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PartiesNew and Old.
From the S, F. Examiner.
Some of our "independent" papers
indulge occasionally in wild writings
about the probable proximate disso
lution of the two old parties, and the
creation of a new organization out of
the best elements of the defunct
bodies-politic; but we fail to see any
signs of such an impending decease,
or of such reorganization from the
ashes of J,he ancient antagonists in
the political conflicts of the-eoontry.
There are only . two ways in which
great political parties which have at
any time been a majority and held
possession of the general government
h;TJ ever disappeared from cur
politics. There have been but four
such parties since the organization
of the government the Democratic
party, which has existed from that
day to this; the Federal party; the
Whigs, and the present "Republi
can" party. The Democratic party
was also called Republican when it
was organized under Jefferson, and
is still designated "Democratic Re
publican" in the older States; but it
has continued the same party every
where, from Jefferson's day ' to the
present hour.
Four parties, and four only, have
administered the government during
the eighty-six years of its existence.
This is a fact worth -weighing by the
sciolists, who fancy that new parties
can be substituted for old ones as
easily as women change the fashion
of their apparel. Only two parties
which acquired sufficient strength
and stability to obtain control of the
government have ever disappeared
from our politics, and these were the
Federalists and the Whigs, who
sprung from the loins of Federalism.
Each of these was superseded in a
different manner, and they furnish
the only guides to our judgment in
matters of this kind.
There are only two methods by
which great historical parties are
supplanted and abolished, and wheth
er a party is extinguished by one or
the other of these methods depends
upon its relative strength when the
process of destruction commences its
work. When a political party has
long dwindled and at length become
so small that it has less than half as
many supporters as its successful
opponent, it is liable to disappear by
splits or schisms in the latter which
is no longer held together by fears
of the success of its adversary. Some
one of tle factions into which the
powerful party divides is certain to
court the decaying organization and
give it an opportunity to make its
power felt by throwing its weight
into one- of the scales. This is the
way the Federalists came to their
end as a party. It maintained its or
ganic existence until the successor to
President Monroe was elected in
182i, when four Democratic Repub
lican candidates were in the field.
The election went into the House,
Clay giving his support to Adams,
thus beating Jackson and Crawford,
and Clay thus became the leader of
the new party whicli arose in oppo
sition to . the Democracy and took
the name of Whig. It is evident
now that a long time must elapse be
fore the Democratic party can disap
pear in that way. It is too formida
ble in numbers to relieve the Radical
party of fear and permit it to divide.
The attempt to divide it in the Gree
ley campaign was a signal failure,
though supported by many of its
most eminent leaders and powerful
journals. Even in the last Presiden
tial contest the Democratic party had
a majority of the white vote of the
country.
The conditions do not exist foi the
Democratic party to disappear in a
way similar to that by which the
federalists were swallowed up and
absorbed. The other way by which
a great historical party may disap
pear is by the organization of a new
party of sufficient vitality and earn
estness of conviction to grow and be
come predominant. It was in this
way that the Whigs were finally
overcome and extinguished. A new
party destined to supplant an old
one is likely to be of slow growth at
first, as are most things destined for
long life. The anti-slavery party,
called successively the Liberty and
Free-Soil party, existed side by side
with the Whig party for twelve years
before it succeeded to its place. It
was organized by Salmon P. Chase
and the Free-Soil Buffalo Convention,
and ran Presidential tickets in 184.4,
1848, and 1852, constantly accumu
lating strength and courage until the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise,
in 1854:, enabled it by a change of
name to become a powerful organiza
tion. This was the nucleus of the
Radical-Republican party which ran
Fremont for the Presidency and ad
ministered the parting kick to the
Whig carcass, which has never been
heard of since.
It is quite evident that the Demo
cratic party is in no danger of extinc
tion in this way. No third party has
risen to play the part of the Free
Soilers. The Liberal Republican
nartv never had any strength, nor
any distinctive principles. It was
founded on mere personal hostility
to General Grant, and consisted of
Republicans who would have contin
ued to act with their party had they
seen any possibility of superseding
him by another candidate. It has
never voted in any such way as to
Rlinw what its members really are,
and does not seem disposed to act a
separate part in politics. All the
newspapers which were its organs,
have retired from its advocacy, and
one of the leaders MuratHalstead
latalv said, at the Sohurz banquet in
New York, there was nothing left of
it, and no chanoe for a third party.
Mos t. certainly, the. existence of the
greai historical jjemocratK party is ;
not seriously threatenea oy a party
in that shape. The people will ar- j
rango themselves for some time yet
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QJtEGON, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1875.
on the side of either the Democratic
or Radical ; organization; but for a
third or . a new party the time is not
yet ripe. .
A "Cousin Sally Dillard" Testi
mony in Ireland.
" Weil, my lord.judge, sure it was
election; and faith 'twas a dark
cloudy, wet sort of drizzling day,
and says I to my old woman, I be
lieve I will go, down and 'posit me
vote, And says myold woman to me
'Well, Buck, as it is a sort of a dark
cloudy, wet sort of a drizzling day,'
says she, hadn't you better take the
umbrill?' Says I to the old woman,
'spect I had better take the umbrill.'
So I took the umbrill' and advanced
on down toward town, yer see, and
be faith, when I got down thar Mr.
Cole, Sure, and for why?' Says he,
'He has got my umbrill.' "
The witness was hero interrupted
by the Court, and told to confine
himself to the actual fray between
the prisoner and Cole, the prosecu
tor. In answer to this the witness
rewarked, in a tone of indignant re
monstrance, 'Well, now, I am sworn
to tell the truth, and I'm going to
tell it my own way; so faint worth
while for you to say nothin' about
it.
Well, I was going to say it was on
last election day for our glorious
Parliament of Lords and Commons,
and says' I to my old woman, I be
lieve I'll go down to town and give
my vote for the Home Ruling gintle
mau.' Says my old woman to me,
says she, 'Buck, as it is a sort of a
dark, rainy, drizzling sort of a day,
hadn't you better take your umbrifl?
so I took the umbrill and advanced
down toward town until I arrived
thaiv Well, tbe .firsh thing I did
when I got thar was to take a drink
of rale Dublin whiskey, whicli was
monstrous good, and says I to my
self, Buck, my auld fellow, you feel
better now, don't you?' And while
I was advancing around Mr. Cole,
he came to me, says he Buck, have
you seen anything of old neighbor
Harris?' Says I, 'And why is it ye
ax me?' Says he, 'The old man has
got my umbrill?' After awhile I gave
my vote to the Home Ruling gentle
man, a rale old Irish gentleman, and
then Mr. Cole and me had a drap
more of Dublin Whisky, and nd
yanced back toward home, and Mr.
Cole was tighter than I ever seed
him. And so we advanced until we
got to where the road and path fork
ed, and we took the path, as any
other gentleman would, and advanc
ing backward awhile, we arriv' to
old neighpor Harris sitting on a mill
stone with the umbrill on his arm,
and about that time the prisoner
corned up, and we advanced on till
we arriv' at John's house. John is
my neffew, and likewise my son-in-law.
He married my darter Jane,
whicli is next to Sally. Alter we
had advanced to John's house, we
stood in the yard awhile talking, and
presently Mr. Cole got to cussing
about politix, and I advanced into
the house whar was John's wife,
which is my darter Jane. Well, af
ter talking awhile with 'em ni3 nef
few, says he, 'Uncle, let's go home.'
Says I, Good, you darlin'. ' So we
trotted out together. And there's
all I know about the assault, for I
warn't there.
The Situation ix Louisiana. W.
A. Wheeler, of tho Louisiana Con
gressional Committee, addressed a
letter to the Times in answer to the
question, "Is the Louisiana adjust
ment a success or a failure ?" He
says; "I firmly beaeve that Louisi
has at last causrht the inspiration
from a new order of things, and that,
exhausted as she was with tumult
and violence, yet with a just govern
ment and the education of the peo
ple the last just now her greatest
need she, with steady but slow
pace, will emerge from what seemed
to be her utterly helpless condition."
In regard to the reinstating of the
four Democrats in the House of Rep
resentatives, he says: "Xo one can
be found in Louisiana to assert that
at the time these four Democrats
were unseated, there was a quorum
present, so these four Democrats had
never been legally expelled from
their seats, and having done nothing
to forfeit them, their reinstatement
was an act of simple justice which
all understanding
the facts must
approve."
Pennsylvania Bankk CPT.-Mackey
the State Treasurer of Pennsylvania,
has made an affidavit showing that
the State is practically bankrupt, as
he swears that on March 31st there
was but one dollar and seventy-six
cents of available cash in the Treas
ury. When the character of the
men who have had the handling of
the State fund3 for some years past
is borne in mind, the people of Penn
sylvania may perhaps think them
selves lucky that even that trifling
sum is left. The Treasurer gives
the total State indebtment at $24 -
374,223, and the balance in the link
ing fund at $1,1ic5,1d1, although the
people have been led o believe that
this fund was aboi'c $300,000,000.
One Good Wife. A paragraph is
going the rounds of the newspapers
to this effect: "There is one good
wife in the ooantry, and every man
thinks he lias hor." Old Brown who
lives on Olive street, who is bald,
and whose wife has red hair and a
wioked eye, read this and murmured
as he meditatively passed his hand,
over his head "I dunno, I dunno!"
"I seo very little of you," said an
old gentleman at a Louisville ball to
a young lady whom he had not met
in a long time before. "I know it,"
was the artless reply, "but mother
wouldn't allow me to wear a very
low necked dress to-night the weath
er is 6Q cold,"
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
TTMTVTTnTTV OV PAT TTTHDH T A
Romance of an Old Pnritan.
FIKST LOVE AXD SECOND MARRIAGE.
William Bradford whoso name
stands second on the list of signa
tures to the celebrated compact made
in. the little cabin of Mayflower, and
who became the second Governor of
Plymouth colony, was-born at An
sterfield, Yorkshire. England, in the
month of March' 1588. - His parents
dying in his -youth, he was left to
the care of his grandparents, -aiul af
ter them to" his uncles. His family
was respectable, but was among the
yoemanry of England,' and he was
bred to agriculture.
At an early period he took upon
himself the care of his largo estates,
and to improve and beautify them
was his occupation and pleasure.
But while each day found him busy
with tho men in his fields, night
found him busy with his books. He
became a proficient in the Latin,
Greek and Hebrew languages, and
French and German he both read
and spoke with ease. While still a
mere youth he identified himself
with the Puritans, and at seventeen
years of age was one of a company
who attempted to escade to Holland,
in quest of liberty to worship as
their consciences counselled. But
they were betrayed, and cast into
prison at Boston, Lincolnshire.
While religion and numerous other
grave and earnest objects had their
place in his mind, there was one cor
ner where a more beautiful, less
grave, but as earnest a passion held
sway. Love had entered the heart
of the young Puritan; and often,
while his head was bowed over his
book, the graceful figure of her he
loved would charm his eyes, making
his heart throb with delight. When
as a child he had played with little
Alice Carpenter, Le hiiew that she
was lovelier and sweeter to him than
any golden-haired, rosy-lipped little
fairy. She was just two years younger
than himself.
As years passed, and her form be
came taller and fuller, the golden
curls deepening in shade to a sunny
brown, she grew more beautiful to
him. Many were the walks they
had together. His lands joined her
father's, and of a Summer evening,
leaning over tho hedge that divided
them, long and sweet were the con
versations they enjoyed.
One eve in Autumn Alice announc
ed to him that she was to go to Lon
don with an' aunt, .to stay some
months. The news came like a death
blow upon William. The Carpenter
family had been highly distinguish
ed in former times, and one of it?
members had received from the King
the honor of knighthood, but they
were now indigent, and William de
termined to risk his fate, and ask
Alice of her proud and stern father
He hoped that his own broad lands
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and lair name might innuence me
f.ither to accept him as a suitable
match for his lovely but portionless
girl.
Bat ho did not know the pride of
the old man. He was dismissed
with haughty and severe reproofs
for his presumption. His religions
belief would have raised a barrier
had there been no other, and sad was
the interview of the young lovers
that evening at the trysting-placo
where they had spent so many hap
py hours It was to be their last
meeting. William was too proud
and hi"h-minded, and Alice too du-
tiful, to act in opposition to a pa
rent's wishes.
Alice wont to London, and in
course of time was married to Con
stant Southworth, a wealthy and
honorable man. William devoted
himself to his farm and books.
By-and-by he felt that a wife was
needful to him, and his eye fell on
Dorothy Maj, a sensible discreet
woman' of his own rank in life. He
did not love her as he had loved Al
ice, but he felt an honest and true
affection! for her, and she proved to
be an estimable, faithful wife.
The number of those professiug
the Puritan faith increased, and
trial and persecution were their lot.
William was one of the earliest ad
vocates for their removal to America,
where they might enjoy their re
ligion undisturbed. He was with
the little band in thcif hasty
fight, in their sojourn in London,
and upon the stormy and perilous
ocean in the cabin of the Mayflower.
While in Cape Cod harbor, and
during his absence with a party sent
to explore the coast, his faithful
wife, Dorothy, fell from the ship
and was drowned. He sincerely
mourned for her, for she had been on
afFeetionate wife, but, with th sub
mission of a Christian, ho caly
turned to the duties of life. Life for
him was a warfare with Imnger and
cold, disease and lavage enemies.
What the color;sts Buffered is well
known.
Mr. Bradford was now a mature
tupIi of thirty:two, and when Gov
ernor Carver died, a few months af
ter their arrival, he was elected his
successor, and for a period of moro
than thirty -one years he directed the
affairs of the colony. But while with
fatherly caro he watched over the
little colony, he often felt the want
of women's ready sympathy and
soothing tonderness.
He thought of Alice. The love he
had felt for her had never died out
of his heart. While the husband of
another, it had slumbered, but now
Alice and himself were both free, or
her husband had died a year sinoe.
Did she remember the lover of her
youth? And if she yet cherished
that memory, would she consent to
leave a happy home tnd troops of
loving friends to share the fortunes
of one in a wilderness ?
At last he decided to write to her
and propose that she would share his
fortunes. Early in the Spring of
1G23 the letter was sent. He set be
fore her faithfully all the trials and
r
privations to which she would be ex
! posed; he left it to her to decide
whether she could regard his love as
j an equivalent for the sacrifices she
, would be called upon to make. And
j he requested her, if she should con
; sent, since the affairs of the colony
would not suffer his absence, to take
passage in the first ship bound for
the colonies.
The time passed slowly to the Gov
ernor, until, on the 14th of August,
a sail was discerned,, as yet a faint
speck on the horizon. It was the
ship' so long expected. If she were
not there, there would at least be a
written rejection of his proposal.
The whole population of the town
crowded to the landing. Governor
Bradford stood firm and erect, con
spicuous among the little crowd.
When tho vessel touched the shore,
all hurried on. The Governor pass
ed from one to another with warm
welcomings; but his eye watched for
Alice. He sees -her not. His hope
has gone out. "It is God's will"
said the devout Puritan.
Just then a . woman ascends the
stairs from the cabin. She is taller
than the Alice of his remembrance.
Strange, for though he knew years
must have changed her, yet she had
always been in his mind tho slender
girl from whom he had parted. And
here she stands, the beautiful, state
ly, dignified woman. Probably she
too, had her surprise.
For a moment the pair looked at
eacli other, and the "William!" "Al
ice!" burst from their lips, and the
hearts so long sundered were united.
That very evening the marriage took
place. There was joy of heart, but
no extravagant display. Long and
happy was the union here consum
mated. Thirty-four additional years was
the good Governor spared to the col
ony, whose prosperity ho did so
much to promote. His wifa surviv
ed him Slteen years. She was well
educated and dignified in deport
ment, and did much for the improve
ment of the rising generation. Pil
grim Hall stands upon land formerly
in her possession. It is recorded of
her that she was a good matron and
much loved while she lived, and
heartily lamented when she died.
William's Landaiilet.
Shortly after it came out that Attorney-General
Williams indulged
in a landaulet at the public expense,
it was said that the vehicle had been
purchased by a gentleman who de
signed making a tour with it through
some of the Western States. As
Williams is soon going out of office
he ought to have the landaulet to ex
hibit as one of the trophies of his
incumbency of the department. It
is said that he intends to return to
Oregon wheu he retires, with the de
sign, if possible, of capturing the
United States Senatorship which
will be one of the prizes to be gained
at the State flection ia 1S7G. If
ho only had his landaulet, and trav
eled extensively through Oregon
previous to the election, exhibiting
himself all at places of importance,
with some of the' agents of the De
partment of Justice who furnished
the "bloody shirt" outrage stories,
he would be completely fixed. The
people would be able to fully ap
preciate his great services in the De
partment of Justice. They would
have constantly before their eyes the
proof of his greatness. They would
know at once that Williams was the
man with the landaulet whom the
United States Senate would not con
firm as Chief Justice, and that he
was the genius who could, by sim
ply nodding to an agent, present an
outrage to the people of the North
as if by magic. Knowing this, they
would know whether they wanted
Williams in the Senate or not, and
take measures accordingly.
m .
Resigned. "Landaulet" Williams
who has so long disgraced the na
tion as Attorney General, has dis-
cretly stepped down and out. This
may be noted as the only valuable
service he has ever rendered the gov
ernment, and even this was prompt
ed by a desire to save hi3 scalp. The
next House had an impeachment rod
in pickle for him, which would have
been applied with merited' severity
had not he dodged in time. San
Jose Argus.
An old maid doesn't know what "
.
is to bend over the children'- little
white bed, softly rat iMi nnrlv
heads and hear one. of them growl
out: ''Now then, Sam, keep your
paws oflTu mc or I'll bat you in the
eye."
A man seventy-seven years old has
made his aypearance in Philadelphia
wearing a hat which he put on thirty
one years ago, vowing that ho would
never remove it until Henry Clay was
elected President.
Comin. xnto Style. "Shingle
weddings" are coming rapidly into
atylo now, it is said. This novel
wedding takes place when the "first
born" is old enough to spank.
Doubles the Value. Mary Ellen
says that she knows what she is talk
ing about, and that it just doubles
the value of a kiss to have to burrow
for it under a big mustache.
"George, dear, don't you think
you are rather extravagant, eating
butter with that delicious jam?" "No'
indeed, love, don't you see, the same
piece of bread does for both."
c. .
At a spelling match at Indianapolis
the other night, everybody went
down on "Ipecacuanha." It usually
brings everything up.
-- .
' Favof.s Them. There's a school
ma'am in Oneida county who lets her
best-behaved scholars chew her gem
a little while..
NO. 31
Presidential.
From the S. F. Examiner:- ' :;
Spontaneously from all parts' of the
couutry come tributes of admiration
for the manly course Governor Til
den of New York . has taken' in the
contest with the public thieves of-'
his State. So deficient have our"
high officials been in integrity and
moral courage, that the spectacle of
a brave, resolute, and honest Execu
tive, manfully inaugurating a- fight'
against a powerful gang of public
plunderers, whose position has seem
ed impregnable, is witnessed wiilr
admiring awe by a people who had
become skeptical as to the ability,
fidelity or courage of any officials
General Tilden has shown not onlyr
the requisite courage, but he has
manifested the highest capacity of
mind, as well as the most exhaustless
jiatience and tenacity of purpose, im
the pursuit of the official malefactors..
The manifestation of these high qual
ities in the Tweed cases and in the
present onslaught upon the Canal
"ring" has suggested simultaneously
to people in all parts of the country
the propriety of placing him in.the:
field as a candidate for President-
The election of such a man as Til
den to the Chief Magistracy of the
Union would be the assurance of an
indefinite extension of the progress
and prosperity of the country, be
cause of his moral worth, intellectual
capacity, and undeniable fidelity to- O
Democratic principles, as they were
understood in the good old. times,,
when the Democracy directed the
destinies of the Republic and main
tained its honor and glory at home
and abroad.
Governor Tilden's candidacy shoulil Q
also bring to the support of the Dem
ocratic cause that large class of per
sons who are indifferent to party as
cendency, but anxious that the Gov
ernment shall bo in honest and com
petent control. The crowning merit"
of Tilden is his public spirit and in
tegrity. Throughout his whole life
not a stain of suspicion has ever at
tached to him of any unworthy con
duct. The too customary vices'of."
the public men of this age have been
foreign to him. The love of lucre,
a tendency to speculation,. nepotism,
jobbery, favoritism, or intrigue, has -
never soiled his reputation nor ira-
paired popular respect for him. His o q
walk and conversation before men
have been reflexive of rigid morality,
purity of life and dignity of deport
ment. The busy demands of Governor
Tilden's professional life have not O
permitted him the enjoyment of the
retirement and leisure which ere so
dear to all men of thought, of larger
intellect, and long service and strain
of the faculties. Nor is it his tem
perament to cease from labor and:
struggle so long as there is-work to
be done for a good cause. Hence
the Democracy, especially its long
night of adversity, has never been
remote from his thoughts and
dreams. Its fortunes, its preserva
tion, its eventual restoration to pow
er, have been the great end to
accomplish which he bent his en
tire energies. When nearly every
body else appeared to despair of,"
ultimate success when many of the-
ancient chiefs were- relaxing- their.
efforts in the apparently- hopeless
task of reviving the fortunes of the
grand old party, Tilden was steadily
at work,, planning, talking, uniting,
organizing, and devising methods to
place the Democracy once more upon
the highway of success. His labors-
were enhanced enormously by the
corruptions o interlopers in the
party, who had used its pure name.
and stolen its stainless standard to-'
cover their own bad acts. To- purge
the party of these vermin, to clear-
its record and cleanse its escutcheon,
to expel, disgrace, and punish those-
who had purloined the habiliments
of an honest organization to serve
their infamous personal ends, was
the achievement of Samuel Tilden.
This was truly a herculean undertak
ing, and its accomplishment gave
him a claim to the gratitude, admira
tion, and esteem of all honorable
men, whicli is now redoubled by his
efforts to dislodge a still more for
midable band of public robbers from,
their position. He i3 just the man,
to grapple with tho "rings" who.
lave been for rears fastened on the
national government. Gov. Tilden's.
coniso, from first to last, commends
him to the affection, devotion anil
support of the Democracy of the
whole Union, as one of the ablest,
most efficient, and deserving of the
Demoeratio leaders. It will be f.
glorious day for the Republic when
such a man shall be installed ia tho
White House.
How She Called.-1 Yesterday
noon as a Sixth street man was dig
ging in his garden his wife appeared,
at the door and shouted:
"Come, you old fraud come in
to dinner!"
As he did not come she opened
the door pretty soon and yelled:
"Hain't vou cominc tft rlinTiv i
ta dinner, you
blasted 1"
Sho saw.a neigbor'
saw a neigbor m tho carden
along with her husband and finished;
old darling, yon!"
His Assets; A resident of an in
terior town came to Detroit the other
day to secure a stock of groceries,
having decided to enter into busi
ness. As he had no money at all he
was confronted with the inquiry:
"What are your assets?"
He deliberated a moment, scratch-
his head, and slowly replied:
' "Wall, I attend ohuroh purty regu
lar !"
He hasn't started in the grooery
businee yet.
The Sono or the .Washington
Youth. "1 want to be a lobby mail.
and in the lobby stand, with brasa
upon my forehead and greenbacks in.
my hand."
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