The Republican journal., 1882-04-13

Inc democracy Is so divided upon all living
issues that it has recently been seeking inspira-
ton among the dry bones of its dead and gone
leaders. 1t has invoked the spirits of Jefferson
and Jackson; and, very appropriately, the Sc
ance was held under the auspices of the Iroquois
| Club, at Chicago. The name Iroquois is that
of an extinct race, and as the old Democratic
party exists only in name, there was harmony
| in this particular, if not in others. The place
Of this funeral gathering was significant, too,
| for in Chicago met the last National Republican
| Convention, whose nominees We're triumphant
| ly elected over the Democratic candidates. 1t
| WAS i'll Chicago, also, that Lincoln was first
nominated. his election bringing to a close the
| long lease Of power the Democracy had enjoyed.
AZ for the gathering itself, the utterances of the
| speakers We're in no degree remarkable save
| for their indefinit"ness and Il general disagree
ment rs to the future policy of the party. The
| Boston journal thus puts in nutshell the views
| expressed: Mr. Iildcn wrote a letter. but
aside from saving that he could remember
back so far as 1882, and that he believed in the
| Democracy of jackson, the letter is of no in
tcrcst. General Palmer. who is convert of
only few years standing, appeared to condense
| his Democracy into fling at the bill to pension
| General Grant. senator Bayard vaguely refer
red to the tariff as the sllstainer of monopolies
| There was enough of abuse of Republicans
| deal of vague reference to sovereign States of
an ndiSsoube Union, and much praise of the
| Andrew jackson. IN commemoraion of whose
| birthday the meeting was held. Mr.. Watterson
| WAS the only man who had an opinion upon a
| living topic, and who had policy for the future
that was something more than the generaties
ANN The bittrrc~t vindictye. But Mr.. Waiter
>on i not popular among the elders of the
Democratic following"
| jackson and jefferson seem to have been in
yokcd III vain; and 50 far from this seance
soothing TN pcrturbed spirits of the Democ-
rary. it appears to have had a contrary effect
| The Atlanta Georgia. Constitution objects
generally, appropriately terms the utterances
of some Of the oracleS Of its party dry rot
and SITS down upon Mr.. Watterson'S tariff for
| revenue only" with the sensible remark that
| ''Wide-aWakt men in Georgia now see that a
reasonable tariff is necessary to insure the de-
velopmcnt of the growing industries of the
SOUTH While the Democratic Cincinnati En-
| quircr sticks d whole paper of pins into the lag
| gard leaders of the lroquoS Democracy in the
| following heterogeneous: "Wha are the Dem
orraic leader, doing? Or rather. w hat are the
men who ought TO be Democratic leaders doing:
Arc they Yelling for Jackson at Sth of January
| banqurt>, and the like: Are they rcndng the
| ar with their lamentations over the loss of the
| fruits Of victory in 1876? Are they cursing
| John Kelley: Are they harboring narrowing
! "reminiscences Of the Ohio campaign Of 1881? Is
| anl Dodl who has influence and power in the
| party doing anything to put it on a firm basis
| for the future. But ''thr most mkindeSt cut
Of ail' i administered by the ST. Louis Repub-
lican-a Democratic organ. despite its name
Which declares that MIR. WatterSon's speech
twas 4 mixture Of toadyism Of Republicans,
ami M political opinions which jackson spent
hi> tt il eombattng." These be Democratic
criticisms NJ Democratic spoke>men. and it is
not tor Is ~ gan~ay them.
The independent press j. still less tattering
| III" Chicago Times although it supported Mr..
| Iiden for The Presidency and is sometimes quot
c'ta>a Democratic paper, is independent enough
Ia its r'Ni'-W of the results of the Jetferson-Jack-
ION Democracy, which il sums up in the follow
ING mastery style
Upon examining its historic life. we find that
| the old thing Was born of the anti-national no.
tlon of State sovereignty that its earliest poit-
| ical declaration involved the hypothesis of null
jin+I H. ,,.,, ,+I tr ''i'. 'iio"Sn II CoiltI"-
| ,,,, ~ ""'. i".'1' tt'OIH W tAtitlhg lhe
American commerce lin the Jefferson and Mad
| l>on embargo laws, it applied it by DENYING a
tnrt i,rbt M i, ~ /, power 10 pro-
Hill HILL iiIll,s = tII|ehS III th' several states;
harl~ln and protected it bv The same controdic-
tory policy, = 4 local Institution in one kind Of
HIN IA inf n, i' ;,lt r.
nohn linl III oni ~
.mthnritl anI I,it ~ , til ! LIZ ~ IN "a"
friDnIly intnrf,r.nr tt i E7, ~ ~
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ine II tnat rtinl II "M 81 'nlil, i;'ll-
of thu ,aye nrnyn nln%7 W. ,nnntr
fbn lnn.t HMM, ,,l ~ vG9ntls no
| world NH ,.yrr Lnnrn ~ "'i ~
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ny Hl'@'t il''il1 lih's' an independent pa
| pcfWitla deridrd tendency towards Democracy,
cl identity h-i> no s>unatbv win fine ,ttomnt 70
| .t 81 , ,.,
>"' 'i' H'''' u 'h''i party bll mite con-
| tidcnrr i'll is present leaders and but little re-
| >pect for it, traditions and idols OF Jefferson
| it ,,,..o,,t- hi ,,,.;+
! -' l'1't'''
'JrlGl>oh was a great statesman century
| 400 ana Tor some years later. He was the ablest
OF the circle of lntidel philosophers ami patriots
| headed 10y jefferson, Franklin and Paine. who
| pore :" conspicuous part i'll the creation of
| the republic. lie was ambitious he was
|na' l,,,r lt>s nh>rI4Pt'iolS IMAM Burr though
ct arts Of h rma%odne in tbe "yerh srUii,-
| OF the policy of Washington whom he hated
''' f. npr;il' great when the
| I'M nov '''''' .''''s ~ ana
Of .Jack~outb. .,n. i,....,,,..,t io,,r,al s.,.s