The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-11-20

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samp InfAloshlllsy.
The President stands BY the party
that stood By him This hurts tho
mugwumc heart. but would Il NOS b
amazing x 10 should do otherwisee
II i 70 be supposed that no man CON-
mits political or any other suicide un-
less he u insane; that the man V not
ungrateful unless be Is idiotic; that he
does not believe himself 70 b. superior
10 the intelligence Of the majority Of
his party unless the vanity that kills
has eaten into his soul; that be under
stands what trcachery II too well TO
undertake IL even II he has the desire
10 be treachcrous; that In few words.
he Is honorable In his dealings with his
friends A. well - with his enemies. and
that he knows the fate o. traitors -
well - the reward Of the faithful.
lThe Graphic has taken pains 70 show
that il does not believe In mugwumpa
Il is unable TO see that the minority 10
better than the majority. II believes in
it. own honest opinion IS much ~ any
newspaper or any man can. but il be-
lievcs to an equal extent 10 the organi-
zation without which we could have no
decent political system. and In the sub
mission 10 the voice Of majoritics with
out which We should have revolution
instead of government. Il was the old
idea that the King could do no wrong
II Is the mugwump principle that the
majority can do no right and only the
mugwump Is infallibie- II We grant
that the mugwump is right the fact re-
mains that the minority rule would be
most unjust: but. very much more i'm
portant than that. ii would be impossi-
bic. II we make him the King against
the protest OF the majority we iniiict
wrong upon the majority. however wise
Il may be. II Is well enough for this
superior being TO assume all the airs he
can It Il his right 50 to do; but
thu gods do not rule in the affairs
Of this period. and every man Of the
majority thinks he. by virtue Of the
power his brethren confer upon him
and upon each other. Is a better king
than any mugwump. whether he has
the celestial strawberry mark or not
And the rule IS to office filing prevails
equally well with respect to Office hold
ing. The majority Of the party rule.
As do the majority Of the people after
the ballot-box tells the story. The
elected man is his party's servant He
was elected not TO follow his own
whims. but 10 observe the conditions
that brought about his election. As
private citizen he may mugwump as
much as he pleases and according to
the development Of his idiotic egotism;
but rs an Office holdr he must respect
the party whose candidate be was and
whose representative he l.
These propositions are crude enough.
They are, however. As old rs the his
tory Of government BY the people.
though not until lately has Il been
necessary to present them To say that
President Cleveland is false to the par
~ that elected him is to say that be has
lost his common sense and to arraicn
him not only as traitor to his party
but to the system Of election which has
made him President To say that he
Is a mugwump is 10 insult him. There
has been too much of that twaddle II
has had too respectful attention. The
President is Democrat. and accord
ingiy an honorable and sensible man.
Nobody but . mugwump would accuse
him Of such yillainy and such foolish
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