Show TRUE AND FALSE POLITICS in discussing favorably the proposition for the admission of now new mexico as 80 a state col henri watterson of the courier journal struck a snag in this the person of an irreconcilable of evidently bucolic residence and the most extreme partisanship the tb e star eyed journalist was made to see that that territory la is a very doubtful quantity in ID the political scale the majority for joseph democrat for delegate to Con congress giess at the late election being only about aid the legislature asvery is very close with a slight democratic ascenda ascendancy llcy with statehood it might or might not go that way again but a few changes in the legislature would have the effect of sending two more republicans to the united states senate and thus would the presently prospective majority the other way be neutralized or wiped out altogether under which set et of circumstances the objector thinks it too risky a proposition to tamper with this brings the stalwart kentuckian up stai standing riding 11 sod and he proceeds tu to read the objector such stich a lesson as it is to be hoped he will long remember and eventually profit by he informs him that the question ot of whether new mexico is democratic or republican has nothing whatever to do with the matter his advocacy of that terri territory torys admission to the union was not dot conceived in the light of a partisan advantage but because it bad the necessary emary floa lions for statehood anti and biring desiring de it wall wae entitled to be gratified no matter what the political leaning thereafter might be this to is the attitude of a patriot and the language of a statesman sta both ot of which mr watterson has repeatedly shown show t himself to be but never more so than now anybody can be a inconsiderate hotheaded hot headed beaded bigot in politics as well as in other departments of life but it takes a man of judgment of discrimination of breadth of view of tolerance of experience and of leardi ig g to rise above more mere party behean behests Is in dealing with gr great t it i not that a maii man be inconstant or permit ae te ai moot ment of any party he be may eit elect et lu to train with to sit ait so loosely ana ubi un comfortably upon him that so one chii can determine what 66 la is will do or may bv bf not atall at all no one Is further from bob such a condition of things thau thao tfx the man spoken of he la is a stalwart to tn democracy and when it comes to 11 al quee quellion qu eplion tion ot of maintaining or sacrificing a principle he be it id uncompromising ri ff proposed during the biklen hay controversy to raise and ami arm kentucky no and march them to wash ington to see that mr tilden was I 1 ln mk di eted into the place to which ak ken lucky believed the people had elected him a proposition which by the bye found but a feeble echo anywhere was dropped the principal reabon leing being that the people hau guate emerged from one great sectional pub pas i age st at arms and did not particularly care to get into another we mention this incident as aa illustrative of hor sturdy and it if needs be extreme democrat mr Watterson Watte raon IP le butah but when he deals with such a matter the rendering of evenhanded even handed justi jua tiri aj to a community or an individual he does nut not recognize politics in ade nastier matter he cannot can nut in a wor aboid to cheat or defraud a political apolitical enem especially when the result sou sought 9 la t i the securing of spoils for pol political itic friends oan can a man be truly greata great aal act otherwise there is a lesson in this should be repeated from the house tope in utah if all classes cannot be maue made to hear or acquire it any other way some few there he be who I 1 through iusa of gain and yearning tor for ft a little briol authority have no more regard for rights the principles ane feelings jr or the social position of others who OB pose or who they think are opposed to them than they have for the condition of things on the planet mate mail everything la is subordinated to loa and politics of the most moat sell selfish fish at aud kind at that the rhe na matt regretful part of it all is that qu uch 0 h men have induced others not so ski lloil ft i the arts of the demagogue to ja jonii them at and d by rouson or of fjug aoh things we are with 4 a grievous grievo spectacle chwe who ona enote were and ought yet to be friendly frie adly ami aad tolerant toward each other are wo ik greatly at variance because of the pdt pothouse school of politics having ba beia inculcated that they either dr do jt speak as they pass by ayat at all or doa as coldly and mechanically as if t th t had been introduced only beite and that in the must most casual mani now this to is all wrong and th there e M really no call for it there is IP in fa no call for it anywhere mauch mucha here among a people who ia have ve scantly beau taught better ti things As i if men have a bent or a fancy that thai way let them be politicians k and study up the political history of the ine 4 aunio and familiarize themselves with t principles and practices of all ls wo par parkieb partie fr then they can ally selves with whichever on may appeal most strongly te their better judgment this tasia is in th the line of progress and the liao test aest good m all al and should not be decries or d cou raged but they should reme remember in the midst of it all that some v areat men have declined to be mem cat ben of any organization whatever as an well as that there are hosts boots who give full and steadfast allegiance to the party arty of their choice either course b honorable on arable if it is honest and no one his has a right to 90 censure another tor being or not being one or the other it is well for us all to remember that everybody asu cant vt see through our eyes and we must not be so arrogant so egotistical so 80 insolent we may say may as to demis demand jud that they accept our wae dixit in the premises without questioning the pettifogger or quack in 14 politics is 10 as contemptible as the former in law or the latter in medicine and sensible men will steer clear of him at all times and everywhere |