Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-11-02

For Representatives.,
WILLIAM 81. ELY and WILLIAM F.
STAHL.
LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE.
Our courteous and esteemed contempor-
ary the Register has felt moved by some
remarks of ours to preach q thoughtful
and impressive sermon from that sonor-
GUS and noble old text, "Contentment
foe to progress" This discourse was in
tended to convince the readers thereof that
the counsel of the JOURNAL AND COURIER
to 'let we'll enough alone" by continuing
the Republican party in power was un-
sound and reactionary. And in enforcing
its lesson the Register sapiently remarked
that If the people of this country had been
content to let well enough alone eve
should be travelling still by stage coaches,
our mails would be transported by pictur-
esque post boys, the telephone and the
telegraph and the hun dred and one other
inventions that have not only quickened
our material life but changed altogether
its conditions would never have come into
common use."
SO they would, and SO they wouldn't, es-
teemed and progressive contemporary.
We are heartily with you on the necessity
of leaving those things which are behind
and pressing on to those which are before.
But as We join you in this pleasing and
beneficial exercise we look back for a min
ute, and we see the Republican party, the
party of progress, endeavoring to press
forward and to carry the country forward,
while the Democratic party, the party of
reaction, was doing its best to prevent
progress. 1t was the Republican party
that would not consent to the disorganiza-
tion of the Union and the continuation of
slavery. Was the Democratic party the
party of progress thena Notice what great
orator has truthfully said of 1t: Every
State that seeded from the United States
was Democratic State. Every ordinance
of secession that was drawn was drawn by
Democrat. Every man that endeavored
to tear the old flag from the heaven that 1t
enriched was Democrat. Every man
| that tried to destroy this nation was
Democrat. Every enemy this great Repub-
lie has had for twenty years has been a
Democrat. Every maa that shot Union
soldiers was Democrat. Every man that
| starved Union soldiers, and refused them
in the extremity of death, was Democrat.
Every man that loved slavery better than
l liberty was q Democrat. The man that
| assassinated Abraham Lincoln was Demo
| orat. Every man that sympathizsd with the
asesssin-every man glad that the noblest
President ever elected was assassinated-
l was a Democrat. Every man that wanted
l the privilege of whipping another man to
! make him work for nothing and pay him
with lashes on his naked back was Dem
ocrat. Every man that raised bloodhounds
to pursue human beings was Democrat.
Every man that impaired the credit of
the United States, every man that swore
we would never pay the bonds, every man
that swore we would never redeem the
greenbacks, every maligner of his country's
credit, every calumnistor of his eountry's
honor was Democrat.
This, our courteous contemporary will
perhaps hasten to say, is ancient history.
So 1t is, but 1t is not the history of the
party of progress. 1t is the ancient his
tory of a party whose modern history Is
like Its ancient history. Itis the ancient
history of a party which has persistently
fought every wise and noble policy that it
has had an opportunity to fight. 1t is the
ancient history of party whose modern
history is as full of bull-headed blundere
as its ancient history is of traitorous
crimes. 1t is the ancient history of party
whose modern history has not wiped out
the memory of its ancient history or COM
mended itself to the progressive people OF
the country. 1t is the ancient history of 6
party the last chapter of whose modern
history contains those progressive declara
tions in favor of wild cat money and q
| tariff policy copied from the constitution
of the Confederate States.
Oh yes, courteous and esteemed con
|. | temporary, it is wise to ''let well enough
| alone" in this case. The Republican party
is not the party of "the stage coach and
the b6st-boy," not the party of slavery, ot
secession, of reputation, of unsount
: money, of notification of the right to vote
!. of pig-headed opposition to wise legis
lation, and of blundering attacks on tn
business prosperity of the country. 1t
. the party of "the telephoneland the tele
graph" the party of the Union, the part
of freedom, the party of noble debt-pay
ing and of sound money, the party of FIRE
suffrage, the party of wise legislation an
of effective encouragement of industry an
business. 1t is indeed the party of prc
i Rress, and We hereby invite the ssteeme
I and courteous Register to apply its littl
sermon to its own case and promptly leav
the party of ''the stage coach and the pos
boy" and join the party of "the telegrap
and 4he telephone"
And, by the way, esteemed and court
ous contemporary, we have noticed th'
YOU have lately been running what 20
call "sn amen corner" devoted to the +
3 ception and glorifcstion of those who d
sert the party of progress for the party
reaction. That corner of yours doesn
seem to Us q glorious place. 1t looks
"a like the desolste corner in the cemetel
where the paupers are buried. In tn
"amen corner" of yours lie those who q
. paupers in loyalty, psupers in appreoi
D ton of their nourishing political mothe
# and paupers in perception of the requil
- ments of the progress and prosperity
their country. The pauper corner of t
Democratic graveyard is q sad corner, al
the fsossiousnsss with which you astsm
to tighten III slsom "a uasssply'