Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1869 — After-Thoughts. [ARTICLE]

After-Thoughts.

Tu Democratic prcMli agnin whistling to keep its courage up. Another (pries or Vf*> W#»«, leavlpK the DetncxVAs high afed try upon the beach of disaster, as usual. And now the W*tU, Ttmss, and teaser lights, are busy showing that the returns justify the prediction that rMptflctttStfviU cn DemMUktic. It ► ng< tl.s organs of defeat go over the same lingo, fbr the hundredth time finding consolation in the hopes that have as often been doomed to disupßpUitnisnt. The ant of the reading bodnltrilrife'perse'madddin carting home •'kernel of corn is hckl up to youthful admiration, and commended as an example worthy-of imitation, had no more persistence than the Democracy. “ The revolution, Says the Timet, “in Pennsylvunia and Ohio, so nearly successful this fall, will go on until those two great States release themselves from Republican mis rulec*’ * ‘ • 1 This has been said so often that its present repetition is simply ridiculous, especially in the fhcc of the following confession .- “Mr. Pendleton was beaten because he was a Democrat." Certainly. There was no other reason possible. In everything except politics “ Gentlemanly George ” is a pxxi citizen, highly estceinad by all who know him. Had he be«n a ytepifilicnn, ,he amid have been Governor of the State king ago. The re- 1 fusal of his fellow citizens to trust him is solely due to his politics—because ho is a Democrat. If the party to which he belongs find the honey of consolation in this fact, they are entirely welcome to it, comb and all. To our Republican mind it seems very clear that asserting that a candidate owes his defeat to his party, is equivalent to saying thnt ®id party is at t sficn « law febb that even with a man personally popular it cannot win. IV hat stronger proof could be given of the utter demoralization of the once grand army of Democracy ? The Tunes reaches the climax of absurdity when it declares, “as for the. Democracy of Ohio and Pennsylvania, they 'hkvjc in, vdry dried and truth, fought a ■ v gt>od and fclnrkms fight, and have more than achieved success, because they have deserved it” How domes it that success has suddenly become undesirable? Do the grapes hang too high to be sweet? This after thought gives rise to questions like these. One thing is certain, the achievement of defeat is not at all difficult, and to deserve success in the opinion of par|y friends is equally easy. The Democracy of those States have therefore, on the Tirnes plan, a glorious future. They are certain to more than achieve success at every election. If, in an evil hour, the party should abandon its present organization and name, it might share the same fate as the Whig party did when it metamorphosed itself into the Republican party. Before that, it could, as a rule, count on more than success, but from that hour it sank to the plane of mere success. The chronic disasters of the party were swallowed up in victory, and the state of things so satisfactory to the Timex, ceased to exist. Let the Democracy take warning and beware of the rock on jyhich the Whigs shattered the bark of “more than success.” The result in Pennsylvania is important hr the rebuke it administers to ambition - aspiring to high official honor through the agency of gold. Packer’s millions availed him nothing. He fought, bled and—died. His hundreds of thousands were thrown away. Pendleton did not, so far as we know, attempt to buy his way into the Gubernatorial office; but he tried to win by telling the'peoplejhowlthey mightchcat their public creditors. In both Stales, therefore, the especial lesson of the campaign is the same. Ohio and Pennsylvania say, in different language, but to the same purport, precisely : In politics, as in business, honesty is the best policy.— C.'iiSour it til.