Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-11-02
Democratic County Ticket.
SET A GOOD EXAMPLE.

line canvass Is U Couipicte, oiSu-
ment is exhausted, and there remains
only the exhortation to be true to
party, the country and posterity. All
that are privileged to vote should con-
slider that their ballots are rather tests
of themselves than Of candidates, and
that the way communities vote reveals
their real conditions and characters.
In a country like ours, the thoughts
and aims of populations should be
high and noble, and should manifest
themselves as much in the principles
they sustain as in the knowledge and
abilities of those that are selected to
give them effect. Elections, there
fore, may be be ikened to barome-
tiers, that indicate national safety or
danger. If the victorious party is
one of principle; if its design is to
reform corruption, curb political licen-
tiousness and advance true progress,
the example and effect Of sustaining it
must necessarily be beneficial.
In this country, there are many
hundreds of thousands Of youths who
will vote for the first time, either on
Tuesday or two years hence at the
presidential election, to whom the
way the majority Of votes are now
cast, will be an indication of popular
sentiment, and to whom that ballot,
therefore, will be both political exam
pie and education. To such let it
appear by the result on Tuesday that
the democracy is a firm, united and
tolerant party, seeking to deliver the
nation from a corrupt and profligate
government. Let it exhibit devotion
to principle, more than to men. Let
its test of allegiance be concern for
the welfare of the commonwealth.
OF those that would aid in this good
work, let not the inquiry be made,
what have you been, or whence do
you come? but let the welcome be
hearty to all that will help. We need
recruits and the efforts and brains
they bring. With d%issentions ended,
With HEARTFELT old time love re-cement-
ed, the democracy will be victorious
through principle, and not through
greed of persona. p~referent. After
long Punishment, that party will re-
turn to power. For twenty years, it
has been an exile in its own land, and
still it lives, and is destined to survive.
It has seen many parties and factions
decay and pass away, and sooner or
later it will witness the death of re-
p~ublicanism. Crippled and divided,
with its mission accomplished and
ended the Republican party, the bet
ter portion of it being themselves the
judges, is conspicuous for nothing
but its corruption and bossism. The
permanent loss of a single state will
call in its political undertaken, and
then its failure to restore the govern
ment of the constitution will be known
to the young as well as the aged, and
the thoughts of generations to come
be directed to a liberty dependent on
the assertion Of principle, and not
upon the good will Of a million Of
ofice-holdcrs, who should be the SER
wants and not the masters Of commu-
mites and parties.
At this writing we feel hopeful
extremely hopeful-that the majority
Of the nation will so vote as to indi-
cate to all its youth that time and
progress have not rendered it insensi.
BILE to the growing demands of an ad.
vaneing civilization, and that it has .
better example and lesson for its ris'
ing generations than support Of &
party that is loose in its morals, cor
rupt in its practices and profigate il
its use of the public revenues.