Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-17
The Two Parties.
New York journal of Commerce.
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New York journal of Commerce.
A day or two since we took notice OF a
speech carefully prepared and read from a
printed copy, by Mr.: Chittenden, member
Of Congress from Brooklyn, in which he
ci.ss;fied Il the voters at the coming election
as the solid South with a lot of Tammany
adhereuts in the city of New York on the
one siae. and a solid North of Union-lov-
ing people on tho other. His language
was very explicit "The parties to this
issue are practically the solid South and
Tammauy against all the loyal men of the
North and West" This was reiterated
in various forms, and was the chief staple
of his address. We showed, most con-
conclusively, as We think, that there
is no truth whatever in the state
ment. We gave 43,047 as the Tammany
vote of New York city, when that city did
its best, at the last state election, and
proved that there were inside of New
York city 6O,556 Democrats not under
Tammany and outside of this CITY 349,-
753 (at least) Democratic voters, against
372. .245 who voted the Republican ticket.
There are over one million voters in the
state of New York, and Mr.. Chittenden
will not claim more than about mOiety
of them as members of his party. 1t fol-
lows therefore, that he is stating what hc
knows not to be true, or else that he be-
lieves there arc half a million voters in the
state of New York who are absolutely
traitors to their country.
A political speaker may claim that his
party is composed of the more intelligent
class, or of the better educated class, or of
the wealthier class but when he says that
it includes /" all the loyal men" he leaves
none but rebels and traitors on the other
side. And this was the substance of MIR.
Chittenden's division None but the ad-
herents of Tammany sympathizing with
Southern rebels will vote for Hancock !;
and all other voters are arrayed FOR Cen
eral Garfield. That four hundred thou
sand in the state of New York, outside of
the city, stand up to rcbuke Mr.. Chitten-
den's assertion. They are as loyal, as vir-
tuous, as Industrious, and rs true in all
that makes up good citizenship as Mr..
Chittenden and his Republican friends. A
great many of them, like their illustrious
candidate, were soldiers in the iate war,
and as self-sacrificing as any of the Repub
lican army of the contractors who spent
the anxious hours in amaSsing large for
tunes during the conflict.
1t will be seen that Mr.. Chittenden docs
not confine himself to this state. He claims,
outside OF Tammany, every loyal voter in
''the North and West" Ohio has about
three-fourths of million of voters of
of these $50, III voted at the last prcsiden-
tial election, and Hayes, nominated from
that state, only obtained majority of
2,747. At the coming election General
Garfield, also chosen from Ohio, is not
likely to do much better. 1t then follows
that only half the voters of Ohio arc
"Union loving people ~
There is no solid North Of voters for the
Republican party. All of the great North
crn states arc nearly equally divided be-
tween tho two parties and a claim that
call the loyal men of tho North and
West" arc Republicans is a direct asscr-
tion that half the voting population of this
section are traitors to their country, or at
least have no attachment for its institu-
tions. II, as these orators represent, all
the South is "sOlid -" in it's antagonism to
the union, and ripe for revolt against our
goy,.arnment at tho first favorable Oppor-
tunity. md only that moiety of Northern
and Western voters who are in the Rcpub-
;;;can organization arc true to it, it follows
conclusiycly that moic than three-fourths
of the people Of this couttry are in league
for its overflow How the. &c wealthy re
publicans, knowing these tt. "' 1.;sa', r.,
their real estate and also b. ohi'cu
States per cents at no is indee. u a. Hill
vel.
We have been led to these further rc-
-,arks on this classification of the two pal.
- ,;os '>ecause Our esteemed contemporary,
.I.~ NJ, York Times, in its Saturdays
:no LILA. ~" Nv oo nc to Mr.. Crittendcn's de-
,ssuo csS .na;nst m; "S 'r former structures, and
has gone even furthe." than tho orator t, IN
its assaults upon the character aC: ol INC
Democratic voters: "Thc Lemes ssSs
ssThe simple claim that there IS sueh ;an :.
clement in our politics rs solid .'out.' 30
of itself, the most conclusive dem. '"SI,
ton that could be offered of the disloy:uts
of the voters who make such an entity at
once possible and probable" II tins
means anything, as reply to our argu.
ment, it is simply this The fact that half
the voters of the North join with a major
ity of the voters of the South to elect
a new administration is conclusive
proof that they arc all traitors
alike The "sOlid South is only another
form of expression for a majority of South
ern votes. If then all the Southern states
gives a majority for Gen. Hancock, and
half the voters of the North, joining with
them, elect him to the presidency, that is
"the most conclusive demonstration that
could be olfered,' according to the Times,
that threc-fourths of the voters of this
country are guilty of disloyalty Whether
the election of Hancock is "possible and
probable or not, it is true to-day that
these Southern majOrities and over two
and a half million Of their Northern brcth-
rem are jointly in favor of it, SO that even
if Gen. Garfield is elected it is still con-
clusively demonstrated on the Times
theory, that large majority of the voters
of this great republic arc traitors to their
country.
From this grand charge of dislOyalty"
the Times descends to details, and accuses
the Democratic party of having within its
fold at the North the "ignorant and su-
perstitious immigrant, "beside whom the
negro is an educated, virtuOus and law
abiding citizen" and of including among
its adherents the citizen, who is not the
negrO's peer, from the slums of New
York" We cannot see that this makes
much difference. If tho 400, 900 Demo-
Gratis in Pennsylvania, the $50, 900 of the
same faith in Ohio, tho 400, 900 in New
York state outside of this city, the 70, 600
in Connecticut, the 100000 in Massachu-
setts, the 22O, 900 in Indiana, the 26O, 900
in Illinois, and the remaining three
fourths of million in other northern and
western states who are going to vote
with the majority Of the South for Han
cock are by this determination proved be-
yond dispute to be "disloyal'' to tho
country, the fact that there is among them