New-York tribune., 1884-10-13
4 CONFESSION or HYPOCRISY.

! II is provision of the righteous law OF COM
pcnsations that duplicity is forever doomed to
! bctray itself Not day has passed in this
! campa IN IN which the Independent rcfnrmrrS
| have not been haunted by the ghost Of IA record
which they would fain forget. Mr. Curtis is
now blowing the trumpet of an i'm ginary
| reformation. but between the notes of every
| solemn blast are heard the words winch he
wrpie last Spring: The Independents are
anti-protcction. and whoever We do elect must
favor revenue reform" The Ner- iork Times
can find no language adequate to describe in it,
beauty and lis strcn.th MT. Clevcland's
patriotic and scf-Sacriiit,ng devotion to duty :;
but lis words ring hollow in the ears of its
readers, who remember that less than eighteen
months ago it denounced him as IA selfish knavr
lie ErcDing Post sets up new standard of
private morality and civic virtue, but it is dis
cardcd III a thousand homes wncre the principles
which it has abandoned once made ii welcome ;
and its only pcrvertS are men for whom it,
founder would have been ashamed to lift his
pen.
But in the list of those who once kept faith
with ideals which they now find it convenient
to forswcar no one Is more cOnsplcn0uSihan
Mr.. Beecher. In the incidents of their dcgcn-
GRAFTON there is IA striking similarity between his
case and that of Mr.. Curtis. Each rendered his
own Transformation peculiarly manifest ana
startling by preliminary alignment of the
party To which they have both been pledging
their devotion ever since. and ia the annals oi
dcnunciati0n neither arlaignment has been sur
passed unless It be by the other. The ocoichlng
words in which Mr. Curtis passed sentence on
t.G al 4
Il vast audience ut Chicago, and which, We NAV
be sure have been resounding IN his OVID e; Is
from that day to this are familiar to the whole
country; but probably it is not generally
known that only few weeks before in the
same city Mr.. Bcccher haycd Democracy alive.
In a letter to The ChicGgo Tyi6ane elected by II
published surmise rs To the possible modiica-
ton of his political opinions in sympathy with
his known views upon the tariff, Mr. Beecher
wrote in April:
What ridiculous and monstrous folly It would be 10
Leave the Rel ubican party because 1t ye blinded
with protection. aud 90 to the Democratic rarty
that has coquettcd with almost every evil which the
war has wept away and which has not set shown that
IL had learned single lesson from the Grand struggle of
the last twenty-five years II has no faith itself no
unity in Icasurcs no wise leaders II has learned 10
construct platforms aud then to away from the only
punks IN them. Courageous outward and cOWafulI
in deeds what am asked to iOi To 20 over from the
Republican party. that has the courage of opinions 10
one at avows trade print pcs aud then PLAYS COM
edy IN Congress In carrying ont their prcientiou- re
forms that has leaders that dafr lose In cause
suffer for their principles. When bold ads scac
of free trade Rises nmong them like Wuttetson he Ia
knitted by his conparins. When the Democratic
party shall have mission oi liberty had IN Irne
sons day IN Jnekson's-bnt 10 mention these
nae- IL to throw rdiculc upOn the of Denocrnry
When Samson had slept IN the arms ~ Delnh hr had
the grace ~ suicide given hni Bu Democracy that lpt
s tiie IN The bospn o slatrtt hlinh nnl ierbe set
prefers to grind n the flsu house rather than seek ~
honorable death
The resemblance between Nj npprli's u,p-
nilp iu npUslas, nnd that ~ NJ. tuilis ,lnps nU
onh with THE ihllctmeh' Mt uuils, fUi hini
aelf hhi ihdse wlD hpn,i HIT n,tipasp,l ,hp
conviction HAT hii whatever ihuIi uu,su,,si
iipip,nnpps respecting candidates, would sll
support ihp n0nilnpp, unllnd w a rnumou
hatred NJ lho enemy, NJ lipeohpr wonl nven
further than lhla ~ lhp affirmation Ut hs uuj,-
ing hostility 10 tho Democratic pniy lin
stated ~ hypothesis as lnyollng aa The .nn,lers
which have been The stock IN trade NJ his ieI-
low OalnpalgneIs even snco, aud announced his
alternative ~ i0llUwsi
There d, anoher contingency N tho engineers aud
managers O the Republican party shall select candidate
for the Presidency stained 10y Iobborr IN alliance with
the policies of tho great railway princess hand and GLOVE
with corrupt obblos, and la m faith silh the eorrupt