Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1853-11-05

u viii not espouse~the cause Of any party.
We can do this quite conscientiously, as
the purity and incorruptibility of the
present political parties may very well
be disputed. Time and experience have
demonstrated thatthe principal difference,
as well as the difference in principle, be-
tween them, is the "ive loaves and two
fishes" and the strife is, who shall get
them.
And then says -
The above expressions indicate tina,
the Advertiser is guerilla sheet. : =,
Neither time nor experience have demon
strated that the democratic party strug-
gled for the. loaves and fishes. It has
struggled for the principles sustained by
the people, and rise or fall it will stand
by them to the end. The Advertiser had
better show its colors at once.
While tiller of the soil, we always ap-
pretended "snakes in the grass and
during our editorial career, we have had Il
particular aversion TO the papers edited
by men who do not belong to any party"
The Post, in the above, has strangely
mistaken our position. We do not claim
neutrality-we are INDEPENDENT, and as
such, gucrilla.like, if you will. shall
wage war upon whom or what we please,
measuring our course not by pnrlyIante.
cedents, or party textbooks, but by our
own ideas of right and wrong.
The time has. been, and is now in a
measure, when men were content TO sub
NIT their consciences in political matters,
to the safe-keeping Of their party-leaders.
and vote for, and support just whom these
self.constituted rulers chose they should.
That time is rapidly passing Men have
begun to discover that parties may become
corrupt, and that the present system of OF
ganlzatlon, only tends to foster and spread
that corruptness.
IN The next paragraph, i: says -
The right is guaranteed to every man
to entertain his own opinion on political
matters, and the man who will proclaim
that he has no opinion on such matters.
Is elther fool or knaye, and should NOT
DO entitled 10 the rights Of Citizen"
We have never proclaimed that we
"had no opinions in politica! matters" :"
On the contrary we have, and mean 10 ex.
press them candidly, which is more than
you ever attempted TO do. You dare not.
and never dared, try the experiment of ut.
terlng your e'"'' ~on'ioti1ns as 10 political
matters. Were the most unfit person in the
land to be nominated by convention OF
your party, you would be bound to sup
port him 10 the extent Of your power.
You have done it, and will continue to
do it, as long as parties are in existence,
and you are i'll good standing with them
The Post then, with SOME considera
BILE pomposity, gives the following, which
we consider very humorous" almost as
good as play" 1t must have been the
yerdant and enthusiastic Junior, Gilmore,
who penned this paragraph, as Phillips
with his experience in conducting party
papers, and his knowledge of party wire.
working, could never have perpetratcd
such piece Of windy bombast:-
"We do object that our party should
be charged with struggling for the ''loaves
and fishes" Such may be the motives
OF our opponents, but it never enters into
the minds of democrats. We struggle
tor our principles, and when they lri-
umph, we are satisfied"
Now that is just exactly what the
Wings say TOO. Who shall we believe TO
be the honest party? We are oursell a
Democrat, but have no desire to arrogae
TO- our party all The honesty. We believe
the masses of both parties to be perfectly
sincere in their differences, but at the
same time candidly think that there is
precious little probity in the wire, work
ers of either.
Your indignation that "our party
should be charged with struggling for The
loaves and fshes," is decidedly good, as
is also the following sentence "We
struggle for principles, and when they
triumph ws are satisfied" TO us, the
above is supremely ridiculous, especially
as we are perfectly acquainted with the
rivalry and animosity exhibited by the
/. Post, and the other Democratic paper in
the city Of Pittsburgh, in their struggles for
principles mo indeed but for the very
"loayes and fishes" which the pure and
high-minded writer affects to contemn
To all this we have no objection; the
Post labored most faithfully for the
Democratic party, and as the ola
borer is worthy Of his hire,''it was re
warded with several thousand dollars, il
the shape ofpublic Printing. The Union
the other paper of the same kidney, go
the control Of the Custom House. TIL