The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-07-12
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY SPLIT.


The split in the Republican party is
becoming more and more manifest II
grows apace and increases in bitterness
The old leaders of the party are mostly
arrayed against President Hayes Even
Vice President Wheeler is one OF them,
and this seems to be the 'unkindest cut OF
all The Pittsburgh Telegraph OF the
9TH has leader, from which we extract
and which shows the split in the party
1t is as follows.
MR. wHEELER's BLuNDER'
Disappointed officeholders continue
their threats Of breaking with the AZ
ministration,' disappointed office SEEK
ers keep up the hue and cry, charging
the President with bad faith, though to-
wards whom is not exactly clearly ex,
pressed; political demagogues meet ana
animadvert upon the new policy preulScI-
ing for it naught but disaster, ana ior
the Republican party present distress
and future defeat. SO much has been
said by and on behalf Of this rule or rum
school Of politicians, that little OF their
buncombe will begin to be believed by
the large class of people who never take
the time or trouble to peer beneath the
surface of things IN order to ascertain
their true meaning and tendency, un"
less the supporters of President! Hayes
shall rally and concentrate their forces
about him.
The President has taken a wide de-
parture from the school which asserted
in fact il not in theory, that certain ex-
tensive districts we're the property ana
especial fee of particular place disp!eh-
sers. He has been oblivious OF the TACT
that Simon Cameron owned Pennsylva!-
MIA. that lanes G.. Blaine held proprl;
etary interest in the State of Maine, ana
D. H, Chamberlain carried South Caro-
lima in his pocket, that s. B. Packard be-
longed less to Louisiana than Louisiana
to him, or that B. F. Butler had dover
Ia widows dower) in Massachusetts,. To
these and similar propositions he has
been as blind as the bird OF twilight, nor
could any number of spectacle adjusters
set his visual organs right on this score,
Neither faltering nor Ainching, he has
pursued the even tenor of his way, lop'
ping off excrescences upon the trunk OF
the body polite where he found them
existing, and inserting new gratis when
he deemed the latter necessary.
No doubt Mr.. Hayes has anticipated
the outcry which has been raised, and
been prepared for much of the calumny
with which he has been assailed, but we
can fancy that he might have been sur
prised at discovering as among the num-
Der of his enemies those who should have
been his own household. To find the
Vice President, if not opposing his poll
cy, at least criticising it, might well have
caused him to exclaim 'Et tu Brute.
Delicacy and sense Of the relations
which existed between him and the
President, owing to their common eleva>
ton, we should have thought might at
least have restrained Mr.. Wheeler from
open expressions of Interpretations, but
it seems that his sensitiveness is not so
great, that like the average politician, he
has pachydermatous hide. Evidently
Mr.. Wheeler, unlike one of our local ce~
lebrities, has not yet attained the sum-
nit of manhood's expectations, but still
hopes for something in the future at the
hands of the people.
History and tradition will alike be be-
lied, if in such action Mr.. Wheeler can
ever expect to gain aught but the deris.
ion of foes and the odium of friends. AS
citizen his duty lies in the direction of
supporting the President in his laudable
efforts at reform, while as an official, the
next in rank to the Chief Magistrate
himself, we would have supposed that he
would at the same time have esteemed
it as his distinguished privilege to do so.