The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-07
JUSTICE.

In the war that is now going on in the east
between the factions of the republican party,
democrats are relegated to the positions of
lookers-on and listeners. The stalwarts have
stolen their thunder and are sounding ii in
the ears Of the half breeds, The old scandals
bilier, DE Golyer and Mulligan matters-are
being revived, this time by the stalwarts.
The bargains and promises, which the demo-
Gratis have maintained Garfield entered into
and made to secure his election, are now be-
ing ventilated by the irate Conklingites. In
their anger they are proclaiming the family
secrets and exposing the skeleton in the
closet" that have been heretofore Jealously
guarded and hidden from the public gaze.
They refer to Mr.. Garfield as a gentleman
possessing some intelligence, but not enough
to enable him to distinguish the difference
between a bribe and a loan. They have in
vested the figures 800 with more meaning
and a greater significance than they possessed
during the last national campaign. When
the stalwarts get through with the little job
they now have on hand of dissecting Presi-
dent Garfield's moral structure, they will not
leave enough of his former reputation for
honesty for the halfbreels to swear by. He
IS being most numerically 'turned over'' by
those who were but lately his political allies
and who know whereof they speak.
Mr.. Blaine, whom they recognize as the
president de tactO, is receiving a fair share of
the stalwarts attention, They are handling
him without gloves. They boldly assert That
the star route investigation will not be vigor-
ous!y pushed from the fact that Messrs. FL
kins and Dorsey, the two men who profited
most largely by the star route frauds, were
ardent supporters of Blaine at Chicago and
that out of gratitude to them he will proba-
bly, use his position to discourage a thorough
probing of the scandalous transactions con-
nected with those routes. They also gently
hint that there is matter enough in the inves-
tigation 10 give Mr.. Blaine a halfa dozen sun
strokes, the trichina Spiralis, the delirium
tremens and an attack of cerebro-spinal men,
inghitis, hence they argue that as the gentle
man wishes to enter the canvass in 81
in good mental and physical form
he will not use any extraordinary eff
forts to br ing his guilty friends to
punishment. 1t must be remembered that
Democrats are making no charges of this
kind. They are throwing no mud in this IN
ter-necine strife. There is no occasion for
them to indulge in it. They can see that
the warning clements of their common politi-
cal foe are dealing to each other %retributive
Juslice-that justice which an outraged people
will mete out to the party that has, for years,
harbored within its ranks the vampires that
have been feeding and fattening upon the
substance of the nation. In The meantime
the Democrats may occupy the raised seats in
the amphitheatre and complacently view the
combat in the arena now being waged be-
tween the eladiators of the factions led by
Conkling on the one side and by Blaine on
the other. "When thieves fall out'-we all
know the balance of the familiar adage-
and can afford to wait patiently its fulfill
ment.