Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1879-05-08


they are prcclaimiIig to the world
their belief that defeat is ut least
highly probable. sas rr-7 49,
The Republican party. as tho
Republican party, may sill be
powerful; II has many advantages
with the people it's leaders are
energetic aud skiliful politicians
who have shown in the l,st and
present Congress their superiority
over their opponents in. the game
OF politics; and they gain strength
by many petty b!unders OF the
Democrats, who manifest but little
tact or strategic ability. As the
Republican party it has, therefore,
a possible future bat the moment
It coniesses mat 1t Is simply o
Grant party and nothing else, or,
in ether words, the moment the
country discovers that the party
has pinned its hopes upon one in
dividual as means of salvation,
it will show a weakness which must
disgust the voters, aud which, if
the Democrats are shrewd in their
choice of candidate, is likely TO
prove fatal to the Republicans.
We perceive, of course, the re-
ply which will be made to this by
those personal friends of GraDs
who desire to make him the Re-
publican candidate next year.
They urge that Grant cannot. with.
out fatal sacrifice of dignity and
loss of prestige, enter into the gen.
eral scramble for the nomination
that if his is not to he the only
name before the Convention, but
only one OF Il number, it will not
do to bring him forward at oil !;
that such strife for the nomina-
tion as is usual in national conven.
tions must exclude him, because
at his time Of life, after the many
honors he has received and after
serving two terms in the PIesi-
dency, it would be an indecency to
push" him as other aspirants can
be pushed" All this is true;
and we agree with these gentlemen
when .hey say that unless General
Grant were nominated when the
Convention meets at once and
unanimously, without delay and
without dissenting voice, and by
the spontaneous action OF the Con.
vention, his real friends must ab-
solutely prohibit the use of his
name. But this does cot in the
least affect what we have said
above-that tor the Republican
party to assume or cohfess that
General Grant is the only cardi.
date with whom they can win must
be fatal to their hopes and it is
the prospects of the Republican
party that we have been discuss.
ing. 1t is Que thing for those
friends of Grant who desire him
and him only as the next Repub-
lican candidate to labor persist
emily to push all other candidates
aside, and to produce upon the
preston that he is the only man
who oan save tho party from de-
feat, but it is quite different
matter for the Republican psrty to
consider whether it can afford to
be placed in this light before the
country. On this question the
over,zealous friends of General
Graut lay themselves open TO the
charge, from other Republicans,
that they are at least unwise friends
} OF the party, and that il their zeal
for their protege the; run the risk
of dealing their rarty a dangerous
stab. The flie uds of other candl-
dates, Tor rs.auce, may we'll ask,
What is .nere III the present con-
dltlor of the party to make Grant
lite only saviour? In what way
has j.. been weakened, by Sherman
fcc instance, in the magnificent
success of resumption and refund
ing or by Chandler, or Blaine. or
ConkliEg, or Garfield, in their Wig
orous opposition TO Democratic
plans and policies +; or by President
Hayes, in his juGicious quieting
policy, which has restored conf
dence to industry and reawakened
! Gui6I pfIS6-lu HiIuL ways noS ~
been go weakened by them that
; not one nor all of these can be
trusted by the party to carry its
banners in 1850, but Grant alone
can win? And there is no answer
to this but the confession that all
that has been done by the party
leaders since March, 1877. has been
lame and laundering and that in
: fact the Republican party is am er
hemis. But it would hardly do
for the party TO go into the can'
vsss with that admission.
, Mrs AMANDA BISHOP, who died
) in Norwich, Conn.,, q few days ago,
? had more than hsr fair proportion
. of scrrows. Her sister was burned
3 to death her husband, o Method.
8 ist minister, was fatally stricken
with heart disease while preach
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