Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-13
WASHING OUT SAUNDERS
UDoE J ERE BLACK REUIrEs A FABLE.
Tho Corruption in tho Republican Party
Why 1t Cannot Purify Itself and
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The Corruption in tho Republican Party
Why 1t Cannot Purify Itself and
Survive tho Ordeal.
Hon. jeremiah S. Black was interviewed
in Pittsburgh on the Independent move.
ment. When asked what was meant by
the Republican uprising Mr.. Black said
It means washing out, Saunders
81 do not understand you at ALL" said
his interlocutor.
"Then," said the judge, "I must tell
you in q story. In the reign of Charles
II. dirty boy, who seemed to know
nothing about himself except that he had
the name of Saunders, was taken from the
cutters of Chancery lane, London, and
set to keeping the door of an attorney's
Office. There he learned to read and
write. He was made clerk, and after
wards being admitted to practice, he be.
came one of the greatest special pleaders
in England. He arose to be a sergeant,
then solicitor general, and in process
of time, attorney general, the official
head of the profession. All this
while he stuck to the habits of
dirt and dishonesty that he had con-
tracted when waif of the streets. He
lived alone on Butchers row, and was SO
filthy in his person that he broke out into
running sores, smelling SO badly that it
was martyrdom to sit near him IN court.
He did not pretend to have any moral
principles. He even boastcd Of his per.
sonal uncleanliness, and told young barris.
ters that although he never was married
it was not a fact to bo denied that no had
issue of his body. Nevertheless he was
tolerated and promoted by a cor
rupt ministry, which needed such
services as he alone could render
for he had ability. wealth and
impudence, heart that feared neither
God nor man, and cheek that bluslled at
nothing. Altogether lie was in their eyes
a very grand party At length, when
they wanted an unscrupulous tool at tho
head of the judiciary to decide q most un-
righteous cause in favor of the crown (Rex
VS.. the Corporation of London), they made
Saunders chief justice Of the kings bench.
Then the decent men of tho law determined
that they would stand him no longer unless
his habits were reformed. They washed
him by main force, cleaned him up, COM
pelled him to wear the apparel of gen.
tleman and to live in respectable
part of the town. But cleanliness was
fatal to him. The grand old party
died of it in less than two months
And now here are Stewart and Wolfe
and Marshall and Lear and Mitchell and
Mcclure and a hundred thousand other
Republicans OF honor and sense, who
declare that they have endured as much
as they can from the grand old party
They viii! not suffer the martyrdom of
sitting with its longer; the running issues
of its body are too offensive to be borne.
They insist that it must be made decently
clean and put on its good behavior.
Therefore they are after it with soap, and
rain water, and sponges and towels and a
whole suit Of good clothes, determined to
wash it and dress it in spite of its cries
and struggles. They do not mean to kill
it, but perhaps like Saunders, it cannot
survive the loss of its filth. At all events
it's friends and guardians, and those who
live by its bounty, protest violently that
the cruel Independents will be the death
of it If they succeed in making it clean.''