San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-09-16
FREE PRESS.
The Globe.D Democrats Great Concern
for George w. Julian.

partisan Republican. Hence 1t is
incapable Of doing justice to any
man who differs with it.
Especially is this true of those men,
who, once leaders in the Republican
party in its earlier and better days,
left it when it became merely n cor
rupt machine, as it did under Gen.
Grants administration, and-has ever
since remained. That men who
were among the fathers and founders
of that party, who still stood among
the foremost in it, and could yet COM
mand its high places and emoluments,
should voluntarily cut loose from it
out of respect to their own manhood
and political principles, is something
which the Globe-Democrat cannot
comprehend, and spontaneously re-
sents. Hence it's repeated assaults
upon such men as Geo. W. Julian,
Lyman Trumbull, John M. Palmer,
and others.
It's latest attack upon Mr.. Julian,
having recently been reproduced in
this vicinity, we shall be excused for
giving it brief notice.
The Globe-Democrat says truly
that Geo. W. Julian was an uncom-
promising Union man during the
war. But when the war was over,
he was among the foremost to cham
pion the cause of National concilia-
ton. From 1871 down he was found
laboring in that cause. To this end
he left the Republican party at the
very climax of its prestige and
power. The Republican nomination as
Congressman at large for the State
of Indiana he could have had just be-
fore, but declined because he
coul d not affiliate with the corrupt
government at Washington. And
having always been democratic in
principle as respects general political
policy, he naturally, when the war
ended, returned to those principles
and acted with the democratic party.
The wonderful inconsistency in this,
commented upon by the Globe
Democrat, is merely a creation OF its
distempered brain.
The trouble with that paper is that
Mr.. Julian did do most effective SER
vice to the democratic party in it's
new lease Of life as an agency of re-
form. 1t was through his agency
that Hendricks was elected Governor
of Indiana-the only time he was
ever elected to that office-in 1872.
His services in the Tilden campaign
of '76 are historical. His great
speech of that year reached circu
lation of over a million copies, and
was recognized as the best cam
paign document of the canvass. The
Globe Democrat affects to lament
that after all this Mr.. Julian's SER
vices have been recognized only by
giving him the not very profitable
position of Surveyor-General OF New
Mexico. But really we don't see
how this can be made to reflect upon
him. If Mr.. Tilden had been counted
in" Mr.. Julian would probably have
received position more worthy OF
his deserts, but we greatly fear the
Globe-Democrat would not have
found any more comfort in that
event.
We should have said in the start
that the text of the Globe-Democrats ts
present effort is the fact that the
Senate having failed to nominate in
Mr.. Julian's case, President Cleve-
land has re-appointed him There's
where the shoe piuches with the St
Louis paper. 1t also remembers
with grief, no doubt, that Mr.. Cleve-
land in the first place Of his own ac-
cord rendered TO Mr.. Julian the Of
fee of Surveyor-G General of New
Mexico in furtheraDce of his various
ideas Of reform, and especially TO
''head of such thieving land-grab-
bers as Stephen A. Dorsey, who it
was apprehended might become the
political bosses Of the territory. Mr..
Julian served twelve years as a rep
resentative in Congress. and for two
or three sessions was Chairman Of
the Committee on Public lends
That he went ont oi Office poor in
purse, is certainly to BIS erajit IS an