New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-26
DENocEIT1C DHIPr0lAruENrS.


alt is an uttcr marvel to me-" said Demo-
crat. owe nomna ed Hancock with a shout.
I've began the campaign with huIrah. con-
versions coming in every day. Ii is eight
weeks old this campaign; and, according
" to orr newspapers and committee reports,
we have been getting acccssions every day.
"But where are We 2 When Hancock was
"nominatod we claimed Pennsylvania. But
there is not Democrat, who has sense
"enough to get in out of the rain, who iaucics
:" 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
d" best to postpone the election there until
November, so that failure there
may not hurt us elsewhere. We
"caled Connecticut ours. But we
Z" have hunted up the strongest man we ever
Gran in that State, with It feeling that if he
"cannot gave lis there, nobody can. We said
New-Jersey was sure, but our men over
there are putting their heads together to
Find somebody who can make an even race
"aganst Fred Potts. We had 10000 major
city in New York, and here We are trying
"hard to get into shape to claim any majority
"at all. 1t is discouragmg. Against us comes
"legion Of veterans, and We cannot scare It,
"breall if, on turn it aside. | tell You, begin
"to doubt if our party has any OF the ruling
faculty left When it comes to a tight lit.
" these Republicans march up solid phalanx,
"cool, easy aud confident, as If they knew
"the end from the beginning"
The gushing frankness Of our Democratic
fellow-citizen uttcrs the thoughts of hundreds
of Democrats. 1t is true; this grand Old
Guard of Republicans irritatcS the raw lcyies
OF Democracy by It's calm courage and perfect
discipline. But why should they he surprised
The same thing has happened before. Repub-
lcans did not stampede, we remember, when
" Little Mac" the Young Napoleon" of the
Army Of the Potomac, was nominated, and
they have been gaining, for sixteen years,
more sublime faith in discipline and hard
work.
Look back little. We sent fifty thousand
shrewd aud energetic men to the South, to
run farms. mills and railroads, to open mines
and keep stores and teach school. They have
come bacll-decimated by Southern shoteuns,
but disciplined. Does anybody suppose they
do not know how to work
Then we organized two thousand National
holders for each. They gave the country
the best banking system ever known
among men. The Democrats assailed that
system, of course, as they assail anything not
helpful to Bourbon 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 contest.
Does anybody suppose that the Democrats,
who have been trying to abolish the banks
and rob the bankers, will be helped by them 4?
Then we framed laws to build up domestic
manufacturers All over the North there are
castles OF Republicanlsm wherever men are
engaged in honest toll, and the garrisons are
the thrifty workers who get good wages be-
cause the Republican party had good sense.
Thousands of manufacturing establishments
are banded together for mutual defence in a
dozen associations. Is it strange that they
confer swiftly and act decisivcly, with two
Thousand millions at stake Democracy at
tacks them. 1t will be seen once more that
they know how to defend themselves.
So through ali the phases of Industrial and
life; tho Republican party has
helped them all; has organized III each its
body of drilled, powerful and fearless workers
and has so identified itself with every great
industry and business interest that its danger
is instantly felt as their own personal danger
by millions of the shrewdest, boldest, and
best-braned men in the country. Scare them,
and they fight. Beat Hancock gongs under
their windows, and they laugh. The best
workers, the best brains, the energetic and
practical men of the country. have been drawn,
year after year, into close sympathy with the