Springfield Weekly Republican

Easy Lessons for the Democracy.

The New York World is drilling the democracy in the duties, and instructing them in the opportunities of the campaign. Its lessons are sometimes a trifle contradictory, but the public must remember that it has a miscellaneous and variegated school of pupils, and the instruction that is easy to some will be repulsive to others. Briefly, it tells them to mind their own business and let the Cincinnati convention alone. That is a body, it says, of pure and unadulterated republicans, with which there should be "no officious intermeddling" by the democracy. "If it was to be engineered and controlled by democrats, or even if the republicans suspected it of being, it would be regarded as a mere tender of the democratic party, and would leave the old party lines unchanged." The democracy, therefore, should not ask for Judge Davis's nomination, or for that of any other quasi democrat or moderate republican, especially agreeable to themselves.

Let us wait, it says, and see what the convention will do. "If we like its ticket, we can adopt it; if not, we shall be just as free as before to present a new candidate." Then, the World assures the undying yet impatient disciples of its party that there shall be a national convention, and suggests that it shall not be called until after the Connecticut election, and that it shall be held some time in May, after the Cincinnati convention, and before that of the republican party at Philadelphia.

Next, passing again to the classes far advanced in passivism and liberality, the World heartily declares that if Charles Francis Adams or Lyman Trumbull or Judge Davis, or any other equally pure, patriotic, yet pronounced republican should be nominated at Cincinnati, it (the World) would be very glad to support him for the presidency, and would regard it as the part of wisdom for the democratic convention to adopt him as its candidate.

In these and corresponding suggestions the World shows its aptness in leading its party, shows also its disposition to keep its pupils well in hand, and its purpose to make their action equally effective in either direction, of maintaining their own independent organization, or following on after a liberal and reform republican ticket against Gen. Grant. Still the World must know, no one more fully, indeed, that the democratic party, pure and simple, has no hope and no future; that, alone, it can present no formidable front against the republican party, and that the only really patriotic use to which it can be put is to make avail of what is left of its old rusty machinery to turn as many votes as possible on to the liberal republican ticket, if so be that the leaders of the republican party so act as to force one into the field.

All the issues of the campaign are thus bound up in the power that controls the Philadelphia convention. If it insists on nominating Gen. Grant, there will be division, reconstruction, and a doubtful campaign. If it sets Gen. Grant aside, as precipitating a quarrel, which is unnecessary, then the republican party will maintain itself intact, and walk over the presidential course without serious rivalry from any quarter.