New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-07
4 SOLID REPUBLICAN PHALANX.

Had the Democratic party any reason to
expect that its wild shouts for Hancock would
stampede the Republican force 7 1t has never
seen that force thrown into panic With the
cold sternness Of veterans they faced almost
certain defeat i'll 1856, and have faced Demo-
cratic boasts of certain victory in every later
Presidential campaign. When Republican
leaders met for council on Thursday, there
was 10 childish hiding of their weak points.
They know that all the Southern States will
probably be counted, if not carried, for the
Democratic candidates, if the votes OF those
States can win. 1t was agreed unanimously
that, while all that duty requires should be
done to aid the Republicans of the South,
there should be no expectation of success ex-
cent by the votes Of the Northern States
alone.
There has never been more hearty and
genuine confidence. among Republican mana
gers and leaders, than appears to day. 1t is
their habit to compare notes with each other
in nriyate. with the cold calculation of assO-
ciated chess-payerS. They learn from Maine
| that the Democrats and Fusionists can be GER
tainly beaten. They learn from Indiana that
| the success of Landers and English is hardly
a possibility. They learn from Ohio that
| Republican victory is assured, and from West
| Virginia that Republican prospects are bright.
| They know that the signs are brighter Ill
New-Yolk New Jersey and Connecticut than
| they have been at a corresponding date before
opv preyious Presidential election and they
know that Republican victories in October
will transform into Republican States in
November every close Northern State. In a
| or with nj
on their faces.
What have the Democrats counted upon
Day by day, and week after week, they have
told each other that General Grant and Sec
rotary Sherman, Senators Blaine, Conkling,
Cameron and Logan, and other Republican
leaders, would play the sulks. These men,
Democrats hoped and said every day, were
going to give the Rebel Democracy a victory,
because their personal preferences had not
been in all respects consulted. The confer
ence held this week has completely disposed
of that lie. The Republican party has never
been more thoroughly and heartily united
than it is to-day. 1t gals the Democrats to
| admit the fact, but it is true. They have
built such extravagant hopes upon the posi-
bility of Republican discussions that proof
of Republican unity comes upon them like a
clap of thunder out of clear sky.
Herein is the difference of parties. Some
| Republlcans thought much would come out OF
tbe ouarrel between Kelly and Tilden, Mucl
nav. perhaps. But cOld-headed Republicans
have never estimated that possibility as worth
q single vote. On the contrary, the Democrats
have been continually claiming States which
they could not hope to carry unless by Repub
lican discords and wranglings. The discord'
vanish when Republicans come face to face
But the Democratic patty well knows that II
would give more money than would enable
Mr., b arIum to buy seven thousand "mulcs.
if it could be sure of the electoral vote Of {
single doubtful October State.
The fight opens in favor of the Republicans
! Their nominations unite their votes; Democrat
;c nominations send great many Democratic
voters to the rear with the collie. Bacl
among the voters there are two thought:
which hold sway, and will tide the storm
The people do not want change, for the,
are prosperous now. They are not willing t.
nut the mastery of the country into the hand
of the reactionary and revolutionary Demo
Gratis, and have lingering notion that thos
who saved tho Union had better rule 1t yet
little longer. The conference ends with bngh
prospects of Republican victory in ever
Northern State. But behind it is a stalwar
and stern Republican feeling which wou
have marched over any Republican leader
, who had wavered or hestated.
, Connecticut is called doubtful State Blu
{ the coolest and best political calculator III tn
State said, on Tuesday night, "Wc shall hav
{ "a hard fight, and need all the aid in speak
% ara documents. and the like. which the Com
"mittee can give. But We shall carry Con