Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-04-19

land was elected president, is true,
and this editor has proclaimed that
fact perhaps one hundred times inI
public speeches, made In the state of
Washington within the past three
years-ayOwedly Republican speeches
hence our "enemies" have INDUCED
themselves supererrogatiyely in the
premises
AS to training with Democrats, we
happen to know hundreds, perhaps
thousands, of them who are as pure
patriots as the country contains.
Hundreds of them are excellent gem
tlemen with whom it is an honor to
"train" socially, but with whom we
differ politically.
In reply to how long this editor has
been a Republican we take pleasure in
stating: EVER SINCE GROVER
CLEVELAND WAS ELECTED PREsI-
DENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND
FOR THESE REASONS:
Because he began, as soon as he was
inaugurdted, to do the very uDpatri-
otto and abhorrent things that the
Republicans said he would do, and
which, in his behalf, this editor de-
clared from the stump and cditorially,
, he would not do.
; Because he diametrically antagon-
) lied the platform he was elected on
by refusing home rule in the territor-
les and by appointing, in nine cases
T. out of ten, men from south Of Mason
f and Dixon's line, and always Of rebel
f proclivities, rather than fair share
! of Northern Union Democrats, not
= only to the federal offices of the terri
= tories, but to all the other offices in
| his gift.
4 Because he did this for
! the Machievelsh purpose of cul-
D tivating in his own selfish
S interest, the "Solid South"
e Because for the same purpose, and
V to pander to what he considered the
r balance of power in the presidential
e election, to which he was looking, he
0 UNANIMOUSLY insulted the men of the
S Union armies, who had made it possible
b for him or any other man to be come
president of the United States.
y Because he is our special Jete nOir as
!, a man and politician, insincere and
:. unjust as the one, and but little re-
n moved from the condition of a ward
: striker as the other.
y Because of these and many Other
o reasons of like nature, in con
e nection with the then admins
If tration, this editor made his Pc
litical change at that time. But
lie those were not sufficient reasons fol
l. change. No one man, and especially
It such a man, should be acknowledged
If as having the power to change the
n lifelong political affiliations Of citi
= zen. The greater reason for the
l. change was that the Democratic
# party, or at least that portion Of il
n which formed the minority that was
$ beaten by the Republican party under
n Hrrrison, endorsed Grover Cleveland
,e and his monstrous political perform
lie ances, and, blindly, it seemed, sought
N to make of him brazen demigod.
q, Aside from these things this edito
lie had, in common with thousands 0
n other Democrats, among them sucl
SIS men as Samuel j. Randall, believed il
I'd the just principles and benign etfacac
err of a protective tariff which the Demo
&c cratic party, led by Grover Cleveland
IN did, and does, antagOnize, and in a
st evasive underhand, indirect obrepti
ed tious way.
ne These are some Of the reasons whic
e, would seem to us sufficient to caus
is any man of union antecedents to bC
come disguised with Democracy as
political faith. Any independent SOY
IL ereign citizen of this country has
IL full and perfect right to abjure an
Is political faith, and embrace any othe
H. if he sees sufficient reason. When h
does not change under such cirCun
stances, he is either a fool or knav,
70 Our reasons for being a Republica
of are too good, and toomany, to tell a
,g at once in single newspaper articl
or But we have been endeayoring in til
n. past few years to make them know
ad as rapidly and as vigorously as poss
no bic, and if the Telegraph will ju!
,rt keep an eye on these columns, Othc
70 and plain reasons will be seen to Sc
no sonably develop.
st Give Fairhdven's aggregation {
lily brains, muscle and enterprise mont
or, to work with, then continued gOC
he times and the city's advancement wi
result.
W THE AMERICAN CREED
ut We believe in liberty, equality al
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