New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-29
THE REAL ISSUE.

fought in Maine last Winter, on narrow held
indeed, but with fierce intensity and with brill
liant success. 1t is raging in Illinois at the
present moment, and the next week, we de-
vOutly hope and confidently believe, will witness
for law q triumph as complete and as brilliant
as that achieved in Maine. In Maine it was the
Democratic party that reared the standard Of
lawlessness against the Republican party. In
Illinois 1t Is one wing of the Republican party
against the main army of Republicans. In
Maine, GarcelOn started out of Obscur1ty into
infamy to head the mob. In Illinois, Logan,
brave and beloved, shames his loyal fame to
trampe down the liberties which he once
fought to secure. Behind Logan, shadOwed
and SILENT and by his silence conserving unto
the death, stands another fOrm-the form OF
one whom the American people have delighted
to honor, and whose attitude In this contest
they contemplate with an amazement that Is
almost incredulity.
But let no man be deceived. The cause is
greater than any man. The Republican party
is the party of law and order, OF constitutional
liberty and popular government, and free cleo
tons; and it will fight absolutism and dishOn-
esty in its own party just as valiantly as it
fought them in the Democratic party. 1t will
u8uD UIleu Oh NOIbuCIn SOii JuoI 10 pAOAhp 'J .
and if need be just as persistently as it fought,
them on Southern soil.
Gentlemen, delegates to the National Con-
vention at Chicago, let no man deceive you
Cameron, Conkling, and Logan have nothing to
lose by the disruption of the Republican party.
If Grant were to be elected they would hold
the Administration in their hands. If Blaine
or Sherman be elected, Blaine or Sherman will
be President, and these men will have only
their fair share of power and place, which
stands to them for as great defeat as would
be the incoming of Democratic Administra-
ton. Through the infatuatiOn of desperation
they have at last showed their hand openly,
and have made the defeat Of Grant duty 1t
is no longer question between man and man.
1t is a question between parliamentary govern
ment and mob law. 1t is q question of life or
death for the Republican party.
For there is, in the Judgment of our wisest
and coolest councillors, the gravest danger
that General Grant cannot be elected. The
revolt against him is wide and deep, bitter, ir-
repressible, constantly increasing. The Sena-
torial Trumvirate do not care for this, but you
care. The Senatorial TTumvirate will deny it,
will say that Grant is the only man who can be
elected, will say that it is only handful Of
malcontents here and there who make the re-
volt, and that after the nomination the disci-
plined masses will 90 up tc the polls and vote
the Republican ticket.
Be not deceived. They will not do it, We
may lament or exult over the fact, but 1t is
fatal not to recognize it. Good party men,
veterans like Thurlow Weed, and trained
troops like the followers Of Sherman In Ohio,
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and vote prOtestingly for Grant. But there arc
tens of thousands of men who do not care
continental copper whether they are considered
good party men OF not and they will not vote
for Grant. They do not hide nor evade. They
proclaim openly, by the thousand, that they
will not vote for Grant. Even party men, en-
thusastic and lifelong Republicans, declare
that they will not vote for Grant; that they will
take the stump against him. The events of the
last few days have added multitudes to the
anti-third term army. The distrust engendercd
by the dOublings and turnings of Cameron has
developed into disgust under the bludgeon Of
Logan. LOgan's candid brutality has cleared
the air. The INSCRIPTIONS fraud, the unparal-
leled violence which have been employed to
bring Grant in, have reused tho people to a re-
solve that he shall stay out. They fought q
four years war to establish popular govern
ment at the South. They will not surrender it
in the North even to the victor in that war.
They have not resisted fraud and force in South
Carolina to submit to them and support them
in Pennsylvania. The political burglars of
Illinois who stick at nothing, and the political
hermaphrodites of Massachusetts who stick to
nothing, will make desperate lunges and feeble
lurches at Grant; but the honest and tranquil
manhood of this country dehes the first and
despises the second.
Republicans hate the methods and the pur-
poses Of the Democratic party, but they never
hate them so intensely as when they see them
introduced into the Republican party. If they
must have the cheating and bulldozing of De-
mocracy, they will have itpure and simple, in the
form and guise of Democracy, not skulldng
under the banners of Republicanism, and
guarding itself behind the shields Of the Stall
warts.