The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-11-12
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A Strong Article Protesting Against Mug
wump Infallibility.

The President stands by the party
that stood by him. This hurts the
mugwump heart but would it not be
amazing if he should do otherwise?
1t is to be supposed that no man COM
mits political or any other suicide un-
less he is insane; that the man is not
ungrateful unless he is idiotic; that he
does not believe himself to be superior
to the intelligence of the majority of
his party unless the vanity that kills
has eaten into his soul; that he under
stands what treachery is too well to
undertake it, even if he has the desire
to be treacherous; that, in few words,
he is honorable in his dealings with his
friends as well as with his enemies, and
that he knows the fate of traitors as
well as the reward of the faithful
AThei Graphic has taken pains to show
that it does not believe in mugwumps.
1t is unable to see that the minority is
its own honest opinion as much as any
newspaper or any man can, but it be-
Geves to an equal extent in the organi-
zation without which we could have no
decent political system, and in the sub
10 blC NOlC6 Vi lud ,OIiIiCS W1tu-
out which we should have revolution
instead of government 1t was the old
| idea that the King could do no wrong.
1t is the mugwump principle that the
| majority can do no right and only the
mugv7ump is infallible. If 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
| far, r. + h hot ha
BILE. If we make him the King against
wrong upon the majority, however wise
it may be. 1t is well enough for this
superior being to assume all the airs he
can't is his right so to do; but
the 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 8 better king
than any mugwump, whether he has
! the celestial strawberry mark or not
And the rule as to office-filling prevails
equally well with respect 10 office-hold-
ing. The majority of the party rule.
as do the majority of the people after
the lallot-box tells the story. The
elected man is his party's servant He
was elected not to follow his own
whims, but to 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 as an Office holdr he must respect
the party whose candidate he was and
whose representative he is.
These propositions are crude enough.
They are, however, as cd as the his
tory of government by the people,
though not until lately has it been
necessary to present them. To say that
President Cleveland is false to the par
ty that elected him is to say that he has
lost his common sense and to arraign
him not only as a traitor to his party
but ter tho -systcrr Of -e4ecefon wnfcn nas
made him President To say that he
is mugwump is to insult him. There
has been too much of that twaddle. 1t
has had too respectful attention. The
President is a Democrat, and accord
ingly an honorable and sensible man.
Nobody but a mugwump would accuse
him cf such villainy and such fooii~
ness.--M y. Graphic.