Show DEBASING partisanship partisanship is the bane of american amelean i politics because it is so intense and aud bitter and unscrupulous this unscrupulousness leads fe to the most malignant misrepresentation aud and the foulest falsehood and perhaps in no portion of this union is this bad quality so repugnant to all fair and honorable dealing more manifest and this habit of making wilful misrepresentations and bearing palpably false witness more freely indulged in than by a certain handful of parti par tizana in this territory they are not very numerous but they are very noisy I 1 ami lud far more nasty than they are noisy to traduce those whom they consider not favorable to their pet political projects and deep designs for self beio aggrandizement 19 is I 1 their meat and their drink to overthrow by means fir fair or foul any ono one not considered favorable to them or their measures no matter how unjust they will stoop to anything be it never so disreputable in in this vile warfare everything is fair to them to scandalize and vilify prominent citizens or residents official or unofficial I 1 is manifestly their most congenial employment to them scandal is a toothsome morsel if its subject is not iu lu the ranks of their supporters all liberty of speech all liberty of the press with them is debased to the most reckless and brutal licence libel is their stock in trade and they sling all manner of filthiness with supreme delight and utterly regardless of the decencies of society yet withal making the most exalted pretensions to immaculate purity political and other this course of conduct may appear very commendable to these red hot political partisans who are blind to the amenities of public life and to all idea of public decorum but such conduct cannot be ed in by partis partisans angl anil and supported or even permitted by the public without tending bendin in a degree to the degradation of the people and country at large in the eyes of the more rational and more decently spoken nations and peoples throughout the world on this account more ihan than on an any other is this most reprehensible partisan advocacy and antagonism to be regretted for it is deeply it is mortifying to every lover of his country that such disgraceful things should be and not be promptly and most effectually frowned down |