Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-10-16

tuesday,. OCTOBER 1s. 1888.
TIE DILEMMA.
Our esteemed Republican friends must
'ecosniss in their Ohio defeat one of two
either = general detection from the
grand old party" or . specific rebuke for
lie attempts at sumptuary legislation.
The Republican press almost universally
their defeat to the latter cause. To
admit the former. they doubtless feel.
would be demoralizing in view of the
Presidential election next year.
With reference to this election, which
involves . crisis TO their political organize
ton, they are 10th TO admit that the
strength Of the Republican party has been
at all impaired by the result in Ohio, or
that this result indicates any falling off
from the party throughout the nation.
They very naturally dread . wound from
this horn Of the dilemma, and they accept
the horn Of prohibition professedly with
ont concern or alarm for the general con-
sequence in 1884.
With recourse to . sort Of ingenuity that
il entirely superficial, they endeavor to
make light Of the disaster they have
suffered in Ohio. They try to explain
away their defeat ~ . purely local matter.
It will be forgotten next year, they say.
II will cut no figure in national politics,
and when the question recurs as to which
party shall select . Chief Magistrate for
the United States, those who have left the
Republican ranks temporarily. On merely
neighborhood differences, will rally around
the old standard again and present . solid
front to their Democratic foe.
Possibly 20. for there is always an ele-
ment Of speculation in politics, however
plain the situation may be; but probabili-
ties sometimes become 10 strong in the
political situation that the logical mind
cannot avoid the conclusions they suggest.
We believe that the Republicans who
deserted the sinking ship in Ohio last
Tuesday, ON that occasion turned their
backs upon the hulk forever.
This is our opinion. because prohibition.
Notwithstanding the lodging Of the Re-
publican press, ID . national tenet in the
the creed Of the Republican party.
Its Puritanicsl. pharisaic origin indicates
this. Its history shows it to be intolerant
and proscriptive. While struggling for life
its aims were noble; and in the earlier
days Of its supremacy it accomplished
grand and wholesome results-results that
contrast with its present acts and bring
them out boldly to view in their true spirit
Of selfshness and time-serving. With
nothing to commend it in the present, it
cries for sympathy and points tearfully to
its dead past. Pulled up with twenty years
Of power. and diseased with all the all
ments . political party is heir to, lettering
under its own weight, with its foundation
undermined by corruption, it is still aro-
CANT. It does not relax its grasp upon
the spoils Of Office without . struggle.
But its pride has had . terrible fall. At
once supercilious and conciliatory, it
makes . naughty bow and extends . cup
Of coffeel Assuming . lofty moral air as q
salvo Of what it used to be. it begs the
people to recognize il for Christ's sake. -
the keeper Of their bodies and their souls,
and threatens vengeance upon their heads
il they do not.
This is the tone Of the Republican party
Of to-day, differing from the Plymouth
Rock Republicans in this respect only. in
this: that the latter were stalwart and n
compromising in their principles. while the
former are mere p~retentious goody-goodies,
who resort to maudlin coffee-selling on
election day for the pap Of spoils they ex-
pect in return.
A toothless old granny, corrupt and
imbecile in all but cunning.
Again, We argue that prohibition is q
national issue in politics. for the reason
that the Republican party Of the United
States, through it, exponent. the Repub.
lican press. IL committed to II. In order
to avoid the acknowledgment Of : general
detection. the party press lay the blame to
prohibition, the friends Of which they en-
brace and on the enemies Of which they
exhaust their rich vocabulary Of abuse.
The party's intolsrant spirit Il revived In
this. that its press utterly damn and drive
away BY vitupsrstion those who dare to
think for themselves, those who dare to
deny the Censorship Of ths Republican
party ii the regulation Of mons domestic
Affairs.
The short-sishtsd Republican press tins
wrench Of the party mask and display TO
the world. what they nevertheless struggle
In other ways TO conceal. the inherent.
universal disposition Of the Republican
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