The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-06-15
DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS \ NATION
AL NECESSITY.
from New York Herald. |

From New York Herald.
\ correspondent writes from North Car
| olina to ask us very pertinent and inter
esting question. 1t is contained in the
/ following extract from his letter.
AS YOU know We were practically one
of the old border States, midway between
the lakes and the Gulf. We are therefore
sensitive to the political influences that
| come down from the North and to those
| that come up from the South. This Is
seen in the fact that in 1894 twenty seven
| counties out of ninety-SlX rolled up a ma
! jority for the Republican ticket.
4 Now, then we are called upon to con
/ slider the claims of the two great political
| parties to the sutfrages of the people. We
+ want to decide for the best interests of the
/ whole country, without reference to the
ambitions of either contestant. Will the
! Herald take a look at the situation and
/ tell rs what 1t sees.
Well. suppose we begin by saying that
when the people called the Democratic
party to the front it was because they be
lieved it would efficiently and honestly
serve their interests; that when they sent
the Republican party to the rear 1t was
because they had come TO distrust It.
These important facts suggest the answer
called for.
1t has always been our habit to accept
the verdict Of the people with unwavering
confidence. Their jud gment i generally
as just as their authority is supreme
Their welfare is staked on every decision
they render With a keen eye to their
own prosperity they measure "a policy by
its practical results, and if they denounce
or approve you may be sure they have the
best of reasons therefor
The laboring population of Europe is a
huge, unwieldy mass, moved by impulse
and controlled by passion; sometimes right,
but frequently wrong-a storm, blizzard,
a cyclone. In this country it is made up
Of individuals. is not like the drops of
water IN a tidal wave as unreasonipg as
they are resistless, but like drops Of water
frozen into separate hailstones. who know
thafthe government is their own creation,
subject to their own will, and who conse-
quently effect changes by the ballot box
in preference 10 a revolution.
If, therefore, we seek the reason for the
peoples action in 1884 we find it easily.
Mr. Blaine has recently recognized it, and
with the shrewdness of a practised states
man left the field to more ardent and
short sighted aspirants He sees that the
country, with large common sense, will
refuse to commit the fortunes of the Re
public to the personal ambition of any
man, and so withdraws The other Re
publican leaders will learn by the votes of
November that a party which cannot rep
resent the whole country shall not repre-
sent any part Of it, and that the sectional
ism which coins the dead and dread hos
tilities of the past into political capital is
regarded as a crime that will ultimate
unless rebuked, in the very disunion which
million men died to prevent.
If we readily admit it to have been for
rlnate that there was a Republican part,
in 1860 we as confidently assert that IL
inability to recognize the entire country
since the surrender at Appomattox is ;
national disaster. The highest politica
as well as moral duty of those days was t.
fight with all orr might; OF these days j
is to forgive with all our might, and t.
: forget for the sake Of the future. Th
party of continued revenge may hope t.
regain power by an appeal to our preju
dices and fears, but the folly of endanger
ing the peace of the Republic for the ben
eft of a few politicians is only equalled b.
! the crime of leaving an unsettled quarre
5 to the next generation.
4 The success of the Democratic party
4 therefore a national necessity. Its failGr
under present circumstances would be
S national calamity. 1t has fallen into som
i grave blunders- deny H?-but it
firm faith in the unity of the country
: the salvation Of the country. If it some
times goes too far in the right directlo
we must still confess that this is bette
than going too far in the wrong direction
In treating the South with magnanmity
J and thus welding the broken bonds of
. union that is to last for centuries, it doc
q credit to the memory of the noble dea
# and carries to their legitimate results tn
l. victories won by our veterans. Those die
/ and these fought for union that shoul
\, be imperishable. If, therefore, Kepubl
S can sectionalism would destroy the fruit
e of their labors it is fortunate for the pee
. pie that the Democratic party has damne
+ up the mad tide Of hostility and adopte
as it's policy No North, No South, No Eas