Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-12-21

: TIE Passive policy has taken on
the last place of passivism-death.
The rickety offspring oftlIe Blair and
Schurz nuptials is in its little grave,
and on its beadstone may be written
the epitaph:
"f!ere l lie so early done for
wander what l was begun for
The poor little bantling first saw
the light in Missouri, and at it's birth
kicked and squalled Justify. But its
injudicious parents exposed it to soon
Mamma Schurz carried it around the
country, holding 1t mp for exhibition,
dandling it and talking nonsense to it
after the fashion of fond mothers,
reckless of the effect of the uDcongen-
ial atmosphere on its constitution.
Then Blair took it into his rough
nursing, shaking the remaining life
out of its little body. When the
Glairs take political infant into their
charge, the undertaken and the sexton
may as well be notified at once. There
IS no hope.
( The Demo cracy at first showed
some signs offavoring passivism, but
a change has come over them, and
there is new q vigorous reputation
of the scheme. To give the masses
OF that patty thcr due, we do not be-
lieve it met with anv favor at their
hands. The country press denounced
it with great unanimity. 1t met with
little favor in Ohio froG, any portion
of the Democracy. In KentuckJ the
Borrbons rejected it, and the pro-
gressives hung back with suspicion.
But among the leaders of the party
in the North, outside OF those Sta.es
there were indications ofa Willingness
to try the experiment
We doubt if there was an honest
purpose of adopting the policy even
among these, and that view we have
repeatedly insisted on. The design
was TO induce q serious detection from
the Republican ranks, and when the
breach between the Republican fac
tons had become SO wide as to pre-
vent q union. then the Democratic
party would have thrown of the ''pas
sive" mask, and shown itself rs active
unscrupulous, and greeCy for office
as ever. The scheme failed because
the Republicans who were selected as
victims knew too much to place any
trust in such leaders as Frank Blair
and his coadjutors. With the discov-
cry of their failure the Democratic
leaders suddenly swung around, de-
clared it was never their purpose to
abandon the Democratic organization
and repudiated the passive policy
they had been advocating.
The coup de grace was given
Schurzism in the place of its birth
The rival wings of the Republican
party in Missouri have met, agreed
to- bury all past differences, and work
for tn" future as members of a CON-
mon organization for common pur-
pose. Instead of hacking each 9th
er's throats they will now turn their
weapons on the Democratic party
and that party may look for some
hard hitting next year.
What will become of the parents OF
the dead infant? Blair will, of course,
remain with the Democratic party,
and is doubt glad to be rid ofhi pu-
ling offspring, but what is to become
of Carl Schurz? Will he go back to
the Republican party and fight under
the banner of Grant, whose nomina-
ton he has unwilling'y assisted to
make more than probable, or will he
60 over completely to his new friends,
OF will he follow the example of Train
and Mrs. Woodruff, and run party
of his own &C. Herald.