Daily Republican., 1881-04-26
An AstOnished Organ.

maintenance OF fraudulent pracuceS,
injurious to the whole country and
damaging to the administration OF
President Garfield. Gazette.
The article above quoted is brief but
it fairly bristleS with ill-concealed
Jealousy and besides utterS what is not
true We dare say it does rather aston
ish our neighbor when he looks down
over his slim subscription lists for his
daily and the meagre attendance OF
news boys when his paper is issued IN
the afternoon, and the crowds of news
boys daily awaiting and tumbling over
each other in their anxiety to get the
REPUBLICAN to satisfy the public de-
mand
The unconscious admission is made
however that the people will support
the REpUBLlCAN. Some times our
neighbor tries to make the people be-
lieve that the REPUBLICAN has no sup
port and even his own paper las a cir
culation equal to it, but in the quota
ton above quoted he has ceased to make
assertions, admits that it is well sup
ported, but is aStonshed that the people
do support it. We can tell our neigh
Dor why they support it if he wants to
know. They support it because it is
live, local newspaper. 1t endeavors to
give all the news that car he gathered
up, good, bad and indifferent 1t has
never been afraid to CritiCise the con-
duct of public officers. 1t has never
ceased to expose public rasCality. 1t
has laid bare to the bone the corrupt |
measures and manipulations Of the
Democratic party, and if the galded
jades WINGED under the caStigation that
was not our fault People do not 60 10
sleep reading the REPUBLICAN. Re
publicans take it because it pursueS a
course they approve rs right, and
Democrats take it because it is bold
and fearless and hesitates not to tell
3hem when they are wrong, That the
REPUBLICAN has u larger Democratic
support alone than the Gazette has is
We make no special effort to get Demo
crat subscribers, but We will not refuse d
them when they want our paper. A.
tonishing why the people support the
REPUBLICAN Nobody need be. 1t is I
the paper for the MASSES Of the people.
1t is taken and read by the most intel
ligepf citizens down to these who can
scarcely read, 1t is taken by the ricn
and poor, by Dcmorrat Republican t
and Greenbacker, by merchants and
mechanics, by manufacturers and labor
ers, by white and black, in fact by |
every body who appreciates good live
local newspaper. If the Gazette will J
quit crying over spilled milk and pub t
lish such paper it will be supported t
too. So much for that, now word for l.
our defense Of Malone. The Gazette $
repudiating policy ol the Senate 4
and the Star Route ElScalites we are :
committing the Republican party to h
the maintenance Of fraudulent prac- !,
tices. We deny ever having supported Q
Mahone's repudiating policy. On the u
contrary we said in an editorial few =
days ago that We deteStcd his repudiat- +
ing principles, but We are in favor of G
majority rule whether that majority be
one or one Thousand. Let the Gazette
turn back TO its own files and it will
find its columns full of fnlsome lauda.
tions of the brave little confederate
General, who was in no danger of going ;
back in the Democratic party. This was |
after he was elected to the Senate but Z
before he took his seat. He was no re- I
pudiator then. That has all come TO !
him since he has saw fit to oppose T
the Bourbon Democracy and to cast an !
independent vote. Wesupport Malone I
as we have always done in his indie 7
pendence and oppose him for his repu- /
diation principles as we oppose Hamp-
ton, Lamar, Hill, Brown and the most ;
of the Democratic Senators for the same "
cause. How careful our neighbor is of :
The Republican party. He is afraid we
might Il" ii some injury, Hypocrisy
A rnrJF +l,,
never supported the Star route rascal !
ity as it is called nor any other rascalitv.
We glory in the Presidents pluck and )
discrimination in taking the Star
route by the neck and shaking the life
out OF it. 1t should have been done by :
PRESIDENTS Grant and Hayes.
lhe most amusing part Of our neigh r
bor'S article is the anxiety to prevent =
Che damaging Of President Garfield's
administration. Why, is thisthe same !
paper with the same editor, that before r.
the election and n long time afterwards r
attributed the grosseSt kinds of frauds :
to President Garfield? Is this the same :
paper that continually rung the changes ,
of Credit Mobilier De Golyerpavement :
and the Chinese letter against Garfield? ,
Wonderful change! Miraculous con-
version While President Garfield is
no doubt thankful for very small favors,
he needs no defence from the Gazette, ,
We would advise our neighbor to turn
little Of its attention to the puritica.
Republican party nor General Garfield
need its assistance, above all its praises
The Gas QueStiom.
Gas is now only 81 30 ner one thnn.