The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-07-01

show. And nominations will once
more express the actual wishes Of the
party, not the trades and compromises
among a half-dozen rival chiefs of
State machines.
Above all, the unwritten law of the
Republic is maintained. Not for CEN
tury can another successful soldier ask
for third term. We mean no rehec-
ton upon the great General whom,
throughout this whole contest we
have always endeavored to treat with
the admlring respect due his noble
service and exalted career We mean
no reflection upon the thousands of
Republicans, good and true, who
longed to follow once more his leader
ship. But we do say that it is the
settled Judgment Of the Republican
party and of the American people that
protracted terms of service in our
highest Office are not in harmony with
the spirit of our institutions. Not
even the dazzling fame of Appomattox
could blind our people to the lessons
OF experiment In free government the
world has seen. What sufficed for
Washington must suffice for the great
est of his successors, at least for this
generation and the next. Since the
abolition of slavery and the resump-
ton of specie payments we have added
no greater safeguards for the perpet-
uity and the purity Of our Government
of the people, for the people, by the
people.
First of all, to James G.. Blaine and
John Sherman all thanks for the
happy issue. They made the fight,
and made it in the face Of alarming
odds. Each has shown from the out
set disposition to place the success
OF the movement above any question
of merely personal advantage, and
each took large risks. To both, the
Republican party and the country owe
a debt of gratitude that should never
be forgotten. The failure of each to
reach the highest goal of American
ambition will provoke wide disappoint-
ment. And there will be peculiar re-
gret at this second check to the great
commoner of Maine, who is, beyond
question, the most popular of living
American statesmen. 1t is the old
and better experience. They sowed
and another reaps. Yet they have
the satisfaction of feeling, the one
that he made the nomination, the
other that his State secured it; while
the party can take equal satisfaction
in remembering that Sherman is saved |
to the Treasury, and that a nomina-
ton Of Mr.. Blaine has not excluded |
from the stump the most successful of
all campaign orators.
There is higher satisfaction. After
all, under existing circumstances the
Convention has given us the best pos
sible candidate. He alienates nobody. |
He arouses no jealousies. He has ev-
erybody's confidence He will be |
stronger in Ohio than any other man
who was named, and Ohio votes in
October. He will come into New
York in November with the prestige
of the Ohio victory, as well as with
local aid, and will carry the Empire
State.
The man whom we shall thus elect
is of almost ideal fitness for the place.
James A. Garfield is a magnificent
product of our institutions. Born
poor, the support of a widowed mo-
ther, earning with his own hands the
means which carried him through one
Of the noted New England colleges,
he belongs to the very best type of
self-made men. A student all his life,
he is to-day, perhaps, the most schol-
arly among our statesmen. His ca
reer as a soldier is without flaw, and
in his last great battle it was well said
Of him that, without orders, he rode
towards the sound of the enemy's can
non. AS a statesman his record
through the war and since is part of
the history of the country. The Chi
cago Convention recognised him as its
best counsellor and easily its first ora
tor. He is even better fitted for the
Presidency than for partisan leader
ship, since the judicial temper which
has sometimes hindered him in Con-
gress is precisely what will command
the confidence of the whole country
in the White House. With all our
heart we approve and applaud the
The ticket tends to har-
mony on a sound basis, and to right
ends; and the campaign of 1880 has
an auspicious opening.