The Red Cloud chief., 1884-07-25
To Be Congratulated ].

The Republicans are TO be coBgrs.u
Ated because they do not ''v.ew witt
Solicitude" the acton Of the Democrat.
at Chicago. Pitiab!e indeed must b.
the condition OF those who are reduced
10 a solicitous dependence upon the OLD
Democratic parry. One might witt
some reason despair Of self-government
and might regard the future of the Ma
zion As gloomy in the extreme. if the
Only chance of good government Were
such chance rs the democratic party
can offer.
1t is worth while to remember that !:
stream can not rise higher than it,
source. The very best that IAN pOssi5l,
DE expected OF the Democratic party j:
that the wishes and feelings of the aver.
age OF its voters NAV be represented in
its nomination and platform. and in il:
conduct o. affairs if successful. To ex.
pcct more TO suppose that in some
miraculous way the good men, who
have no chance in Democratic caucuse.
and conventions. and who are smo,h-
cred under unit rules, twO-tiird rules.
and the potent influence of barrels
will nevertheless make the CANDIDATE
and the Platforms surely the heigh,
OF folly. If these Democratic good men
could get possession of the Government.
they could not keep it for an hour.
The raging torrent of ravenOus poll
ticians which would then burst upon
the capital could be resisted only BY a
President of extraordinary power, sus-
tanned by a Congress in hearty SYM
pa,hv with reform. and conscious of the
support of the great body of those who
elected him. Who imagiDes that the
party which has put the knife to Pen
dleton would encourage and sustain a
President in reform? Who imagiDes
that a Democratic Congress. which de-
iberately steals the seats Of Republicans
olected by the people. would coun-
tenance a reform President?
What are the wishes and feelings of
, active Democratic politicians? Let
Any man who means To b. conscien-
thus and patriotic ask himself that
question. He can nOt deny that four
fifths OF the party supporieit the attempt
to stoSl the votes # Oregon, and would
have ae DICED if the votes of Florida
had bern bought. Can any refo m
grow in suCh soil? Does any honest
and conscientious man imagine that it
is possible Consider again: did not
than the average Of Democratic
politicians in Intelligence. and far more
than the half gf them IN number, heart
lily welcome tire Norey forgery. and
labor with great zeal TO make it foully
effective. and conceal contradictions of
it rs far as possible, sui stoop to lie
about it wherever tbero was a hope of
success? Honest men know what the
fact was. They know whether a party
which stoops to such things can be ex-
pected to give the country pod govern
ment.
Within the past year there AVE been
several tests. The truth Mo6tpolitical
murders in Mississippi and Nfrk mia has
been published. Has the aversGaD Dem
ocratic voter felt any regret q o1lered
any censure? Vile SANDERS II 1ar.
Blaine have been circulated iMiuG>r-
ously, and the truth about theAs IS
been carefully suppressed becsdAe q
would justify him. Has the asenAqsI
Democratic voter refused to us6 V(kee
he knew was foul calumny? Caucus {!
convention have been bought in Ohm
and . seat in the Senate secured bTl
means which ought to be indignantly
condemned by every decent man. Have
the average Democrats, OF Ohio or Of
other States. shown any aversion for
the corruptionists? Is there any man
Of common sense who seriously hopes
for honest government or any kind of
reform from such . party?
The constituent elemonts Of the Dem
ocratic party have not changed. No
thaumsturgic Art has transformed the
men who made the Democratic party
what it was ip 1860, OF 1864. or 1858,
or 1872, or 1876. or 1880. No miracle
has been wrought upon the men who
perpetrated all the shameful things that
the Democratic party has done within
the past twenty-five years. What they
were, they are. The worst that they
ever have done, infamous as Il is, the
Democratic party would do again with
absolute certainty, II it had the same
motive and occasion. Yet this is the
party to which some persons slook
with extreme sOlic;tude."
Republicans do not look in that d.
for virtue. purity, reform or pat
They are not 50 weak that
they an forget in an hour the whole
record Of . quarter Of > century. They
can not stoop so low as { o depend upon !
the Democratic party for PRINCIPLES or
candidateS-N. j. Tribune.