The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-11-15
Who have been Rebuked.

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who found ready excuse for not do
ing their plain duty, were most
eager to explain or criticise. The
soldiers who did the real work of
the battle, who never faltered when
the storm was fiercest, who stood by
the flag to the last, accepted defeat
like men, but the mem who were
not in ranks when they were wanted,
. or who deserted before the battle
opened, were loud in their COM
plants against leaders and subordi-
mates and had much to say OF the
lessons of defeat.
So now. when the Republican par
ty has met with disaster, criticism
and recrimination come most from
those who contributed most to the
defeat. What a spectacle for the
founders of the party is presented
when the Republicans who voted
squarely against the ticket, or who
worked against the party for weeks
and fell sullenly into line at the last
moment, shout in chorus that the
result is a rebuke to the men who
did their best for Republicans early
and late. What a splendid offering
to the old soldiers of the war is
made when Republicans in one
great State boast of slaughtering one
of the most gallant soldiers of the
Union army, and, adding insult to
injury, point to the defeat of General
Beaver as rebuke to men who
never scratched Republican ticket.
There was a time when it was a
fashion in the party to rebuke the
other fellows.
But times have changed. InNew
York the Republicans who voted for
the Republican candidate are CEN
sured, while those who voted for the
Democratic candidate are heralded
as the saviors of the party. In Penn
sylvania the Republicans who threw
away their vote on an Independent
candidate, thereby securing the elec-
ton of Democrat, are spoken OF as
men of principle, while SCOTS and
sneers and taunts are showered upon
Republicans who voted the Republi-
can ticket.
But somebody has been rebuked.
The tariff men in Pennsylvania, by
dividing, have given the free-trade
party a majority in Congress. The
Republicans of New York have elect
ed "a Democratic Governor as a
means of making the State Republi
can in 1884. The Republicans of
Kansas, after,voting fora prohibition
amendment, have elected a Demo-
crat to look after its enforcement.
Somebody has been rebuked. The
men who tried to defeat Grant in
1876, and Garfield in 1880 have had
their way The men who have fam
ned the difference and resentments
of factions, the men upon whom the
party harness has set SO lightly that
it went off whenever there was heavy
pulling to do. the men with whom
1t is a virtue to bolt and crime to
be steadfast to party, are in the
lead.
Ii is theirs to rebuke, reproach,
and reprove. They have done so
well that the old fashioned Republi-
cans will be expected to bear in
silence and with patience all that
may be said in censure of straight
out party men. The veterans of a
score OF battles, in times when to be
a Republican was to vote the Re
publican ticket, will now pass in
review for advice and criticism.
They will be told that they have
been stubborn and short-sighted.
Had they not made such a con-
!, founded racket about the regular
ticket the new-fangled party men
would not feel os bitterly toward
them, and would not find it so hard
to forgive and forget.
But as it is, if the old fashioned
Republicans will humbly acknowl-
edge the error of their ways, the
} fellows who have secured the great
tarty priumph, or rebuke, of this
year will kindly proceed to rebuild
the temple as it were. II the old
veterans will carry up the stones
and put them just where the back
action fellows tell them, and forget
their resentments and the traditions
of Republicanism, the fellows who
have taken so much delight in pull
ing the party down will show the
regulation fighters kink or two in
the way of reorganization that will
make their heads swim.
Just 80. Let the bands begin to
play. The o,d fogies who voted for
Lincoln and Grant have been rebuk
ed. They feel keenly the defeat of
the party. They voted for the tick
ct, and they deserve all that they
have received. Kick them and cuff
them and laugh at them, and then,
when the time comes, ask them, for
the love of the old party, to fall into
line and help pull the reorganized
scheme through,
The gentlemen who have sought
to purify the party by crushing the
spirit out of rank and file should
lose no time in submitting the plans
for orga aizing victories, which they
have led the people to believe are
secreted within easy reach. The
Republicans who have defeated the
Republican party have the floor.
The country would be glad to hear
from them as to best methods for
quleting resentments and securing
harmony. Men who have carried
their resentments TO the extreme
point, and who have sought to ad-
just party differences by open trea-
son, should be able advisers on this
point. While the old-fashioned par
ty men are loaded down with such
troubles as has not come to them
since 1862, let the exultant and
gleesome reorganizers take the floor.
After they have reioiced sufficiently
let them explain, with fair degree
of particularity, just how the party
is to be made as good as new.-Lnter-
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