The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-20

VIC feSorVe Iue rIsnV CC positively refuse
any notice Of whatever nature after 2o'clock
p. m. on Thursday.
The Republican State Central
Committee. with headquarters in
the Endicott Building, St. Paul, in
the goodness of it's heart furnishes
to the republican weekly press of
the state an editorial bulletin, con-
tanning political comment upon
current events for reproduction in
the country press. These bulletins
have been weekly visitors for some
months past, but probably owing
to the slight value placed upon the
editorial mutterings of the press
censor we have noted but verv few
of the illusions reproduced by our
Minnesota brethren. For the great
er part the articles sent forth have
kept within reasonable bounds of
decency, but the language and inu
endo contained in the following
choice morsel vomited forth in the
bulletin mailed this week is certain
ly of such nauseous texture as to
merit the condemnation of all right
thinking people, irrespectiee of po-
litical affliation. It is:
mo reasonable man will accuse
the Democratic party, or any indi-
vidual Democrat, of sympathy with
the anarChistiC alta TX on the life of
President Mckinley, but at the same
time every reasoning man must re-
call that three Republican presi-
dents have been the victims of an
assassin's bullet, and that no Demo
cratic president was ever thus at
tackled. In each case, too, the des-
perate deed followed close upon a
campaign of Incorporate rawlings
and unbridled villification of pub
lie officials by Democratic leaders
and their excited followers. 1t NAV
be said that the assailant of Presi-
dent Mckinley was insane, and he
may have been SO, but he said moth
ing more reasonable than was
spoken from hundred Democratic
platforms and has appeared in a
hundred Democratic papers within
the last year. 1t was only in his
actions that he went past them. He
was simply acting out what they
had preached. Republicans of all
kinds are shocked and panied at the
awful crime, and thousands of Dem
ocrats who have unthinkingly COM
nitted themselves to violent propo-
sitions in moments of chagrin will
regret their words now that the
trlghttul consequences are brought
home to them. Such crime brings
men closer tOnether in detestation
OF such un-AmeriCan sentiments as
those which educated this wretched
creature to the preparation of his
dastardly deed"
craftsmanship, mayhap, oft leads
men to forget, in degree, their
Observation-Disclosures underlying and
foundation principle of all political
creeds-but we doubt that in this
hour of nations sorrow there be
found many Republicans of the
state or nation who would uphold
such a biased, villifying arraign.
ment of the precepts of democracy
as finds embodiment in this master
piece of un-Americanism charged
to the Republican State Central
Committee through the idiocy or
ultra partisanship of hireling. !,
The direct insinuation that the
act OF Czolgosz was the carrying
out of the teachings of the Demo
cratic press and orators, that it was
these teachings that "educated" the
man to the commission of so brutal
a crime, are thoughts unworthy any
man and stamp his utterances as of
such deep-rooted hatred and pollu-
ton as to blacken and render map.
propriate any mention of his name
as an American citizen.
There is difference between mol
ltics and personalities; there is such
a thing as an honest difference of
opinion, and the intelligence of the
American people need no such
rot for guidance in assisting them
to proper decision of any question
of moment. If the Republican State
Central Committee would preserve
the respect of its natural political
triends-to say nothing of a pre-
suned desire to make additions to
their ranks-they will do we'll to
stop the pay of the mental who in
dited the quoted excerpt.