The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-11
DEMOCRATIC PARTY HlSTa'
South Bend Times lna,p

II may readily be adul,,.s
are and have been for year Ivy
lerenees OF opinion among dsmos...
regard TO questions bearing ,'s
nomic and financial proposition. ~.
ures. AT times these dIffers,s- =
stoned some turbulence and q
OF confusion. Persor5 n sS~
things were entirely new bsc.rs
and sometimes panic-strickep =, ~
nized in these upheavals sure .,.'
evitable dissolution and coIlsn me- =
somehow in due course Of time ,As.. !.
PESTS subsidized and the partv ~
afterward found doing business !, 4, y,
stand. sns
1t VIII be SO again. Nobody ca y,
long democrats viii quarrel oys, q.
and expansion. All OF sudden 49,.
when least expected, some issue IN M
up, championed by Strong. po,.,.. n
Ell that VIII bring the brethren ,o...
IN solid phalanx. Such has besr =.
tvs experience in the past and an. !.
be in the future.
During Jackson's time the 49,.
party had Its dissensions over n. 81.
States bank. the tariff, and nullIs,.,,.
SO iercely ragged the battle taat y,,,'
at one time threatened to hang ous !, y
unruiy democratic antagonists. n ~
person than the noted South go.
Thereafter, John @. Calhoun.
The party got into an awful -
ever Martin Van Buren,, result,,s
crushing defeat In 1910 and fra ~. y
OF William Henry Harrison 10 IN ~.
dency. ~ p'e7
But after calling one ancther vs,, !.
names, the brethren got torctbsr
and elected James X. Polk presIdsss :, "
a whoop. ~
This good fortune in 1874 naaa n. 4.
gay, and in 1S4s they got into ss,.s'
racket, running two presidential 49,.
one headed by that superb Miehiy1ss,
General Lewis Cass, and the other h A,
smooth statesman of New York MN
van Buren. OF Course, the opposition I,
triumphant, electing Zachary Taylor h N
presidency. :"
In 1852 the democrats mutually fo,,,,
one another aud pulled together and ma
New Hampshire man, Franklin pIs,.
president, overwhelmingly defeating nv
eral winfield Scott, a military hero
some trouble appeared on the mann /,
1896, but the democrats managed "a ~,
clear of breakers by nominating and ~,
ing a polished old Pennsylvania bach,s
James Buchanan, to the presidency.
Through his perverseness and s.s.,,,
bad party management, formidable uut,,
broke out in the democratic canlu, Nh.
terness between the followers OF Dpch,n,
and Douglas was intense. Right hers h
Indiana, at the democratic State ccu,,p.
ton held at indianapolis in 1860, nsry
every leader on the stage was aruk
Judge Robert Lowry presided. He va
supporter of Douglas, and an enthusiast.
one at that. Largely as a result q NJ I
tact and discretion an actual conhia n,
happily averted.
The democratic National convention ii
1860 was first held in the city OF charls-
ton, S. c. After deliberating, qusrslln
and halloting for week, without bslH
able to reach an agreemnt, the conyen'in
was adjourned to Baltimore. There IN '
contest was renewed. It resulted Ii "
nomination of two tickets--one headed y
Stephen A. Douglas and the other BY l'li
c. Breckenridge. or course, the rpus
licans won for the first time 10 Their hl
tory. Abraham Lincoln was elected rresr
dent The war began soon after his o.
auguration. Democrats were divided . |
sentiment, but they got together 10 III
and carried pretty much everything-l,,
such States as New York, PsanHl
yania, Ohio, Indiana and number =
other Northern commoLwealths
They quarreled over the war In 1864 ~
General George B. Mcclellan was bht
defeated IN his race for the preslielT
The party was fairly barmnious 10 ~
hough the greenback questi L was qditstf
element of discord. The platform W
made fcr champion OF the grteae'a
cause, but the candidate. Horatio seynr
was the very embodiment Of the ~
money sentiment.
In 1872 carpetbag rule and reconsuf'
ton were the leading issues. Tne llns'l
republicans nominated Greeley and p'a''
for president and vice president ala Y
democrats ratified these nomination. w
on. But a good many democrats c'uA =
persuade themselves TO forgive he'i.
Greeley for the naughty things as
said about them in the New io'A :.
bune, and so General Grant was Ie-s''s'
by large majorities.
In 1874 the money question cams
again. In the West the democrats ssns''
ly adopted the greenback view NmS
the East the hard money view p', y" :.
AS result the party became paar
angled. Samuel ]. Tilden, que sss
democrat OF his day and genera'iyI- III
elected governor of New YORK ala
such a record in that office that Ias
looked upon him as tne ~ ~.
fill the presidential chair ne s.,s'x
mated at st. Louis after one OF tne . IA
fights ever witnessed In any eon' tl'.s =
this country. His nomination AWE ~. l,,ra
tense enthusiasm throughout lns s,sr
States. Enemies became his mo-, s,sr
siastic admirers. Without slnss ~. II !.
ton. the Tilden campaign was inc ms
tellecJlial ever fought in tais ue. ~
any PARTY. The outcome Is lou XII II
the memory of the people TO fs''''
-, M
fractional quarrels stood ~ ~ n il
Tilden and Hendricks nomiIs."s, tsr u
and the gallant Hancock haa "
penalty OF the partys folly 80, Is, IL
ticn Of Cleveland to the prssiaens'
not be reeited. ,.,.a Il
Enough pointers are iurnlsns, ,nsr
foregoing to make II clear nas q Il
hat the democrats are not so,sss IN
tip permanontly Kilkenny eM s,.rs
.suse some favor and Others Opus