The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-11-21
THE CAMPAIGN FOR 1880.

The republican party has wonderful
fertility in producing issues on which to
conduct campaigns. And SO strongis party
fealty that its members never hesitate to
fall into line in the support Of any issue
which the leaders see fit to promulgate.
Those leaders are adroit, and they man
age to invest with Importance questions
which III the ordinary course OF events,
would never receive the attention Of even
i respectable minority Of the people of
the United States. Ben Butler strove to
conduct the campaign on state issues.
These we're the matters in which the
people Of that state were directly inter
ested. the matters in which reform was
absolutely necessary. But Butler even
with all his sagacity and fertility of re-
sources was forced to represent opposi-
ton to "honest money rather than TO
appear the opponent Of the abuses which
made his candidacy a matter OF alarm 10
the party under whose auspices they were
committed. IN Massachusetts, the con
seriousness Of tie necessity of reform
vas oycgshadowed 10y the fear Of the
success Of fiatism, which the republican
party insidiously instilled into the minds
Of the people who demanded change in
the administration of affairs.
The southern policy of President
Hayes, brought peace to section of the
union which has been torn by dissen-
sious, and blasted by corruption under
tile policy Of Grant. The leaders of the
republican party sag the futility of con
Quoting 4 campaign on issues set at rest
by the harmony prevailing in the south
when self government was allowed. The
two policies, by contrast, would answer
any argument for a continuance Of the
rule of tie carpet Dagger. Beside the
people Of the country wanted ga rest.
The bloody shirt had become offensive.
ana the "stalwarts" had to yield for the
time to miller counsels. Until the
'.bloody shirt failed to promise tht
usual success, greenbackism was treated
as a temporary schism, too insignitican
to merit attention. But it was found t.
supply the needed tissue, and wheI
properly manipulated served to cement
the disunited party, and gain then
friends. There is not now enough 0
l1is question left on which to manage
another cauiPs-er. The insignificant
number of grecubackeTs eIcCruv. l. ,,n
gress, their failure to carry a single stat
and the belief on the part of tho peopl
that the great smoke emanated from
very feeble fire, settles this issue, anC
leaves the republicans the option o
trusting to the future for another ISSUE
or returning to the tattered folds Of th'
''noIicy" Of the republican party. m
''solid south" is now the refrain of re
publican journals. IN pursuance of thi
policy, Hayes has been made to comics
that his efforts at Cancellation have beel
failure. The 'Ssolid south" for tn,
next TWO years will be harped upon in tn.
hope Of placing in opposition to it a solil
north. Tranquility is fatal to q contin
uance Of the republicans in power, and /
must be sacrificed to subserve their ends
The north can not be made ''solid" ex
cept it be through suspicion and hatred
of the south, and the republican party has
begun 10y Misrepresentation to produc.
dissensions and mutual distrust. Th,
evil minded always come to the from
during periods Of disturbance. Array
section against section and the republican
party will again justify usurpation on til,
ground that the interests of the country
demand It.
The policy now is not 70 attempt t
restore the southern wing OF the repub
Gcan party. II suits thepurpose ofrepub
Ecans that their party has no representa-
ton III the south. They wish to have
each Of the parties limited to particu.
lar section. To partisanship thus will
be added sectional bitterness, and the
hatred which will thus ensue will be
utilized by them. With section arraved
against section every particle of Iegisla-
ton which appears at all favorable to the
country south Of Mason and Dixon's line
will be construed rs hostile act to the
country north of that line. Internal i'm
proyoments at the south by the govern
meEt must be discontinued or bear that
construction. The appointment of a
southern person rs janitor, even, will
be denounced as a reward for services
done the confederaey. Every little act
will be iealously watched and made to
minister to hatred. The northern heart
must be fired ut any cost So rs to make il
"soIid' for 1880. We shall hear no
more Of greenbackors. Their defeat was
too disastrous to salt the republicans
Had they made better stand and
shown that they might IN the future
be formidable, the solid south" would
not he revived. rs ''Honest Money" is a
bet Ct war cry in the days Of peace than
''On TO Richmond" As it is, the next
two years will be spent in moving on the
columns against the old foe that threw
up the sponge in 1860. The republican
party IS now enlisted under the implaca-
bleS, and war to the knife against the
south wifi ha tba order
Now CONF s The contest among the re
pu5licans who aspire to the L. S. senate
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