The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-18
THE CAMPAIGN ABANDONED.

From the ~ Y. World.
The proposed incorporation of Senator
Summers speech into the platform of the
radical party for the coming fall appears to
have been given up. Exposure of the design
and discussion killed it. The World showed
the Republicans that their little game was
not only disreputable but losing one. The
most pronounced of the radical papers-such
as the EgeniRg Post the New York Times
the Cincinnati Commercial, the Chicago TrS-
bURe, and others-declare against it. Gov
ernor Curtin, who was to have led off in favor
of the idea at Philadelphia on Saturday night,
was scared out of doing it by the storm of
opposition which the fatal discovery of his
purpose by the W0lld aroused. The pleas in
protest against it have been that the admins
tration must be left free to take its own course
as circumstances arise, without being bound
beforehand or menaced by popular camor to
any prescribed plan; also that, as likely as
not, the Alabama claims will be removed from
the domain of discussion into the field of diplo-
matte investigation before the fall elections set
in; in which case any popular debate upon the
business by the administration party would
be as out of place as editorials on the guilt of
prisoner while he was on trial and before a
jury has found any verdict. These are very
respectable pleas, and if they serve to prevent
the precipitation of Mr.. Summers grotesque
production into the politics of the country,
ihey Will serve well. Ihe real reasons, how
ever, briefly are:-That the Alabama business
is a dead affair; that Mr.. Summers temporary
and Fictitious prominence in this business
has subsided; he is reduced to his normal in
significance now on both sides of the Allan
tic in the minds of everybody but himself;
that the motion to connect the party to that
speech was a motion to galvanize a corpse
into make-believe life, aud was meant not
as an assistance, but as a menace to General
Grant and to Secretary Fish, who have stu
diously snubbed the Sumner party ever since
the President finished his third reading of
the Senator's ill-assorted compilation. The
only men who are willing now to indorse Mr.
Summers position are Senators Nye and
Howe, who know as little about international
law as they do about the Sanscrit. Indeed,
the Senator from Massachusetts may be con-
sidered ''lost cause" The Republican lead
ers know little enough, but they know too
much to commit themselves to a policy liable
to lead the United States into war with
Great Britain while our debt is undiminished
| and the Union still dissolved Their party
has never known how ''to vindicate the ma
tional honor, as the phrase is That sort of
business has always succeeded in Democratic
hands; and the organization whose highest
successes have been disunion, debt, and re-
construction would be all at sea even with
| such a word as honor committed to their
keeping. No! The campaign on the Sum-
ner line has been abandoned. The Alabama
claims will reach a satisfactory and speedy
| settlement if Mr.. Motley will only hold his
| tongue, and if Mr. Fish succeeds in his
wish to bring over their consideration to this
| side