The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-11-11

so-cslIe5 Northern sympathixe-s with
slavery, secession and the South. we're
composed almost entirely Of she two ex-
trsrnes Of the soriesy--she absolutely
iliiterate and the so-cslssd men Of high
scholastic culture.
The highest culture in America hesi-
tassd or sided With the South before the
sho: Vas Cred st Sumter. The sonnd Of
thai fatsfnI shot had hardly echoed round
the world before the "uneducsted." nos
the iiliterats masses. the plain people Of
the North, the farmers. the mechanics. the
operatives Of America. Ieaped 20 their feet
with the war cry Of the Revolution on
their lips, and from that time forward il
was the eight Of the farm. the forge. ;hs
factory and the store for the perpetuify Of
the Union and the sit ality Of free inssitu-
tons.
Ii vas an army Of farmers. artisans and
traders. that under Cromwell made the
house Of commons the real constitutional
sovereign Of England: !, was an army of
farmers, artisans and traders that began q
rebellion At Lexington which ended in in
dependence at Yorktown. and it Was an
army of farmers. artisans and traders that
upheld the shivering canopy OF our totter-
ing Union uron their waving forest of
dancing bsyonets.
The so-cslied ''uneduca.ed." plain peo-
ple-and the mass Of our people will per-
force Always be uneducsted-are the only
salvation of the state: IL they canno. be
trusted TO preserve il. then our free expert
ment Is lost, for so-calied culture" that
d!strusts the plain people and confuses
mere knowledge with virtue never saved .
free state. much less founded IL.
To illustrate: Who was IL failed the
cause Of the popular instruction in be half
of good government in New York city last
week? Not the plain. nneducated masses,
for thousands Of Democrats burst party
lines TO bury Tammsny and Hill.
The plurality Of Garfield in New York In
1850 was about L. 600; the plurality of Har-
rison in issS was about H,ooo, but when
New York casts 600 plurality for Re
publican governor IL means . political
revolution, when patriotism Is too many
for craftsmanship.
The men that failed the cause of good
government last week in New York city
were two men conspicuous for high Gull
ture. wealth. trained intelligence, Mr..
Coudert and Ex-Mayor Grace. Mr.. Cou-
dsrt stands in the frs. rank of the bar of
New York city; he was one of our counsel
before the Paris arbitration he is . man
OF polished wit. charming eloquence. YER
satile culture. and yet he. with Ex-Mayor
Grace, supported the candidacy of David
b. Hill for governor.
Dir. Coudert year ago denounced the
Judge Maynard candidacy, saying:
THE oaense committed by Judge May
nard Is one of the greatest known TO the
Law. There are no two rules of moraity;
to cheat Is to cheat, and to lie is to lie, and
TO steal IL to steal, whether the theft is
committed or the lie 10 told or the cheat
Is perpetrated in ordinary business or in
political concerns"
Let it be remembered that Maynard was
the tool and Gov. David b. Hill, the con-
triver and engineer of the theft executed
by Maynard. A year later Condert turns
about and says of Hill: "ve have a
champion who has made fight, the brav-
est. brightest and most brilliant have
ever known"
Coudsrt took Hill. who created May
nsrdism. by the arm, aud in a fulsome
speech introduced him 10 the Manhattan
club. No wonder Coudert is described as
a man with fan India rubber political
conscience" Coudert had previously de-
nounced Hill as a man who "has prosti-
tuted the name of Democrat to the vilest
ends:" who ''ha. looted municipalities
and denied them self government" who
has violated the laws of the state" and
outraged common deceney," and "has be-
slowed Office on unworthy persons as re-
ward for disreputab!e political services"
The only excuse that Coudert offered
for his swatlo wing Of himself was that he
thought HIS election necessary to save
the Democratic party from death or su,-
pended animation for an indefinite period
of years"
Ex-Mayor Grace, q man of superior cul-
tare. ability. wealth and influence, who
had also helped to defeat Maynard, gave
$4,000 to help elect Hill.
II the plain people. the upright and
downright "unedacated" rank and file of
the Democracy in New York had followed
the lead OF scholastic and social culture
and polished intellect in the shape Of Cou-
dert and Grace. Hill would be governor
today instead OF Morton.
This is not an object lesson in partisan
ship. but in patriotism, and it is q rebuks
TO those persons who are always distrust-
fal of the people: who are always claim
ing that until high culture holds sway
there is no hope of reform in municipal or
state government. The reverse is true: il
is the plain people "the unedncated," as
distinguished from the ilIl,erate, tha,
have always saved the nation when Gull
tGre vas either q stink or traitor, like
Coudert and Grace.
Abraham Lincoln vas RICH, in his
simple faith. not in the popslace. but in
the people: he had no more respect for
villainons rasble than had Corioianus, but
he firmly trusted, and not in vain, 10 the
sober second thought OF the plain people
os America. who raIghi some Of them be
fooled some Of the time, bat could not ali
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