The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-03-18
The Ultimate Triumph Of the Democ.
racy.


Without any circumlocution we adj
nit that the Democratic party is not in
power in either branch of the Federal
Goyernment-Executive, Judicial or
Legislative we assert, defiantly
challenging denial, that the Republican
party is in power by virtue of unparal-
leled infamies. The Republican party
is not in power by virtue of the verdict
of the American people. Its success is
the outgrowth of perjury, forgery, du-
plicity and spoils. 1t is in power, but
it will not be able to maintain its strong
holds The triumphs of crime are short
lived The past of the Democratic par
ty is inspiring. Its present demon
strates that it is destined to outlive and
live down Republican lies, and that its
future is to be luminous with untold
blessings will be doubted only by those
who prefer doubts to demonstrations.
"The Democrats" says Forney's Pro-
gress, ''are the natural governors Of this
democratic country. The Republicans
are the offspring of one of the exception
al intervals of evil; the parenthesis of
parties; natural, but wholly unnecessary
in the grammar of American history.
The mere fact that the Republicans claim
to have saved the Republic from the
rebellion, and yet are whipped out OF
their majority in one-third of the
Union, and hold only bare selvage
in the other portion, shows that they are
not only intruders, but incompetents.
They have all the advantages of money,
place, plumber and craft, and they bare
ly save their distance. Why? Because
they lack the chief expedient of sinceri-
ty. They have no confidence in them
selves, and nobody has any confidence
in them. That is the secret of their SUI
icide. 1t would be monstrous if it were
otherwise. The Democrats are as natu-
rally the masters of this continent as
real peoples are the makers of real con-
situations. The Republicans, or Wings,
or Federalists, are as spasmodic as con-
tagion born of bad titles, bad weather,
accidents and war, and as logically tenn
porary; while the Democrats are the
growth of history, health, reason and
the harmony of things. The Republic
ans or Wings of the United States, like
the Tories of England and the Imperial
lists of France, never win save by expe-
dents or the calamities of their adverse
ries. The Democrats of the United
States, like the Liberals of England, the
people of Ireland, the Radicals of
France, are the great body of the State,
the popular sentiment, the foundation
and the superstructure of the whole Ma
tional edifice; frequently obscured and
overcome, and sometimes mistaken,
but in the end the supreme power
and ultimate dictator. Life is no more
eternal; death is not more absolute than
| Democracy. We trace this stern axiom
in the whole present phase of humanity.
The Democracy are Reproductive poor,
the toiling masses, the impulsive, gen.
erous, frequently laundering multitude,
but always educating each other, help
ing each other, forever correcting their
own errors and chastising those who
deceive them" Those who have faith
in the eternal fitness of things, who be-
lieye that ''truth crushed to earth shall
rise again." and that ssthe eternal years
of God are hers,n will not despair OF
the ultimate triumph of the Democratic
party. The country is even now re-
quired to contemplate with undisguised
horror the march of retributions-
teau, Arthur, Conkling, Blaine, Dorsey
and Grant-links, swivels and coupling
pins in the chain of infernalisms that
will eventually drag the Republican
party down to its native haunts. Earn.
est work, harmonious counsels, long
pull, strong pull, and pull altogether
will achieve success.-Isdiand Statt
Journal.