Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-04-24

namely 1T is too practicdla "habit of mind"
to say yes and no almost in the same breath.
There are politicians whose highest motto is.
Success is duty" which means when applied
to ''the practical side of politics" be as double
tongued as possible, and, if necessary, carve
down your principles to mere naught, by
means of "polcy" A policy of this kind
keeps out from the political parties some of the
best citizens of American as well as of foreign
BIRTH and cannot be but of the most democrat
izing influence upon society at large.
The German republicans i'll general, with
the exception of a few editors and headers,
who have identified themselves with the re-
publican party, in recognition of certain ia
vors and who will 90 with the party tout
prir, are said to be rather "unruly." | believe
to be right when l say-that's SO. They be-
come unruly when the party tries to go back
ward and devate from its principles; when
the trumpet of retreat sounds, and reaction and
conservatism become the predominating Gle.
ments. They are unruly ever since the two
years amendment was incorporated into the
constitution of the commonwealth, and will al
ways remain so till it is removed. Have they
not right to expect its removal? Have we
not a republican legislature and republican I! Z!
governors Does republicanism (the Philadel-
phla platform) within the boundaries of Massa-
chusetts mean something different from repub-
licanism in Philadelphia Do the republicans
think the Germans shall quietly take
such an insult as that amendment con
veys? For the very purpose of vindicating
their rights, as citizens, and maintaining
their self-respect and dignity, as men, the
German republicans are organizing them
selves into clubs in order to demand, as a closed
phalanX from the convention at Chicago, an
unqualified condemnation of that measure
The representatives of the different states will
meet in Chicago two days previous to the con-
ventiOn of May 10Th. The editor OF the
"AnZeiger DIES Westens" has, ever since the
passage of that amendment, tried to prevent,
by maneuvers peculiar to himself the organ
ization of the Germans, and with him two or
or three other papers conceded
With the "Anzeiger" local interests seem
to have more weight than consistency, but the
greatest consolation in the matter is this, that
the German republicans of Missouri, as a
whole, are much setter than their press. Con-
corning the controversy between Mr.. Kopp
and Mr.. Bernays, l can say SO much, that be-
lieve you think wrong, when you say,-"But
we think it must be more irritation and hurry
of feeling than anything else" | may, per-
haps, at some future opportunity, give you the
facts of the case.
The Anzeiger is zone of the best German
papers of this country" says the Boston Jour
nal. From the stand point of the Journal it
cannot be denied that such is the case, for the
Anzeiger manifests the same elasticity which
the journal exhibits in a certain direction.
" Similis simile gaudet."
Had the republican press always followed
the same policy which the "Spy" has adopted,
there would be but little, or no complaint at
all, among the Germans republicans. wv.