Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-24

Palladium WOfkeO lCSeiI III reScnIlnB the DEMOCRATS comments on a news dispatch concerning certain alleged de- signs of New Haven politicians against the future management of the public school system, that the republican poli- ticians of New Haven arc too virtuous set to be tempted by the golden apple of salaried commissions. Well, let us hope so, since it would be such an utterly un- looked for advance on the reputation they have hitherto most deservedly en- joyed.
 But we fancy, as we hear the rumble of the Palladium's editorial thunder, that it is itself slightly suspicious of the men it seeks to defend. It is the stuck pig that squeals the loudest, the most hardened criminal who makes the loft fest professions of virtue; and 1t has been the custom of the republican politi- clans for whom the Palladium furnishes certificate of honor to talk most vlrtu- ously when they were most industrl- ously engaged in some scheme against the liberties and the rights of the people. Of course such truly good politicians as Lynde Harrison for instance could not be inveigled into having salaried offices created for republican henchmen, and of course he could not expect to have the barking of such eminently virtuous mugwumps as John $. Fowler. Judge Deming, Hugh Daley, A. H. Kellam and Al. of Lo Do lodi "nn haps a colored gentleman couldn't be tempted from the path of integrity by the sight of a luscious watermelon patch or the open door of a we'll stocked hen coop. When the colored gentleman bids such temptations to get behind him we may expect to sec the virtuous republi- can politicians of New Haven spurn the glittering opportunities that are bound up in salaried educational commis- sions.
 The DEMOCRAT is not at all afraid to match records with the Palladium as to the respective devotion of the democra- tic and republican parties to the cause of popular education. And we believe that in that greatest of all forms Of popular education, education as to indi- vidual rights and the privileges of com munities under the constitution of the land, education as to the real rights and privileges of American citizenship, the democratic party as far exceeds its rival as the sun surpasses the smallest planet or the electric light exceeds the tallow dip. It may be that in some of the southern states the educa' tional standard is somewhat lower than in the northern, but we think there are other causes to account for that than the fact of democratic supremacy. The abolition of human slavery and the neces' sary time for the eradication of the ig norance incidental thereto, with the con- sequent crass intellectual standard that is the natural basis for educational work there, may be regarded as rather i'm portant factors in the retarding of edu cational standards at the south by ob servers who are less prejudiced in theil inquiries than the Palladium.
 Of course, with the Palladium whateve
 there is of goodness and prosperity ane
 merit in the land is the natural, conse quent and unavoidable result of thu
 establishment and existence of the re
 publican party. We have not heard tha the creation of the earth or the discover,
 of America have been attributed to tn
 republican party, but we would expec to find in the Palladium a most earnes ) advocate and defender of such doc urine were it seriously put forth by a re , publican politician of the eminent polit
 ical virtues and piety of Lynde Harri
 son.