Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-26
The Fntnre Of Parties.

Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island, is
the Nestor of the Senate. He is a
thoroughgoing Republican and has held
his little commonw ealth in his bTeeches
pocket for several decades. Mr. An
thony is boss, but highly respectable
one. He is also proprietor of the Provi-
dence Journal, an able exponent of the
tenets of Radicalism. The Journal, in
a recent issue in a thoughtful editorial
on political PARTIES" PROFOUND but
does not answer the question els the
Republican party to be superseded by a
better one ?" The Journal appears to
have clear conceptions of the shOrtcom-
ings of Radicalism, and concludes that
there is considerable number of peo-
pie who think that something better than
Radicalism is to be hoped for.
The Boston Advertiser, another able
exponent of the principles of the ''grand
old party" chimes in with the Journal,
but its notes are loud and clear and dis.
tinct. 1t thinks decidedly that the time
has come to be solicitous as to the party S
future. With a refreshing frankness it
proceeds to state the alarming symptoms
of its patient, though it finally concludes
that there is enough vitality left for its
recuperatiOn. Both of these able organs
agree, as a matter of course, that the
party's past is glorious one, but
the Journal boldly declares that ii
has no right to live upon
its past, while the Advertiser shows pref
ty clearly that the party cannot make
much out of the recent chapters in its
past, and that its present condition is a
matter of the highest concern. 1t
may be rash, though not I'm.
common, to predict party's
speedy demise. The Democratic party,
in the contemplation of able Radical
editors, has been constructively dead for
two decades, and yet it is lively enough
to day to worry its opponents not a lit
tie. 1t is significant, though, that two
representative New England journals
should now be concerned about the inn
mediate prospects of Radicalism.
Both of our contemporaries decline to
admit the possibility of a restoration of
Democracy. Radicalism may be re-
placed with something better, but the
bare contemplation of Democratic su-
premacy shocks them, Nevertheless
more than one-half of the intelligence of
the country persist in the delusion that a
party that has attended the funerals of
several of its predecessors may see few
more opponents die. We do not
know, therefore, that the Radical
party will speedily die, but when our
Boston Republican contemporary tells us
that its trusted servants are trying their
best ito strangle it" we must say we
should not wonder if they succeeded.
The late Mr.. Guiteau boosted that he had
saved it, but if he could contemplate it
at present he probably would change his
opinion.
One thing is certain, there is serene
peace in the Democratic household
throughout the country compared with
the uproar that prevails in the Radical
abode The Philadelphia Press tells us
that the Democrats in Pennsylvania are
remarkably quiet, but that the Radical
factions have kindly gone outside to
fight and left the doors open for them to
slip in. In New York furious war is
progressing between Conkling and Cor
nell, and it begins to look as if the Radi-
cal brotherhood in numerous other
localities were far from living together
in that harmony which is so necessary to
success. Unless all signs fail, the COM
ing party is the Democratic, and if the
| people are true to themselves even Hub
bells corruption fund will be powerless
to save Radlcalism.