Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1888-07-07
Position Of a Leading Now York
Daily.

The following from the New YORK
"Times," one Of the leading tailies Of
tina, city explains itself and the position
Of tina, journal in the prcscn,ial contest
just opened in unequivocal terms In he
Times the Republican party has here.
toforc recognized most Important pc.
li,ical factor and coming at a time
when there is so much ,umult and
trouble in the Republican ranks, the
appearance Of this forciblc editorial
mus, have been received at Republican
headquarters last Tuesday morning
week like an unexpected ihunderbolt
After paying ilat,ering tribute to the
personal worth Of the Republican NOM
inees for President and Vice Prcsidcn,
il says:
"l'ut the people Of this country will
pass judgement upon the republican
party not upon the republican candi-
dates. Were that party any longer
worthy of confidence: had i, not depar.
ted widely and hopelessly from the gui.
dance and principles with which i, won
its eirly trumhps; were it ac,ua,ed
by an honest purpose TO make the PEG
pie Of the United States more pros.
porous and happy than its political OPP.
ponen,s can make them; were It's pro.
LESSONS more .incerc, its policies wiser,
and its leaders purcr, the New York
Times night not find it 4 dis,as,eful
task to support the candidates, com.
monplace as thep are. who were put in
nomination yesterd y. But we have
no faith in the party or in its leader.
ship or tendencies, and we have only
abhorrance for the mons,rous policy of
Of confiscating the gains OF labor and
the profits Of trade by cx,ortiona,e
protective taxes. which has become its
only vitalizing principle. The main
tenance OF needless taxes for protec
TONS sake is not and never was a prin.
ciple Of true rcpublicanism. II is the
principle lha, has created aud sustain
ed greedy horde OF manufacturers
who have bought the republican rarty
and shaped il 10 their uses They
took possession OF lis charter and con
troll OF its actions in the year 1872,
when the party had already begun to
rot inwardly, and from tina, time, be.
ginning with the presidential comics,
Of that year, the inirlligen, and think.
ing voters Of the country have been
less and less in sympathy with rcpubli
canism, and the people, as a whole,
have been moved by a continuing and
evers,rengihening impulse 10 pu, the
party out Of power. The impulse frs,
showed itself IN the liberal republican
revolt Of 1879, strange aud sincere
movement which resulted dsas.rously
in the Greeley folly. In 1870 the
people OF the country. as a majority
Of them no doub, believed and still
believe, did cast majority OF their
votes agains, the republican candidate
An extra.consiilulional body decided
the comics. Of that election in favor OF
the republicans 10y pirtisan vote OF
its own members, ami the narrow ma
jority Of single electoral vote, In
$50 the treachery Of certain demo.
Gratis. disconnected with the nomina
ton, and the use OF grea, sums ofmon
ey in Indiana aud in this city and
Stale in purchasing votes for the re-
publican ticket, gave the party an
other four years lease OF power. IL
1884, in spite OF the ex,raordinar,
growth OF that most noxious weed o
American politics. the Blaine dyna
mite vote, the late bu, deserved penal
~ III its corrup N aml us evil cnur,e>
was visited upon the rrpu.lIcIn prIyi
AMI So Ear from having any reason 4,
regret It's action IN tia, year. the cleo
torste gives signs of increasing sIlisiac
tion At the change.
'Mcanwhle the republican parry
plnishrd hut impcni,eni, CT ngs to III,
idols the voters have spurnrd, an,
again knocks at The door II the FIX
ecutive Mansion. bearing in its han,
the declaration that wiSkey should b,
free anil clnihing l'xe,i. that the pres
eni pr0'ecIlv: taxes are sacred an'
shall not Ice re,ln,rti--shalI l'e incTeas
ell. rather, il ways cannni I've fund il
jDbl'ery and extravaganza Ia sprm
ias, enough The accommodating revenue
The Iimrs will moi shame its consist
rn, rrcmd Of more than twenty year
10y c0nnsrllng the opeling ~ iha, ,loo
10 these unw0T,hy applicants Before
1903 This j"nfn1l lrRan s sivGscI
Of the repeal of unnecesssr, cusien