Middletown transcript., 1895-04-20
ST SAID IT-IT'S TRUE-AND Pm
SORRY FOR IT'D

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to know by this time that Every EUen-
ing holds certain principles of good
government and applies those princi-
Piles fearlessly to public men and mea-
sures. 1t never defends bad thing
because Democrats have done it nor
attacks good one because Republi-
cans have approved it. 1t is not slave
in bonds to any party organization. 1t
is bound to nothing save the right, and
in this respect it is quite unlike the
Middletown TRANSCRIPT" - EUery
Euening of March Both.
The above is Every Euening's vague,
indefinite and general reply to our arti-
Gle which convicted the Every Eeening
of covert and contemplate attack
upon President Cleveland. Senator
Gray, and Hon. John w. Causey. 1t
was an unmanly attack, unworthy of
even the low-down partisan ideas of
the E. E., since it was made against
the President and Messrs. Gray and
Causey through the endorsement of an
article from the EUening Post, which
Reimbursement" was only admitted
when drawn out by the TRANSCRIPT.
1t is along the line of its partisan in
situations, however, against Governor
Marvil, Mr.. Higgins, and other hon.
orable men who believe in Republican
principles, and we hope public opinion
will recognize the bray beneath the
lions skin whether the bray and kicks
be directed towards honorable Repub-
licans or Democrats. If the E. Z.
had come out openly in its opposition
to the income tax instead of stabbing
Messrs. Cleveland. Gray, Causey and
others who differ with it, in the back,
as it did by its insinuations, not its
words, and through copied article,
not original, but unwittingly endorsed
at an unguarded moment, its claims to |
Independent thought and action might
be accepted, but the pompous swagger
of the don't-I-look- -like-one lion does |
not accord with the harsh and dis
cordant bray given from beneath the |
lions skin.
The kicks at President Cleveland,
Senator Gray and the whole Demo-
cratic Congress, the left-handed and
kicks, consisted in the grave
that they had "infringed
the constitution" "nullified the liberty
Of the people," and "robbed the people
Of their most important rights" And
further they ridiculed the idea that the
Democratic Congress, just adjourn ed,
had a policy of any kind. Of course
ne Euery Euening sees ''principle'
n all this but other Democrats wonder
what the value of the "principle" can
,e. 1t would puzzle the NEST tricky
hours of the very tricky editor of the
lyly tricky E. E. to cite an instance
when the TRANSCRIPT did not stand
or "good government" but the E. E.
elt compelled to say something, and
hat something is as near nothing as
my intelligent reader ever expects to
ee, and its editor may well lament,
i said tits true-and I'm sorry for
t." Punctuate to suit yourself.
Is it not the Bible that declares a
ertain class never learn anythingP
Iaving stabbed Mr.. Cleveland, Mr..
tray and the whole Democratic Con-
ress in the back, the Euery Evening is
ow gushing over the Presidents sill
or views and goes out of its way to
trike at Lewis c. Vandegrift, Esq.
,ember of the National Democratic
What has Mr.. Vandegrift .
one that he should be accused in q
[andy-andy way Of having ''an utter
lck of conviction and failure to !
the great principle in !
olved," Of an "utter supineness, and
abbiness," that one might imagine !