Year: 1869

what the standard says


The Enquirer and Examiner means pain
fully over the result of the election In Penn
sylvania and Ohio, where, it admits, tha'
the Republicans, Notwithstanding tnell
apathy and the smallness Of their vote
have won q signal triumph; but isnot ~
following most singular language Tor tht
Enquiries true Republican paper-to use


"It was not expected with any confidence thai
| Ohio would be redeemed. The majority, how
ever, is sreduced-the vote no doubt being thin
"We should be pleased at the South. If ioul
Northern friends. were little more SUCCESSFUL
Wesuppose, however, they do the best they can.
The trouble is this the Republican party is moi
a national party; II appeals 70 Northern prelu;
against the idea that it is a quasi.Southcrn par.
ty. We firmly bolleve that even at the North
there is great dissatisfaction with the Radical
party. It is really minority party. And il
will yet be beaten. We must have patience"
What do our Republican friends at the
North say to that 2 What does Mr.. Greeley
think of it9 How does the Raleigh STAN
DARD like it2 Here the champion suppor-
ter of Governor Walker-the leading jour
nal of the True Republican party, which
claims to support the administration OF
Gen. Grant, expressing the deepest regret
that its friends of the Democratic party, the
rebel sympathizers in the North were not
successful Richmond State Journal. -..


What does the STANDARD say2 1t says
this that while it is in favor of liberal prin-
ciples and desires to see all bitterness and
prescription cast away from the Republican
party, it does not wish to see Republicanism
cast with them. ,s..,,ar.I


We desire to see the Republican party so
liberal that its bitterest enemy cannot charge
it with being proscriptive or with prolong-
ing the bad feeling engendered by the war,
but we are not willing tojoin with any party,
persons or papers, who are not true to the
great fundamental principles of Republican
ism. Hence we not only cannot sympathize
with the sentiments of the Enquirer, but we
cannot endorse any party which holds the
views enunciated by that paper.


When the contest between WELLS and
WALKER occurred we sided with WALKER.


Why9


Because each and their followers claimed
to be equally good Republicans and conce-
ding that, we sided with WALKER because
his platform was the most liberal and the
most in accordance with our views. But in
in endorsing him we did so with the prom
ise that the professions of himself and party
were sincere and their pledges fulfilled.


We have of late seen several things which
make us believe that the professions of the
WALKER party were false and intended to
deceive, and that the majority of the fol-
lowers of WALKER are not only not Repub-
licans at heart, but enemies of the Repub-
lican party and of the administration.


Their choice of Speaker was one instance: !:
in that declared enemy of the government.
was chosen as the presiding officer of the
deliberations of Legislative body of State
protesting penitence for past misdeeds over
a recognized friend of the government.
Such an action causes the sincerity of the
party and its fitness to be entrusted with
the care of estate" so lately in rebellion,
to be more than doubted. ..


A Republican does not pray for "Demo
ocraticn success


The above from the Enquirer is prayed
for Democratic success.


Therefore, it is clear that the Enquirer at
least is not Republican paper, and with
the Enquirer we can have no sympathy nor
with any party which may endorse the SEN
timents of the Enquirer.


In view of the example of Georgia it be-
hooves the government to be careful to en-
trust the control of Virginia to the hands of
men who are true to the government, and
not enemies of the government. Therefore
until the WALKER men prove themselves
true to the government, and they are by no
means doing so now, they should not be
trusted. The mere fact that the Enquirer
confesses that its professions of Republican
ism were false amounts to nothing in itself,
but as suggesting similar treachery on the
part of its party, it amounts to so much as
to make it wise for the government to inves-
gate affairs sufficiently we'll to ascertain that
if among other things, that the WALKER
party has professed falsely has not also pro-
fessed loyalty to the government which it
has never possessed, and love of the Ad-
ministration which it has never felt.


1t it has endeavored to deceive the gov
ernment in one thing it would deceive it in
all.


Therefore, without attempting TO decide,
we call upon the government to watch things
closely and to do its work thoroughly that
when done the people may pronounce it
good.