New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-04
GLLEENGED DEMOCRACY.

According TO all accounts Mr.. Thurman the
younger has successfully expressed the feeling
which a great many Democrats of Ohio have
about the nomination of Judge Hoadly. The
aforesaid Mr. Allen w. Thurman is of the
opinion that Judge Hoadly is not any kind OF II
Democrat, and that as between HoaGly and
some other Republican of decent character and
ability, a consistent and self respecting Dem
ocrat is at liberty to prefer the other Republi-
can. Some time before the nomination it was
remarked that Judge Hoadly might come to
grief in this way. Democrats of the old school,
who do not care to do penan CO for all that they
have said and every vote they have cast since
the war began, read Judge Hoadly's criticisms
upon their course with very little enthusiasm.
His notion of anew Democracy "a sort OF
expurgated edition of the Democratic party
with everything Democratic carefully left out
fails to touch their hearts.
But then, Hoadly's barrel"! II is the fash
ionable thing in Democratic circles now to as
sumo that the people can always be bought, il
there is money enough. The principal reason
these Democrats will give. confidentialiy, for
believing that Mr.. Tilden acaS elected, is that
a man with SO much money could not possibly
have been defeated. Ever since that unhappy
campaign the average Democratic worker,
having a taste Of "sugar," insists on having
candidate who can ado the square thing"
According to current Democratic reports, Judge
Hoadly and Mr. Bookwalter have joined forces,
ami their united bank account is large. The
theory is that the late Mr.. Pockethookwalter,
after running about $4,000 votes behind for
Governor, would like to be Senator Of the
United States, and like other men of the kind
favored by the "new Democracy" conceiyes
that il is merely q question of how much y
e he spends literally, and Judge Hoadly
spends literally, it is reasoned that the
State cannot possibly vote against the party
they represent. Then, with Judge Hoadly on
fhe high road TO the Presidency, and Book
walter in the Senate things would be in i
satisfactory state-fOr the Democracy Of the
pocket book.
The principal difficulty with this little barter
is that the State of Ohio may possibly be not
for sale. No one doubts that a considerable
sum of money can be found by the Hoady-
Bookwalter combination; the question is
whether the voters want it as much as the
Democratic "bummers and "strikers'
Hanging on the outskirts of political party,
in these days, are men who have " influence"
for sale. But the voters who compose the main
body Of both parties are thinking much more
of certain principles to be promoted and certain
interests to be guarded as the discussion in
Ohio already shows. A mere bargain for the
division of the spoils does not necessarily settle
things in that State. The Republicans may
choose to vote for their own principles and
their own candidate. And the Democrats who
can find no Democratic principles and no DEM
ocratic candidate in the race, may see FIT not to
vote at all, after fashion which Mr.. Book
walter ought to remember.
There are times when bargains and lavish
expenditures are effective, to some extent.
But pocket book politics does not always win.
1t does come to pass, sometimes, that large
majority of tho voters care not much for the
jobs or the 1barrel,' bur very much for prln-
ciples When such men are asked, Are YOU