Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-14
SENSIBLE TALK.

SENSIBLE TALK.
I The SENTINEL is and proposes to re-
main independent of party politics.
We have freely criticised those acts
alike of Democrats and Republicans
which have seemed to us deserving OF
criticism; and we have heartily ap-
piauded every measure advanced and
every principle pronounced by either
party which has seemed to us calcu-
lated to promote the general welfare,
to reinvigorate commerce., to re-estab-
lish financial prosperity, to secure
honesty and economy in the admins
tration of public affairs, OF to restore
in their integrity those fraternal bonds
which should unite the North and
South. The following article from the
Silver City Mining Reporter. a Repub-
lican journal, SO well expresses our
ideas with reference to q certain class
of partisans. that we copy it entire and
appropriate its sentiments as our own:
There are some who measure the
amount of patriotism and loyalty of a
newspaper by the number OF times it
shouts ..long live President Grant and
the Republican party, no matter what
they do" and the amount of invect-
ives hurled through its columns against
Democracy and all who dare to criti-
else the official acts of the Republican
party. This latter class mistake parti-
sdnism for patriotism, and deem it
treason to party and backsliding from
the true Republican faith to criticise
the official acts of the present Admin
istration. There are a few newspapers
aud a great many men, we are sorry
TO say, who deem it a duty to party to
labor necessarily to keep open and
fresh the wounds caused by the rebel
lion of the South, and TO keep con-
stantly stirring up discussions over
this and that mans loyalty, or worth
as a citizen, simply because this or
that mani may have served as a Con-
federate soldier or have been born out
ride of Massachusetts. The men who
indulge in this sort of loyal ~ discus
sion, and who seem anxious that the
bitter past shall not he forgotten MOI
those who helped each other to make
1t bitter shall ever he friends, are gen
orally those whose history shows ne
record of martyrdom for country,
Their battles for owe of country have
been fought with the lips; their sa'
bres lead pencils; the boom of theil
cannon and rattle of their musketry
but the voice-echoes of their hollow
hearts; their long dreary marches >
have been made on the plank Of theil
city's sidewalks, and the corses O
those they have slain are sold at the
meat markets. The rue soldiers whe
fought and grappled with each other
at the lannon's mouth and the bayon
cts point, on fields deep-dyed with the
blood of rue patriotism, no longer
cherish the hatred which neryed theil
arms; with them the war has ended
the passions which brought it on have
cooled, and the hands of The /" blue
and the gray" once clenched in an
ger, now clasp in friendship. If patri
osism ami loyalty to the Republican
party consist of necessarily stirring VI
the bitter feelings engendered by a sec
tional war, long since ended, remain
ing stupidity silent while corruption j
daily being unearthed at the fountain
head of that party, and ~eternally echo
ing the virtues of the present Admins
tration without also commenting on it.
faults, then do we lack the inclination
tn be termed "a good Republican,
But II the condemnationof wrong anc
the unfolding of right, whether in o
ont OF party; the advocating of the pol
icy Of putting good and honest mel
Unto office, national. State and county
sand the combination Of good men OF al
parties to see that their local govern
ment be one of economy, honesty ant
dignity, are the p~roclivities which arr
required Of . a good Republican news
paper" then will the Reporter la,
claims to the name. At this time tn,
discussions Of .cernty politics is prema
ature; and althou it might possibly b.
SslisEed by some. the majority of GU
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