The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-09-18
HITS AND MISSES.
CONTRIBUTED BY A. sPARRER.

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Diagnoses of the symptoms of all political
parties run riot in the newspaper world.
Feather-tipped shuttlecocks fly back and
forth from acknowledgements and Re
publican.
This knowing one, who has the right ear
OF the autocrat, pronounces his tpse dirst to-
day, to be given the lie direct tomorrow by
that other great man who has wagged sue
cessfully in the left.
From Maine to California new svenders reel
to and fro, drunken with their own concei,s.
A understanding public, bewidered by
scandalized primaries and the bosses, dream
of that gospel of their youth, government
of the people, by the people, for The people.
Meanwhile Dame Columbia counts her
brood and gossips with Brother Jonathan as
to what they will do for the country in '92.
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The people, as factor, being eliminated
from politics, let us see what we are going to
do about it.
Literature could, if she would, solve the
enigma. That man who puts Natural Law
in the Political World upon the market, may
dream dreams and see visions Of the almighty
dollar, grea'er than those vouchsafed to
great Ward McAllister himself.
Perhaps literature and her handmade cul-
ture tipping it in the person of Mr.. Andrew
d. White, may come to the rescue of at least
one party.
The learned gentleman is certainly u mon
ument of sacrifice to convictions
1t must be strong party utilization and ne
cessarily stronger patriotism that will tempt
a scholar and gentleman into the arena of
New York politics.
His action emphasizes the need of some
new method of selection by which the peo-
pie may have the right man in the right
place secured to them.
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In the organic world we have natural selec-
ton and the survival of the fittest.
Evolution is growth onward and upward.
Protoplssm, infusoria, ameba, each seeks the
environment that best answers its require
ments. Bogenesis, the doctrine of only life
from life the survival of the fttest, that
mighty struggle which is symmetrical be-
cause of law !; parasitism, which is death or
atrophy because of arrested development
these applied to parties would give US in so
which
Chemical affinity is a fascinating by-road
of science. leads it astray in elections general
and primary.
Scent:sts-Being American We indulge 10
Amercanisms, the London Daily Neacs not
withsianding. While on this subject let Us
spread the eagle wide from tip to tip. until
on either side we touch both Criticisms and
Australianisms.
Begging pardon of Huxley, Spencer s. Co.
for both depression and expression, scientists
we say again tell US the inorganic world is
dead, dead with all the barriers of death from
life between it and organic creation.
Granted so, from this view one sees vista
of glowing possibilities.
When science tells US this mys erious in
fluence called chemical affinity can be exerted
only between dissimilar bodies, we find it
in go.
Dissimilariiy is the ozone of parties.
While mere dissimilarity will rot ensure
combination, electricity is a pow erful factor
in the action of such forces.
Electrical displays superinduccd by excit-
able ,empersments have so long danced about
party platforms that we do not fear for the
needed touchstone; and that by this subtle
process each body undergoes great changes
would seem happy augury.
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Another by-path leads into that enchanted
land OF capitalization, around which science
would set up high brick wall but within
whose enclosure we find yet further exam
Piles of selection and survival, viialized energy
aud determined will.
Crystal virtues and caprices, quarrels and
sorrows are very much alive TO US when
touched by the magical breath OF their great
high priest, who tells US "You may at least
earnestly believe that the presence of the
spirit which eliminates in your own life,
shows itself in dawning, wherever the dust
of the earth begins to assume any orderly and
lovely state"
When We get to crystallzing parties then
We may hope for purity in politics, for the
first virtue inherent in every right-nnded
crystal is its purity.
"Clearness of purpose-quiet and ceaseless
energy" excellent traits these to find in can
dldate.
Trained coegisn as he is, President White
might find Il more congenial field for his tai
enls, did he deliver a course of lee ures on the
University Extension plan.
A course embracing the ways, means and
methods of capitalization as applied to the
machinery politics.
He might go down to posterily as more
than party candidate could lie enthusc those
bosses not too abandoned to their sins with
some such sentiment as follows:
There Sc, ms to be in some crystals from
the beginning IN unconquerable purity of vi
tai power, aud strength of crysi spirit.
Whatever dead substance, unacceptant of
this energy, comes in their way, is either re-
jected, or forced tn take some beautiful sub
ordinate form the purity of the ystal re-
Hlhins uusuiiicu, anu C'Ciy a'oh vi IL vi snb
with coherent energy. Then the second con-
dtion is, that from the beginning of its whole
structure, fine crystal seems to have deter
mined that it will be of q certain size and Of
certain shape; it persists in this plan and
CO npletes it."
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Competitive examinations open up another
path whose fower-lined borders might lead
into Elysian fields-felds where fat offices,
sleek, contented people, and well-oiled,
thoroughly running government would more
than cheer the heart of poor old Uncle Sam.