The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-12
GENERAL PRESS REVIEW.

While there is good deal that is sensi bl'
and 70 doubt true in the following from thu
Courier Journal, there is also some nonsers 81
lit. It's only the bitteres. prejudice, or il
other words stalwartism, that accuses MIR
Conkling with having had anything to d.
With the assault on the president, bu. th'
Courie-,Journsl having charged him with !
sticks to it, regardless of justice and common
decency even. What it says OF the Globe
Democrat and Iater-Ocean is undoubtedly
correct. 1t says:
Stalwartism, whether republican or demo
cratic, is merely another name for party ism
The stslwsrt is Tor his party, or mis- branch
O his party, which he assumes to be tie
parry. right or wrong. He is an extreme
party nan. He Is for strong measures de
balks at nothing. He considers conserva'
tism as cowardice. With him to hesitate is
10 be unfaithful. He ia without equivocs-
tion, He hates the other side. lie refuses to
marley or compromise Ultra in opinions hit.
ter in tenn er, ,eiant in acton, he has no fear
of consequences and rejoices in the indls
elimination and ferocity of his chosen war
fare. 1t is an evil spirit. and, on both sides,
has done deal of harm to this country.
That this stalwsrt spirit, which procured the
death of Nj. Lincolo, il responsible for the
attempt upon the life of Mr.. Garfield, can
not be doubted, though Guiteau may turn
out to be without accomplices. This latter,
however, is not likely. lie had to get money
from somewhere. Somebody enabled him
10 hire the hack. He declares himself to be
"a stslwsrt of the stslwsrts." Again, that
NAV be mere pretense. Or 1t may be q
spe,es of lunacy, though there is uncommon
method in his madness. and the country will
be slow to believe him crazy except
with viciousness. But, whatever the
bottom iacts, there must be investigation,
and there should be no sbridgment Of the
scope of this, nor squeamish delicacy as to
individusls who denounce suspicion as "a
crime. For years the faction of the republi-
csa p,rtv led by Mr.. Conking, and managed
by such men as Dorsey and Brady, has been
uu.vorlng IN its abuse of the south. Ii has
not only charged the south, Unfortunately,
with rapine and MURDER but has manu-
featured outrages TO sustain its unchartable
and brutal assaults. Ii Gui,eau were q
southern man it would Involve the whole
south in his crime, and We
should have such papers as
the Globe Democrat and er-Ocesn
lashiug the sectional spirit into fury.
The New York Herald has raised scien-
tihc question that the Swans ought to settle
at once. He says:
DR.. Caraslly, of England, il said to have
produced ice SO cold that it burns the human
flesh. II is to be doubted whether this kind
of ice is new discovery; apparently it has
been known in the United States tor a long
time. Many men who patronize barrooms
complain frequently Of intense inter-
nal burning, which they are unable to trace
to lis cause. OF course it cannot proceed
from the liquor; no one imsginrs this for an
instant. Some attribute it to the piece OF
cracker, or cheese, or meat, tie
olive, OF rsdish, or bit oil lemon
that they ate just after their last drii k; olh-
ers think it comes from the roast beet that
they steat dinner or the breakfast rolls they
ate at home-snythipg, in fact, but the liq
uor But all this time they entirely overlook
the ice that is served with the glasses and
bottles. The chances are about ten 10 one
that ifthey would stay away from the bar
rooms and the wicked ice the burning sem
sslion would soon pass away; for stranger
still, the ice used in water pitchers does no,
burn at all.