The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-06-24
THE POLITICAL TABLES TURNED.

1t is wisdom some times to take advice
course, that the evident desire of the De-
mocracy to see Mr.. Blaine nominated at
Cincinnati influenced, to any considerable
extent, the action of a single delegate in
the Convention, yet it is no less true that
the nomination of Gov. Hayes has put an
entirely different phase upon the Presiden-
tial campaign, in SO far as it has COM
| pletely upset all the calculations of the
Democratic leaders as to the particular
kind of a campaign they had intended to
treat the nation to. The Democrats were
to have done the aggressive solely, while
the Republicans, with their bands full of
the apologize business, were to take up
the time of the canvass in defending the
reputation of its standard bearers against
their vigorous assaults. This nice little
| game of political maneuver was not to
have been fought with "foils," but with
broad swords that cut at every blow.
! Taking it for granted that the standard
bearers of the Republican party would be
selected from among those especially prom
inent as leaders, the majority at Washing
ton inaugurated the first act in the Pres-
dental drama, in the shape of investigat-
| ing committees, which were intended to
display the true inwardness of Republican
leaders. Under their auspices and man
agement the SANDER mill at Washington
was kept running day and night. Every
thing was grist that came there, and every
! prominent man, whose public acts or pri-
waite life did not furnish grst for the greedy
gods, had some furnished for him on indi
vidual and party account. So Jealous were
the party grinders, that scarce prominent
Republican has escaped. In this despica-
BILE business the necessary legislation of the
session has been comparatively neglected
! To such an extent has political capital
making engrossed the attention of the
majority, that on Saturday last the Presi-
dent deemed it his duty to address mes
sage to the Lower House, urging upon it
the pressing necessity for the immediate
| passage of the appropriation bills needed
to maintain several coordinate branches of
| the Government. But while the Demo-
cratic leaders were thus planning their
aggressive campaign, the astute managers
of the Republican party have COM
| pletely turned the tables upon them,
and themselves assumed the aggressive,
and by the selection of nominees entirely
] 10 ,l,a
are in a position to display before an ad-
miring nation the contemplate character
of the intrigues instigated and set on foot
to destroy the character of prominent Re-
publican leaders, eoho, after all, uere not
! nonsinated. Thus baffled in their admra-
BILE schemes, it is not to be supposed that
Democracy is in particularly amiable or
boastful frame of mind, with reference to
the Cincinnati nominations.
! "The nomination of Hayes and Wheeler
makes as strong a ticket as the Republi-
cans can pnt up" remarks one leading
Maryland Democratic Journal; and it very
! Significantly adds, alt will not do for the
Democrats to pretend otherwise:' and the
man who ''takes the tlattering JUNCTION to
his soul, that the Republican ticket will
"bc easily beaten this Fall, had better either
"go 10 tumatic asylum, or take no Stoch in
"P"tttcs. Something might have been
assumed upon the weakness of the Re
publican choice, had old party hacks
been nominated. The Democracy must
meet solid column well organized,
equipped and in stout spirts.'
1t is folly" remarks another Demo
cratic journal, "to attempt to conceal
1.-THE fact thtt the Cincinnati nominations
have, IN great degree, brought together
land reunited the shattered elements of
the Republican organization, and to day
the Republican column, strong. compact
and defiant, is marching on to battle"
and 1t might have as truthfully added, on
t" victory,