National Republican., 1878-08-21
THE OPPO,ITIOS AND JUDGE KEY.

lhe Phll idelphla Tunes leads oil III the
Grand Bounce Of the Opposition 10 the
suggestion that Postmnster-Gencral KEY
shall be nominated for Vice.Prcsident on
the Republican ticket in lSsO. II makes no
difference that the suggestion was unauthor-
lied by any respectable Republican author
| ity-ior its authorship has been traced to
the imaginative brain Of ncwsless core
spondent-the Times goes on with the
bouncing process as if il were engaged in
the arduous duty Of fighting tangible fact.
Among Other Unnecessarily savage things
it says:
The tail is tackled on to win the favor of the
South, which is simply ludicrous to those who
know how KEY Is cOntemned by his own pCU.
pie for acccptinga place IN the Cabinet of u
President whose claims he so bitterly Oppo sed,
and for being such a Superscrviccablo tool of
the Administration ever since il gave him an
office worth 5000 year"
The more this kind of talk is heard
from the Opposition, the stronger the KEY
movement if such il may he called, will
become. II is an admission that there Is
force in it, for people do not resort to such
savage invectiye and gross misrcprescnta-
tion over nothing. II it were true that Mr..
KEYS name would not win the favor of the
South there would be every reason why
ton for the second place on the ticket as
certain means of adding dead weight there
| to. But it is not true. any more than the
| further assertion Or insinuatiDn that Judge
KEY has lowered his dignity as a man and
leader by accepting the Office he now fills
with signal ability and general satisfaction
to the public at large.
But this unjustifablc attack upon him il
mainly notable because of the jealousy il
betrays on the part of the Opposition when
ever an ex-Coniederate like Judge KEY il
seen approaching the Republican camp
LoSGsTREET suffered the same kind of at
tack upon his private character and per-
sonal motives when he enlisted under the
Republican banner II was charged that
he had been bought up by GRANT: had be-
come "superseryiceable tool and every.
thing was done that could be done to pre-.
vent other eX-Conlederates from following
his example. In short, this assault upon
Judge KEY is of q piece with the policy Ol
ostracism or social and political persecution
to which Southern men OF prominence and
rcspcctability are subjected when they
either do leave or attempt to leave tn,
Democratic party.
But, it will be said. this argument doe
not answer the charge that Judge KEY In,
been inconsistent, in that he voted in til,
Senate against the validity of President
HAYES title and then accepted Office unde
him, thereby stultiiying himself as regard,
his previous record. We insist, however
that this charge is unjust, for il omits to say
that between his vote on the title question
and his acceptance OF his Office a law wa
passed which all good citizens submitted Ia
even if they did not approve Of ii, trans
ierring the decision of the question involve,
in his vote to u tribunal expressly create,
for that purpose. Judge KEY was not alon
/ in his belief that n doubt rested upon TIN
result of the election Of l-16 nor is hcalon,
prOyidcntially, in his subsequent loyal AM
r pcaccablc submission TO the decision of tn
Electoral Commission, which, as we hav
said, was created expressly Tor the purpos
OF clearing away those doubts.