Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-11-05
EFARTS ON REPUBLTCATfS.U
AND RIGHTEO USNE.SS.

AND RIGHTEO USNEsS.
1t Is next door TO the impossible for
any member Of the present abnormal
Administration TO make u public
speech without nauseating display
OF cant--the siclsly, simple whine Of
affected true goodness. Considering
all tho circumstances connected with
the birth Of the Administration, and
seeing how its life has fulfilled the
promise OF 30 ignoblc and criminal in
ception, its assumption of pious air
is not only in most execrable taste, but
calculated TO provoke the just indigna-
iiea cs those who have any sense oi
the eternal fitness of things" One
need not be exceptionally good or cx.
tremcly iastidious to resent systematic
hypocrisy.
The most recent exhibition of this
canting snivel was the peroraiion Of
Mr.. Evarts' New York speech of Tues.
day evening, October 2lst, in which
he urged his hearers TO support the
Conkling -Tammany- Beccher alliance
in order to "put the Government in
the hands of those who love peace and
pursue righteousness" If tho Repub.
lican party had loved peace as much
as 1t loved public plnnder, il would not
have pushed the Nation TO the verge
of civil war, war that would have
ragged in every hamlet in the United
States, IN order TO bring in by crime,
through the sewers and sluiceways OF
fraud, the Administration, of which
Mr.. Evarts is conspicuous part. II
that party desired peace it would not
permit It's leaders to be forever ringing
the changes on tho war that ended
half a generation ago. and continually
tearing open the wounds of sectional
strife.
Less than week ago, and on the
very spot whore Mr. Evarts stood, a
Republican leader made threats Of civil
war, and bis hideous menace was
cheered by the misguided deluded
men who applauded Mr.. Evarts. There
is no danger of war, for the patriotism
OF the masses may be relied on 10 avert
such a calamity. But the leading men
and prominent journals Of the Repub.
lican party have not hesitatcd TO "lseep
the war feeling alive" as part of their
settled policy, nor have they shown
any resistance to trampiing on the
Constitution and invading the rights
of States, with view to provoking
resentment in order TO furnish pre-.
text for further aggressions.
But it appears that this party not
only loves peace, provided it can have
peace and plumber at the same time,
but it "will pursue righteousness. "
This party that, after Ievelling and
roiiicking in the very voluptuousness
of unsurpassablo corruption under
Grant, stole the de facto title to four
years moro of license-stole it by the
vulgar vilainies Of felons--this party,
with this record, "sillpursue righteous.
nessl' Well, if Righteousness knows
what is good TOR her she will get out
of the way whom she sees that crowd
"purming." Seriously, however, Mr..
Evsrts ought to know that such cant
is inadmissble. He ought TO have
some respect for those things which
good men iovere. lie should have so
much decent regard for the opinions
and feelings Of large and most re.
spectacle portion Of the community, as
would prevent him from giving them
needless offence.
Does Mr.. Evarts propose that the
Whiskey Ring thieves shall be in the
van when that solemn march towards
righteousness begins ? Are the Car.
pet bag despoilers, the pious scoundrels
who stole tho soldiers grave-stonc
funds, the Indian Bureau rascals who
stole tho funds while the women and
children died of hunger and cold, the
Belknaps, the Robesons--are all these
to join in thepursuit ? Are the visiting
statesmen to join hands with the Louis
lana and Florida Returning Boards,
and go forth on the march, while the
Administration cheers them on with
sacred psalmodyf viii Mr.. Evarts
commission the Shanghai Consulate
sconndrels now in high favor in his
Department TO act as pioneers in that
grand pursuit of righteousnessp Will
Chandler and Kellogg and Orlh be
delegated TO serve as Chaplains for the
expedition. 40 that ParsOn Beecber