Wichita eagle., 1888-05-06
THE NEW EMANCIPATION.
The Big Job Which Has Been Undertakes
by tho Independents.


by tho independents.
The independents. If we are 70 beheve Mr..
Lowell, have undertaken a great work in
American politics. II is essentially work
Of emancipation. Like the early abolition
Bts, who he says wore oDce "a feriorn hope
of mugwuUlps,n they are easncipsters. II
they are hberstors, whom do they hope 20
benefits Certainly not the black man who is
handed over to the tender mercies of baHot-
box corruptionists and intimidators without
protest on their part. No, il is 1.-The respect
able white man who is to be emancipated
by the independents. They know in their
hearts ays the New York Tribune. that
the negroes in the South are not allowed 10
exercise those supreme privileges Of citizen
ship which were won for them in one of the
bloodiest wars in modern times They can
not deny that elections II those solidly
Democratic States have not ssen free,
honest and impartial for many years, but
they do not choose TO think about these
things To do this, in Mr.. Lowells words,
is ito utilize passions by provoking into
virulence again the happily quiescent ami
mosities of our civil war" The black man
whose cause was so nobIy championed by
the early abolitionists is TO be left in politi-
cal bondage by these new rnugwunp liberia
tors. II is 'the respectable white man"
alone who can claim their sympathy and
support. Theirs is exclusively white mans
party-s respectable" white mans party.
What do these hlgh-stepping patriots ain
TO do for ''the respectable white man"
What is the thraldom from which the poor
fellow is to be erlancipated By the mug
wumps outstretched arms Mr.. Lowell
tries 10 tell US what this promised deliver
anoe will be like. II viii involve immunity
from the infection of machine politics and
boss management The wire e-pullers, whose
tricks have superseded the science of gov
ernrnent are 70 be turned out, and the san
itary engineers are to put tie houses IN
order. The respectable white man" Is TO be
emancipated from bad smells and the evils
of defective sewerage. This Is what the
mugwumps hope to do. How have they
gone about the job, Have they remained
in the house where the plumbing is good
and sought to improve TT No; they have
gone across the street where the drainage
is VIGOROUSLY bad and the atmosphere foul.
The Democratic party IN which they have
taken refuge is the haunt of bar-roon poll
ticians. Il is oss-ridden, machine-msde
party, that does not want to have reform
ers inside. The independents know that
the rum-sellers and wire-pullers exert far
more influence in that organization than
they can ever hope 20 command, yet they
are contented TO remain where they are II
only they can stand on the doorstep and
fling stones and mud at the windows OF the
Republican house opposite. This IS their
practical method of political sanitation.
There is, however, something else that
the independents are seeking to do for the
country They are trying to emancipate
"che respectable white man" from tho
bondage of the corrupt spoils system. How
have they gone about that looi They have
deserted the party which placed the Civil
Service law or the statute-book and from
which the Civil-ServIce Reform ASSOCIATE
ons have been almost wholly recruited.
They have gone over to the party which
created the spoils system and has never
shown sympathy with the reform move
ment. They have continued to admire tho
President who has violated every pledge
made to them in this matter and with can't
ing phrases on his lips has turned over tho
offices to the Democratic party Ike another
Jackson This is their method of reform
ing the evils Of political allotment Of pat
ronage and official free-handedncss " in
distributing among the "bosses" " loaves
and fishes for the " boys" They insult on
every occaaion the party that actually
committed itself to the policy of Civil-Serv-
ice reform. and either ignore or condone
the open mercandise which Is made under
the present Administration of every Office
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