The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-12-18

RED MOUToED I:L.ruER.

There is 10 longer any use for the green
D6cH. II Is an Anomaly, "A nGlsance, and All
ab1ut IL should be allowed TO disturb the
PEI c, oil even the most sensitive politician.
The Chicago Later Ocean copies the fore,
going paragraph from the Cincinnati Con-.
M real, and follows it up with half col.
umn of comments, bristliDg all over with
good points. Here it is. Read it:
There Is a class of politicians in this
country, composed largely of journalists
who, with no outward marks OF beipg &C.
| capped lunatics or incurable imbecilss, are
YET the most pestiferous nuisances 10 be met
with in political life. Most of these meu
have succeeded under fortuitous circum-
stances In becoming the principal owners OF
prosperous newspapers, and this fact has
apparently euthroned them in the belief
III At they know precisely how 10 save the
| universe, and that he who ditfsrs with them
ought to be Immediately and e1peditiously
damned.
10 their supreme egotism, nothing that
the rest of creation favors is to be tolerated
| Tor an Instant. They must be the sole and
Only directors of everything below the
skIes, or they grow sour and morose, and
rail about the reigu of ignorance Most of
these gentlemen have q faculty for saving
| or wiring sharp but shallow sentences, and
they build up a cheap notoriety, which,
under the applause Of the gods in the po-
lItIcal gallery, they mistake for celebrity.
L ..der this delusion they swell, and strut.
and look profound, and appear burdened
with the cares OF state, and finally, they
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Commercial.
We say it with regret, for our Cincinnati
contemporary is n sprIghtly journal, but
1t has no more business dealing with the
practical question of politics than a cat
has wading into hogshead of molasses.
1t has no idea of practical wisdom in the
management and conduct of parties; il
would do precis.l L. what Grant Gays the
Democratic party has done for SO many
years, step in Its own pail OF milk, while
bawling out directions how to steal a tea
spoonful Of the tactical fluid from a neigh.
boris COW.
As everybody knows, such men and such
newspapers are a great tria 10 any party,
and this world hardly affords more positive
satisfaction than when the organization
which has been afflicted with their Intellec.
tual contortions, realizes that il lie free OF
them for the time being, and that an op-
posite party is to suffer the torture of their
presence through q whole campaign.
We call Republicans and Democrats to
witness that, since the present generation
grew into manhood, there has not been
Presidential campaign fought 20 serenely
and won 90 easily a. that of 1872, When
men like Schurs and Horace White, and
papers like the Commercial ard Chicago
Iri6yae were hunting tor reform, and
wrestling with the dictionary on the otLer
side.
But now We have them with "a, that Is,
they are professediy Republican in their
conduct, and have, therefore, fifty times a.
great an opportunity to raise the devil as
when they were on the other side. How
they are beginning, and q sample of wha,
is to be expected from them, lie illustrated |
by the paragraph We have quoted, and BY |
d, z IDS OF other which We have been com. |
PEELED from time to time to combat and |
condemn. The misery of it is that the |
Commercial actually believes it knows some
thing about policy and politics. 1t is like |
an ice-boat without . rudder; . kite with
out tail, and 1t goes plunging and diving \
~ out, highly amusing as . spectacle, but
unreliable o. . land mark. Its
talk about the greenback il simply the raw.
ings an indiscreet infelicitous, and imprsc-
iicable politician The "greenback." will
not. ~ithouta fight. vhichshouldi i, come
will divide the Republican party. Not 10
know this Is to argue oneself q numskull.
Then follows the question, is the emergency
20 great for the driving out of ereenbacks
that all elae must be hsxarded to accom-
plish il? Is the question of civil rights to
give way before this awful necessity for
aholishing the legal tesdses, Il ReFubli-
can victory in ths coming contest 10 be
lritied away to ease ths Hoo5isd dreams of