The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1882-09-02
The Party Of the Future.
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Charleston Is. C.l News
The political party which is first
to stop playing hide-and-seek with
the people win be the political
party of the future. AS long as
the two great political parties, the
Democratic and Republican, con-
time their efforts to be all things
to all voters, and to be, politically
speaking, in two places at one and
the same time, the Republican par
ty win remain in power. These
are our convictions, and they find
strong confirmation in a leading
article in which the New York
Herald, with unusual earnestness
and directness, tells Democratic
correspondent, who despairs of
the country when he sees the Re-
publicans openly using the money
of the people to keep themselves
in place, that the country is all
right, and is waiting. "What it is
waiting for is a Democratic party
which shall have confidence and
sense enough to unite on a reme-
dy for abuses which the country
sees plainly enough The Herald
SAYS:
"The American people move
slowly, but they are not blind.
They see what goes on. They have
shown themselves for several
years inclined to a change of ad-
ministration. That is sufficiently
proved by the very narrow major
tiles the Republicans have been
able to maintain IN both Houses of
Congress, and by the result of the
last two Presidential elections.
But when the great American yo-
ter changes his servants he means
to have a better set in the place Of
those he turns out, and OH the
whole he is right. What encour-
agement did intelligent voters
and il is those who control the
destinies of parties-what prom
Use of better things did these get
from the ridiculous attitude of the
Democratic party in 1880, when its
Presidential candidate wrote con-
gratulatory letters to Greenback
candidates in Maine, and reassur.
ing letters to high tariff men in
New Jersey, and the party which
had declared itself for honest adj
ministration and a tariff for reve-
Hnue only had for its chief manager
Mr.. Barnum, an extreme protec.
ZIONIST, known chiefly in connec.
ton with "mulesf' What is the
use of Senator Pendleton making
perfunctionary orations about q
permanent civil service, when an
official report proves that the Dem.
ocratic Senators, when they were
lately in the majority, made "a sweep
of the employees of their own
body I"
The Democratic party was de-
feated, and has been among the
outs for more than twenty years.
How was this accomplished. The
Herald says:
"The Republicans of quarter
of a century ago had a policy and
faith in it and courage to declare
it, and so they after a while car
ried tho people with them and got
the voters to turn out the corrupt
and demoralized party in power.
They did this in the face of politi-
cal assessments, of jobbery and
maladministration of all kinds.
The plain truth is that when the
people want a change, and believe
that they can make It to their adj
vantage, no assessments, no jobs
can keep them from doing their
will. Whenever they see, opposed
to the Republicans Of the present
day. a party with honest, courage
Gus and sensible leaders, who will
stand by the people if they are
elected, they will put that party in
power. Until then they will prob
ably stick to the Republican party.
In our belief they are wise in so
doing.n
There is no sentimentalism, no
exaggeration, in such statements
as those the Herald makes. Out
side of the South where there are
oyer-powering local issues, the
conclusions of the Herald express,
we are sure, the sober thought of
the people in general. The Dem
ocratic party viii not return to
power, and does not deserve to
return to power, until 1t shall cease
to fear defeat-until it shall avow
its political faith and be ready to
die fer that faith, until It shall
think more Of being rieht than Of