The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-10

along the Potomsc tonight" In Tennessee
both the national parties are split into
smi,hereens, and Offering such a Mosaic Of
character and color as to be dazzlingy indis'
tinguishable, both striking at each other,
''confuiion worse COMPOUNDED" like unto
the Irishmen in the dark, each thinking the
one was the other, when 10 reality neither
was either. And so on through the catalogue,
not emitting our own city of Dallas, which,
on Tuesday last, April-fooled the citizens
generally, by throwing Stone into Good
mayors nest, giving handsome msjorities in
some wards to the republican
executive candidate, while at the
same polls II placed the laurel wreath
OF aldermsnic honors on democratic brows
Chief among the issues in nearly all these
csses we find some financial problem.
Where caucusses or conventions declined to
enunciste explicit platforms thereon, or
insisted ON some positive course at variance
with an equally we'll defined and decided
view, the split came, and came not tinctured
with democracy or republicsnism; but in
iuenced alone by feelings Of local veal or local
pride, often utterly regardless of dictations
or threats from rings or from bosses, they
served their protests and took their course
These are tho facts and the causes. What is
the Significance and the lessonf Simply this
that the general condition of the country,
nationally consd ered is u fair one, not re-
quiring the needing of fanny of the general par
ty lines, while that of the cities in particular
and somo of the states was not so, many ofthem
sprswlng in the mud beneath the wheels of
the chariots relentlessly driven by the party
ehus and the ring bosses. The stresm of
national politics settled, the people deter
mined to purify their pools at home. "Only
that and nothing more"
There certainly has been ground swell
of expansive force, and the spontaneity Of
the movement ind the similarity of tho in.
iluences, are something remarkable. The
canvass of par tizan authority so recently en-
velopi 6 its devotees numbered by party
labels within its own folds, has been con-
tracted, and the people undertook to exchange
its embroidered surface for better and safer
material. They wanted, too, to put genuine
wine into new bottles and 80 out of the cleo
toral still, through the processes of natura
ermentation there was evolved purified
substance. The general ear had for long
time been invaded by u cry
for real reform. but only thus recently had it
been attained to the finer chords of the nicer
music of official purity and integrity. And
the results should serve as a lesson to those
party rulers who, regardless of right or Of
experience, assume that the party whip is
the magic wand to mould thought and to di-
rect the activities. They should serve as les.
son to show that the onward march of affairs
is not to be arrested by dictstorial loquscity,
nor long to be diverted by crafty or arbitrary
euise; that successful methods, even political
methods, are those that are genuine and
sincere. Nature proceeds not by any double
dealing, else this globe would soon see
chaos come again; even SO with national
policies, or municipal conduct, or individual
action, which latter is after all the fountain
source, being one of the social units, bow
ever infnitesinal in effect which goes to
produce the cumulative result
on the social aggregate. Men may
submit for awhile to the irresistible force
with all the evils which the non.aisptation
of conditions engsnder, but there will come
an hour when the "vox populi" will assert
itself in ripened revolt and shout, lie!
there be light and then like under sunrise
on the sea, the msts of demsgoguery and
corruption will bs dissipated, and the waves
of popular censure will overwhelm the 10.
nahs that were tho Instruments aud often the
guides to their misiortunes. Indeed. had
slow-walking truth not been obstructed on
the way when tho fall races were under the
string, tho White House today might have
had another occupant. But let us all DO
wiser men for tho lessons tau sht and seek
to Increase the stock apd porpetuate the era
Of pJ itcal good health thus inaugurated.
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