San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-07-03
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to the ,vsts sates Of dsAth. II had 90
completely diagustsd the whole psopls
that To The dsmaua eiorioiyils service
rsformiwss noat visosoualy iaaa nas'
quly lyoeallv made by both politisal par
ties iulthsir 5 national plasfprpa. . The
candidate Of the republisapl vss Aingu.
lar|y emphatic on the sphieek deolArinG
that the reform should be sstheropsh,
radical and complete" = but the .hest
thing thAs mn be sAid Of hipn. adminis-
|trationliA ]hats alter SplAyips Ahs ssns
Of fast and loose aior several years. Il
has .Ruslly surrendered to the enemy,
The famous order Of the president 70
his subordinstos, ISSUED early in bis
administration, is sinow everywhere
treated with derision. and contempt,
while his Secretary Of tho Treasury 10
defautly WELDING the entire federal
machinery under his control in the
work Of procuring his presidential
nomination. Indeed there is not the
least ground for believing that either
of our oontending parties can be trust.
ed in dealing with this question. which
so vitality involves the reform Of great
abuses and the publication Of ourpol
itics, for which good men everywhere
pray. They have evidently made up
thoir minds to continue the work Of
mocking the peoples wishes, while r.
valing each other in the palpable in.
sincerity of their professions. Their
apdaoity thus far has received no 50.
rious check, and is likely, to have free
course till it shall be arrested by .
popular outcry still more formidable
than that Of 1876. In tho very nature
of things this will come. The endur-
auce of the people will not last forever.
They move islowlyus.. but
they will move surely against
q great and intolerable national
grievance. Our model republic will
not continue much longer to lag be.
hind the governments Of the Old
World in its man ner of transacting the
business Of the people and when, tbs
cup Of party misrule shall be full tc
overaowing, the grand work will be
undertaken and quite as thoroughly
accomplished as was the suppression
of the rebellion. nrf ,a5o.I.
The state of our. parties furnishes
still better illustration, No man
can name any we'll defined questions on
which they are divided. Their para.
disc is power, and il furnishes the sole
basis and inspiration Of their conten
ton. To say that this state Of affairs
is to be prolonged iinde6n,tely is tc
surrender the country tolits foes, and
to join the army ofeyil prophets, whose
counsels We totally abjure:, It. true
that parties. like Individuals. sometimes
outlive their usefulness. The par.
ties which ruled the country quarter
Of a century ago, kept UP their strife
years after the issues which originally
divided them had been settled, They
lived upon their traditions, and eacf
cherished the desperate porpose'of say.
ing its life by scuffiing for power only
and by keeping out Of sight the living
issue of tho time. They doubtless
had as little thought of bringing theil
quarrel to an end as have the, parties
Of to-day; but the living question came
to the front through tho very efor
to keep it back, while the hollownes'
of the scramble, became more emo
more apparent. The 6nsl result wal
the birth of new parties, whose de-
scendants are now called Independent
voters. They defeated Clay for th'
presidency in 1874. and Cass il
l84S. Independent voters Of the Dem
ocratic persuasion rent their party il
twain in 1860, and made Abraham
Lincoln President. lndependept voter
created the Republican party, and the.
will destroy it whenever II become
perfectly apparent that its life can b
continued only for evil. Independen
voting in the city and state Of New
Y ork has become an exceedingly in
teresting il not picturesque proceed
ing; and the men engaged 10 it VIII
are now known as "scratchers, hav'
served notice on the engineers of tn
great party machine" that their pur
pose is TO ditch" Il unless It shall b
run cosiormably to teir beliefs
Neither party is now strong enough .
win without the help OF these politics
ltsu,lcontents" whose min Der. are con