The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-09-02
New Democratic Issues.

Lit VIII puzzle the plattorm-mekers IN
the next convention that represents ''the
great national Democratic party of the
Union to construct one that will repre-
sent all the new issues that have recently
been Matched in the different States So
many new-fangled notions have been
adopted into the old creed that Democ-
racy now looks like the spotted horse in
the circus, which the boys admire so
much. The Bourbon party has long re-
sembled the trick-mule, which every
candidate who has tried it has failed to
ride into power since the days when
poor old Buchanan allowed the Southern
traitors to proceed with their diabolical
work under the spurious plea that
State could not be Geereed.
Nearly all the old issues that Demoe=
racy was formerly SO proud of have been
abandoned, and new and strange theo-
ries-strange to the unsophisticated
Bourbon mind-are finding adherents in
the different States. In Ohio, for ex-
ample, the party is running a renegade
Republican on high-tariff platform,
and is playing hide and seek with the
Prohibitionists; In New York such
recognized friends of the dear people as
Tilden, Schell, Belmont and Company
will raise the cry of civil-service refofm
and anti-monopoly. In Wisconsin the
leaders advise the Abandonment of the
old party entirely, and the inauguration
of a new one on semi Republican
basis. Down in Mississippi, where the
Democratic practice was to quietly re-
move opposing candidates for Office
with the use of the shotgun, ac-
cording to the Yazoo plan, they
now proclaim equal rights to all, With
out respect to race, color or previous
condition. The party leaders in South
Carolina declare that, as matter of ex-
pediency, they consider it wise TO quit
killing negroes simply because they are
Republicans, which is almost as undem-
ocratic as allowing negro to marry your
daughter. In North Carolina the ID
old whisky-loving party has recently
been masquerading in the stolen gar
ments of total abstinence. In Virginia
they have devised the new way of pay
ing the State debt by first cheating the
creditor out Of a portion of his just dues
by the scaling-down process, and fore
ing him to accept a 3-per-cent. bond,
and then practically repudiating the
whole debt, principal and interest, by
refusing to levy tax. Happily, here in
Illinois that party is too dead to have
any opinions worth mentioning, and Car
ter fl. Harrison is is only prophet, with
the editors of the Quincy Herald and
the Bloomington Bulletin as its chief
organs.
All the old traditions of the party seem
to have been abandoned, and all the old
battle-cries hushed to silence. In the
different States those in command are
trying to invent new issues that will
win popular support, but are no sooner
tried than given up. Better turn the
old thing over to the possession of Mr..
FIden, clad in its Dolly Warden cos.
tune, and let him manage it for his own
benefit. He is the only man in it that
has shown any capacity for leadership,
infrm and paralytio though he may be,
and is the only person who seems &C
quainted with its subterranean methods
aud possibilities Modern Democracy
is like an Jtndeveloped silver mine; it
requires large amot1nt Of ready capital
to work it successfully, and the man
with the well-filled "bar'l is the only
person who ought to risk an investment.
Chicago Journal.