, 1882-11-11


we're, Yet deserved rebuke TO q certain
class Of papers in the following. 1t says
'It is chronic and foolish habit Of Re
publican organ grinders, with few hon
orable exceptions, to indulge in indiscrim-
mate and coarse abuse Of the Democratic
party in every period of political excite
ment. To limited extent the partisan
Democratic press repays this sort OF at
tentivn in kind, but, as rule, Democrat
ie papers are accustomed TO ignore abuse
and to treat their opponents with eour-
tesy that is neither appreciated nor recip-
rocated.
We have had occasion heretofore TO re-
fer to the herd of rural crgan-manipulators
who edit small post Offices and county
printing. These little creatures are in
capable of argument. They cannot adress
the understanding nor appeal to the rea-
son of their readers. Their conception
OF their duties as organ editors re-
quires them to throw dirt from the incep-
ton to the close of campaign. They
have come to love mud-slinsiag as ii NAT
ure had intended them for that vocation.
Their vocabulary consists mainly Of op-
probrious epithets, and they prize each
addition to this stock as an acquisition Of
great and permanent value.
Among these kind Of bipedal mammals,
which, under the current system Of NOM
enclature, one is reluctantly compelled to
class with men, there are mahy who are
so ignorant, so gangrened with narrow
and mean prejudice, so full OF seli-right-
eousness that they really believe the filth
they hurl is gems Of wisdom and pearls OF
truth. These creatures can be pardoned
almost anything. Their responsibility,
measured by their intellectual endowments
and moral attainmcnts, is $" small that
generous mind acquits and pitles them,
but sees no hope Of their reform, for they
seldom crawl up out of their native muck
to bark for an hour In the sunlight Of
truth. 4 great thought would crush one
of them; generous impulse would be
such a stranger as to fail of recognition.
Their daily bath is in the cess pool cf cal
umny, their inspiration is malice They
are the crawling parasites OF the press,
loathssme' yet powerless for great harm.
But when Journals that rank as respect
able and influential get into the low habit
OF eliminating party en- masse, party
that includes quite half of the voters who
can read and write, it is not Sc easy TO
acquit and pity them for they know what
they are doing.
Since the late Republican disaPpoint-
ment in Ohio many Of the influential
Journals of that party have been exasper-
atingly insolent in their comments ON the
Ohio result. One of these alludes 10 the
''rejoiclns OF the criminal classes; an
other says: 'the gambling dens and
houses of prostitution will celebrate the
victory of their friends : another says
ssit is a disaster to morality and religion
and We might go or quoting that sort OF
I. L. -. o.l,,,n
1t is too late III the nineteenth century
for this brazen insolence to pass unrebuk-
ed. The men who write these dirty things
know that, in point of morals, the Demo
cratic party is the peer of its opponent.
1t is not unlikely that the editors,
whose words We have quoted, num-
Der hundreds of Democrats among
their personal friends. We do not claim
superior morality for the Democrrtic
party. We hurl no stones at Republicans.
The good and bnd are mixed IN both par
ties. We do not infer from the fact that
most of the shocking crimes perpetrated
here, in this district, are committed by
Republicans, that the Republican party
is worse than the Democratic. All the
men who have been hung in this city for
nine years past were Republicans The
wretch who coolly cut his aife's throat last
week is Republican. Most of the out
rasers of women and girls in this city are
Republicans-th baser elements of the
colored population. Throughout the en-
tire South, most of the convlcts are Re-
publicans. But we should be asLamd to
cite these facts as indicating that ''ihe
criminal classes, would rejoice at Re
publican victory We should be ashamed
OF the country and hopeless Of It's future
We could think of any party so basely
as General Charles Foster spoke Of the
Democracy, in a public address few days
ago. when he asserted ''that all the evil!
persons of both sexes were banded to-
gether against the Republican party"
Ii is time for decentsmen and reputa-
bic Journals to get out of this mean, mar
row degrading habit. Political differen-
ces do not imply or indicate difference
in morals. There is as much intelligence
and viriue in one party as in the other;
there is plenty of room for improvement
in both parties. And when We lind the
Republican party in North Carolina con-
tending for .'free rum, while General
Butler, al the head of the Massachusetts
Democrats, bears aioft the woman suffrage
banner, We can be pretty certain that all
the extremists are not Oh one side, n"r
ALI the conservatism on the other
Whitman College has two lit
erary sOcieties-the Whittier, with the
foIlowing officers: President, Miss LA
S,o,... vice-nrssident, Miss Dora Small;