Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-24
As no PARITY
re is a reasonable party loyalty.

ihNiS 10 a eSii5SitSS palNy iosdily'
If, for example, a state legislature were to
elect a senator, party loyalty would induce
republicans and democrats alike to elect
candidates with a view to the party out
come in the contest, in many instances per-
sonal objections to the candidates being
waived for the sake of the main object in
view.
So also as to congressman. Many a man
obnoxious for one reason or another will
succeed in carrying a congressional district
IL 1t is known to a certainty that his vote
will be cast on the party side of great ma
tional questions.
There Is a senseless party loyalty.
No man elected to the city council has
ever been honest there because he was, in
rational politics, a democrat or a republican.
There is no proper place for national politics
in the city government. Men should be
elected tn municipal office solely for their
fitness 20 discharge honestly, intelllgently
and faithfully the duties pertaining to the
place they hold. To vote for an alderman
because he processes to be a democrat or a
republican is immoral waste of a ballot.
There is no national politics in town gov
eminent. A man does not make the better
or the worse assessor or collector because he
believes in a protective tariff, or because he
thinks rightly or wrongly on the financial
question.
There will be a chance for Chicago electors
to make the discrimination between reason
able and senseless party loyalty at the ap-
preaching charter and town electicn.-Chi-
cago Times-Herald.
This declaration from the recognized
chief organ Of Ex-Governor Mckinley
in the west is respectfully referred to
the political small-bores in these parts
who are BEN on a policy of prescription
that would punish republicans who have
tried to purge the party of boodlerism,
defalcation and incompetency. Every
republican paper in Chicago and every
republican paper in New York and in
Philadelphia has openly advocated re-
form in local government through indie
pendent action. But no republican of any
prominence has yet demanded that the
support of yellow dog candidates for
local offices shall be made the test Of
party loyalty.
The chairman Of the Douglas county
republican committee has taken it upon
himself to impugn the motives that
prompted Chairman Carter and Secre-
tary Manley of the national committee
to define in response to an appeal from
Syracuse that provision of the national
call which extends an invitation to all
voters who believe in republican prin-
ciples and endorse the republican policy
to join in the formation of a national
ticket. Senator Carter is lampooned by
this self-constituted monitor of repub-
licanism through a mongrel sheet that
pretended to support Grover Cleveland
and General Weaver and the demo-
cratic and populist state and congress
sional tickets all at the same time. He
is charged with giving his version of
the call in order to extend a favor to
q former fellow-committeeman This
is an exhibition of stupid malice as well
as of dense Ignorance. The wording of
the call issued by the national commit
tee is the same as that Of every call
that has been issued in the name of
the party since its first convention forty
years ago. The definition given by
Chairman Carter and Secretary Manley
is in accord with the spirit and letter
of the call and with the 'invariable prac-
tice of the party since its inception.
The republican party prides itself on
being a party of free men actuated by
Il common purpose. Tha purpose is to
perpetuate individual freedom and free
institutions in the United States. The
bedrock of free institutions is honest
government. When the machinery of
the party is prostituted and the party
name is d%esecrated by boodling poll
ticians conspiring against the public
welfare for the sake of plumber, every
honest n conscientious republican is
absolved from any obligation to cast
his vote for candidates foisted upon
the party by corruptly packed conven-
tons. This is the higher law doctrine
which the original abolition republicans
and the Abraham Lincoln republicans
fearlessly advocated and fought for.
The republican party was not called
into being as n combine to ladle out
spoils and offices, but for the establish
of great principles.
If, however, refusing to support disrep-
ul;tDle DuTly culluluutcS anu lOCdi tiChctS
begotten by public plunderers, spoils-
men and contractors rings is to con-
stitute a cardinal sin, why should n
of limitations be made for the
benefit of men who have bolted rep
republican candidates honestly
and fairly nominated? Why should
the self-styled republicans, including
the chairman of the county committee,
who bolted he republican city ticket in
1880 and again in 1893, be absolved
the penalties of their inexcusable
Are the men who. under
the lead of Broatch, betrayed the party
md placed the city government in the
hands of democrats for two years under
Mayor Gushing, better republicans than
men who organized the citizens
movement in 1895 in the interest
Of the |plundered and oyerburdened tax
And what about the men who
bolted the regular republican candidate
for mayor only two years ago and threw
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