The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-08-01
NOTES FROM AN ORGAN.

The New York World seems to
regard it necessary TO assure honest
and honorable Republicans that
they are not alluded to when the
rascals of politics cry out, "Out with
the rascalsl" 1t may be necessary to
assure honest and honorable Demo-
Gratis that they are not the persons
who are intended to supply the va
cancies to be made by putting the
rascals out. 1t is then agreed that
no honest men are at all interested
in putting the raseals out or in fill
ing the vacancies with seven.fold
worse rascals. So honest men being
excepted out of this wordy war on
suppositious rascals, they can look
on and listen and be amused.
The Republican party has very
little to apologize for since it obtain
ed control. 1t has much to regret,
no doubt, and it is assuring to knew
that it has moral character and con-
science enough to feel genuine regret
for many things strictly incidental
to political domination. But the
party has nothing to apologize for
No party ever welded so much pow
er in this or any other country dur
ing so long a term with leess to re-
gret. 1t has not always selected
honest men for places ofresponsibili-
| ty. But what party eyer did? 1t
has fallen into some errors in admin
istration as well as in legislation.
But what party with equal opportu-
nifty has ever avoided like errors =?
The Republicans have almost abso-
lu:ely shaped the fortunes of the
Republic for twenty odd years.
Has the party shaped those fortunes
well or i'll? How is it? How are
men to arrive at Judgment in pass
ing upon the work of a political par
lty? They must 60 back to the be-
ginning Of the rule of that party, and
having ascertained the condition of
the country at that time, contrast it
with the condition of things, in a
national sense, at the present time.
In doing that what do we find? We
find at the beginning of Republican
supremacy sevon States as complete
ly out of the Union as they could by
their own acts take themselves out.
We find the country in the throes of
civil war, a bankrupt treasury, a
large floating debt, and a nation
absolutely without credit among its
own people. And this, remember,
was the closing out of more than n
quarter of century of Democratic
rule. We find, also, an Administra-
ton about to retire from power men,
bers Of which were clearly guilty of
wholesale waste of government prop
erty and accessory to the robbery of
trust funds.
Thus the Democratic party round
ed up It's long period of control with
rascality on a gigantic scale. When
the people turned it out, it turned
out the most inveterate lot of rascals
this county ever tolerated. From
the ravelled edges fthis party comes
the cry, Turn the rascals out" Why
not? ? Can we look for anything else
from a rascally party? Who has
ever found genuine rascal who did
not think everybody else rascal I?
We are quite ready to admit that no
party monopolizes the rascals. But
the difference between the Democrat
ic and the Republican policy OF ad-
ministering government is that in
the case ofthe former the rascals con-
troll toe administration while in the
latter case the administration con-
trols the rascals. The difference is
considerable. The Democrats sell
dom tried to punish its rascals. The
Republicans have punished good
many Republican rascals, and would
have punished many more but for
the fact that the Democrats themsel-
yes have obstructed the way in order
to save themselves. For it is no
secret that there has been 4 Demo-
cratic rascal yoked to every Repub-
lican rascal for the last twenty odd
years. The friends of the rascal
Democrats have rallied to their de-
fence invariably, and this has aided
Republican rascals to escape just
punishment in many cases.-North
American.