The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-04-04
The Republican Party.

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No one who watches public event,
with fair share of attention can hay,
failed to observe that the Repubiicat
party has been called upon to pas.
through Avery trying ordeal during thu
past few months.f Success had produccJ
its 'iusuas 'fruitsAit had given it efeal
power, and made it many enemies. nFo,
more than q year past there has scafcelS
been d day on which it has not been Bit
terly assailed. Last summer an organ.
ized and determined effort was made II
overthrow it, Some s'of the ioufnalt
which once had represented 1t suddenly
turned traitors, and exceeded its natural
foes, the Democrats, insthe violence oI
their attacks and reproaches. We wefe
told by the New York Tribune that
"pMty hnesswere broken, land, BY WAY
of proving il, that paper falsifed its Ell.
tire previous history; and became a;rabid
Democratic sheet, as Il has. ever since
remained. In tsaearlE course IL ftiined
the reputation of its :" founder, ''but sliAs
was lesson which had little Significance
for his successors, who have no sfeputa-
tions to lose--or, at least, no regulations
from which they would not willingly
part. 81 In this city there is no joufnal
which is 20 implacable or unjust foe 10
the Republican party, for the notorious
penality of its Democratic rival long
since deprived it of every vestige of in
auence.F The most careless and easy
going community in the world will not
attach much importance to the EXPIRES
sions of a journal which is one 1ay sold
for house in Fifth avenue, and another
for sum Of money paid directly into an
exhausted exchequer.r al'asa tiTii' 1'a'li
Besides these open foes Of the Repub-
ican party, it has had many enemies
within its own ranks. We need not re-
cal the history Of the last, Presidential
election. Everybody remembers how,
at one time, there seemed scarcely, any
limit to the faithlessness of our ayowed
friends. They went to bed Republicans
and woke up Democrats -only they dis
guised theft Democracy under the inlio-
cent name Of liberalism" A Liberal
Republican is only Democrat who has
not the courage to avow his real princi-
pies. He means to destroy his opponent
If he can, but he win 10 It, Ike an
italian bravo, by, stabbing him in the
back. or snch enemies the Republican
party had to face an abundance last
year. Nor were its troubles over when
the election came. to an end. There were
some men who had been much trusted,
and whose good names were deemed be-
yond reproach, who had fallen under the
influence of these great corporations
which, as Gen. Hawley has truly said,
threaten to debauch, if not TO ruin, the
country. When they were first attacked,
almost everybody believed them to be
entirely innocent II was incredible that
men who had SO long possessed the pub
lie confidence in an eminent degree
should have held any traffic with lobby
lists or bribers The theory that a rich
corporation, should have !" friends in
Congress" ought to have had no weight
with them. Few can be blamed for be-
lieving in the integrity Of men who were
implicitly trusted by the entire Arneri-
can people. Even now, there are men
who say that their acts were not repre-
hersible. But what is to be said Of their
own conflicting explanations OF these
acts? If you are to defend their con-
duct, how are you to Justify their varied
excuses Of II To take few shares Of
stock below its market value may not be
in itself clear proof of bribery; but when
the accused person denies that he ever
saw or touched the profits, and they are
afterward found in his pocket, what is to
be said for him? !" ' : -, -.
These circumstances have thrown o
certain degree of reproach upon the Re
publican party, and yet it is a reproach
which the party itself does not in the
least deserve, and, consequently, it, is
one from which it will speedily recover.
The party has kept its faith with the ma
ton. 1t has broken no pledges. may
not have realized all the expectations of
its more advanced members, but it must
be remembered that il has had itstwofk
to do under. circumstances Of feunexAm-
pied difficulty. 1t had . great war to
conduct amid the most savage opposi-
ton. If anybody wants to recall exam
Piles, of furious enmity to our Governs
ment, he need not go to foreign journals
for them-let him turn over. the pages Of
that corrupt and .unprincipled sheet
which, in this city assumes, to represent
the Democratic party. The success Of
the war only intensifed the hatred Of the
disloyal Democrats. They have never
forgiven the Republican party for sup
pressing treason at the South. Since
1865 the Republicans have inflicted a
fresh series of defeats upon the Demo-
Gratis, although the latter could boast of
deriving strength from that curiougabor-
tion known as g Liberal Republicanisna.n"
Twice their attempts to gain possession
Of the Federal Government have been
In local as well as national
affairs constant. humiliation has been
upon them. sInlS7l their lead-
ers in this, State we're proved to, be men
who were either swindlers themselves or
in, ,collusion with swindlers. 1T fell to
our lot to expose these swindlers--ifi tits
not a crime to mention that faet-aad,
we have been rewarded with their enNi7i
ty ever since. The, best certifcate Of the
thoroughnessi with which our work was
done is to be found in the ,yindictiye ha-
tred Of most of our city contemporaries,
a hatred which at least We have never
sought to appease. Whatever else these,
chiyalrous foes may assert, they can
never say that we have tried to lessen
their animomty, or have, been otherwise
han proud of their resentment We, ins
TACT. have merely fallen IN for q share OF.
the yiirulence with which the Republican
party has been assailedss AfterIa heavy.
siege, that party to-day stands firmly
in the confidence of. the peo-
ple.. Its foes are sleepless, but, the peo-s
Die are always, Just and luckily for an
VIC, have the right on their side, the
people have habit Of talking over pub.
|ic affairs among themselves, and are by
n6 means led blindly by the newspapers.
They viii not condemn great party be-
cause Of the offenses Of q few Of it's mem-