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Show in to tliu effect that tbe republicans desire de-sire lo t u a powerful central go-ermeut go-ermeut that fchali override the states is tlie merest moonshine. If that had been republican doctrine it would have made iUelf manifest after the war. All republican!! bold iu thin connection in that we have governmental Washing-tou Washing-tou which in authorized to take cogui-zaucu cogui-zaucu of matters affecting, the whole MHple, matter which may menace its integrity or jeopardize common inter-cats. WHAT iS MLAMT II V A STHONli GOV-. GOV-. K N M t N r The Herald compares the late New Orleans lynching to tlai mormon case iu Missouri, with the inference that since a republican government told tho Italian government that the stale of Louisiana would have to deal with the lynchers, it would not exert itself to protect a community that might bo placed in such a position as tliu mormon mor-mon people wero forced into in tho time of Van lii hkn. It is just as well to state, as has already been slated by Tub Tints, that the republican party fully recogni.es the autonomy of the states; but there is a distinction between be-tween the republican and democratic parties wheu il comes to some grave contingency which no ordinary procedure pro-cedure can reach. Due parly is always imbecile iu such a strait, while the other is always strong. Tho New Orleans lynching and the mormon trouble in Missouri are not parallel cases. Iu the Crescent city a mob rose up and slew a lot of murderers. murder-ers. The Italian government demanded that the federal government should punish the perpetrators of the crime, and Mr. Hi.ai.sk very properly informed Ul'liIM that that was the province of the statu government. The mormons were not only mobbed, they wcro drivcu out of court and hail no grouud where they could stand to protect their rights under tho law. When President Van lii ui s was appealed to, ho iu-formed iu-formed them that, though their cause w as just he could not do anything for them. This answer was in keeping with the imbecility of the democratic party. For tha purpose of comparison we should view the New Orleans allair in the light in which it would have appeared ap-peared hail the- conditions that surrounded sur-rounded the mormons in Missouri been reproduced. Suppose that the New Orleans people had become iullamed against, the entire Italiau community. Suppose that Italians hnd been daily attacked wherever they appeared. Suppose tiieir property bad been destroyed. de-stroyed. Suppose they had been swept out of the courts when they had appealed ap-pealed to the judicial branch of the state government for protection, and suppose they had then appealed to the government at Washington. Do you think that President Harrison would have given them such an imbecile answer as that which Van IIi kkn made to the mormons! Indeed he would not. Under such conditions a republican administration would have said to the I persecuted people: "We will make an effort to have this thing stopped." Then it would have informed itself on the matter thoroughly, and an intimation would have bceu conveyed to the governor gov-ernor that it was his duty to suppress thu riots. This intimation would have been so framed that tho executive of the statu would have realized that he bad to take action instantly. Just w hat I course would have been pursued further uo one can tell, but it is absolutely certain that the strong arm of the government under republican administration adminis-tration would have been extended to protect the people who were tbe victims vic-tims of such a reign of lawlessness. The difference between republican and democratic principles was illustrated illustrat-ed when the party of human rights came into power in President Buchanan had permitted the orgauiza- j tiou of rebellion to go forward under the theory that the government had no iuherent power in the premises. Members Mem-bers of his cabinet had been actually engaged in the conspiracy, the secretary secre-tary of war having transferred government govern-ment arms to place where they could be seized by the seceding seced-ing states. Tha democratic plea was that tho government could do nothing to protect its integrity, but when the republican party came into power it showed the world that the government had the power necessary to meet such au extraordinary emergency. emerg-ency. The talk that the democrats indulge |