, 1886-05-06

give forth sound republican doctrine
with no uncertain tune. Since it /
went off on a tangent in the last elec
ton it has been veering around to
nearly every point of the political
while on the Seattle idea
It has been uniformly rabid. Repub- |
Iicans who have borne with it in
hopes that it would ultimately return
to a sensible standpoint will rejoice
in the change about to take place.
Not only is the proposition headed
of, which democrats had. to purchase
and make it straight out democratic |
paper, but it has, been redeemed from !
vagaries, The change
will afford better opportunity for
the republican party in King county
to heal over past differences and
unite harmoniously on a common
sense basis.
The labor troubles in the east are
assuming most alarming proportions.
At Chicago there has been rioting
and bloodshed, and the prospect Is
that the end is not yet. There ought
to be a general demand of Congress
to pass the Logan bill to increase the
regular army, and a sufficient force
of troops should be stationed near
every populous center to be available
on short notice and to eff'ectually
quell riOtious disorder. Our country
is not governed with a hand strong
enough. Lawless men take adyant
age OF the liberties allowed them
under our flag, and use the same as
license for invading the rights and
destroying the property of their fel-
low beings. All real grievances Of
the laboring classes should be prop
erly red essed; but the line should be
sharply drawn at unlawful acts. One
writer has tersely expressed the stu
alton in these words: ANY man has
right to quit work, but ne has no
right to force another man to quit
who wants to work" Before the
present democratic administration
came into power, careful thinking
business men predicted that the cleo
ton of Cleveland would disorganize
the relations of capital and labor,
unsettle business, cause stagnation in
manufacturing industries, &c; and
it begins to look as though the pre-
diction would be more than verified.
Democratic orators have systemati
cally held up their hands in holy hor
ror for years whenever republican
has referred to the old rebel senti-
ment IN the south, and it has been
vehemently insisted that waving the
bloody shirt" was an unmentionable
crime; that republicans were traitors
to their country's best interests when
ever they revived sectionalism. that
the past should be buried, etc. And
wnen under republican administra-
ton, the country generously and
mereifully forgaye all the past, in
viting rebels to protection and fell
lowship, it was even insisted that the
fraternal feeling had not been carried
lar enough. Democrats reminded
republicans of the conciliatory dis
position manifested by Gen. Grant
on his death bed, and insisted that
the past would be speedily forgotten,
but for the obstinate hatred on the
part of northernsrs. Now comes old
jeff Davis as the incarnation of the
rebel democracy, and, amid a demon
onstration made in an effort to per
petuate the memory of prominent
rebels, at spot sacred to the south
ern heart on account of its precious
rebel memories, and amid deafening
ing cheers delivers speech redolent
with the live, burning spirit of re-
bellion as ever was that of southern
fire eaters in '6I. 1t was received
with the genuine old rebel yell. and
in city specially decorated for the
occasion with the pictures of all the
prominent rebel generals. OF couase
it is heinous offense for republicans
to even hint at the "lost cause"
Southerners have patent on that
sort OF thing, you know.
Senator Sherman did not strike
any very high sounding chord of
sympathy when he said the other day
at the Grant anniversary that the
people were seeking new lines of de-
narration between political parties.
If this was intended to apply to the
rebellion issues Of 1861 there is prob
ably some truth IN it, because there
is a general desire to have the legiti-
mate results Of the war accepted; and
yet jeff. Davis finds opportunity dur
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