Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-12
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Why Watt.rson Declines to Join It.

Why Watt.rsOn Declines to Join 1t.
Louisville Couricr-Journa!.
Waving the antecedents ofthe Republi-
can party, and taking it on it's face-even
as that is lighted by the flush Of victory
We can see nothing in its existence but 4
threat, nothing in it's influence but curse
to the country. The Republican party is
not. as it claims to be, party Of ideas. It
is party of emotions, and, rs these have
been pampercd and tlattered, party of
evil passions. Admitting the deficiencies
of the Democratic leaders, cOrceding much
that may be said of Democratic inadequacy
as the Democratic party has been OrSani-
zed these many years, Democratic success
would have cntailed less injury on the pub
lie service, and vastly less on the public
morals, than VIC shall experience in the
impetus which Republican success has
given the bad tendencies Of Reputlicanism
and the wicked designs Of the Republican
politicians.
The chief OF these bad tendencies is
Hypocrisy. The chief of the wicked de-
signs is official oligarchism. AS Il preten-
der, the Republican party is all immoral
agent. AS an organism, it is a menace.
It has debauched all our modes of thinking
and is bringing into play an cnginery, and
the tools to handle it, Of the most danger
ous character. 1t may succeed, and prob
ably will succeed, in supplanting the all
tique in Southern life and thought with
that which is Northern and modern, and,
in doing this, it will cxtirpate much that
the South were we'll quit Of; but it will
supply the vacuum with deal that can in
nowise improve the people or the country,
and will lose the South in virtue more than
it will rain in craft and thrift
ell fares the land to hast'ning ills prey,
Where wealth accumuiateS and men decay
speaking, Of course, in reason, and by no
means disdaining the goed which wealth.
properly acquired and employed, brings
with it. The Republican party embraces.
without doubt, large portion Of what is
called the culture of the country but it
cannot be truly said that the culture of the
Republican party is, i'll party affairs, as
cendcnt. The machine is ascendent. The
Republican party claims to be the party
of religion and morality. yet it universally
and enthusiastically applauds the indecent
spectacle of Beecher gushing over an In
gersoll. As 4 financicr, the Republican
party has been lucky time-server and
as a political economist, it is the repre-
sentative of rings and jobbers, and must
from the necessities of the case, continue
such. Clean Ho party can be which has
been in power so long and which, draw
ins its inspirations from the spirit of con-
quest and domination, has that within it
which bodies murder to the state. That,
as party lines are now drawn, it can elect
Grant as easily four years hence rs it has
just elected Garfield, is certain and as we
believe it meditatcs this, and, as we further
believe that the election of Grant under
the circumstances would be substantially
the end of republican government, VIC
must, at whatever cost, place ourselves be-
tween the people and the destruction of
the peoples system and morality.