Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-04-29
ENLIGHTENMENT AT LAST.

So benighted have the Democrats
always been, and still are, and so en-
/ lightened are the Republicans and so
profound are their principles and saving
in their action, and so little being known
of these principles, although much sought
after, that it is with great JOY we are able
to say that at last they have been found,
and published, and we republish them for
/ the benefit of all, Democrats and Repub-
/ licans alike. We take them from The
Nation:
] The principles of the Republican party" are
/ so eagerly inquired for, and there is so much
! mystery about their exact nature and where
abOuts, that the slightest sign of an intention
to reveal them eXcites the liveliest interest all
over the country. The appearance OF two
leaders of the party, Messrs. Evarts and Dawes,
at the dinner of the Middlesex Club in Boston
on Saturday last TO make speeches, was, there
fore, hailed with much delighted expectation.
Mr.. Evarts opened with some account of his
bOyhood in Boston, and then called attention to
| the tact that he was speaking on the anniver-
sary of the fight at Lexington, and that While
the English date American independence from
the treaty of 1888 the State of New York dates
II from April u, I775, and that thirty years ago
the people of the Northern States were brought
face to face with the question whether force
and right should combine against tyranny and
oppression in Kansas" Coming down to the
present, he intimated that "a rapaciOus com
DlnatlOn was now IN possession OF power,
and that certain experiment" D." the nature of
which be did not describe, was not likely to be
repeated unless this combination surrendered
up every office TO US" The exact meaning of
this we have not after much study been able
TO get at but we feel satisfied that il contains a
principle" of some kind.
Mr. Evarts further added that he was ''resO-
lutte as 10 the duty and the purpose and the
expectations of the Republicans of New York
as to what they were going to do" He was
also much Interested in finding out what the
Republicans Of Massachusetts were going to
do about il" and felt no doubt that if Eve do
not mean to do it in New York, you (the Repub
icans of Massachusetts, mean to do ii for us
On reading this we felt sure that the thing here
described as at, +" which the Republicans both
of Massachusetts and New York were going to
do, was the principle or principles of the
Republican party, of which we were in search.
We accordingly followed Mr.. Evarts through
the rest of the passage, with every sense on the
alert, with the hope of hearing what 'it'' was
but he refused or neglected to describe ''it.'
The nearest he came TO describing il was in
affirming that "the country which prOspered
under the Republican party, would prevail,
and that some future exhibition, to the adj
miratiOn of the world" would be under the
same auspices and the same array of banners
and uumpetS." If this points clearly to any
thing, il is to the temperance of the London
and Barnum show next year, under the same
management, which we presume nobody seri-
ously doubted.
Mr. Evarts next divided the Union into two
'segments, one containing the region between
the Hudson River on one side Cape Cod and
Long Island Sound on another ana Canada at the
north; the other, the rest of the country, and
observed that this first segment fur
niShed three members of the Cab
met while the West only furnished
One-COlOne1 Nilas-ald concluded that
when Colonel Villas under these circumstances
sits in the Cabinet he must wonder where
all the people come from" Why he should
wonder, unless he is suffering from some cere-
bral malady, it is hard to see. Apparently. how
ever, this proposition had some connection in |
Mr.. Evarts's mind with another with which he I
closed this branch of his subject-"tha for /
himself (Mr. Evarts), if he can look at this /
country, and what is now broOdingin the minds I
and breeding in the hearts of the American |
people, they do not look with favor on the dis /
trlDutlon OF power by the Democratic party"
But il is hard to tell how anybody feels about
offices, and who has "brOOding" going on in
his mind and breeding going on in his
heart at one and the same time. The presump-
ton, of course, is that he feels badly, but the
are filed with advertisements of I
remedies for such cases.
Mr.. Evarts next gave an account of the mean /
ing OF his own election 20 the Senate. As well
as we can make out il meant that instead of
disorder IN the ranks, perfect unanimity OF
feeling and harmony was to be the rule in the
future he evidently, however cOntemplates
the possibility of another defeat at the next
state election, but he provides for that bv
promising TO snow and prove that every Re-
publican had done his duty" and that If an
honest count showed that the Democrats had
won, why, IN that ease they were to retain the
State offices One thing he said he could moi
and that was that certain persons
who valued and loved the principles of the
Republican party" could 90 and vote for the
of the other party because they did
not axe that of their own party. But here again
he failed To mention what "the prineiples
were. He only knew that if such things could
be, things had come TO bad pass"
Mr. Dawes was no more instructive than Mr.
hvarts. He mentioned the principles of the
republican party" only TO say that they were
- laid IN the foundation and built on the super
structure OF the past, and there he left them
Ia the rest OF his speech he devoted himself To
asking what the Administration was "goinp to
10 about the great continental policy" and
about the " emancipation of this continent from
orelgn control, and about certain " tribute
Nhich " our commerce with the Pacific States
Nnat answer II was going To make to 3" the de-
nand of the great army Of the unemploved
lnd another greater army of the digcontented
Who are calling for a readjastment Of the rala-
lonS between capital and labor" We trust the
VIII not try to answer these
lueatlons. To answer some questions success
ully one has 70 be as silly as the man who nro-
lnnnus them We trust, therefore that the
resident VIII let Mr. Dawes answer them him
eli Nobody else is quite equal 20 it. But alas
or tile grand old party when il is thus that il
peaks or is spoken for on parade davsl
.~enty years ago, who woutd have thougbt / !
nat II wouid live on after its brains were
-one?-Ihe Nation, April Srd.
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