The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-10-12
NO WORSE THAN THE DEMOCRATS
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From the New York Herald. [

In the art of decapitations Assistant
postmaster General Clarkson exhibits
skill which only long practice can
give.
With great frankness and flavor oil
that during the last five months he has
turned out about fifteen thousand
Office holders.
That is to say, an average of one
hundred per day, including Sundays
and stormy weather.
From the standpoint of an implaca.
BILE partisanship this is remarkably
good record. If from merely patri-
otic point of view it does not seem
creditable the reply is that Clarkson
was not thinking of patriotism, but Of
party.
Patriotism has its place before
election. 1t serves to decoy the
groundlings. But after the election
the republican boss has something bet.
ter to attend to-namely, the per-
quisites.
Lowell describes him to the life in
the lines
A ginooine statesman should be on his guard
too hard.
Mr.. Clarkson naively remarks that
he is no worse than his democratic
predecessor. We may be excused, per.
haps, if we smile at this chaste and
eloquent statament.
The republicans have denounced the
democratic party as venral and corrupt
Last autumn they nffi med on their
honor - that is, on the remnant which
remains-that the country was going
to one everlasting smash. They gave
the public the Impression that they
were themselves angels just arrived
from the New Jerusalem and that they
proposed TO hang their white wings on
peg for four years aud save this re
public-unless it should perchance be
too late-from democratic ravages by
the strict, impartial and rigid enforce
ment of the civil service law.
That was their "holtn on the COM
munity. Their pledges fell thick and
fast until the country was knee deep
in them.
They even resorted to the wholesale
purchase of votes in order that they
might get into power at once and begin
the evangelical work of setting the
business of the country on its feet and
purifying its politics.
And now Clarkson offers as an ex-
cuse for his course that he isn't any
worse than the democrats.
In one breath he curses the dem
ocratic party as horde of spoilsmeE,
grows red in the face as invectives fol.
low each other in hot succession, and
in the next breath he coolly informs us
that he is himself a spokesman also, Just
like those horribly wicked democrats
Mr.. Harrison enjoys his respite al
Deer Park and smiles as he hears the
dull thud OF official heads dropping into
the basket.
Mr.. Blaine listens in the calm retreat
of Bar Harbor to what the wild waves
are saying and the falling heads have a
sweeter sound than a symphony of
Beethoven.
Down through the circumambient
ether come two other lines of Lowell
which seem fitted to the occssion:-
A marcifal Providence fashioned US holler
O purpose that We might our princip les
swaller.
Well, it is just as we supposed. A
republican has great moral ideas, but
is ready at all times to swap them for
office. They are his capital in trade.
He may have a conscience, but it is
active only when there is nothing
within reach.
He believes in protection because it
creates a class of mOnOpolists who
willingly shed their dollars for a con-
tinuance of the policy which enabled
them to make other millions by crowd
ing small traders to the wall and
killing competition.
lie grows wroth at the indignity
done to the negro. but his philanthropy
has the smell of the ballot box The right
and wrong OF the matter be hanged. If
the negro votes the republican ticket
he is Il man and brother; when he
dares TO throw a democratic vote he is
denounced on the floor of congress as a
monstrosity.
But the people remain, and evidently
they have their eyes open. they have
been hoodwinked, but they have not
lost their senses. Their present ex.
peri"mce is profoundly educational.
Strikes are to be found on all sides
bu mess men who were caioled last
autumn INTO voting for a higher tariff
now cry for free raw material and will
soon face trouble unless they get it.
The community in the last five months
has grown distrusttul.
The shoe pinches the peoples feet and
when the time comes to take them of
they are not likely to put them on
again.
Cheap! Cheap! have just received car
OF fine Michigan salt, fresh from the mine.
and have another one 90 the road, which
will sell at 81 2d per barrel. Come and get
+. A, LOOMS. iune2att