New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-28
worst result that fear can suggest there is no
reason for panic.
THE DEMOCRATIC DIs1PPofNTMEyT


THE DEMOCRATIC DISAPPOINTMENT.
The spectacle afforded by the Democratic
party during the late disturbance of harmony
in the ranks of their opponents was really so
pleasing that it is with something like regret
that we observe the rapid gravitation back to
their normal condition of the factions COM
posing that remarkable organization. All
through the struggle in tho Republican party,
which has just ended with the extinction Of
90 ossisn :" and the establishment OF majority
rule, our Democratic friends have seemed to
enjoy themselves beyond measure. For the
time they ceased pitching into each other, and
stood oft, wide-mOuthed and hilarious, over the
disturbance in the Republican camp They egged
on first one wing then the other of the warrin o
wings OF their opponents, and with unbounded
glee applauded the hard hits of each, while,
with occasional asides to the public, they de-
precated the low tone of public morals engen-
dered by Republican rule They have not
been so merry in many years as during the
past three months in this State. The noise OF
the jarTing of their own factions for the
time ceased They stopped firing ut each
other, and leaning on their heated squirt
guns, let them cool off while they looked
on smilingly at the faction fights of their ad-
versaries. 1t almost made Republicans re-
signed to the situation to see what q harmo-
nizing effect their falling out among them
selves had upon their opponents. It was such
strange political phenomenon to see the
cats and dogs of Democracy living together
in peace and enjoying sereney the con-
temptation of Republican quarrel.
The end of it all, however, seems to surprise
them. SO long as the struggle continued and
the Republicans were kept divided by the
purely personal questions arising out of the
precipitate action of Mcssrs Conkling and
Platt, they could afford to sit still and look on
only bestiTing themselves occasionally to feed
the fire and keep the quarrel hot. While
it was in progress they hattered them
selves with the delusion that perma-
ment disintogration of their opponents
was to be the result, and that in
the renewed hope of success which this divi-
sion of the opposition would awaken the De-
mocracy would assemble and reunite their own
scattered factions. They talked confidently
| about carrying New-York at the fall election ;
they set down Ohio as surely Democratic and
the old dead and wtbered hopes of carrying a
Presidential election three years hence began
to spring up and show signs of budding once
more into life. 1t was tho old, old story over
again. The only hope the Democratic party
has had for more than twenty years re-
vived again-the hope of achieving success
through the mistakes and divisions of their
| opponents. For this party has originated
nothing, proposed nothing, undertaken moth
ing in ali the years it has been in q minority
| upon which it has dared go to the people for
Endorsement approval. 1t has been strictly
| and consistently an opposition party q
party of negatiOns, offering nothing, criticising
everything; always waiting upon the blunders
or divisions of the party in power to furnish
it the opportunity to succeed. The Senatorial
question in this State precipitating, as they
supposed, q quarrel between one wing of the
party and the Administration, gave them their
chance, and they chuckled over it.
The result disappOints them. Instead of
having opposed to them party torn and
divided by Internal discussions and split
up between warning factions, they find them
selves confronted by united organization
stronger and more harmonious than ever, with
the leaders in agreement with each other and
all causes of disturbance removed. Tho retire
| ment of ex-senator Conkling from active
politics eliminates the one inharmonious
element and leaves the party solid, united,
strong; stronger to-day than at any time in the
past ten years. With all his brilliant talents
| and his great power as political leader it
js very evident tHat MS retirement from
the field III which he too often set his
! own personal ambition above party success
or the welfare of the country has strength
| oned instead Of weakened his party.
Meantime our Democratic friends, whose
faction fights have only suffered an armistice,
| are all ready to break out with renewed viru-
| lcnce. The hope of success which might have
barmOnized them momentarily in the State,
| and perhaps-th0ugh that is more doubtful
| in the city, has departed. The quarrel over
the division of such spoils as are left them will
| presently break out afresh There are indca-
| tons of it already. No wonder they are dis
| appointed. Instead of marching to I'm easy vic
tory over divided opposition as they fondy
dreamed of doing few weeks ago, they see their
opponents united and strong, while they are left
with all their own old unsettled differences ON
hand. Just now they are expressing their dis
| gust at the situation in an elaborate address
| to the people. This having been attended to-
the factions will separate and take the RIM
without gloves. Then New-York politics will
| assume their normal condition.
MIR. GLADSTONES LAST SUCCESS.
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