New-York tribune., 1886-03-08
ilization is not enough to warrant alarm con-
corning the future of the country.
UoW DEuuCR1TS UNITE.


II nleoses some so-called refOrmers to re-
feet that Democratic divisions are in meaz-
ure healed by the necessity of defending their
Administration in the matter OF the concealed
napers and the Pan Electric scandal. A party
that is content with such occasions Tor UNION
is surely content with very little. Union IN
defence of corruption, union in defeating IN
ouiry. union in shielding prostitution or hlgh
official trusts to the enrichment OF Knot OF
influential statesmen, would not help any
other marty under the sun. Neither would
urion to uphold the President in suppressing
official papers which would prove that he had
broken pledges upon which he was elected.
A party which likes to be united in that way
will never be hindered by any shrewd OPP
poHent.
So-called reformers are also pleased to sug-
cest that Senator Edmunds has not been the
most popular Republican in the country. If
so. the greater reason for him to make him
self more popular with Republicans by good
service for their principles. 1t is tolerably
certain that no genuine Republican is going
to vote against his principles because Mr..
Edmunds has found occasion TO advocate
them.
which has principles When Senator Pendleton
was politically assasSinatcd. it was obviously
because he had practically helped to do what
the Democratic party had pledged itself to do.
Nobody found it possible to believe that attach
ment to Civil Service reform vas Democratic
principle. But If Mr.. Edmunds, after cons2lcu-
ously resisting a prostitution Of the pnbllc SER
vice to party ends should fail to be Reelected,
no one would imagine 1t was for that reason,
because the Civil Service acts have been
framed and enforced rs expressions OF the
known principles of the Republican party. Mr..
Edmunds's constituents anl his associates in the
Senate will find no difficulty in going with him
when he is right aud dissenting from him
when he Is wrong. because the party has known
and we'll defined principles.
Here is Mr. Morrison, who has pronounced
Mr. Randall a traitor to his party, and insisted
that he should be cast Out of 1t, because he
would not act with the majority on the tariff
question Yet this same Mr. Morrison when
he comes 10 frame a tariff bill, does not dare to
make 1t square with frcetradc principles while
Mr. Randall in commencing himself to his
party, has to resort to the paltry subterfugc
of advocating "a tariff only for revenue
ton is discredltabe to him. The trIth is that
their party has no principles. i does not know
what it wants to do, except that 1t wants to get
Office.
The Republican party not only can unite, but
always is united, upon the fundamental princi
plcs which maze il strong. The Democratic
party can make Il fraudulent pIctcAcc OF
strength only by counting men of opposite
convictions, and conscnt.ng to have no bond OF
union except It's desire for spoils. Hence 1t
comes 10 pass that it has to unite III defence ol
the distributor Of spoi!s. no matter how dis
creditablc the occasion. Il cannot agree with
him as to the money question, or as To the
tariff, but it can and does agree that the use OF
the power of the Government to enrich C1b-
net officer, and senator, and 4 Railroad Com
missioner. and sundfy other distinguished
Democrats VINO received stock as Il bubc FOR
their aid, shall not be ccnsured. II can and
does agree that slandcr of faithful Republican
officials must not be rcbukcd. II can always
unite about the eed-trough.