Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1874-12-03
Consistency.

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eial seems very anxious to engage ID
a controversy with the ADVERTISER
in relation to the purity of the Re
publican party. We have neither
the time nor the inclination TO en-
gage id such an interminable bust
ness. IF we undertook TO produce
instances, we could fll half dozen
copies of our paper with well anthem
ticared ones, OF corruption in the
Radical party, that was upheld and
defended by the party leaders. We
know that there are pure men III the
Republican party, and they have
denounced in vain these corrupt prac-
tices.
II isan old maxim however, that no
matter of how little account y mans
testimony is, it VIII avail against him
self, so We propose to refute the
Commercial by the Commercial. five
had a stenographic report OF a little
speech the editor Of that paper made
when he was chairman OF the Greeley
club in this place, year before last, it
would be very easy to furnish his
specifications of charges against the
Republican party, but we will take
more modern instances. When the
Commercial was prOtessedly an IN
dependent paper, in its issue OF Feb
ruary 18th 1874, it says, in speaking Of
the Republican party, "but when we
behold aggregate wealth becoming
a monopoly and encruaehing upon
the rights of the people, representa-
tives binding themselves to be the
willing and paid agents Of these
monopolies, and when opportunity
offered, diving their hands into the
public purse in the shape Of increased
salaries, we are inclined TO think it Is
high time, if the party would seek TO
retain the confidence Of the people, to
purge itself of all such venial crea-
lures"
Again in its issue of April 18th
1874, in speaking of the Democratic
victory in Connecticut, it says, "and
should the Republican party fail to
meet the just expectations Ofthe PEG
pie, by a thorough purgaticn of ali
who have betrayed it into the hands
of its enemies, either by incapacity
to meet the requirements Of the day.
or by the grasping, Over-reaching
Safeguarding of its standard bear
ers, then it deserves defeat after de
feat, until it will have been taught
BY the lesson of bitter experience.
that honesty and economy in the adj
ministratiOn of the government, and
ability to adjust the affairs Of the
nation so as to meet the wants of the
greater number, are some Of the
things the mass of the party desire
and demand at the present"
Inits issue Of November 9th 1874
lust six month after the last issue
quoted, the Commercial SAYS. "and IT
it be found that in all the years in
which Republicans have held control
of the government one solitary crimi-
nal, charged and convicted Of crime
have escaped punishment because
they were Republicans, or for any
other reason, the country wants to
know it" eve are not responsible
for the syntax.
Ifthe former utterances Of the Cone
ulercial mean anything, what does this
mean?
The Commercial speaks of"criminals
charged and convicted OF crime
The difficulty is that they are neither
charged nor convicted" by their
party, but shielded.
But we need not depend on the
Commercial alone.
The "New York Sun, which is a
Republican paper, but has the bold
ness 10 attack is own party when
j, knows it to be wrong saws. in
speaking Of the defeat of the Repub-
lican party
at means that Offices shall not be
bought and SOLD, that legislation
shall not he a matter Of bargain, that
the great trusts OF government shall
not be converted into instruments Il
public robbery and means for the en-
richment Of base and Unsuitable plum
derers. and that law shall prevail,
and not the arbitrary, selfish will Of
an obstinate, dull, conscienceleSs
President 1t means that honesty
and not thievery shall be the rule of
public life, aud that decency. digui,
ty, and the elevation of pur,os shall
be restored to the places now occu-
pied by degraded lust after money and
a debauched and insolent notion that
the power of the people and the places
and resources Of the Government
can be used as the personal property
of a lucky military chieftain mditler
ent to everything but his own graft
fcauon and the enrichment Of his
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