The Democratic Party

That tlie democratie party is possesaed of great vitality no mie who is aequainted wim Ultt polllli-ai Irfstorj oí the country for the past twenty years wüldeny. On the 4th day of March, 1861, Abraham Lincoln took liis sent as president of the United States. Sine that time no demofVal lias occupiec thst position, alihontrh once - in 1876 - iCdeiïhiCTai Vasfiiirly indhonestlyeleet ed'bya' majority of the popular voto and1 of tlie Electoral College. Tha Samuel J. Tilden was elected Presiden ih 1876 and that Rutherford B. Haye was placed in liis position by fraud, no Unir minded and unbiased person now denies. Butthe fact stands tliat for twenty years no democrat luis ocoupiec t)ie exeentive chair at the Wliite House In 18C0 the party became split into factiöns and the republicana gained tlie victory. Tlie civil war came on. The entire machinery of the govemment was placed in republican hands. Tlie TTnion anny was made up of democrat and repnbliean soldiers, and to no party belongs the credit of putting down the rebellibn. Jíut the republiean party gaiiied prestige and strength by the vory fact that the war was waged undei rfcpubliean administration. WhenLinfiohi was eleeted the first time the bonst ofrewiMicans was that the democratie party was buried bevond resniTection. Ent in 18G4 the democracy held its Xatlonaí Convention and nominated Gen. Ceorge B. McClellan. Apreter.se was niadè by the republicana of allowinj? the soldiere to vote as they chose, but tlionsands and thousanda of them who wished to vote for McClellan werecompelled to send home Lincoln ballots or tlie votes were changed before reaehing fheir destinatioii. So by fair means and foul tlie democracy was sorely defeated. The republicana were more than jubilant. and they declared that tiie democracy would never again wage a-political cont; st under that name. lrhen 1868 came TT. 8. G rant was nomiiïated by tlie republicans "with a great flöurish of trompeta. The democracy, whieK tin1 republicana claimed to have tfHIÍed, carne up smilingjy to theseraten amfnominated Horatio Seymour. At tli.it time the South was completeïy in the hand? of the réVublican party. Carpet-baggery reigned supreme, and the vote of the prostrate states was given to Grant. Again did the republicana sound the bewgag and beat the drum, and again did fcbey declare the democr;icy lefimct. ïn 1872 (ïrant was again placed upon the republican ticket. A portion of tiie republic.an party left tbal organization and nominated Ilorace Greeley as tHe Liberal candidate for the presidency'. The' democracy indorsed Greeley and again met defeat. Tlie south was still in the hands of a hungfy crew of offire-holders nnder tlio Grant adininistration, and it was impossible to get a t 11, free vole. One would naturally think Chat, aftef sufferiagf defeat Bomany times, the DeCMcvacy would wraken. B'ut there was , no-sitch word as waken iii its vocabul-ary. In 1876 it íipiin carne to time and nominated Sttmuel J. Tilden against R. -I?. Hayes, tlie Republican nominee. Tfee Demócrata entered the battle cnnfident of sviccess at the poll?. But that su'ccess rtas ttre&ted from theniby theft in the vei'V liour of tliéir victory. Four years inore have rolled by and we are on 1!ic tln-slioltT of Miiotliercamp;riin. The Democracy, as strongrana rcÏÏant as a giant, and with the most nnboun'dlbd confldence In its ability fb win, has placod in nomination fbr the Presidency a Oïah whose name s a towev ttt Btreugth- 'Winfleld Scotl Hancof.k. Pure, upright, ho Band trae, he isa mar against whom notbin g cairbe siid. Ths Democratie party has a record tobe pnnul of. For twenty yeare it has 'sulïered defeat without achange of name or principie. Jt tas seen rnany dark peiiods in thosa w'nrs - periods when it us öiough tlie light would never break tteöugh the clouds again. But it lias never foresworn a single principie whicli the toonder of the party, Thomas Jefferson, laid down Ibr-it, it never struck its colora, it never said die. It is the party of the people. It can never die. The time is near at band for its gseat triumph. It luis placed its spotleea banner- the banner wñich it has never dishonored- in the kaodfl of Winfleld Scott Hancock, and on the fourth day of next Marcb he will planc it in the rlútQ House at Washington. Jewell, who was uncerenionionsly dropped out of (iraní 's cabinet beeause he aspired to be a bigger man than the president, is now enlogizod by the republican organs of "the brafns and ' conscience of the party" as a "thorough going politician." Tliis is all because lie has Vicen made chiürman of the national committee and the organs feel that they need a "thorough going politician" to lead them if tliey are to be led at all. The bloody shirt lias gone out to wnsli , thé rebel brigadiers have suddenfy Decome harmless citizens, and the country avedfrom going to the d-i'. All accomplished by the nomiuution of Hancock. Accordingto Dennis Kearney ne ck oï ( ■ ' : 6e the nex dènt. He Say.s, " The reptflilieans are nol going to let the demócrata elect their üftminee. That's a stlled Tact. The repuWicaiis beat fchem tiie last üme and 11 u -y wil] do it again this year Weaver, the people's eándidate, wili proWafcly caríy liaine and California, and the iepnbliean party, ratiier than let the demócrata elect their man, wil] ▼ote for W'eaver, and the democratf will think and act the samo way toward the republicans So l'Viivrr is bonml to bc elected. llc's got a sure thing. Ui wiff be the coöipromise candidato betweetí thé two parties, ;y id lic'il take hi.s soat. W'oiknu'ii and farmers will see tliat he get ttiete." Mr. Kearney contemplates, of course, that the election will be Éhitíwij Uito tiie house, the saiüe of whiclj Mr. Wearet the candidate, is a member. There is smal] cloud of war in the cast. Toy that the great p nvers have determined to enforce the territorial concessions 1'rom Turkey provided for in the Berlin treaty. the Unspeakable Turk shows nnmistakable signs of getting mail aliont it and we hear of his mobiüzing an extra army corps or Uvo as a sort of indication that all the iigiit lias aot been whipped out of him. Hancock's garrulotis old teacher who knocked knawledge intohis head before onr common onde Samuel undertook to d,0 it without coat, certiiies that " I never Cound a knife mark in his section .f tiic ion-, cM-fasliionflá. white pin desk, nor was I ever obliged to speálk tohim about the condition of his desk or vieinity." Boys, you who expect to . be president remember this. At the Chicago convention anti-Grant members of the national eommittee threatened to depose Don Cameron from the chairmanship. Garfield and his frienda after suppliantly begging Mm to take the position, h&ve elected Marshall JeweU of Oonnecticut, Q-rant's l ostmaster-general whoin Boas Shepherd dubbed ,1 " dam clam Yapkee." Chicago lias one level-headed judge. A woman in that city wanted a divorce on the ground tliat her lnisband was a "confounded fooi," and the judge promptly dismissed the bill for the reason that " if such an allegation were recosnized ;is valid, the rights of no rnarried man would be safe for a single moment." Ournavyís such a diminutive roncen) 'that Únele Thompson can never spond as mncli naoney on it as lie asks to liave appropriated and now thn department offices are to be closed al 8 p. m., so that tbe clerks may do their last hour-of idling elsewhere. Thè country i: eed a little more navy or a good deal ltss department. General "Weaver's letter of arceptance of the greenback nomination for presidenöy is pitebed in very mach the same key with the platform adopted at Chicago. It leaves no room to doubt :he sentiments of the writer.