National Republican., 1882-11-07
Election Day.

morning and evening, and weeklies
without number have absorbed printers
ink and scattered it broadcast over the
land. Brave men have been true and
towards have been weak; enthusiasm
and demagogism have been mistaken for
each other and cant and principle have
appealed to the masses in language ex-
actly alike. Men who are rotten to the
core and wealthy with the fruits of public
plunder have expended money corruptly
obtained to poison the sources of infor-
nation, and breed a malaria of false
hood. Patriotic men have labored to
make the truth clear. ISLANDERS have been
started by some and explained by others.
The great American people have gone on
about their business, giving only so much
attention to politics as has been forced
from them. No great object overtop-
ping all others has been kept in view
no great public question has been gen.
orally presented to them. The petty
aches and pains of the country have been
the main subjects of discussion, while
the great constitutional disease which
fingers in its system with dangerous
power has been almost entirely lost sight
of Our political Pharisees have been SO
busy attending to tithes on mint anise,
and cumin, that they have neglected the
weightier matters of the law. The people
have been so confused in the general din
that they have not been able to give
their thoughts to matters of much i'm
port. They have been asked in New
York to punish an undetected trickster,
who forged an unimportant committee
proxy, by electinga Democratic governor.
In Pennsylvania they have been urged
to overthrow the Republican party, in
order to defeat a man who is not
now candidate. In New Hampshire
they are asked to avenge the wrongs of
an unsuccessful politician, enraged be-
cause his party refused several years ago
to give him second term in the Senate
In Colorado they are asked to turn that
new Commonwealth over to the Democ-
racy because one county was not allowed
to "boss" all the others in the nomina-
ton Of governor. Rank and chronic
disturbers have bawled for the defeat of
the party in the name of the dead Gar
field, as though such q sacrifice would be
pleasing to him. The President has
been blackguarded and denounced
for doing things which never entered
his mind; and dishonest discharged
officials have prated of the Civil Service
Reform, which they swear has been cru
CITED in their sacred persons. The ques-
tions of reven ue and appropriations, of
freedom of elections and majority rule,
of the execution of the laws, the admin
istration of justice, and the unification of
the States, through revival of the
ancient national spirit-all these have
been ignored, while the people have
been fed ad nauSedm on the best way of
securing clerkships for young college
graduates, and on the possibilities of
having a great political party without
leaders. The public has been dealt
with by noisy political quacks as a
great hypochondriac, and told that
it was afflicted with ills of which it had
never heard before. Political organiza-
ton has been made to seem some new
hydra by having applied to it the epithet
of machine" and the usual conventions
in which parties are wont to choose upon
what candidates they will concentrate
their votes have been the objects of such
well-simulatedr rage thatmany bewildered
voters have looked upon them as con-
spiracies against the common veal.
So general the confusion that no man
can very well tell upon what he is going
to vote to-day. Many good Republicans
will vote against their party ornot at all
because intelligent and willful traitors
have made the worse appear to them the
better cause. The Republican party will
neither forget these traitors nor prescribe
the men they have deceived. The great
body Of the party will vote for its candi-
dates, believing them to be worthy, and
there is abundant reason to hope for
Republican Senate and House of
Representatives, and for such results in
the States as will insure triumph of
the Right in 1884. Then we shall have
some incentive for harmony, for the
Bourbon tiger will be roaring for the
Nation as his prey, and will have it if he
is not Gagged by mighty effort. The
future will not be controlled by mice, but
by men. The political forces which
meet in battle array when the next ma
tional elections take place will not be
moulded by egotistcal noodles, nor by
men who do not now know which party
to ask for the Presidency. The voters
will know then what the issue is, and
they have but to know it to decide it
right. We have no forebodings of evil
to the Republican cause from anything
that can happen to-day. We look hope
fully for a Republica IL House, and for vic
tory in the States where dissensions have
been most industriously bred. If defeats
should come anywhere they will not be
the forerunners of advancement for any
man who has promoted them.
WHEN the trading politicians find that there is
no chance OF success in any State by resisting the
will of the honest and conscientious voters these
same politicians will try to get what they can by
obeying that will, and they are likely to be among
the oudest IN crying out for reform and thorough
reorganzation.-Nelc York Tribune.
Honest and conscientious voters-Bill
Woodin, Jenny Hustled, Lo Sessions, A.
d. Barber, and Whitlow Reid-or are
they the fellows who were once trading
politicians" and are now "among the
loudest in crying out for REFORM" ETC.,
ETC.?
ANOTHER menace to our liberties. The
President owns dog. The dog was lost.
The dog was found, Funny. wasn't il?