Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-21
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TUESDAY EVENING. SEPT. q, 1880.
What Should be Said.

What Should be Said.
The Democratic national committee
lately expressed its hearty sympathy with
the movement to substitute single elec-
toral ticket for Hancock and English for
the two now in the field in Virginia,
+" confident that it will receive the sup
port Of all Virginians who honestly de-
sire the success of Democratic principles
and the election of Hancock and Eng
liSh.''
The committee had good ground for
this confidence, since it is very clear
that all Virginia Democrats who desire
the success of the national Democratic
ticket and platform Of principles will
unite in the support of one electoral
ticket.
Nevertheless the movement to unite
the two organizations in Virginia, claim
ing to he Democratic, on one electoral
ticket, has failed because of the demand
of one of them that the choice of the
electors on that ticket shall not be con-
fined to Democratic voters only. 1t is a
matter Of course that the Democratic
national committee will not approve of
the selection of electors, whose duty it
will be to vote for Hancock and English,
by any but Democratic voters. The ex-
pertinent of permitting Republican voters
to say who shall be Democratic electors
would be apt to result in the choice of
such Democratic electors as would vote
for Garfield.
Since then the Democratic national
committee has expressed its confidence
that the Virginia Democrats who desire
the success of the Democratic principles
and candidates will unite in voting for
one electoral ticket, and since some who
claim TO he Democrats refuse to do SC
unless the Republican voters of Virginia
are permitted voice in settling that
ticket, what is it the duty of the Demo
cratic national committee to say to the
Virginia Democracy?
Obviously, it seems to us, they should
be told by the committee that the elec.
toral ticket, nominated by the party OF
which Mr.. KOiner is the official head, il
the one which has the sympathy and ap
proval of the national Democracy.
The committee will be additionally
sustained in saying this by the fact that
the Democratic national platform pledges
the party to the strict maintenance OF
the public faith, state and national - The
Malone party in Virginia of so-called
" readjusters,' claiming to he Demo-
Gratis, has, rs its sole cause of difference
with the regular Democratic organiza
tiOn, its determination to aro,d the main
tenance of the public faith of the state
1t is, therefore, not a Democratic organ
izatiOn under the national Interpretation
of Democracy, and it deserves to he so
pronounced hy the Democratic national
committee.
If that body shrinks from this respon-
sibility, We hope that our candidate for
president will not. He is bold and
honest man who will not fear to proclaim
to the people North and South his firm
adherence to the declaration of the ma
tional platform in favor of the mainte.
nance of the public faith, state and ma
tional and his determination to uphold
it, if he is chosen president, with all the
constitutional power of his office, and
with the same firm hand with which he
will resist al increase of the country's
burthen of debt by eXtravagant admins.
tration or by that Republican bug-bear
the payment of the rebel bonds.
1t is wrong, and bad policy withal, to
permit Democrats who are faithfully de.
Tending all the declarations of the ma.
tional platform, to be weakened by the
efforts Of men, claiming to be Democrats
and yet denying Il prime article of the
national faith, to divide the Democratic
vote. Let the true Democracy every.
where lie strengthened by an avowal 10y
the party and its candidates of the living
force Of every declaration of the plat
form, even at the cost of losing the votes
of those who refuse to subscribe to any
OF them. 1t is at once the honestest and
wisest thing to do, and will bring the
triumph which it deserves to win.
Can It Be!
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