The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-02-27
THE CAMPAIGN OLE 1870

THE CAMPAIGN OF 1879.
1t is-now only about three months before
the people of the United States will again
be called upon to fight one of those quad
RENAL battles which is to decide the SUI
premacy for the next four years of one or
the other of the two great political parties
OF the country. 1t is true that the final
and decisive struggle will not come before
the November election but early in June
both parties will take the field, to contest
inch by inch all the advantages that can be
gained by general preliminary skir-
mlsh, if not by some resolute fighting,
along the entire line. Already we
may hear the notes of preparation in
the two opposing camps, and while the
Democracy is more or less sat sea-, both
as to its platform of principles and the, lat
present. unknown man" to place upon
it, the Republicans are becoming more
and more unanimous every day as to both
of these party predcaments. In most of
the States where Republican State Conven-
tons have been held, there has been UNI
mstakable evidence that the people-the
great bulk Of the rank and file of the party
demand the denomination of General
Grant as the surest guarantee of success
the party can have in the COM
ing campaign. In Maine, New
Hampshire, South Carolina, Indiana
and Kansas, where Republican Con-
ventions have been recently held.
there was but one expression of public sem
timent, and that was a unanimous endorse
ment of the administration of President
Grant, and an equally unanimous demand
for his denomination for the Presidency
The assaults that have been made upon the
Administration by those engaged in the
Cincinnati movement" so called, have
strongly reacted upon those engaged in
making them, and every new assault has
only added strength and intensity to the al
ready fixed purpose of the party to disre-
gard all disaffected politicians and respond
only to the wishes of the people. This is
manifest from the tone and temper of our
exchanges, which now come to us with
greater unanimity of expression than ever.
We take an extract or two to-day from
some of the leading journals of the party,
expressing the views they entertain of the
situation in very important localities
Hnper's Weekly has an excellent article on
1.-THE Political Prospect" from which we
extract the following:
Senators in Washington, breathing the.
air OF personal gossip and scandal, which
is the atmosphere OF every great political
capital, see the President not more truly
than the country, and very differently from
the great mass of the people. 10 the
people of the United States the President
IS the hero of the war of the rebellion, and
PLAIN, honest man seeking to do his duty. /
we do not beieye that they suppose him |
70 have made money by the general order
defeat Germany. Nor do we believe that
they hold him personally responsible for
the knayish tricks of those who hold posi- |
tons in the government. They see what |
one journal declares to be incontestablv !
proved another journal insists not to be \
proved at all. In word, they see that !,
the passionate tumult of assertion and de-
NAL 1t is not easy to discover the truth. and
they rest upon the one thing which no.
mains, and that is the general results %
the administration, and their faith in thn
personal purity of the President
The Boston journal, which certa;,,v
ought to know the sentiment of the Renub. |
hcan party in New England. asserts tina, I
Wit is wholly and heartily for Grant
Practically, to use an old political phrase
New England is solid for Grant, and wa
are unable to see any ground for his excsn- !
tonsl popularity here. Among the Re-
publican presses and gatherings in the Mid
ole States, the West ar a the South we note
'Rs evidences OF .Ae same appreciation"
i.' D0SJ On Daily Adrefiser, one of = no
most influential Republican journal or
Massachusetts,, thus comments upc n tba
recent course of Mr.. Sumner:
"From the storm which nv Sr,,ox
has succeeded in raising, the, IMPRESSION
has gone abroad that the adj Immigration Is
in conspiracy for indscri' climate nJnnder
and that its friends in the So,,ota 40
banded together to RESIST all innnirv for
the truth. III stranger hal walked into
the Senate chamber While s enator Sch nv
was entertaining the imp osing audience
which 1t is said assembled to hear him ho
would not have believed II lat upon the main
question offered by Mr.. Summer. and So
condea by Mr.. Schurz, there has been no
dissent whatever. Had there been M
other objects in view, Mr. Summer conid
have had on last Mop dav week an ;,nrnn-
ula'e ana unanimous vote in favor Of as