Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-05-22
"DisAGRBEABLB DEMOCRATIC
TRUTHS"


TRUTHS"
Under the above very suggest
i've caption, the Enterprise in it's
last issue devotes considerable
space in proving to those who are
conversaut with the true status Of
affairs, how absurd a newspaper
can become. '1n the interest of
truth and justice" it must be said
that the Enterprise Aapdoodle on
the subject Of democratic harmony
lis a very barren ideality."
According TO the Enterprise
there is great dissenstion in the
democratic ranks because every
representative man in the Terri
tory has not been given a federal
Office under Cleveland's present
administration. How ridiculousl
If every democrat in this Terri
tory who interested himself in poll
itics was a place hunter, with but
the single ambition of holding Of
fee, then republican logic might
be applicable. Does it naturally
follow because a man fails in Sc
curing some coveted position at
the hands Of the administration
that he must forsake his princi-
plies? From a republican point of
view that seems to be the case.
Was it possible for Harrison to
feed the republican pie brigade"
pardon the SMILEY of this Terri
tory with a pap.ladle? And did
the disappointed ones hoist the
red flag against the administration
as a balm for their wounded aspi-
rations? If every private citizen
became a public hog when he en-
tered politics, would there be fed
eral swill enough to satisfy his
greed?
The Enterprise makes the start
ling declaration that it was the
enemies of Cleveland who we're
fed on pie in this Territory while
his friends were not even offered
a stale and mouldy crumb." Was
it not natural that the gentlemen
of this Territory who were recog-
nized under Clevelaud's first adj
ministration should be his warm
est supporters during his cam
paign of 1892? And was it not n
declared policy on the part of the
President soon after his Inaugural
tion in his present administration
to bestow no political favors upon
those who had held Office by APP
pointment under his former adj
miuistratiou? And did not that
policy indicate Mr.. Cleveland to
be a man who had risen above the
narrow political picadilloes of his
republican predecessors? If it is
true that those gentlemen who are
now holding federal Offices in this
Territory were enemies of Cleve-
land, does it not show the Presi-
dent to be very magnanimous?
The President Of the United
States, in his official capacity, is
not above criticism. He is not in
failible; he is human and liable
to err. But because we may not
approve of some of his official acts
does it necessarily follow that we
must repudiate our principles and
our party? That may be republi-
canism but it is not democracy.
During Cleveland's two admin.
istrations nearly all the represen-
~tative men of the party in this
Territory have been recognized
True, there are a few exceptions
and that is perhaps due to the
fact hat there are not Offices
enough to go around.
When the republican press oI
this Territory INDUCES in such
hog wash for the purpose of Great.
ing dissension in the democratic
ranks, it shows the e.. o. p. to bt
in desperate straits. The "Disa
greeable Democratic Truths" re-
pose in the fact that the democrat
ic party of this Territory was
never more harmonious than now,
and it will require more than re
publican balderdash TO disrupt it.
BIaETALLlSM.