Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-07-11
REPUBLICANS AND THE ADMINS :
TTATI1N.

From the l!alper's Weekly July A.
The New Ic,.. Tribune says LAT
''thc men who e.ro,ed Nj. Clevelanc
assaSsina;ing H,.. political opnc::'' rs
are even nov c"":"4.%3 The W..
House and tine departments, their NJ -
yet red with E.yud, der:.n.:img .ust
they shall be honorcd and rewarded
well for that service to the party"
The Philadelphia Telegraph, quite as
good republican authority as the Tri-
bune, replies that ''if this be true, Pres
ident Cleveland should be dragged in
ignominy from his place; if il is not
true. what credit can the people place
III the author OF SD infamous a libel, or
what punishment would be too severe
tor him: Ihe charge that the presi-
dent of the United States was elected
by assasSins. whom he has rewarded
with high trnst and honor tor the
crimes. is deliberately made by lead
lng Journal months after the election,
and Il sent abroad to all the world,
with what consequences of contempt
aud horror OF republican government
can Well be imagined by those who do
not know that the charge is wicked
lie coined in cold blood by defeated
personal organ.
The Tribune again says of President
Cleyeland:-''F From the first honr of
his presidency his course has been ca
culated to honor and reward rebels and
Sympathizcrs with rebellion, not be-
cause of their superior merit III other
respects, but most plainly because they
had taken part IN the great crime
against the Union.'
\ \ ne .,,n,,tp h,v,, Laa,,
made, especially in the southern states,
but also at the north, which have no
other reason or excuse save the fact
| that the individuals appointed had been
| active and peculiarly effective in de-
ieating the constitution and laws Of the
United States in order to give power
to the democratic party
And again: :-'sThe controlling spirit
| of the democratic party is essentially
reactionary and is to-day rs heartily in
sympathy with resistance to the laws
| md rebellion against the authority of
| the United States as it was when the
| democratic party of the north served
as the left wing Of Lees army"
| No party can be fairly Judged by the
tone and expressions of single organ,
and it can not be assumed that the Tri-
bune or the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette really represents the present
spirit and purpose of the republican
party. Nor is it easy to believe that
III these remarks the Tribune truthfnl-
iy states the facts. If the president has
appointed persons to office not because
he believed them to be honest men,
loyal citizens, and fitted for the duties
of the place, but ''plainly because they
had taken part in the great crime
against the Union," surely some in
stance could be cited. But none is
mentioned. If it should prove to be
true that the republican party proposes
to rely for success in the coming elec-
tons of the year upon the declaration
that the president was elected by assas-
sins, whom lie is engaged in reward
ing because they sought to destroy the
government, which they would still
destroy if they could-Messrs.E Endicott,
Villas, Whitney, Fairchild, Graves and
hundreds like them, and the revocation
OF Blackburn's appointment and the
suspension of Meade being iliustra-
( tiuns-then the generalization of the
republican party is complete. But we
do moi believe that this is the spirit or
the policy of the republican party.
Senator Warner Miller, of New York,
f speaks in very different key. "I can
: not of course speak for my fellOw-sen-
ators, but intend to treat the presi-
dent iii highly courteous spirit" are
not the words Of a man who believes
) that President Cleveland was elected
= by assassins, and is now engaged
, in rewarding them with Office
because they tried to destroy the gov
\ ernment. Gen. Butterworth, of Ohio,
t late commissioner of pensions, says OF
Y the president :-''I believe his ideas OF
practical civil service reform are earn
est and sincere AS long as he abides
L by them the people should uphold his
g hands, and do not believe it would
4 injure the republican party to indorse
;. him in its platform" General Butter
worth is republican who supported
), MIR. Blaine, but he could not commend
h the carnestness and sincerity of the
j. president in upholding reform if he
n thought that he was prostituting his
: power OF appointment to reward as
Il sasSIns Tor a conspiracy to subvert the
il government. The Springfield Union
n says that republicans have
a no disposition to indulge in the purely
captious fault-iinding that was the sole
occupation Of the democracy as a party
!. of opposition The New Haven
n Palladium says of the presidents sus-
n pension of Meade that he has ''showr
his manhood, his estimate of the digni.
y ty of his office, and his understanding
: of and sympathy with the conscience
IS of the sovereign people," These are
republican papers which evidently dc
not believe that the president uses the
great power OF his Office to reward as
sassination and to stimulate rebellion
against the government. We have nC
doubt that these views and the views
of Senator Miller and General Butter
s worth represent the feeling of honor
able and intelligent republicans toward
the Administration much more accura
teIv than those of the Tribune