Wilmington daily commercial., 1874-11-17

ia, succeeded IN tree countries.
f. par 10 the majority must assume the
&c possibility Of governing. A party Is simply
voluntary organization of citizens united TO
ea7fv INTO effect certain principles and purposes.
must employ and entruet individuals to collect
"A disburse taxes, to perform executive and po-
50 dn .es Ton protection and security Of person
and property; men must be engaged TO construct
public works, carry the mails, administer JUS
tice, and make and execute laws and do q thous-
and other things which the public well-being re-
quires; and these individuals will often prove
careless, inefficient, or corrupt Blu party
whose aims and purposes are good and patriotic,
and whose record is grand and glorious, should
not be condemned aud thrown out Of power on
account of the defective work or misconduct of
aifew of its employees, in order to make place
for an antagonist organization whose record can
not be defended, but is regarded with sorrow
and shame by it's best members, and whose con-
conduct while in power never fails to show that
its reformatory profession when out Of power
are deluson and snare.
Such being the case in regard to the necessity
and machinery of parties in free countries, the
Press, to be useful, cannot avoid being partisan
in greater or less degree II an editor under
takes the role Of supporting both sides, his po-
sition is equivalent to a double affirmative,
which amounts to a negative. II he habitually
censures and condemns both, he is soon regard
ed as a common scold and a nuisance. To be
entirely bipartisan leaves him in the condition
to be wholly independent OF its party and yet
discuss politics, it is on the high road to the
camp of its political opponents, whether its con-
ductor 30 intended at the outset or not-unless
indeed, he takes refuge in the towards harbor Of
neutrality and abdicates his duties altogether
which is a most contemplate and despicable posi-
ton. But it is not essential to the prosperity o.
| influence of party paper that it should wifull,
misrespresent its opponents, and behold nothing
but evil and depravity in all their actions or dis
| cover only reasonable designs in all they pro
| pose to do. Candor and fairness in the treat
ment Of political opponents will detract nothing
| from the influence Of paper, nor will it injur,
the prospects of its own party.
Such, in brief, are the views | have long en-
tertained of parties, and the relations which tn
| Press should bear towards them. politica
newspaper, to be of service to the public mus
give one party or the other the preference. And
while the Democratic party embraces many eS
cellent and worthy members, who would be a
honor to any organization, yet sincerely be
lieye the Republican party comprises muc
larger proportion of the intelligent and educate
classes, of the moral worth and business enter
} prise, well OF the patriotic elements, {
tho nation and therefore the Government {
the country and the civil rights of the poor all
weak can be more safely and prudently comm
ted to its keeping than to that of its antagonist
whose past history and antecedents furnish
much cause for misgiyings and dread Of Its 4
ture behavior.
a Looking, then, at the individual compositio
OF the two great parties, all other parties ben
mere fragments, epAemeral in duration and ma
row in object at their respective recor,
: and underlying principles, cannot hesitate
give the decided preference to the Republics
party. Hence, The Tribune will be conduct,
9 as a Republican journal.