New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-01
TERY DLSCOERAGING.


| scented at this moment by the various factions
in this city of that great and patriotic psrty to
which the country is looking to "turn the ras-
| calls out" Here is country which might have
| been enjoying the blessings of African slavery
| tn this day had it net been for the Republican
| party but for that party we might have had
| two countries instead of one; might h'v' had
| a beautifully variable and gracefully buctuat-
| ing currency, independent OF the uncertainties
of mining, and limited only by the capacity oil
our paper mills might have continued in the
possession of vast tracts of land unveXed by
railroads and untrodden of the foot OF man
might be removed from the danger OF incurrng
debt by the reputation of former obligations
| and the destruction of credit; might still be
| listening TO the inspiring crack of the whip In
| the Senate. or admiring che fine plantation
| manners of our ruler, in tire House; might be
| ENJOYING the benign patriarchal role OF those
martyrs of Democracy, the sanity souls VINO
went into exile with Connolly or to prison with
| Tweed. These are The things which might
| have been, bad it not been for the Repuhhcsn
party. Having gloomily contemplated them
| for years, the Democratic party has been at ias'
summoned by The DAILY Parrot to rise up and
turn the rascas out" 1t il great comfort to
| good men 60 hear this cry; To observe Its
origin and notice the class OF patriots who are
| getting ready to respond. 1t has been re-
MAJ ked in all ages that to pro note the growth
| of craftsmanship and the increase of statesmen
there is nothing like whiskey. Of course the
selling of whiskey and rnsing OF tumblers In
connection Herewith produce a higher order OF
statesmen than the mere drinking of it; but
oil and zltI alaV leF
together and it may be safely stated that what
they don't know about what Mr.. Kelly calls
governmental systems" is hardly worth Look
ing uD. Good men are comforied to observe
that it is from this class of thoughtful citizens
the habitua readers of The Ddty Parrot. from
whose columns they have learned that all
Republicans are hypocrites and most OF them
thieves-that the cry is beginning to ascend,
"Turu the rascals out"
But. AS has been said, there is something
almost sad in the reflection that while the
whole country is looking to the great DEM
ocratic party to 90 forward under tho leader
shin of The Parrot and turn the rascals out"
the great Democratic party Is not entirely III
accord with itself that it is not only widely d-
yIled upon questions of tariff and currency and
internal improvements, but that it Is cut up
into wings and factions whose sole purpose Is
TO make war upon each other, and whose
leaders openly and publicly imDugn each
others honesty and uprightness. Hard
is it, indeed, for the country when the
great PARTY upon which it depends to
"turn the rascals out" is itself divided
into factions which charge each other with
rascalty "a bad as any for which Repub-
hcans are denounced and refuse to trust each
other with 80 much as the management OF
primary even when that management Is pro-
tected by law making the penalty for NAL
feasance Imprisonment for three years or fine
of $4,000. This is the present gloomy con-
d,tion of affairs The Republican @rascals "
whose rascalities above referred to are motor
ious, such as abolishing slavery, making credit
stable and currency fixed and permanent,
opening vast tracts of land to settlers, estaD-
fishing union, peace, order and reverence for
law, driving out of power the Twseds and Con-
nollys of the Democratic regime, etc.-can
hardly be turned out unless the Democratic
factions act in harmony. And this they cannot
do unless they can have some little confidence
in each other. But how shall this be when one
of them, the County Democracy, Pounds itself
upon the fundamental fact that another-Tam-
many-is the sum of all political wickedness
and corruption, which it is the duty of all good
men to combine and exterminate as a political
force, while Tammany stubbOrnly refuses to
take part in primaries conducted by the County
Democracy because it cannot trust that organ
ization, and third refuses to trust either of
the other twO3
This is the discouraging feature OF the stu
alton. Good citizens who have witnessed in
past years the reforming zeal of the Democratic
leaders and statesmen who have studied "gov-
ernmental systems" as astronomers do stars,
through glass, mad begun to take heart when
they heard this large and useful class lift up
The Parrots cry, Turn the rascals out" But
it dsheartens them to see the lack of conf
deDce in each other, the mutual suspicion and
distrust by which the usefulness Of the students
of governmental systems" is seriously i'm
paired and their enterprise imperlled. The
unanimity and heartiness with which all fac
tons of the Democracy took up the cry against
the rascals" gave promise of stromendous re-
suits. They AL put at extreme hazard
though when that great party itself divides and
its leaders and rank and file begin calling each
other "rascals" and refuse to trust each other.
The resulting confusion makes tho war-cry am
biguous and uncertain. If the State Conven-
ton admits either one of the contesting dele
cations from this city, the other two will be
liable to be misunderstood when they howl
under the windows, "Turn the rascals Out.r
And if all three are admitted, it will be dan
gerous for either one to raise the.war-cry in the
Convention; for it would be construed as an
offence bY both the others. 1t is very desir-