Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-06-20
Tnc POLITICAL PHARIsEEs.

The forthcoming struggle for the
Presidency between the two great
parties will be too serious to allow the
little disconnected cliques in New
York and Massachusetts who hang on
to he Republican party in calm
weather and desert ii i'm the storms TO
masquerade as "Reformers' or inde-
pendents any longer. Their only
idea of reform is not te make any
change within the party by aiding it,
sut outside Of the party by assaulting
1t. Provided some man il named as
candidate who is acceptable to them,
they are ready to reform the party. IL
only they do not have to associate
with il. II the candidate 10 not accept
able to them they go over to the
Democratic party, whose only doe
trines are spois and state sovereignty,
and vote for candidates who they
know will reform nothing. There is
but one title which fifty describes these
gentlemen, and that is, political Phar-
isess. Like the Pharisess, they assume
to "sit In Moses seat" Like the
the Pharisees, they ''say and do moi"
When Mr.. Curtis arose in Moses
ssat he said that he and his
clique were honorable men or they
would not be there as delegates to the
Republican convention, but they are
not acting honorably. Like the
Pharisees. they make broad their
phylacteries" that the people may i'm.
agine they alsne carry the Republican
law and gospel on their breasts and
that they are the only guides whose
counsel it is safe TO follow. Like the
Pharisees, they love the uppermost
rooms at feasts, the chief seats in the
synagogues, and greetings in the mar
kets." Like the Pharisees, they make
their own opinions and pass them or
ms the law. Outwardly they appear
righteous and within they are full of
hypocrisy and iniguity. II thank
Thee ] am not as other men are" is
their motto. Not being as other men
are, they have no honest
afiiliation with ether men, no
common basis of action with
other men, unless the ether men con-
descend to follow their lead and ac-
cept their demands, which is in itself
the essence of hypocrisy. They are
like the moral little boy who played
marbles with Emory Storrs-when he
was IA youngster. Storrs says that
when the good little boy won he put
st0rrs' marbles In his pocket and
went home; when Storrs won the
good little boy wanted TO have his
marbles back and to play the game
over again. Like the Pharisees, they
assume to mopelize all the virtues,
which have proved TO be of such a
Democratic sort that in 1876 they sup
ported Tilden, IN lsso they supported
Hancock, and II year later they sup
ported Butler In Massachusetts. One
would not have 10 look far to find that
Mr. Gecrge William Curtis il the
chief rabbi among the Pharisees and
wears the biggest phylaciery. Ia
May, 1878, he examined Mr.. Blaines
record and pronounced 1t sI,otless and
satisfactory. In 1884 he refuses to
support him on the ground that his
record Is not good, though no new
charge has been fabricated by his enc
mics. IL 1882 Mr. Curtis quoted Mr.
Blaine's speeches in favor or civil ser-
vice reform. La 1884 he opposes him
on the ground that he has not advo-
Gated civil service relcHn, and now lie
crowns his hypocriiical record 10y de-
claring that Blaine was doubtless the
choice Of u large majority of the Re
publican party" and by refusing TO
support him after taking part IN the
convention sets himself up as above
the laws Of honor and ~ knowing
more Than The Republican party and
being better than it, majority. which
IL Phnriseeism personiiied. aud re.
peniing itself In the old II thank
Thee that am not Us other men are"
Chicago Tribune.