The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-09
GARRISON ON THE PARTY.


From an enthusiastic interview in the
Tacoma Daily Globe in which Assistant
Postmaster General Clarkson gives
some reasons for his loyalty to the Re-
publican party, we quote a few para
graphs. General Clarkson says:
| notice that one of your papers, Of
ncertain political gender and shifting
political faith, has stated as quoted by
a Democratic paper of Seattle, that am
too narrow and partisan in politics. l
am not My political views is that of
the national Republican party which Is
as broad as human life and as high and
deep and kind as human faith and hu-
man honor Instead of being narrow,
the Republican party has constantly
been challenged for being too broad and
progressive. The Democratic party Is
the narrow party. The only thing in
this universe which is more narrow Is
the mugwump party. The most blgoted
product, the most narrow and illlberal
yet developed in American politics Is
the modern fashion called mugwump-
ism. 1t is made up of men who claim
to be better than other men, better
than their party. The mugwump pre-
tends to have more courage,
more Chivalry than any other
American citizen. Yet the conspicuous
fact of his political life is that his warm
ished honesty permits him to become
the ally of Tammany hall and of the
most corrupt and dishonest rule in all
the large cities which is quite sufficient
to disprove his boosted superiority and
honesty. In his chivalry, too, he allies
himself with the most cruel rule of the
Democratic party In oppression of the
weak. He helps it to leave 1000, 900
people in the south helpless in their new
suffrage and their new rights of citizen
ship, and by his vote in favor of its ma
tional ticket constantly attempts to aid
the south in degrading black people into
a servile and helpless peasantry. he
ClamOrs for more courage and far play
in politics, vet in his vote i'll national af-
fairs helps to disfranchiSe the black men
of the south. who in their weakness need
the ballot more for their protection and
that of their homes than any other class
of voters in America. He is a hypOcrite,
too, in sneering at the black voters as be-
ING unworthy of the franchise because of
their ignorance, while he proudly goes
to the polls in New York and Brooklyn
i trust not in TacOma-and votes with
the ignorant masses that make up the
Democratic majority in all large cities
and accepts them as his allies IN decld-
ing national affairs | am broader IN this:
[ demand that the honest, ignorant vote
of the Republican party, as represented
| in the emancipated race, which Is hon
| estly irving to better It's condition, shall
be allowed to exercise the franchise as
well as the ignorant, vicious Democratic
of larger cities If the mugwump is hu-
name the pleading voice of the southern
black man, anxious TO rise IN manhood,
and the still more plteOuS voices OF hls
poor family, who are constantly used IN
violence, would reach his heart and make
him say: Il am willing that the black
man shall have at least as fair a show in
this land as | demand for myself and
| family" I am broad enough to say that
| this should be made republic for Re
Dublicans as well as Democrats; that the
| Republicans at the south shall be pro-
tected at the polls and his home
as well as the Republicans at the north.
He is a selfish man, personally, and a
coward, politically, who IS not willing to
say that every American voter should
have the same rights he demands for
himself. The Republican party took the
negro from slavery and provided him
with citizenship. 1t would be false to
itself and recreant to the nation of the
future if it does not see that the race
which it emancipated and enfTanchised
is given both the chance to educate itself
and to be protected in the franchise Of
suffrage. This is not the situation today
in majority of the states of the south,
neither with the black nor the white Re
publican. / say that the mugwump
while wanting his superior moral courage
and honesty is instead politician coward
as long as he is the ally of the party that
does this violence. not only to the Ameri-
can voter, but to the republic itself.
These estimable papers say also that
am too partisan. The truth is the Re
publican party is not half as partisan as
the Democratic party, nor partisan
enough. If it were, and if Republicans
had the partisanship that the Democrats
have. it would be invincible. For with
the men of conviction and courage in
! America thus united, we should have
/ election laws enacted that would make
| it possible for all voters III the land to
/ vote. and that would keep fraud in the
count and violence in the election away
4 from the polls. With such laws four
4 fifths of the American states would be
I Republican. for four-fifths Of these states
/ have an honest, legal. Republican ma
/ ioritv TODAY. The Republican party has
| never had the partisanship nor the dis
| Cipline of the Democratic party. One
reason is that the Republican party has
ALWAYS been a party representing heroic
principles. The Democrat Is for his
party. regardless of what it J.. The
/ average Republican must see his party
I representing the highest sentiment Of
/ the time 70 be enthusiastic. We need
[ 10 build up more party pride, more par
/ tisanship. There Is nothing more noble
/ in American life than Republican partl-
sanship. Republican partisanship saved
/ the union. II freed and enfranchised
/ the negro. II made the free schools, II
gave the son Of the poorest and most
/ humble man a chance 70 be educated
upon an equality with the son Of the
/ richest, and an equal chance 70 be presl-
dent II has elaborated the great system
+ Of internal improvements. and gTidiron-
/ cd the republic with railways, enabling
/ every community IN the land to market
I its products al It's own doors, and 10 OK
/ change quickly with every other com
munIty and country. Il gave the repuD-
/ lie the best system Of currency the world
/ has ever known. 1t has given It every
! great material thing and blessing that It
+ has today Better and nobler than al. II
stands guard over human rights and
human liberty. and stands always for the
protection OF the weak II stands always
T for the acquisition Of empire and - has
: only 10 continue II power, a. / believe,
7 10 make this republic bounded on al