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Show Till. l'OMIION UK lilt '"MBS" A gentleman of political procllvlllra recently made tho assertion In a ubllo pace that tho Dljitiu.r NlWdliaJbe-comeiultua NlWdliaJbe-comeiultua partltan In ptlltlca, and we have hoard of similar titemtnta being made la other places ly othir o3Io. The following miration, therefore, Just rccolvtd, la timely and eiproprlatc, aa tho nntwer thereto will bean answer lo all and, It Is li iped, let the eubjrct referred to nt rest far aa tbti ptpor la concur nei! lo wblrh of the groat nit'nnal ptr-tleadoealheNKW.atMoh ptr-tleadoealheNKW.atMoh Itself hyaruf lthy or oiherwKfl anl If to neither, which dooi Its oonluilora prefer? Home (oopWi have Ideas so pecil-Ihr pecil-Ihr to themielvea that to answer one of their queitloua lu n general way might not fit tho cue at nil, and In order that what Is herein aatd may cover every posalble I hate of the aubject wo will, at tbe risk of belug uomlderod "worly" and tedious, statu the one for ourselves lu full. Tho DcsMtr r Nui Is ml a neutral tnpvr In lulltlct lu tho aunse that lieu-trallty lieu-trallty Is commonly undoratool, that Is, having no opinions an 1 no pnfer enna on any occaalon tjullo other, wine. It ojn be, as It Itts uftuu beeu, jomelhlngof a partisan In 1U Union-clca, Union-clca, but It dlllors from moat of Ita cotemporarlca In that Ita parlltanthlp Is not detlned for it by othera, nsr does ItscofUatalltlmos, If at anytime, to acknowludgo tho boundaries aet by arty leaden, l.ven If wo lial thu disposition to do ao It woul I be a dtfll cult If notanabtird toiltlou to place tho aper lu, alnco tho two groit puttee pu-ttee havo changed their moorings, abided their b tllaita and takeu on new carbon constantly, lu butonegranl featuro of natloDal policy have they I reservod anything Ilka their reapoo. live attitudes, and this Is that of tho uggrojatlou mil dllTj-slou dllTj-slou of power, tho it-publlu.nn tending to slrougth at Washington and all other parts of the couutry being subsidiary, while tho Democrats would hive all the parts oo ordinate each In Its ephure. II Hli of thesu doctrlnot are rlglitwbon not carrhd to txtruurp, which luthv formurcato woull tufau mouurchy Inthugulso of re,ublloau. lam and In tho latUr moluoracy tuoro or less reitrnlnoj by the forms of law, Aa to thla feature, thin, the Nl.ua It ao decidedly Ite ubllrau that HUlioves tho l'toildent and Uongreat uro the Aeiidof thu nation, not ai many atom a tio moru oonsplLitous than any othera In thu fabric, and It la so dtuldrd-ly dtuldrd-ly Democratic! that It lellevis one ultlieu who upholds tho honor ami Integrity of hla country lu all proper ways It thu cpiil socially of uuy other citizen, oven the President himself. It Is undeniable that one party Is a check on thu other, I reviullng thu very extremes spoken of, and the faot that they "to so neirly tijual lu numbers la thu best guaranteu that oxoeuvs or ubuias can lot be sueoeMfully praUloed for any grit liugtb ot time. It Is thus tho patriotic duty of tho citizen to bo rea ly 1 1 go to tho opp Milton when siclinouiet or oxcttasee aru practiced or oveu proposul by the I any In piwur, otherwlto It would oontlnuolnpiwcr nuJ completo tho mltchlif deslgied Wnenonr, tbereforu, tho DjiikmUo party la manifestly In the wrong, or Hie ltojub-lloau ltojub-lloau i atty Is dlstluotly lu thu right, this papir la lte uhllonn.and v ol Kria, It la not list ublto in or Democratic! at auy oilier times, thu etaloraenta of friends or uaomlea to the uatrary notwithstanding It ought to be reoognlsel by oen thu Btauuchbat partisans that blind fealty to nay political organisation U us old fashioned as It la objtotlouahle and unprofitable. V do not say ' old fashlouel" lu order t convey the Idea thit all old fasblomd things aio ob lootlonit le, but lo ah nv that they i had i,raaler away than now at u Asfsttlstfa jrBjBjjssL time when there wcr (ewcriowrfl rcsiea, fewer tolegrai li lines, steam ablpe, lightning express trains and lc.s of the various means of conveying In forrmlloa and thoso who Impart II than now. Tho axe la not only mme cnllgbteDoianJ progrcadve than that In which lag nil Ins were carted ab-ut the country aeoitnpilgu measures and canJIdalesreaorlel to personal vilification vilifi-cation of each other, but tho mtana wherrty Improved mcthode and thoughts are disseminated have wonderfully won-derfully Increased anl are still Increasing. Increas-ing. It only requires commingling, Interchanges of Ideit, being In touch with eaou othor, so to ape ik, lo smooth out the acerbltlia more or leas natural to our rate, and thla a plica lo liolltlci as will as to anything else, look nt the last 1'resl letillal campaign an I compare or rathercon. tratt It with auy of those of the country's history prior to a ilcxsn or s years ngil Tho difference la aorao-thlngto aorao-thlngto liilnk ovir, li tilled upon. Issues, not caudldatis, rltu l let, not men, were more nearly the Ian of attack and defense than over before-all before-all i,oIng to show that bitterness la fading out of politics and the parties havo got so closu together that the change from one to another la not so censi leuous nor so dlfllciilt a erform ance as It used to be, while latllsaii sheets havo kind words for i ul llo mcu on tbe oilier aldo and words of Centura for those or their own ride whenever It le considered audi are doairved. All thla meant ono thing very plainly that tho prtea of Iho land lus fjund out that It la too jioncrful an agency to le nitdeninirovihlcle for any hacks, lierirn It sneaka for lltelf for thooounlr) not for thitn, In n word It haa drawn so near to tho nolnt of nitual lnliendenca that the line I ttwien thim Is thin an I faint Indeed. In IhocasHof theDiantKTNl"Hlhe lino doal not exi.t at all, In pjllllos this paper U absolutely and eullrelj Independent at all times and under all ilrcumslances Aa to the personal preferences of those who conduct tha paper, that ma) be and probably Is n dlllereut nuttir. That ll something with which It ns a business li stllullin hat nothing lo do. riiu rrsumpllon Is that thu ma i who sro employed lu thu i-dltorlalur repor-torltldopartment repor-torltldopartment of n newsaer on terlaiu political principles not greatly at variance with Its own, but this Is not always the tase, lu fact We have known Ittoborallcally otherwise, not only here but elsewhere No Inter-ferenio Inter-ferenio la male with nuy one's political views or ireftrences lu the olllco or out of It, the only ri-qulremont ns to that bo-Ingthat bo-Ingthat noouetikeor nttutrs to take Itupon himself to commit the I aper eviuby Implliatlon to thu support of any party or (action aa such. |
