The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-05-26
Who Laughs Last. Laughs Best.

VAo AouS uS dAaeI, AaVGuS 0e6C.
That great weathorcock, the Now
York Herald, says that people begin
to ask themselves "What has this great
Republican party done, and what is it
doing for the country9 They 500 it
just now engaged in desperate fight
over the public plumber, and neglect
Ing every public intorcst in this dis
graceful scramble" And theu the
Herald proceeds, as follows, on it's
own account:
"As they look OH with contempt at
this exhibition. which has about as
much dignity as q first-class dog fight,
they recall tho fact that under Hayes
1t did little else than carefully conceal
the stealing which 1t fostered, and that
with loud aud interminable profess
sions of virtue In the last dozen years
It has only produced scandal after
scandal, until the whole history Of the
party in this period is made up Of
BeiHIap, Robesnn, Pacific Mail, star
route, wbiskey fraud. carpet-bag, sala.
~ grab and u multitude Of other Job
berries Of the basest and most vulgar
kind, mixed in with the most abiect
suhjection TO railroad and other COR
porntion influences. Aud in all that
time no one can recall without al
Efforts u sol itary public service the par
IT, has rendered. 1t might as we'll in
scribe Oh its banners "mill;ols for
plumber, not one cent for the public
Interests"
1t has resisted every reform; It has
prevented the repeal of every bit Of
the obsolete and obstructive war legis-
lation; 1t has maintained every bad
Jaw on the statute book; It has shown
IL every imaginable way its total in
capacity to deal with public questions,
and whenever public opinion has
pressed 1t to do at least some trifling
good 1t has adroitly got up some new
excitement about the South, or some
new, petty and uncalled for quarrel
with the Democrats, with tho sole
view to engage the attention Of the
people and draw their minds away
from public Interests aud real quea-
tions.
The Republican party has in the
general opinion fulfilled its mission.
Why. should it not go to pieces2 Why
should any one Of its honest voters
mourn over its disappearance? It may
not bc dead ut this moment. but it is
rotten. 1t Is the creature of railroad
and other corporation and monopoly
Influences. Its most intimate relations
are no longer with the people, but
with the railroad and telegraph kings,
the Jay Goulds, Stanfor1s, Hunting
tons and others Of that kind, who own
and control its managers and chiefs.
10 say that such party, which de-
1iberatcly chooses Dorsey as one Of its
public nanipulators and unblushlnyly
gives him public dinners; which has
protected and honored Robson, which
openly courts the friendship of public
Piundcrers, which during four vears
sheltered Brady in his star route Job
berries, and took part Of his gains for
its campaign fund after the exposures
made OF him IN Congress; to say that
such party, which scarcely conceals
Its relations with a dozen lobhies, aud
many of whose public men live bv
1obs-to say that this party, quarrelling
now over the spoils, ought to live IS
absurd. 1t has lost even the respect
for public opinion which leads iobbers
usually to divide their spoils in pri-
vate."
1t hopes that the sages at Albany
Will fall III any attempt to patch up a
compromise. for his would be but n
compromise Of the public interests.
"This quarrel" 1t says, .should be
welcomed by all honest men, whother
they arc Republicans, Democrats or In
Let 1t 60 on to the bitter
end--the country is ready for change ::
1t sees change to be necessary. Two
thirds Of the Republican voters would
,oyfnlly join new party organization,
for they see that their own has fallen
Into the control of incapable intriguers
and lobbyists and their tinid and sclE.
seeking followers"
Last November when, In the general
disgust over the defeat Of Hancock,
a number Of newspapers and so-celled
atatesmen read elaborate funeral ora
tions over tho Demscratic party, THE
NEWS AND HERAtD nodestly express.
ed conviction that, although rcpuls-
ed, tho Democratic party was not de.
stfoyed, and that IN two years more it
would rally with as much spirit and
determination as ever. Among those
who "buried" the Democratic party
were Roscoe Conkling and the New
York Herald. Garfield has been
President not-qlSi;o notq;;i;5 three nfo at4s
Conkling is now Struggling desperate
ly himself to escape burial alive; while
the Herald sits on it's perch and mer.
rily and unsympathetioally pipes ohecri.
ly about the imminent and much to be
desired death Of Republicanism. lts
contemptuous kick is the most griev-
Gus insult the Republican party has
yet sustained. All the while the
Democrats are smiling acrencly with
not one trace on their garments Of the
dust Of last November's battle.
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