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Show A T2IAL OF STHENOTH. ' What v ill In- the i onte-sting iartu ! in the campaign ot 1.S7'1V is already ' beeoine an in i p. irtai ;t mietiuli. How-er- min h d'-liea. y there mav be ! niiinifoO d In making the admi-ion, tlie feebng is glowing that the c. n-tennial n-tennial I't.-.-identiid i-;impaigii is the , ino-t iii i hii -tii iii in many re-pe. which our country has yet pa-.-ed 1 through, and that um it the v. ry C:.-teee of the Republic in; V hang. That UrantS fi iin-ls have nln ady le- j , cidid, thu.- e;irly, upon hi.- renoinina- tion Ibr tl"' thinl term, is h..youd all , cjiie.-riou; that In personally ia work-iin: work-iin: lor hi reflection again no one Wlto ."irefullv co.;dei the political 1 -ituatiou can doubt; and tlcit with ! hi.-reelection the death knell of Re-, piiblieantsni in America will have, xitindid s-inie of the wi.-est of our political notors already foresee. The DemiH'ratie parly has been pronounced pronounc-ed dead, in a national point of view. We so hold it to hj, for any ellective jiurposc. It may form an opposition, but not -ueh a one as all the opposition opposi-tion elements can work with. The Chicago Tli.!'., once the tnunehet of , staunch Democratic parlizans, now ; ahno.-t daily marks the progress of "the funeral." Yet there are not wanting those, by thousat.d-, who con-ider that this old party pos-esses sueh powers of vitality that like an ancient but powerful giant " awakened with new wine," it can and will ri.-e etjinil to the emergency, emer-gency, and lead to victory the oft defeated de-feated hosts that opjwse monarchical rule and the centralization whichever precedes it. We have no such liiith, but thousands of the old I Vmocraey have, and six weeks more will decide the (uostioii. Despising ;dl adventitious aids, repudiating re-pudiating the Liberal Republican help of a year ago, and proposing to light the "kittle straight, the Democracy Demo-cracy of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Minnesota Min-nesota prepare to make trial of their strength. Should they succeed in earn ing these .States on the second Tuesday of October, the party might be accepted as a rallying point for the disaflocted elements, and these would, naturally, gradually unite with it all opposed to the " personal rule"' which is the great motive power of the Republican party as centered upon up-on (icneral Grunt. Hut should they fail to carry the States named, and we huve no idea that thoy will except possibly Pennsylvania, where Republican corruptions have become as glaring as ever were those of Tweed & Co. in New York then the sooner the Democratic funeral is terminated the better, for the putri-fying putri-fying remains will be a most search- ' ing stench in the nostrils of the people. JL is already very evident, as the tFKit.vi.n intimated some lime ago, that the party called the Grangers, or Patrons of Husbandry, is only the creature of an hour. Porn of the actual ac-tual necessities of the country, it is being already captured by the political politi-cal demagogues whose mission is to strangle in its birth, if possible, every honest ellbrt lo have the Teoplc represented re-presented as against political wire pullers. Ihe election of California, the most significant held this season, ! gives no indication as to how the State would act in a national piont of view. The election was carried on a purely local issue, and the Independents, Independ-ents, or anti-railroad party, defeated both the national organizations, including in-cluding the railroad, electing forty-two forty-two to the Legislature, while the Democrats elected thirty-four, and the Republicans twenty-five. This simply sim-ply says that in the late California election party organizations were disregarded, and the people elected their own men. And in some of the States the Grangers Fanners' movement move-ment have been captured by the professional politicians. In Wisconsin the Republicans have got them, and in Minnesota tlie Democrats have been the captors: and so it promises to be. so long as men are simple enough to 1h deceived by "platforms,"' "plat-forms,"' which are the strongpolitieal delusion and snare of the age. So far as the signs indicate, the Democrats in the Fall elections, propose pro-pose to make a fair trial of strength when, if successful, they may gather to them the opposition elements and make a new and successful party, but, if defeated, as is most likclv, they will continue to bear along the moribund mori-bund carcass, cursing everyone that will not swear its ellluvia is the sweetest of odors, and bury with it the life of the Ib'public rather than help anylvxly else to maintain the political salvation of the country. |