| Show I WATTERSOPiS SEARCH FOR A REASON The CourierJournal Is supporting everything Democratic this year I seems to have accepted Mr Crokcrs determination to swallow any prescription pre-scription prepared by any Democratic apothecary I has favored expansion from the first but It has to explain every day where expansion leaves off and imperialism begins and It Is searching for excuses why It cannot any longer trust the Republican party to do the right thing In a recent article ar-ticle It described the position of Senator Sena-tor Hoar ando the CourierJournal respectively re-spectively as Tho ono agnlnsl expansion but sup porting that party which would mako expansion Us own bolt as a principle and as n fact the otlior accepting expansion ex-pansion Sll fact but supporting that party which would reject it both as u principle and as L1 fact Thereby hangs a tale 1C the writer had time to tell it and tho reader lime to hear it But we know how the Democrats under Jefferson Jeffer-son and later under Polk and Pierce admInIstered anc ministered the rOr lg territory that came Ito I-to us as a result Jlrst of purchase and then of war and wo also know how tho Republican party sought to administer tho States of the South lately In re I hellion which Mr Hoar and hIs political tical associates proposed to consider not merely foreign but hostile territory and to deal with as Cllve and Hastings dealt with In diu Tho record of reconstruction ought to deter the people of the United States forever from commlttlnpr any peo plo under the HUH to tho Republican party Does the CpurJerJournal believe It Is good form now to make a reference of that Icind It Is true that the recon structlon period was almost gloomy one but was all the blame were all the mistakes on one lde1 After Appomattox Appomat-tox did the sterling men and ruling minds of tho South try to restore things or did they hold themselves aloof And when one of their number did try to change conditions for the better how was his work accepted by his neighbors Is there anywhere In history a parallel to the terms dictated by Gen Grant to Gen Lee Butls It not true that when Gen Langslrcct thnt Longstreet accepted ac-cepted from Gen Grant an office an ofllce given by an old friend to help 1 him is It not true that though Long tlrcet had offered his life Len thousand II I times ifor the Southern cause and people I I peo-ple they closed their doors agaInst J him Is it not farther true that when the South finally awoke from Its sullen anger and showed a disposition to pickup pick-up the raveled ends of Us hard fortune and to begin anew to weave a fabric o government Jt was met more than half way by the North We know that the desire oC the whole North was for a speedy settlement of old differences and for a restored and reunited country coun-try land that It came about at once when the Southern people willed that It should he so And Col Wattorson knows this nlso and hence It Is not like his naturally brave and fair na Lure to put out anything like tho above in order to lay a predicate on which to found a Justification for supporting a candidate whom he does not believe In on a platform which from top to bottom he utterly loathesas tcrl hcs us something some-thing which IB In opening UH sentences l direct Impeachment of the work Of the Democratic Presidents who were Southern men and shoe achievements haVe been r theme of praise from every Democratic tongue and pen for half a century In his calm mpments CoL Wattcnson often bewails the heat of partisan rage in this country Why should he then reopen the leaves of a chapter that has been closed and then read only alternate pages |
