Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-01-29
THE OTHER SIDE.

NOW Oppresscs the HepuDican rarity
The Late Defeat Likely 20 Have Puri-
Tying Effect.
The Republicans will have an oppor.
tunity during the next four years of as
pertaining some of those sweet uses
which, in Shakspearean lore, adversely
is supposed to possess When nien fall
into afliietion the regulation thing Is TO
sit down, ponder the past and make
good resolutions for the future, and,
perhaps, on this principle the Republic
an papers for some time have been
printing column after column of ex-
PLANTATION, elimination and recrimina-
ton, and delivering long lectures on the
policy Of the future. While this plan
has precedent to commend il, there is
some difficulty in discovering any other
Recommendation life being too short TO
waste any part of it in vain regrets for
what can not now be helped, or in lab
, ored explanations of an event that so
fully explains itself.
Every cloud has silver lining, az
the wcll-worn proverb goes, though it
is sometimes no easy matter TO discover
the lining even after the storm has
passed away. IL will be well for Re-
nUicGT arni6s fJne1ts; .-snIcts -i5ion, 'dNi-lSns
! tvs best friends bad begun to suspect
| that tie organization was in some
need of such qualifications However
this may be, the fact remains that there
hire some advantages in being in the OPP
position. The men who are attacking
a party intrenched in house have
superiority over the besieged in the
ability TO look over the entire ground,
select the weakest point and make an
attack ut their leisure, while those in
side can do little but watch and resist
when the attack comes. Especially IS
the advantage seen in the case of the
press. A newspaper has far more
power 10 break down than to build up,
is more effective in attacking than in
defending. This season of spiritual de-
preston which has come to the Repub-
lican PAPERS will have the merit there
fore, of bringing them out of their in
trenchments into the open field and
converting them into light skirmishers.
SOME OF the party Papcrs nave Deen
advocating the policy of clearing the
ranks of doubtful partiSaus, Of drawing
the line on those who, ut the last cleo
ton, either failed to vote or who voted
for the Democratic candidates. This
might be well enough if the party were
going into intrenchments where traitors
might accomplish untold mischief, but
IN the open field where the Republicans
will find themselves after the 4th of
March. those who could otherwise be
troublesome might be made extremely
useful. The besieged have always a
tendency to multiply the numbers of
their besiegers, and if these estranged
friends be drawn back into the ranks
they will swell the apparent nJmbeN il
they succeed in accomplishing no other
good result These deserters may all
be divided into two classes, the mer-
cenaries and the honest but misguided.
So far as the former are concerned,
they are working for their own pur-
RHs q as R%2SY h aRa h hs 60 ohg
|, they can be made to serve useful pur-
} pose, while the latter can easily be
made faithful by showing them that the
party has the good of the country at
heart.
There is, however, class of hangers
on that the. party can not afford either
; to defend or to keep. These are the
]
, and general worthlessness and rascality
have been fathcrcd upon the party in
spite of the most vigorous denials.
} Though among the Republicans, they
were not of them, but since they pro-
fessed to be working for the good OF
: the party, there was an appearance OF
J Justice in the accusation that made
; honest men believe that such were
really representatives of the party 5
manners and morals. As rule, they
will need no invitation to take them
selves of, for as they are working for
plumber, the most of them will inconti.
nently desert to the Democrats on TIE
very first opportunity, but II any OF
them hesitate, there should'be no delay
: in administering well-directed boost,
that will, at the same time, cure their
pretended preference for Repu5licanism
: aad send them on the doublc-quick tc
the Democracy for consolation and
, salve. Under no circumstances car
, they ever be anything but drag on the
: prosperity of Republicanism, and the
l sooner they are drummed out the bet
! ter for all concerned.
Whether the cyclone that has struck
g The party will demolish the obnoxious
: bosses is yet to be seen. As rule the
boss is as great calamity as the hang
er-on, but the boss has unfortunately
acquired n fixed standing, which will
make him infinitely harder TO get rid o
> than his equally obnoxious companion
The latter is a corn that may be scrape'
i off with little trouble; the former is (;
bunion that can not be removed with.
y out more or less pain. In Republican
Z States the boss will be little affected b,
G the result of the National contest; bu
p in Democratic States, the National pal
; to sustain him and his parasites being
no longer available, he will no doub
: dwindle like Darwin's rudimentar,
e organs" become useless and disap
$ pear. In view of this very desirable re
J. suit, If the Republicans learn nothing
d more from their defeat than to kick on
$ the hangers-on and reduce the bosses :
9 the level of the ranks, it can not be sal
1 that the adversely which has come upo
: the party has been an unalloyed evil
D 50. Louis Globe Democrat
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