The Indiana State sentinel., 1880-07-14

THE REPUBLICAN, RATIFICATION FIzzLES.
The Chicago Tribune endesvors to tell its
readers why Republicans didn't ratfy"
Immediately after the Chicago Convention
adjourned, and remarks that the explsna-
ton is simple 1t says:
The campaign for the nomination was long
and fierce. There was much faction fighting.
Mems feelings were deeply enlisted almost
in a Presidential campaign. Important
principles were involved. The Convention
was prolonged over a week, or, including the
preliminary work, ten days. The unit rule
was discussed and abrogated. District repre-
sentation was established. Thirty-six ballots
were taken, and in them all the fortunes of
two or more illustious party leaders were
involved. The. anti-third term feeling was
very strong, and equally so the devotion of
General Grants partisans to their chosen
leader.
That may be very simple" but it will
occur toa good many that the statement
could have been made still more simple"
by sayirg Republicans didn't ratify because
there were too many dead candidates in the
Republican morgue. Poor Grant! once the
great chief-the boseiest boss of them all
who had the boomlest boom, and the most
boomers. He was not only trampled down and
spit upon, kicked and stabbed, but he was
charged with treason to his country-a
betrayer of the peoples liberties, vile
wretch whose name deserved execratIons.
The Tribune, with its little bodkin, helped
to kill Grant, and when he fell no one
bound around him the starry banner to hide
his wounds, but they still kicked him and
made his name infamous There was Blaine,
the miserable mercenary corruptionist-the
Mulligan man with a record like that of
Colfax and Garfield. He and his friends
claim the honor of killing Grant, and Grants
300 TRAITORS" who were for the Empire
against the Republic, killed Blaine, and side
by side they lay msngled and fostering in
the morgue, and there, too, lay John Sher-
man, the man who linked his name
with the Louisiana liars-who was indebted
to a thing of the feminine gender, known as
Mrs. jerks, for his escape from conviction.
Grant Blaine and Sherman, dead in the
Republican rat pit-difgraced, degraded,
| infamous-as q matter OF course there was
not much chow for ratification under such
circumstances, and Garfield, with his Credit
Mobilier and De Golyer record, was not good
ratifying material. The Tribune says:
The reaction was bound to come. The hu-
man mind is capable of bearing strain only
for a short time. The nerves must rest. The
lungs will grow tired. Men can't always be
excited about politics; always saving the
country and neglecting their business; always
! skirmishing about lobbies and adjoining
HEADQUARTERS" There must be intervals OF
industry. Campaign funds must be earned as
well as spent.
The quiet which followed the adjournment
/ or the Chicago Convention was like that
which succeeds a heated Presidential cam
paign. 1t was not apathy or despair, but SIM
ply an unalloyed content. 1t came "like the
benediction which follows after prayer" No
Republican was dissatisfied with GARFIELD.
/ None feared that he could not be elected. he
was every body's second choice. All admitted
that he would unite the party and inspire an
enthusiastic campaign. II was felt on all sides
that he would be a growing candidate. But
there were five months to do the ratifyiRg in
and the tired workers not unnaturally
thought it might be wise to rest the frst
month, so that the soreness of the late canvass
might entirely disappear, and the whole party,