Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-24
COMMUNICATIONS.
The Political Situation.

To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 The Republican bolters call, with it's long
 list of most reputable names, is enough to
 set even the ssmithoughtful man to think
 ing. The troubleswish the call is that there
 is not yet 8 suficiency of circumstances,
 The Democratic party has not constructed
 it's platform, nor has it selected it's candidates
 Still the ultimate action of the bolters may
 be predicted. There but four things
 which they can do. They can take it all
 back and go in for the regular nominee with
 extra zeal to atone for temporary detection
 their most probable outcome. They can
 negatively to Democratic s.Gv1S>>,ss -cnntrihuts
 which stands second, but very bad second,
 in the list of probabilities. They can unite
 with other bolters, form a new party, and
 appeal to independence, risky expedient iu
 these days of the slow construction of polltl-
 cal machinery. Or they can support the
 Democratic candidate, their least likely &C.,
 ton, but the one most worthy of considera
 ton from a strictly Democratic point of
 view.
 To secure the bolters' vote for Democrat,
 he must be of national fame, of tried ability,
 aad ofsincorruptible honor. And the plat
 form built to sustain him must contain no
 plank not sawed and planed according to the
 best rules of political carpentry. The men
 and the platform presented must be so worthy that the bolters cannot refuse them without displaying falseness of purpose and hypocrisy of intent. No ordinary Re- publican will vote the Democratic ticket if
 he can possibly escape the unpleasant duty. So let not the Democracy indulge in prema- ture rejoicing; but let it redouble care and in yoke wisdom.
 There is another and an equally important point for Democratic consideration. Bolting is in the air; it is infectious. Democrats are perhaps not so inclined to the indulgence as Republicans. A party which can hold it's members to the support of a lifelong enemy, az in the Greeley campaign, is not likely under ordinary circumstances to suffer from defection. But the circumstances are not or dipary Party ties are loosened by long felt, widespread and ever increasing disgust with | the incompetency and rascality of political leaders and representatives. If Republican statesmen have done most of the big stealing, | it is perfectly proper to reply that Democrat l ic honesty has been the offspring of neces- sity. With equal opportunity, villainy would have been divided. The doirgs of the present Democratic House are so contempti- ble and so insulting to the plainly declared wants and requirements of the people that it will be difficult matter for any active member to be reelected. MT. Morrison s tariff bill was the beginning of the disap pointments which have SO shaken Democratic fealty that there is but little lefts to it. Any one with the political sagaeity of the hum blest of John Kelly's heelers should have
 recognized the folly of an attempt to fire the
 Democratic heart with Republican meas ure diluted. As well try to make Demo crAt of Republican by pairing him down all around as to attempt by horizontal reduc- ton to convert Republican into Demo- cratic measure. If Republicanism has, in the minds of some men, become synonymous with dishonesty, Democracy has, in the minds of quite as many, become synonymous with incompetency. If 8 Republican must be knsve and Democrat fool, why not devise new political names and parties which carry no such obligations2 Names are worse than worthless which deceive and parties have survived their usefulness which no longer fulfill their promises This country is too great and too good for intelligent men to re main any longer quiet and silent witnesses of iEs demoralizstion. Now supine we have be- come that we permit representatives to snap l their fingers in our faces. Every Congress- man, who is not 8 fore-ordained imbeciie, l knows the will of the people on importan; l topics; and yet for all that Congress does fol l the people, it might as well be the instrH- ment of foreign and hostile power. If the | departments of the government were com l trolled by enemies of republican instltu- l tions, those institutions could not be more ! disgraced than they are at present. The rev l elations of the last few days show that 1t ll not an extraordinary thing for felonies to be 1 compounded in the department of law and l justiceI It seems at times as if the country would be benefited if the District of Go. 1 lumbia, with Congress in full session, and | the Supreme court in full bench, could be l lowed down the Potomac, out to sea and sunk
 The Democracy has. therefore, double and most important duty to perform. And circumstances all so peculiar that 1t may find l it as difficult to keep it's own ranks as to l recruit them. If it should commit one more of the phenomenal blunders which have marked it's career for the last twenty years no power can hold it's ranks together The country will see then combined bolt oi ! magnificent proportions. and one that will ! not rest from it's labors till both of the pres ent parties have been efectually and forever l destroyed. PROSPECT HILL.