The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-06-20


and with the other upon the bleeding
| African" and the "imperiled life Of the
nation" in the person OF Blaine; such is
the result OF the fierce internecine fac
tion fight waged by the Republican
chiefs and their followers at Cincinnati.
The nomination Of Gov. Hayes. of Ohio,
Is collapse and not o compromise.
Gov. Hayes. personally, is man of re-
spectabls abilities, of excellent private
character. and in a steady-going unde-
monstrative way has been q consistent
If not an influential member or the Re-
publican party for many years. 1t
would be absurd to compare him In point
OF intellect with President Lincoln. The
Republican party. in 1876 has drifted
leagues away from the position
Geeupsa ssS n the 1ss hsPse'san Ps ( led party Y
it save the sectional animosities which
have become. very aptly, symbolized
standard Of the "bfoody shit" While
! the one really vivid sentiment OF the
Republican party has been dishopored
and made ridiculous by the defeat OF
Blaine and Morton, its one respectable
sham and pretense has been torn to
shreds by the defeat OF Bristow. Adj
miDistrative Reform has Jared even
worse at the hands OF the Cincinnati
Convention than the "bloody shirt"
| For white Gov. Hayes Is too lukewaam,
and as we are inclined to believe, too
conscientious q man to play with sue
cess the blood and thunder part in which
| Blaine would have been so brilliant and
| Morton so Indignantly effective, he can
at least lend himself without absolute
and shameful inconsistency. TO Its per
formance i'm his behalf by more fanati-
cal or less scrupulous political hctors.
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been negatively put out OF the canVass
by the defeat or Bristow. ~ has been
positively kicked to death by the noui-
nation OF Mr.. WneNler. Mr. Wheeler
was Mr.. Blaine's adjutaut aud aide-,,p-
camp i'm carrying through all the most
Objectionable Republican subsidy legi5-
lation on our statute books. Mr. Blaine,
Of whom it must be said that he usually
knows his men, selected Mr. Wheeler rs
the chairman Of the committee on the
Pacific Railroad and the Vice Presi-
Dental nomination ut Cincinnati, there
fore, saddles the Republican party with
oil the most assailable features Of Mr..
Blaine's political record, while. in con-
junction with the Presidential nomina-
tion. it deprives the Republican party
Of the glow and go OF Mr.. BlaiDe's care
fully cultivated sectional issue. To Mr..
Wheeler also civil service reform Is in
debted for its death-blow. In truth, the
nomination Of Mr. Wheeler can do so
little good and must do so much harm
to his party in the national conflict, that
one is half tempted to believe that IL
must have been foisted upon the weary |
and distracted convention by the
New York enemies of another con
spicuous Republican leader, Sena-
tor Conkling, who also now lies
bleeding and bedraggled in the house |
Of bis friends. 50 far as the
Democracy are concerned. these nom
nations most eloquently emphasize the
necessity OF prompt and thorough union
among the Democratic forces In all
parts OF the country. The nomination
Of Governor Hayes, in the circumstances
in which 1t was made, opens to us, with
common discretion In the party coun
ellis, n prospect Of almost certain victory
in Pennsylvania, and proves that the
Republicans count upon nothing but
Democratic discussions for victory in
Ohio Governor Hayes has never car
ried bis own State excepting 10y the help
of such dissensions and 1t is hardly con-
ceivable that the three most conspicu-
GUS leaders OF the OHIO Democracy
Senator Thurman, Governor Allen and
Mr.. Pendleton should not now recog-
nize their opportunity for establishing
lasting claim upon the gratitude OF the
Democratic party and of the country,
by subordinating all their local and in
differences to an overwhelming
assault upon the common enemy. Both
in the East and in the West the blind
wrath Of Cincinnati may easily be turn
ed to the praise of St. Louis by harmony
in the Democratic councils. The wrang-
ling and fever-smitten Republicans have
given us our platform, by abandoning
every pretense Of cencern for the daily
increasing sufferings Of tax ridden and
people. Upon the platform
thus prepared for us,~we have only to
place two sterling Democrats, in whose
character, whose capacity and whose
loyalty to the great principles Of consti-
tutional Democracy the masses OF the
Democratic party can repose an abso-
lutte confidence, and the good seed plant
ed in June will be gathered In golden
harvest Of peace and prosperity in No
Taat
Meeflnu Of the M0rwa l,uarAG :