The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-29
POLITICAL PURITY.

There is but one Republican newspaper
in Delaware, the Wilmington Morning
Nc,rs 1t is not large state nor is the
| NcicS very large paper, but what it lacks
! in bigness and circulation it makes up in
genuine Republican gall. Having the field
altogether to itself it doubtless thinks it
ought to make up for the absence Of com
! pany by making it unnecessary to have any.
1t has habit of reminding Democrats of
| their sins which would lead one not init
aUed to believe that it and its following
were altogether lovely This is decidedly
a Republican characteristic, but in no in
stance that THE HERALD can call to mind
does it stand out quite so conspicuously as
in anything which the Noes lays hold Of
Here is a speciman brick:
When Senator PAYNE of Ohio. was elected
there was a great cry of fraud and corruption
and the cloud that was theE cast upon the
method employed to secure him his seat has
never been dispelled We are now told in
/ letter from Columbus that one reason why Mr.
! PAYNE desires a reelection is for vindiCation,
! because he does not wish to retire TO private
| life with the blot upon his record The same
letter further says that Mr., PAYNE w3s elected
through the efforts of his sons and that they are
goingto do what they can TO send their father
have this stigma (the charge that his election
was bought and paid for removed and to wash
out the blot they are willing to pay almost any
sum-" After the Senator is ''yindicated' he is
10 resign in favor of RAINBOW CHASER BRICE
This is very pretty scheme, but no one but q
Democrat would have the impudence 10 propose
it, The charge is that Senator PAYNE bought
his seat over five years ago, and the proposition
now is that he is going TO buy il the second time
to prove that the first purchase was never made.
This suggestion savors of practical politics, but
it does not SAVIOR Of honesty
There is but little question that there was
something not altogether dead square, in
the election of Senator PAYNE; dark cloud
of suspicion hovers and has lowered over
him ever since he was chosen to his present
position by the Ohio Legislature. 1t is pos
sible that it might be cleared away and the
officials fair fame be restored, but this has
not been done yet and do the Democratic
papers or the Democratic party uphold or
countenance his failure to vindicate him
self! Not at all. In fact, they more than
others have as a rule demanded that he
clear his skirts if he could do so. How
different it is with our friend the enemy
To expose or cast a suspicion upon prom
inent Republican is but to cause his friends
10 rally around MIN all Ine Jnlckef ana
more determinedly. Look at that luminous
saint DUDLEY, for instance Here we find
a man whom the evidence shows
is no more fit to be outside the
walls of penitentiary than an
ordinary horse thief is, yet where is the
paper to say a word against
himl Nowhere. The Wilmington NelcS in
particular fails to raise its voice in condem-
nation of the thieving scheme by which In
diana was carried for the Republicans last
fall-a scheme of which DUDLEY was the
author. Since political purity is the object
aimed at, why not give the understanding
rascal who invented the 'blocks of five''
infamy blast now and then, more especi- |
ally when the headquarters at Washington
take the matter of his defense in hand and
have him whitewashed as only Republi- !
can administration can whitewash. The
difference is simply this: The Democrats
believe in effecting their own publication,
the Republicans never purify of their own
volition nor at all so long as they can stand
the public off.