The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-11-18

as their courage. Every issue that
has arisen has been discussed fearlessly
and skilfully. The ability and the
zeal with which the business mems is
sue and the tariff question were urged
upon the country, are cases in point
They made a clean campaign also.
! General Hancock was treated with the
respect which his private character
and public services demanded. At the
same time, there has not been a SLAM
der upon General Garfield put forward
by the Democratic press, which the
Republican papers, by reason Of hav-
ing much the greater supply of brains,
as we'll as the truth, on their side, have
not made to recoil upon the head Of
its inventors. The Democratic gem
Of vituperation, 329, and the Demo-
cratic masterpiece in campaign fiction,
the forged letter, were made good for
thousands and thousands Of Republi-
can votes by the frankness with which
the Republican papers took them up,
and the wit and skill with which they
turned them back upon their authors
The Democratic cry for "a change"
was caught up in the same way, and
used with telling effect. But it would
take good part Of President Garfeld's
term to enumerate the achievements
of the Republican press of the interior
in this campaign. This splendid en-
CINE of enlightenment and progress
has battered the walls Of the Democ-
racy-blow upon blow, week after
week, month after month-until they
fell, and great was the fall thereof.
1t would not be just to omit trib-
ute to the most efficient ally the Re-
publican press has had-viz, the Dem
ocratic press. Has there ever been
time when the low tone and inferior
ability of the average Democratic
newspaper were so conspicuous? 1t
has not had the decency to tell the
truth when it helped the other side,
nor the skill to tell it we'll when it
might help its own side. A Demo
cratic statesman said dolefully not
long ago: "If I ever do make a point
for my party, there isn't Democratic
paper in the country that has the
brains to see it" When all have
reached this perfection Of debility,
mention Of individual newspapers may
seem invidious, but we cannot refrain
from paying a tribute to The New
York World which, every Democrat
will admit, has been fairly earned. If
The World has told the truth in any
single instance in this campaign, it
must have been by accident or in the
absence of the Rev. VIM. Henry Hurl-
bert in Indiana. The exquisite trans
parency of The Worlds falsehoods,
and its heroic persistency in sticking
the closer to lie, like that about
Judge Swayne, the longer it had been
found out, have made it a most valua-
BILE Deputy Republican newspaper.
No less useful was the feeble maligni-
ty, impaired, curiously, by another
broken-down preacher, to The New
York Express. He is the patentee of
the idea that you can best help your
candidate by pouring filth over the
private life of anybody who opposes
him. We must not forget, either,
The Albany Argus, which has reduced
sophomorical triviality to a science,
and has learned how to combine imbe-
cility and impudence in proportion
heretofore unknown in journalism.
There has been no such puerile churn-
ing Of froth and mud in any other
newspaper office in the country. We
return the thanks Of the Republican
party of this State to The Albany Ar
gus. But that paper has been only
more silly and more unprincipled than
it's Democratic contemporaries. For
their record on both heads, and their
success in driving voters into the Re-
publican party, they all deserve Re-
publican gratitude.