Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-03-20
Not Quite Dead.

How many times within the past two
years has the country been assured that
the Republican party Is deadH Why it
continues TO live in the face of all the
collins that have been made for 1t we can.
not quite make out. 1t cannot have a
very strong appreciation Of it's friendly
mourners. Scarcely two years ago a
great many distinguished journalists"
decided that the Republican party was as
dead as herring, and they went TO Gin
cinnati to bury IL. There was big grave
dug, but there was some misunderstand-
ing about the party or parties deposited
in It, The Republican organization
walked off as If nothing had happened
the "dog Il was that died" Who was II
that sung the Heart Boped Dopn as flu.
neral march9 Une Mr.. Bowles, of
Springfield, Mass, can tell us, for he took
handkerchief and mopped up the tears
ofthe melancholy vocalists.
Many things have happened since then.
The Cincinnati people became convinced
by the second week in November that the
Republican party was not quite 30 dead as
they imagined, and they have done 1t the
honor of attacking 1t many times since,
,ust as If it were really alive. But there
Is still one quarter in which the belief
fingers that Mr.. Greeley was elected
in 1872, and that the "Liberals" are gov.
erning the country-and that quarter is
the Tribune office. Pretty nearly
everything has gone to pieces there-a
paper once powerful does not circulate
now over 10000 copies day, influences
no opinion in any direction, and takes
pay for its advertisements in kind-oil for
an oil advertisement, and so on. Certainly
10 10 Cl, M
would think. But still the strange person
who did so much to bring about the ruin
of Mr.. Greeley is convinced that the Re.
publican party Is dead. He is always
exposing" 1.-THE other day he promised
totally new batch of exposures, but
found himself compelled to swallow them.
Yesterday he announced, for the thou
sandth time, that the party is quite dead
not an atom of 1t remains. at has dis
appeared. There may be fragments of
this organization scattered about in the
various States of the Union" etc., etc. 1t
was equally dead in 1879, according to the
same bright authority-only somehow the
Tribune died that year also, with its
founder. There is mendicant journal in
its place, now borrowing money of Jay
Gould, now of the Mutual I lie Insurance
Company, now of one, now of another.
But wreck is not quite the same thing
as a strong ship. And if we remember
what Mr.. Greeley was, and contemplate
what his successor is, we shall see that
the difference is greater even in men than
IN material:
"The vulture crawls where once the eagle
reigned."
However, the Republican party is dead,
or lost-it all comes to the same thing.
"a no 40 oh
nouncement this time in facetious strain
such Righteousness as naturally proceeds
from being in whom the sense of humor
is entirely absent. No one With sense
of humor could possibly print the fright
full rubbish and gush which now daily
litter up the columns of Mr.. Greeley's old
paper. Dickens is the model which the
Professor has always set before him-the
only author he has ever read. And what
a very bad thing a bad imitation of
Dickens is, everybody knows. 1t is enough
to make rational man sick. The Pro
fessor, however, thinks it beautiful"
and so he tells his plaintiye story about
the death of the Republican party a Ia
Dickens. The worst OF it is that Fenton
and John Cochrane do not seem to have
succeeded yet In establishing any other
party to supersede the Republican. They
tried pretty hard, and the Professor
helped them, and very nice-looking
article they managed to produce among
them. The Professor has been gazing
upon it ever since with disheveled locks,
and IN what he calls "large-eyed, Won
dering way" asking himself "Is this
really mine! Am the father?" AS for the
chiefvictim of the plot, Fenton s. Co.
have forgotten all about him. They are
still trying to set up their dummy of
Liberalism" on its rickety legs. They
did not carry the election of 1872 but they
can promise to win in 1876. They can
talk big. Meanwhile, the Republicans
seem somehow or other to hold their
ground amazingly well, considering how
dead they are. The Democrats are doing
some active scheming, but they have no
policy and no leaders. Having been con-
victed of dishonesty themselves, they
think it will be very good plan to ran
after the Republican party shouting
"stop thief" This was the device of the
Artful Dodger when he had stolen a
handkerchief, and set the people chasing
Oliver Twist This little illustration from
Dickens will make the point perfectly
clear to the bewildered mind of the Pro
fessor. The plan, however, in this in.
stance will not answer. The Republican
party may not be free from all reproach,
but it is quite capable of correcting its
mistakes, and compared with the Dem
ocratic party it is simply perfection. We
believe that it still retains the confidence
of the country, and that it would elect a
President tomorrow by an overwhelming
majority if 1t had to do it.-Neo York
T'i1nss.