve the country,
and to whom, therefore, our esteem is due.
It is also true that they begin to be sup.
ported by class OF orderly and well mean
ing citizens; but it is no less true that
they find themselves hampered and clogg.
ed by noisy factions In their constituent
cies, who, whether they are majority or
not, endeavor-and, regret to say, In
many instances successtully--to impress
their temper upon the character OF South.
ern politics; still smarting under the de-
feats OF the war and the losses which these
defeats had brought upon them, some OF
them with sullen feeling that those
defeats were an insult as well as a wrong
to them, for which in some way they must
have satisfaction; with vague desire to
retrieve OF the old condition OF things
something, they do not know exactly
what, and withal insisting that something
il due to them as Southern men in poll
tics as we'll as in society and in their world.
" fortunes rs compared with the rest OF
mankind; rather reckless Of the rights OF
others; with financial ideas destitute OF
a due regard for the good faith Of the coun.
try, inclined to fly TO any money system
which they vaguely think can be manipu-
lated so as to make them rich again by
legerdemain; deeming II due to them that
large appropriations should be in dc Tor
their particular benefit, for all imaginable
purposes, good, bad and indifferent,
merely to pour money into that section OF
the country: with scarcely any traditions
in government, except such rs existed in
their States before the war and the reac'
tionary desires and attempts OF the party
Immediately after it, with appetites sharp,
ened by long exclusion from power and
the sweets OF office, and greedy To make
the most Of thatif they can obtain it.