Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-09-02
Democratic Disannointm0nts.

lit is an utter marvel to me-" said a
Democrat. 1--WE nominated Hancock
with a shout. We began the campaign
with a hurrah, conversions coming in
"every day. 1t is eight weeks old, this
campaign; and, according to our news
papers and committee reports, we have
"been getting accessiOns every day. But
where are wep When Hancock was
nominated We claimed Pennsylvania.
d" But there is not Democrat, who has
sense enough to get in out of the rain,
who fancies now that we can carry
that State. We were sure of Indiana !;
and now leading men of our party are
considering whether it is not best to
postpone the election there until No
"vember, SO that failure there may not
hurt us elsewhere. We have hunted
"up the strongest man we ever ran in
that State, with feeling that if he
"cannot save us there, nobody can We
"said New Jersey was sure, but our men
over there are putting their heads to-
gether to find somebody who can make
an even race against Fred Potts. We
had $4,000 majority in New York, and
"here we are trying hard to get into
shape to claim any majority at all. 1t
d" is discouraging. Against us comes up,
every four years, that same disciplined
Legion of veterans, ard we cannot scare
at, break it, or turn it aside. l tell you,
&" begin to doubt if our party has any
D." of the ruling faculty left"
The gushing frankness of our Demo-
cratic fellow citizen utters the thoughts
of hundreds of Democrats. 1t is true :;
this grand Old Guard of Republicans ir-
ritates the raw levies of Democracy by
its calm courage and perfect discipline.
But why should they be surprised? The
same thing has happened before. Re-
publicans did not stampede, we remem-
ber, when Little Mac" the young Ma
"poleon" of the Army of the Potomac,
was nominated, and they have been
gaining, for sixteen years, more
sublime faith III discipline and hard
work.
Look back a little! We sent fifty
thousand shrewd and energetic men to
the South, to run farms, mills and rail-
roads, to open mines and keep stores
and teach school. They have come back
-decimated by Southern shotguns, but
disciplined. Does anybody suppose they
do not know how to work?
Then we organized two Thousand Ma
tional banks, with hundreds of deposit
tors and stockholders for each. They
gave the country the best banking sys-
tenn ever known among men, The Dem
Ocrats asSailed that system, of course, las
they assail anything not helpful to Bour-
bon notions. The banks were pushed
by necessity to talk with each other.
The telegraph whispers, at present, when
they wish to put their influence into a
contest. Does anybody suppose that
the Democrats, who have been trying to
abolish the banks and rob the bankers.
will be helped by them?
Then we framed laws to build I'D do
meStic manufactures. All over the
North there are castles of Republican
ism wherever men are engaged in hon
est toll, and the garrisOns are the thrifty
workers who get good wages because
the Republican party had good sense.
Thousands of manufacturing establish
ments are banded together for mutual
defence in dozen associations. Is it
strange that they confer swiftly and act
decisively, with two thousand millions
at stake? Democracy attacks them. 1t
how to defend themselves. i
So through all the phases of indus
trial and commercial life; the Republi-
can party has helped them all; has or.
ganized in each its body of drilled, pow
erful and fearless workers; and has SO
identified itself with every great indus
try and business interest that its danger
is instantly felt as their own personal
danger by millions of the shrewdest.
bOldest, and best-brained men in the
country. Scare them, and they fight
Beat Hancock gongs under their win
dows, and they laugh. The best work
ers, the best brains, the energetic and
practical men of the country, have been
drawn, year after year, into close sym
pathy with the Republican organization.
Attack the Republican party, and you
attack them. The marching civilization
OF the age wheels into line for fight