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 fact 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 17S3 the State of New York dates
ii from April ~, 1775, and that thirty years ago
the people of the Northern States were brought
and right should combine against tyranny and
oppression in Kansas" Coming down to the
present, he intimated that "a rapacious com
bination" was now in possession of power,
and that q certain experiment" the nature of
which he 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 ii contains
principle" of some kind.
Mr.. Evarts further added that he was "reso-
lutte to 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 it, and felt no doubt that if eve do
not mean to do it in New York, you (the Repub-
lcans of Massachusetts, mean to do it for us
On reading this we felt sure that the thing here
described as cit, 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.. EyartS 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 it was in
affirming that "the country which prospered
under the Republican party, would prevail"
and that some future exhibition to the ad-
miration of the world" would be under the
same auspices and the same array of banners
and trumpets" If this points clearly to any
thing, it 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 and 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-Colonel Nilas-and 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 maady it is hard to see Apparently how
ever, this proposition had some connection in |
Mr. Evarts's mind with another with which he |
closed this branch of his subject" that for |
himself (Mr Evarts), if he can look at this |
country, and what is now broodingin the minds |
and breeding in the hearts of the American !
people they do not look with favor on the dis /
iribution of power by the Democratic party"
But 1t is hard TO tell how anybody feels about
offices and who has brooding" going on i'm
his mind and breeding" going on in his /
heart at one and the same time. The presump-
ion, of course is that he feels badly but tho
newspapers are filed with advertisements of
remedies for such cases.
Mr. Evarts next gave an account of the mean
ng OF his own election to the Senate. As well
Is we can make out, it meant that instead of
disorder in the ranks perfect unanimitv of
ceiling and harmony was to be the rule N the
uture." He evidently however contemnlates |
he possibility of another defeat at the next
state election, but he provides for that bv
promising TO show and prove that every Re
'u'iiNah iiHu uohe MS Quty, ana that If an
honest count showed that the Democrats had
won, why, in that case they were to retain the
state offices. One thing, he said, he could not
lnderstand, and that was that certain persons
who valued and loved the principles of the
republican party" could go and vote for the
candidate of the other party because they did
lot like that OF their own party But here again
ne failed to mention what 1.-THE principles"
we're. He only knew that if such things could
De, things had come TO a bad pass
Mr.. Dawes was no more instructive than Mr.
svarts. He mentioned the principles Of the
Sepublican party only to say that they were
laid In the foundation and built on the super
tructure of the past" and there he left them
n the rest of his speech he devoted himself TO
skiing what the Administration was "going to
10 about " " the great continental policy" and
bout the emancipation of this continent from
oreign control" and about a certain tribute F"
which " our commerce with the Pacific States
'ays TO the rule and capital of Europe" and
WAT answer II was going to make to " the de-
nand OF the great army of the unemployed.
nu another greater army of the discOntented
Who are calling for readjustment of the rela- /
ions between capital and labor" We trust the
win not try to answer these
uesti0ns. To answer some Questions success
ully one has to be as silly as the man who pro
ounds them. We trust therefore that The
resident wiz let Mr.. Dawes answer them him
ell Nobody else is quite equal 10 it. But alas
Dr. the grand old party when il is thus that If
peaks, or is spoken for, on parade davis
wenty years ago. who would have thouSht !
hat II would live on after its brains were !
Nation, April Srd. {
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