Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-08-06
ITS OWN BAD CHARACTER.

Two days after the presidential cleo.
ton in 1880 the Chicago Times. then
under the direction of Mr.. Storey
who built it up and was then in the
enjoyment of all his great faculties,
said in discussing the result that the
Democratic party could never be sue.
cessful as against the Republican par
ty, and added:
The Democratic pariy's misfortune
was not in the weakness of its cindi-
date, nor in its reject on of any one
who would have been foNnd NOR
available 1t was in its own bad char
acter, worse history and worst polit;-
cal conduct. When, after great
popular maj ority in New York had
rcpudiated Mr.. Tilien's programme
for 1880, Mr.. Chas. O'Connor de-
clared that ''to elect any man OF this
generation called a Democrat to the
office of president is an absolute i'm
possibility" he condensed in one short
sentence an absolute truth which il
has taken Mr.. Watter-on two years
to discover and formulate in the
statement that. "as party divisions
now stand the Republicans ca" eject
any ticket they may uut IN the field. =
Why SIS party divisions now stand!
Because the bulk of Americans of thi.
generation have no admiration and IA
love, but an intense dislike. Of that
part of our political history with which
the party division lately led by liam
cock has been identified. Standing br-
fore the country in opposition TO that
offensive history and Tie men who are
recognized rs part of il, and still
cherishing AMI glorit, ing il, that par
" is able to enter any contest with thu
the enormous advantage of public sem
timent throughout the more populous.
wealthy and energetic northern sec
ton in its favor. The north. as a sec
ton, has no love or admiration for
southern sectionalism: but the bulk oil
northern people, possessing the great
est intelligence and largest wealth
have yet less love or admiration Tor
that historic Bourbonism whose Other
name is Democratic party. Its per-
sistence As an organic thing asserting
eternal life ia ideas and ideas and ira
ditons, which this age detests, is an
offense against which this country has
periodically protested for many years,
with not diminishing earnestness. In
that protest the so called Republican
party lives and thrivcs just as party
of any other name would which should
have for an adversary the party whose
existence has been linked in history
with all that the bulk of American
brain, wealth and enterprise rejects As
false and mischieyous.
The government party can not be
OverbOrnc in this generation by the
present organized opposition, nor by
any organized opposition of any name
which would preserve what the Ken
lucky journalist appears 10 mean by
"the existing party alignment" The
party of Bourbouism, under any name.
must first dissolve and vanish into the
imperceptible, leaving its individual
units perfectly free to act, every mau
for himself, without organization or
The "solid south" politi
cal condition must, first of all, disap-
pear. How can it disappear This
question is one for every individual
southern man 10 answer for himself.
The election of Mr.. Garfield furnishes
a good opportunity to put the answer
in plain and practical way by the
pursuit of different course 10 that
which the southern politicians rur-
sued when Mr.. Hays held ont to them
the northern olive branch.