Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-12-12
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EDITORS DEMocRAT:-The follow
ing extract from an editorial in the
New York Evening Mail he's afford
ed me SO much pleasure that | ask
you to publish it. 1t is to such ut
terances as this that our detected
republican fellow citizens must look
to relieve their misery and in some
measure restore their cheerfulness.
The Evening Mail was one of Mr..
Blaine's intensest supporters, and
with the New York Tribune, chung to
hope until the last. Like all who
are fair enough to acknowledge the
truth, and have mental capacity to
perceive it, The Mail "sorrows not
as one without hope nor does ii
see any danger of the Southern
Confederacy again in the saddle" or
hear the rebel yell" 1t has better
sense. T. SCOTT ANsLEY.
The unexpected outcome of a struggle for
power in the course ofwhich s., 100000 of people
connected and unified by electricity and the
for months. with all manner of interests feelings
prejudices, principles and passions in a common
boil of excitement this it is which requires a
long range or great height for discerning obser-
walton, and which may yield benitcent results
stranger and greater than the surprise itself
and SO be recognized by both Republicans and
Democrats, a few short years hence.
Is it not, for instance, possible that the COM
mon interest required that the Democratic party,
SO long merely obstructive, inorganic and lack
ing cohesive and positive common principles
and policies, should be made responsible for one
branch of the government and so got into shape
and forced to try and to show its governing
capacity? The best interests of any free country
demand two strong, we'll organized, well led
parties. The decentralization of the Democratic
party has been the long continued great mis-
fortune of the Republicans in power. We
sincerely hope that President Cleveland will do
far better and more than even his ardent friends
and admirers dare to predict. Let the Repub-
licans be put on their best competitive behavior
to win the Presidency and the House.
Is il not time for the Republicans to reorgan-
ize and get higher and more unselfish leadership,
taking advantage of their enforced abstinence
from the disposition of Federal patronage? Is
it not time for this self publication of party,
out of two of whose black clouds of factional
fights over patronage came the Republican
bullet that killed its president and the no less
deadly Republican ballots that killed Judge
Folger? Four YEARS Is NONE TOO LONG FOR PU-
RIFIcATIoN FROM SUCH BLOOD SPOTS AS THESE!
Is it not time that the Protestant preachers OF
the land, volelng the prevalent liberalty of their
congregations should so distinctly disclaim and
denounce the spirit of the deadly ALTERATION
Rum, RomanlSm and Rebellion'-which
turned handsomely won victory into defeat
that four years from now no one, layman OF
Doctor of Divinity, could harm Presidential
candidate by such an utterancc, because itwould
be against the expressed sentiments of the real
body of Protestants?
The time has passed by when the bigotry EN-
bodied in that SenSeleSS ALTERATION can Longer
| be tolerated or unrebuked in a country where
all the forms of Christian faith have equal pro
| lection; where free Professionalism can best
aSSail the errors it sees in q Romanism that is
modified by the very atmosphere it. breaths by
showing its superiority in those visible and in.
disputable fruits which the Divine author OF the
| faiths common TO both branches of the Christian
Church made the final tests of his followers
And in time when the dangers to a Christian
| civilization are mainly from materialism which
| needs all the forces of all Christian churches t
fight it, and when Protestants and Catholics ar,
| agreed on essentials they are bound to eXer
| all their best energies, not in mutual recrmina
| tions, but in common efforts to make Christian
! ity the ruling and forming power of the land
| Larger ideas of politics and religion; NOR,
distinct recognition of the providence that has 81
| often saved us from apparently hopeless situa
| tons, a more cheerful outlook on the deyelope
ment of our institutions; subordination OF mar
| rowly partisan or Sectarian interests and i'm
| pulSes--these are some of the lessons that nigh
| well be taught by our preachers