National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-12-24
The Administration.


warts and Stalwartism. They endeavor
TO limit its application to factional dis
turbances of last spring, notwithstand-
ing the fact that Mr.. Blaine recently
claimed to have used the word stalwart
as early as 1877. He then used it to dis
tinguish earnest Republicans from those
who were selling out to the Bourbon
South. The Republicans who said the
Southern Bourbons were all lambs and
their political opponents all wolves did
not make their first appearance in 1877.
They were pulling back on General Grants
administration from the time he refused
to give Carl Schurz the Federal patronage
with which to run political spoils ma
chine for his own personal use in Mis-
souri, in 1870.
The Ku-Klux horrors of yearsago in the
far South, abundantly proven by the tes-
timony of cx-confederates and the fire.
qucnt plea of guilty by the offenders
themselves, were scoffed and jeered at as
fables by the party leaders who OBJ
tanned power and place by means of
them. There then arose class of dough-
faces and sycophants in the Republican
party who falsely pretended to believe
the Bourbon side of the story. They
became accessories to the political crimes
at the South by their mean efforts TO
screen the offenders. They will n ever
forgive the men who then saw through
their hypocrisy and depravity. They are
loud pretcnders TO goodness, but they
were then base deserters of truth, lib
erty, and humanity. They carried with
them many thousands of Republicans
who thought they were telling the truth
The New York Tribune became the most
shameless journalistic prostitute in
America, and carried to the Republican
homes of New York and New England
in which it had for years been welcome
visitor and sound advocate of truth
an unceasipg stream of falsehood, malice,
and moral and political poison. Now
that it is forced by self-interest TO wear q
Republican mask, it often refers to the
past in terms which give the lie to what
it was teaching during that past. In this
infamous work it had the aid OF other
great newspapers and of some public men.
Since those days the Bourbon leaders
have lost their hold upon many thou
sands of their followers. Now it is no
longer denied that great crimes have
been committed in the South by violent
partisans of the Bourbon organization,
and fair-minded men are breaking away
from its control. The Republicans who
did not defend and sympathize with the
outrages upon Southern black voters are
Stalwarts; the doughfaces, who fawned
upon Bourbon leaders then, and do still
are unworthy the name of Republicans
at all. The great body of the Republic
cans of the country were trying to get al
the truth in those days. The New York
Tribune, Chicago Tribune, Cincinnati Com
mcrcidl, Springfield Republican, and Other
journals of easy virtue were trying tc
make them believe lie, and their foul
work did great harm in misleading and
confusing the public mind. 1t is these
same disturbers who now cry out
against President Arthur and &C
cuse him of building up the Stalwarts
They are haters of the Republican cause
They tolerate the party only to the ex
tent they can debauch it and use il
power for its own destruction. They ar,
on the hest of terms with the Bourbons
They deprecate all political earnestness
They have schemes on hand now for {
disruption of the party, and are consumed
with wrath because the people stand by
} the President. They are toward him a
the Wolf toward the Lamb in the fable
: quarreling because the latter muddieC
the stream above the point at which HI
was drinking. Failing to see anything
. in the Presidents course deserving cen
. sure, they meanly intimate that he i
y making distinctions between last year
= friends and opponents of General Grant
They use the word Stalwart as applicabl
: only to the supporters of General Gran
t last year. All this is intende,
t for mischief. 1t has no Pounds
o ton in truth. The President ha
no thought of recognizing factioni
lines. He is high-minded, wise, an
, magnanimous man. He will not dt
+ vote his term to "getting even" wit
9 the paltry blackguads who denounce
him in the spring as loafer and in tn
summer us an assassin. They could M
crawl high enough in twenty years ft
. him to look down far enough to see then
= He will not move aside from his jus
moderate, and broad policy under an
provocation or for any purpose. TIL
4 PEOPLE know him now and will give Il
r heed to his viliGers. He is not for
It third term for anybody, nor for any kin
d of term for anybody except the pre-
5, ent term. lie cannot be assailed su
- cessfully for having called to his Cab
:, net Folger, Frclinghuysen, Brewste
. or Howe. The views Of these me
on public affairs, and their capacity
deal with them, are all that greatly /
terest the country. How they would ha'
voted if they had been delegates in son
IS party convention does not appear to
g. greatly exercising the public mind. \
n amount of vociferation about third-terr
y ers will hurt anybody. Nobody believ
% that any ex-President is or will be ca
didate for the Presidency. No one W
,r fail to see the real motive of those wi
Ia seek to stir upstrife by makingparty tee
A. of the names of individuals.
n MEN who have made millions |
A. watering stocks and various other d
10 vices for robbing labor, and have
vested their immense fortunes in bon
that are not taxed, are rending the {
- with wild shrieks Of rage because pa
y. of our surplus revenue has been paid O
81 as pension arearages-paidt to fill t,
70 gap between date of injury or death al