Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-08-09
ITS OWN BAD CHARACTER.

Two days after the Presidential cleo ton h lSS0 the Chicago Times, then
 under the direction of Mir. Storey, who
 built it up and was then in the enjoy
 ment of all his great faculties, said m
 discussing the result that the Demo-
 cratic party could never. be successful
 as against the Republican party, and
 added:
 The Democratic psrty's misfortune
 was not m the weakness of its candi- date, nor in its rejection of any one who would have been found more available. It was m its bad character, worse his tory, and worst political conduct. When, after great popular majority in New York had repudiated Mir. Tilden's pro gramme for lSSU, Mir. Charles O'Couor declared that ''tO elect any man of this generation called Democrat to the Of- lice of President Is an absolute impOssi- bility," he condensed Tn one short sen- tence an absolute truth which 1t has taken Mir Watterson two years to dis cover and formulate m the statement that, Gas party divisions now stand, the Republicans can elect any ticket they may put In the field
 Why -as party divisions now stands' Because tue bulk oi Americans Uf this generation have no admiration and no love, bat an intense dislike. of that part D- our political history with which the glEiy division lately Jed by Hancock has been identified. Standing before tto country in opposition Co shat offensive history and tl. men who are recognized ss @ part O- a.. and -,ii. cle-.shing and :.Crt..r- it. that party is able to enter any contest with t.e enormous adyaut- age 70. public sentiment throughout the more IopLl0us. wealthy. and energetic northern section Iu iis favor. The North as a section. has no love or admiration for Southern sccti1nahsm; but the bulk uf Northern people, possessing the great est intelligence ana the largest wealth. have Yet less love pr admiration .or that historic BOuTbonIsm whose other name IS Democratic party. Its persistence as an Ur-auic thing asserting eternal life in ideas and traditions, which this age de- tests. x an Cffense against winch the country has periodically protested for many wears, with not diminishing earn estness. In that protest the sO-cslled Republican party lives and thTives, just m which should have for adversary the party whose existence has teen linked ID history with all that the bulk of American brain. wealth and enterprise rejects Gs false and mischievous.
 The government party cannot be over borne m thIs generation by the pres ent organized opposition. nor by any or sanized opposition If any name which would preserve what the Kentucky jour- nalist appears to mean by the existing party alignment" The party of BOur- bonism. under any. must first dissolve and vanish into the impeTceptible. leav- ing its individual units perfectly free to act. eveTy man for himself, without or ganizstion or leadership. The "sOlid South political condition must, first of all disappear. How can 1t disappear! This question IS one for every individ ual Southern man to answer for himsels. The election of NIT. Garfield furnishes good opportunity to put the answer la a plsin and practical way by the pursuit of different course to that which the Southern politicians pursued when MT. Hayes held ou. to them the Northern olive branch.