The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-01-07

SENATOR W. A. WALLACE, in the
January number of the North Ameri-
can ReU'el0, has an able paper on the
mission of the democratic party, 10
which be does not coincide with the
views OF those lame democrats who
think the late election sounded the
death-knell OF the party as now con-
stituted. Mr.. Wallace does not men
ton the fact. but the democracy is
stronger to-day, in point of Plumbers,
than ever before. 1t contains more
voters than st any time during its ex
istence, and its principles are more
firmly believed In than ever before
II hiss not yet been officially deter
mined whether Gen. Hancock or Gen.
Garfield had the larger number Of
votes in the late election. One thing
is certain. the republican candidate
fell come distance short of having a
majority Of the fetal vote. With such
q showing tits nonsense to talk about
the democratic party being dead, or
showing indications OF going to decay.
A party with the principles UPON
which the democracy is founded
cannot die in a republic. Itis.one of
the peculiarites of our federal sys-
tenn that minorities frequently rule.
and It has so happened that at the
last two presidential elections the
successful candidates we're not the
choice of the people. There has been
Encouragement OF the democratic
party, snd the Wickedest sort of
laundering on the part OF leaders, but
those things cannot affect principles,
nor will they kill the organic alton.
They have kept democracy out
Of the place which it isl
destined to occupy, and may
DO so for years. but every deieatI
only proves more strongly the neces-
SHY Tor the success Of democracy if
the Union is to be preserved and
government continued on the prin
oIples upon which it Was founded.
The longer the republicans are in
peWer, tne further from those prin. :
ciPles are We strsying. The late /
defeat OF democracy was due to a
series OF gross blunders, as well az a =
departure from the theories >
OF the psrty. Lacking 10 wisdom and
in She bravery that is neces-
ssry foT victory, the leaders CO. il
quoted with the enemy, worshiped Il
strange gods, and gave themselves M Il
10 vice and political iuiquity. They n
deserved their fate. but the party was st
not to blame, though it had to suffer. Il
Senator Wallace, in his paper, after = =
'iting the causes which led to the n,
aking OF the control of government
rom the masses, and vesting it in q ID
entTalizing power, tells what the Tff
must do in order 10 regain mr.
Is heritage. Among the events and
which have kept the masses an
q the background for twenty years. "a
7ere 1.-THE civil war, the creation and - -
ocular manipulation Of the public 90
cot, Reconstruction outside tie Con- an
tuition, universal negro suffrage, a 90
lathora of paper money, loose public IN,
lorals. enormous growth of private /.
rtunes, and q close connection Ct lbs
.e government with the banking in eA'
rests, Each had lbs weight in sap rio,
ng the foundations Of e government
: the masses, and in shaping our Ho
uEse toward different rule" The ger
nueman follows with as clear q mi,
atement Of the situation as could be {
ade: pen
Tho tendance ,ovs,a vac
onSer government i As msn SSs'is :. doc
the causes that have given it form. It 3
IL the nature Of things ioI government A