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Show A SORRY SPECTACLE. Whenever political discussion degenerates degene-rates into personal abuse and mud-slinging, mud-slinging, it becomes unprofitable, debasing de-basing and vulgar. Our new fledged Republican advocate, the Enquirer, is ! doing its party poor service in resorting to the tactics of the bully and black- guard, instead of reason and logic; and it is to bo hoped that the respectable element in our local Republican party will call a halt to these disgraceful proceedings pro-ceedings on the part of tlieir organ. We realize full well the galling which the wearing of the new collar causes our contemporary; but, dear friend, it was your own choice, and we trust in time it will adjust itself better to your neck, and cause you less discomfort; and furthermore it is imprudent in you to challenge anybody to prove that you ever declared yourself a Democrat, when in nearly every issue, up to within with-in two or three months, you advocated Democratic principles, and posed as an admirer of the Cleveland administration. administra-tion. Such conduct leaves our evening friend in the unenviable position of being be-ing either a prevaricator or a hypo-j hypo-j crite. We think it would have ! been les huniijating, and certainly cer-tainly more honest to have taken the bull by the horns and owned Uj that a change of conviction, as to political principles. We earnestly commend the following from a late article ar-ticle in the IJescrtt Sens, for the consideration con-sideration of the Enquire)-: "Some of the orators and writers on either side are getting down to the level of the mere partisan, misrepresenting misrepresent-ing the doctrines, aims and acts of their adversaries, and using the common com-mon clap-trap of electioneering tactics. It will be a matter of great regret if : former members of the People's party j shall indulge in this kind of humbug i and deception. Whatever errors political parties may i have iinbilied, it is not true that either of them has in view the destruction of ! this Nation, the overthrow of the Na-it'fona Na-it'fona Government, or the establish- ment of a im.i.arrhja! or other form of j despotism. The Democrat party does I not want anarchy; the Republican I parjy does not desire absolutism. Both j parties accept the Constitution and the laws made in pursuance thereof, as the supreme law of the land, and neither aims to destroy it. They merely mere-ly difier iw to its scope and meaning, and the powers intended fl !)P vested by it in the Federal authorities." If udr evening friend will ponder over the above disinteres'ed advjpe, if will show, we trust, a more generous disposition disposi-tion to those with whom it may happen to have a differeneo of opinion. I r |