Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-03-10
O'CONOR.

Charles O'Conor, a man that the
Democratic party has always looked
nm to and denominated one OF their
greatest men, has written remarka-
ble letter, in which he promulsates
some very undemocratic doctrine and
makes the Democrats acquainted with
some very bitter truths in regard to
their prospects in the coming cam
paign. The letter was written IN ans
wer to an invitation to be present at a
banouet of the Essex County, New
Jersey, Democratic Club, on the Sth
of January He says;
"Yon assume that my views coin
eide with your own and that your eel
ebration may be an initial or early
step in a political campaign, just at
hand evidently hoping for an issue
favorable TO the Democratic party, and
through its agency You anticipate our
return to n safe and sound policy IN
the administration Of Federal affairs
PLAINLY you refer to the next Pres
idential election, but quite contrary to
your anticipations | am constrained
to regard it as absolutely Impossible
that any one called Democrat should
prevail in this conflict.
This is easily proven. 1t is and
has long been conceded on all hands
that to such result the votes OF New
York would be indispensable. To this
conclusion every party, every journal
and, / believe, every individual in the
land will assent, and yet the thirty
FIVE votes of this great State have
been delivered into the hands OF the
Republican party and are now held by
ii as a secure possession"
Speaking of the Maine fraud he
makes this comment
1.-THE Democrats have attempted to
seize the vote of Maine by means
most reprehensible. Whether this
originated in an unjust and grasping
selfshness on the part of Democrats,
or, as has been suggested, was craftlly
instigated by some Republican device,
is quite immaterial. The thing has
been done, and the pretext for Repub-
licans to act likewise has been af-
forded. 1t will enable them to COM
peDsate themselves amply by reprsals
shculd success attend the Maine enter
prise. I am far from thinking that any
help of this sort was necessary the
New York vote will be seized without
it. But the pretext promoted con-
venience and it has been furnished.
Beginning with this dead weight
in the opposite scale no idler imagina-
ton could be displayed by the Demo
Gratis than treating success in the Pres
idential election as possible. They can
do nothing for themselves, though il
prepared for such small practice. they
may foment discord in the hostile
camp"
He comes out strongly for centrali-
zation, and says:
1.-THE separate State government
should be abolished. This seems now
to be Republican idea. but certainly
no sound thinker among the leaders OF
that party will ever promote its adop-
ton. The discussions and civil war
in which their party was born, nur-
tured and matured, grew ont Of the
State organizations Without them its
bIoody-shirt sectional cries must cease
to animate and their party perish. The
benign tendency of the separate State
system to embroil the country in civil
war was well explained in the Feder-
alist, No. 2S."
He said in his letter many other
very radical things, but what we have
given will suffice to show that be has
lost faith in Democratic success, purity
and wisdom.