The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-20
WHAT MIGHT BE.


tain party winning in the coming or any
other election, that the country was ruined
We cannot conceive the good sense Of any
one insisting that il tie democratic party
shall win thn the country is "gone to the
devil" it the republican party succeed then
it is "gOne to the dogs And we have
ever felt tn if any lot of men wished to go
either to the devil or the dogs, then rs free
men, they had the superlsLive rigdt Of vote
ing themselves thther. Yet when We re
fleet upon much of the past and observe
much of the present, we fancy that some of
the apprehansjons We have as TO the future
in the event of the Repu lcan success next
month, are not withou. some found ton.
Tho persistent, vigorous, determined Of
forts which tho Republicans have made to
determine tho successor Of Mr. HAYES, the
rong desire they orc many of theirpM
leaders exhibited to place General Grant
again in power, the intoDt they have avowod
to clotha him with 1t in 1854 Ill smack of
purpose beyond nero party triumph. For
there il no disguiiiag ,ho fact that tat party
IL ono ihyorng an increased and more enor-
g2bl power Of concentrations or centraliz
tion, than is even now possessed by their
government. AID they constitute q party
that hn7 shown an inherent ability 70 pursue
with irrepressIble tenaclty OF purpose the
object Of their desirJa tho abolition of
slavery, the con lu'rpg Of the late civil war,
the imposition upon the conquered Of certain
laws uld requirements are all cyid nee, of
their re olu'o aggros,yeness. Within the
past twenty years they have succeeded in
olleo'irg some extensive, wonderful and rad.
zeal chang in our government, in our con.
ditiop, in our institutions, that, predicted
then, would have breu, and wNo laughed at
70 the dream Of visionary. So The suggcs-
tons Of what they may accomplish within
the next decade would doubtless meet the
Same sort Of reception. Rome did not dream
what n few montha would develop when
I, " suddenly resolved to cross the Rub.
con; Eng'and, in 1910, little suspected the
consequences of lei that ensued when Oh.
yer Cromwell dissolved tho long parliament,
tu'oing out the members, locking the door
and putting the key into his pocket, Fr'nco
in 1872, as little thought when sho drove
Lou from the throne, that 1893 would see
uprooi)l institutions which had withslood
tho assault of sg9s or that the republic of
1878 would DO transformed into the empire
of 1861, And indeed IN our own times, rs
slightly di our patriotic sires deem Just be
fore the Boston tea difficulty, in 1878, that in
lttla while tn realIer, in l716, new and
Independent nation,so utterly at variance with
the government their youth and manhood
knew, would arise as tho result. Thus sud.
donly have revolutions come.
AT other times, AMI TO other and oven the
same peoples, equally radical changes have
been effected by II gradual preparation of the
public mind by lessons cautiously and insid-
ueusly ins.lled or boldly proclaimed We
have sometimes felt that the Republican
party, a party os'oatially aggressive, persist.
ont and ut heart centralzationists, or at lie t
the leaders, have medi'QtId alterations in our
form and even principle of government
most radical in their nature Trey hevc
clung TO- power so poiseveiipglv Grd ave
exhibited certain Tendencies SO distinctly and
have been so near to losing all in this falls bus
mess that they will be MOI an Gus than
ever TO secure themselves in place and
power by carIain changes which the posse
sion Of the executive, legislative and judicial
branches of the government will not merely
make possible but veiy mptipg. The
Fixed resolution to placs in power their
greatest soldier as they hold us. Grant,
as did the cohorts in Caesars case, the Indie.
pendents in Cromwell's, the Nationalist in
Napoloon's, and the Americans in Wash.
ington's. To the democracy defeat thi,
year and disaster will bring discourage
mant, dissatisfaction, disintegration, and
with this added to their own sweeping vic.
tories what the republicans might do. what
they will evolve must be the anxious inQui.
ny of our more serious thoughts. Let him
who prefers the principles ard form of
democratic republic to those of an aristocra
cy or monarchy DO vigilant and dutiful.
We do moi propose to be an alarmist u. all,
nor desire to border on the sensational, but
the lessons of history warrant all but too
fully an analogy sufficient to put the pairi-
ct on his guard. Whether y fundamental
change in this government shall be dosira,
bio, lies in the will and the power of the
soyeregns to decree or to deter Il at heart
they arc opposed to it, let them SEQ that they
be not driven like sheep into the shambles.
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As q specimen OF the Chicago Inter
Oceans dirty work to mako voters for Gar.
field, we give as clumsy piece of manuiac.
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