The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1888-02-15
REAOYFoR BURIAL.
A Few Kind and consrderdte Words ffUr
the Republican Corpse.
Indianapolis Sentinel.


has not long to live. .Extraordina>
~ efforts are being made to gaiva-
nize it into something like vitality,
but it is no go. Its best friends
recognize that it is in a dying con-
dition. 1t is without an issue. A
party without an issue isin acondi>
ton as deplorable as a sick COW that
has no cud to chew. The party's
second stomach has given out. The
quid recommended by Blaine don't
answer for cud-for an issue. AS
f r tie loody shirt it is no longer
an issue; it is efiete, barren, exe
haus!ed, worn out. The free>trade
nonsense is, if possible, more dila"-
apidated than the bloody-shirt fool
ishness. The Presidents message
has taken the country by storm. 1t
has given all honest men straight-
out, sharply-defned issue. The
Governme nt has been robbing the
people, compelling them to sur
render their money when the Gov
eminent had no use for it. Mr..
Cleveland and the Democratic par>
ty, and the honest element of the
Republican party, approve the is
sue, endorse the policy. They say
time has come to inaugurate an era
of honesty; that stealing the peo'
pies money under cover of law is
a monstrous inquiry, and that So
phistry, chicanery, nHiiegal leger-
denain must no longer be permit
ted to influence the policy OF the
Government.
Tic Republican party, it will be
seen at a glance, is,in a preparato>
ny ,cGnditiDnto handiih its checks.
Tt has no issue. We challenge the
indianapolis Journal to state
the issue upon which the Republi-
can party proposes to go before the
American people in the campaign
of 1888. The tobaccoq-ui issue
will not do, nor will the free wills"
key issue. John Sherman's effort
TO make fhe robbing Of the people
Of s100,O0Q,000 a year can't be
made to work. Chandler's SouthS
ern election issue is already dead,
and Blair's Educational bill never
was an issue. 1t is seen that the
Republican party is without an is
sue. To make the antagonizing of
the Democratic party an issue
would result disastrously, since
honest Republicans endorse the
Democratic policy. The conclu>
sion is therefore inevitable that all
That is LETT for the Republican para
ty is to die. 1t is said of Indians
that "the good Indian is the dead
Indian" Possibly that can be said
of the Republican party when
gone; at any rate, it is well enough
to contemplate the demise of the
party and be proposed to speak
kindly of it when stretched out on
q cooling board, or lying cold and
stiff in its winding sheet. And in
this connection we were reminded of
a beautiful trait in the character of
man in Illinois who always had
something kind to say Of the dead.
1t came to pass at last that a no.
torious rebiobate died, a man of
such VIGOROUSLY bad character that
those who knew him best could
think of nothing to say of him in
the way of commentator, and yet
II was believed that the man who
was in the habit of saying kind
words of the deAd would manage in
this, as in every other case, to find
something worthy of praise, and a
bet was made that such would be
the case. On the day OF the funer-
al, the eulogist of the dead, with
others, took q farewell look at the
corpse. He came up solemnly, slow
ly, and with a benevolent look on
his features. He leaned over the
coffin and looked long and anxious
iy at the features of the dead rep,
rebate. At last be raised his head.
looked around upon his
friends, and whispered with a
sigh:
"Well, he hsd good teeth" That
was aIl-"Ho had good teeth. -
We suggest that that much could
be said of the Republican party
1T had good teeth