Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-07
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SATURDAY EVENING. OCT. 2. 1882.
A Dilapfdated Party.
The Republican rogues, in the general
falling out they are having, are freely
exposing, by their mutual confessions
and crimiuations, the devious practices
which have continued them SO long in
power. The New YORK Commercial Ad-
rertiser now pillories the New York
Times as the abetter of the frauds
which made Hayes president, being in
spired thereto by the denunciation of
the Times of the frauds that defeated
Cornell fox governor. 1t recalls the fact
that the Times was the only paper in the
country to claim the election of Hayes
Immediately after the election of 1876,
when it was generally conceded that
Tiidea had been chosen. There
was no difference from this view
stve on the part of few of
the manipulating Republican leaders
who Joined the Tunes in claiming vic
tory, as is now known, only as foun.
dation for the dirty work they intended
to do to change their defeat into sue
cess. The Advertiser says that they
inspired the declaration of the Times,
and it charges that it lent itself to their
scheme, though well knowing its fraud
ulent nature. The facts strongly sus-
tain the statement. The Times
claims to he an Independent Republican
journal, as ready to condemn its party
when wrong as to applaud it when right.
But, as very many of such good profes.
sOrs do, it reserves the privilege of being
blind to the faults of IFS particular peo.
pie when they are in extremity. The
Hayes side of the Republican House
being dear to the Times, its demand was
too much for its independent honesty,
and it gave them the countenance they
wanted.
1t is bad thing for an independent
organ of reform and proclaimed cham
piOn of honest rule when il cannot
always command its words to follow its
professions. When it is sometimes
caught slipping from its moOrings its
credit generally is gone, even though it
generally clings fast to them. The laws
maxim is that he who is false in one
statement may he taken as false in all
and under that instruction to jury
many a testilier has come to grief. We
fear that there is but small element of
the Republican party that is so free from
guile that it can afford to throw stones
at its neighbor; and the free casting of
missiles which is going on among the
Republicans just now affords ample
ground for this belief as to the
general rottenness of the party that
is now going to pieces 50 rapidly
on the lee shore it has struck and amid
the breakers which its evil steering has
brought it into. The wreck is a sure
thing. What will be done with the
pieces is 4 question of the future. TIE
two parties Of wreckers WHO have
brought the party i,.::::o its peril, by
their false Lights ard selfish purposes,
viii nelther of them come clean handed
to the work of reconstruction. There
will, however, lie plenty OF time
for them to settle who shall take
charge Of their party when it
is put together, as it is likely to
be long time before they will be again
called to the responsibility of the gov
ernment for the nation. The Democrat.
is party will have this for period that
will I've measured by the wisdom, honesty
and patriotism of its leaders. It will be
quite too much to hope, in view of
human frailty, that its stock of these
will suffice to keep it ever in power, but
it ought to have acquired sufficient
quantity in the score of years that it has
been travelling in the desert to insure ii
a long period of such good behavior in
power as will entitle il to at least another
score of years amid the fieshpots. As
long as it is willing to yield to the people
their honest dues, to discharge just
stewardship, and to give an honest days
labor for the liberal wages the people
pay for its work, il will deserve Their
confidence and receive their approval.
Its lease Of power will depend upon
itself.
IT ia q common eYnariench that man 's