The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-15
REPUBLICANIsM DEFENDED.

In letter to the Nclns of this city, defen-
sive Of the aims and methods of the Repub-
can party generally and the Ogden corner
of it particularly, DR.. A. S. CONDOR says
some things which might be considered
funny were they not evidently written in a
serious vein. Here is a specimen brick:
"For thirty years or more the National Re-
publican party has been regarded, and it
has really been, the party of great moral
ideas. During those years it has stood the
aggressive front of all that is pure in
the public administration Of Office; right in
the settlement of social problems and purest
in the fireside education, and best in all that
is worth living for, or hoping for, or dying
for"
That the doctor thinks that the party he
is apologist for has been regarded as the
representative of "great moral IDEAS is
not matter of great wonder when we take
his evident bias into consideration; besides,
with what may be consummate skill, he re-
trains from saying whom it is that thus re-
CARDS it, If he means himself and those of
his peculiar trend of political thought, no
objections can be offered; otherwise, not
one only, but many are in order.
1t is hardly probable that the gifted
writer of the letter from which we make
the above extract, really believes all of it
himself He is doubtless so thoroughly
in love with what appears on this side Of
the question to be political harlotry that
he is more or less blind to its defects and
offenses. The HERALD will not ask him or
those who think like him to admit as the
truth that under the sway of the Repub-
lican party a system of political affairs has
grown up in the nation whose present
effect is debasing and whose outcome, if it
remain unchecked, would be complete de-
moralization. 1t is q system whose watch
word is victory at the polls at any cost"
the offices, with the attendant power and
influence which they bring, being more to
it than national honor or individual pros
perity.
Can the doctor or anyone else name a
Presidential election which the Republican
party has fairly won-won by means of a
full and free ballot without intimidation,
coercion or bribery, save and except that
of LINCOLN, the first time! When he ran
for re election, were not the soldiers votes
which were cast for MCCLELLAN either
thrown out by the bushel or counted for his
opponent! If you say no, you say that the
soldiers themselves are untruthful, for
their testimony is plentiful and willing in
antagonism of your position. How was it
with GRANT, The intelligence and prop
erty of the South were set aside and ignor-
ance and subserviency took their place on
both occasions when he was chosen chief
, magistrate; he might, doubtless would
have won if this unfairness had not pre-
vailed, but it did prevail and was not the
Republican party the author of it? We
then come to the sainted HAYES, a
man who was ANONYMOUSLY defeated
popularity and electorally and whose count
ing in was crime Of such magnitude as
never was thought of before, let alone car
ried out And then coming down to last
year, and contemplating the spectacle of
voters being bought up in herds like so many
cattle in Northern New York and Indiana,
the full exposure of the Republican rascals
who carried it out and their escape from
the hands of justice through the interven-
ton Of men appointed for the purpose
what have you to say to that! What Of
the situation in the Southern states during
the reign Of the carpet-bagger aided by the
freedmen's bureau and backed by the IN
constitutional and revolutionary laws of
Republican rump Congress? How is it now
in Virginia, with Republican ticket made
ND exclusively of x-confederste soldiers
and platform declaring in favor Of pen
sioning such disabled soldiers or their
widows and orphans. and, in short, embrac-
ing almost everything which that party has
been industriously but groundlessly con
demning in the Democracy ever since the
war Is this expediency and vote catch
ing arrangement or is it such adhesion to
principle as the letter writer and his friends
delight to talk about What of Phil |
SuERIDAN's disposal of the Louisiana legis- !
lature with bayonets, and DARRELL's mid |
night order which turned the government
of that state over to an unprincipled gang
of usurpers and adventures, headed by the |
infamous w. p. KELLOGG
These are some samples of that purity
in the public administration of office" to
which our attention is called, no doubt;
but they are only few. Pages upon
pages could be produced until the
record amounted to volumes, all tending to
show and showing that the Republican
party is the party of impurity, corruption
and fraud; that its mission is the aggran-
dizement of favored few at the expense
of the toiling many; that it knows no mo-
tive but interest, and acknowledges no cri-
terion but success; that it is not purifier
of society, but tends to undermine the
foundations of the social structure by
placing inferior races alongside of our own
and maintaining them there by force Of
arms il necessary, so long as they support
Republicanism, and also by creating hatred,
discord and strife between man and man
because of sectional, political or religious
differences of opinion.
We are sorry we cannot agree with the
doctor, and have briefly stated few of the
reasons why.
That WAS quite sarcastic way of saying