The Ground of Complaint.
By Editor
MANY Republicans are utterly dissatisfied with the Sunday plank in the platform. That favors Sunday as a day of rest and recreation. This word "recreation" is the bait which catches the element which in the church sense, is utterly anti-Sunday. To the saloonists and hoodlums, drinking, carousing, attending beer gardens, and all kinds of amusements, is "recreation." That is just what they want the Sunday for; and if the Republican party will secure them the day for such purposes they want no more. Indeed they are entirely satisfied with the plank; for they care nothing about that clause which speaks of making it a day of rest, even taking it in its most religious sense. They are willing all should rest who wish to, knowing that there are plenty of others who will go for the recreation. But the church party, while they endorse the resting clause, cannot countenance the recreation part. Hence their dissatisfaction with the plank.