Year: 1877

ringiy to democratic ascendancy as one


of the probabilities. nay certain ties, oi
the next few years. That Morton is
dead and Blaine is hsrs du combat is !
strong circumstance in arriving at this
conclusion, no one one will deny. With


out the bloody shirt, prescription and
persecution. the radical party is moth
ing Liberal republicanism, which pro-
poses to be fair to the south and which
proceeds on the theory that the war il
over and reconstruction an accomplish
ed fact, is too nearly pure democracy 10
entitle ii to win under separate BAN
ner. Mr.. conklings fears OF an ALI
ance in the senate strong enough 10
give the democracy the casting vote in
chat body are well grounded. Not,
with the president republican, with a
majority in the senate and the innu>
merabse host that fills the Offices of the
government, is the republican, or ultra
wing OF that party, strong enough to
contemplate the three years which lie
Immediately ahead with the least de-
gree of complacency. 1t is
ominous that Pennsylysna has
broken the shackles which have
bound her to radicalism for all these
disastrous years, in which her forees
urnaces and mills have stood idly rot
ting into dust. A democratic victory
IN Pennsylvania means somethin per-
manent and lasting Her ploddine
methodical, phlegmatic people move
slowly, but surely; and no argument is
quite so potent with them as the mute
silence of her manufactures. by which
so many men live, or by whose inactivity
so many men starye or are converted
into phrenzied mob TO waste and de-
stroy. The people of Pennsylvania have
not forgotten that under the benignant
sway of democracy want and starvation,
and men, women and children begging
for work, was unknown. There was an
old and true saying. "As goes Pennsyl>
vunia, so goes the union" As that state
went democratic at her last election.
Mr.. Conkling plainly reads the hands
writing on the wall, and gathers no
cruub of comfort from any part of the
lesson he there learns.


When Mr.. Hayes turned his back
square.y upon the bloody shirt wing of
his party. the death knell of republi.
canism was sounded throughout the
land Thoughtful men of his own as
OF the democratic party, understood
that fact and it was to that circum-
stance, perhaps, that the country aeaui-
esced in the frauds by which Mr.. Hayes
climbed to power. We are now told that
it is his purpose to unite all reasonable
elements of republicanism to the re-
mains of the old whig party, and thus
endeaver to meet the self assertion of
the advancing hosts of the renewed
and redeemed democracy. If this
effort of Mr.. Hayes shall succeed in
giving US again the honorable opposi-
ton of the old line whig policies of the
past, and if it destroys and expunges
from the politics of the nation that
sinister sectionalism which has been at
the bottom of all our woes, he will
have accomplished a work which
Will send his name down to
the future with halo equal to any of
his great predecessors. We repeat that
In view Of this policy. it is of little con,
sequence what name shall be given to
the party which Mr.. Hayes proposes to
form, resuscitate or resurrect. Let il
only prove firm and worthy TO contend
with the democracy, one which seeks
the good of all the country and people,
without reference to politics or section,
al lines, and we will take care that the
prestige of the party under which the
government grew to its enormous pro-
portions, will not be lost But that the
years which lie before us will bring
newer and fresher henors for the old
and well tried principles of democracy
we do not fear. So let Mr. Hayes 80 on.
and Conkling croak and Blaine die,
and the country will be safe in any
event.