Our “Pious” Political Parties.
By Editor
The wickeder a political party becomes, the greater will be its pretense to holiness if it thinks that to be good policy. We have an illustration of this in the Democratic State convention of New York. While on the side of saloons, to hold the whisky vote, it demands “a proper observation of a day of rest and an orderly Sunday,” to hold the religious vote. To this it added the farce of opening the convention with prayer, a custom said to have been omitted for years, while the band played the music for “Praise God, from whom all blessings flow.” Of course the Republican party has been “pious” all the way through. A testimony to this effect, however, could hardly be obtained from Rev. Chas. Parkhurst. The whole thing is arrant, crass hypocrisy, which in a little from this will be, at the present rate, “elevated” to “Christian statesmanship.”