Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-14

NECESSITY OF GOING TO THE BOTTOM OF
THINGS.
Toledo Blade.

Toledo Blade.
We do not believe that a rotten egg
can be made as good as fresh one by
only cleaning the shell.
We do not believe that a mock auction
den can be made reputable retail estab-
lishment simply by putting out new
sign.
We do not believe that pirate ship
can be made an honest merchantmen by
a new figure head on the prov.
We do not believe that donning new
paper collar is as good as changing ones
dirty shirt and soiled underwear
We do not believe that another coat of
whitewash on the outside of the sepul-
cher can make the corruption and dead
mems bones within pleasant and attract
i've.
We do not believe that few drops of
carbolic acid can make the foulness of
sewer as wholesome and inviting as the
limpid waters of a spring.
We do not believe in the application
to politics of the homeopathic principle
that the greater the dilution the greater
the strength.
Consequently we do not believe that
the nomination Of union soldier for the
head of its ticket changes one iota of the
nature of the democratic party, purges it
of particle of disloyalty, or cleanses it
of grain of the soil of blood and crime
with which it has stained itself in it's
half century of existence, and fifty years
of warfare against the best interests of
the nation.
1t would take an infnity of Hancocks,
not at the head of the ticket, but in the
body of the party to redeem its malig-
nant putrescence, and make it sweet and
savory to the nostrils of the people.
We have seen too many quite as good
soldiers as Hancock enter the party, and
seen how utterly powerless they were to
effect any improvement in it, to have any
hope that another soldier more or less
can be of any avail.
What can one more loyal man, gallant
general though he be, avail in party
which contains the whole of the late
southern confederacy, all the kuklux
klans, the white leaguers, the shotgun
bands, the rifle clubs of the south all
the sons of liberty, the knights of the
golden circle, the nlinii-all the soldier
hating, freedom-hating, union-hating
copperheads of the north-that contains
everybody who fired a gun at the flag,
who murdered soldiers in the field, who
starved union soldier at Andersonville,
or who assassinated a republican in a
midnight raid upon his unsuspecting
home? Nothing absolutely nothing.
Is not General Hancock very small
measure of whiteWash to make this
mountain of scarlet disloyalty as white
as snow? 1t would seem so.
We have as much admiration for Gen
eral Hancock's soldiery career as anyone,
and that admiration dates back some six
teen years, to a time when these new
BORN admirers-who are now pointing
with pride to his soldiery record to
quote their own language-were execrat
inc the " brutal butcher" as they styled
him, for sending his soldiers into the
+" SHAMELESS and for desolating' south
ern homes.
But that Hancock fought well at Get
tysburg and the Wilderness is no reason
why his candidacy should be allowed to
blind us to the sinister designs of those
who have seduced him into serving as a
cloak-a screen behind which they can
plot and conspire to recover what they
failed to win on the field.
But we have no fears for the result.
We have no fears that anybody is going
to be deceived by his candidacy any
more than they were by Mcclellan IN
1864.
The ides of November will show the
people of the United States have aroused
once more to vindication of the princi-
pies for which they have fought so long
and VIGOROUSLY That vindication will
be the huniliating and disheartening
overthrow of the remnants of the re-
bellion, which have made Hancock their