The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-08-27
Rational REPUBLICAN, TICKET.
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There has never been more hearty
and genuine confidence, among Repub
lican managers and leaders, than APP
pears to-day. 1t is their habit to
compare notes with each other in pri-
vate, with the cold calculation of asso-
ciated chess-players. They learn from
Maine that the Democrats and Fusion
lists can be certainly beaten. They
learn from Indiana that the success of
I1anders and English is hardly pos
sibility. They learn from Ohio that
Republican victory is assured, and from
West Virginia chat Republican pros
poets are bright. They know that the
signs are brighter in New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut than they have
been at a corresponding date before
any previous Presidential election, and
they know that Republican victories in
October will transform into Republican
states in November every close North
ern state. In word, they separate
with the light of victory on their faces.
What have the Democrats counted
uponq Day by day, and week after
week, they have told each other that
General Grant and Secretary Sher-
man, Senators Blaine, Conkling, Cam
eron and Logan, and other Republican
leaders, would play the sulks These
men, Democrats hoped and said every
day, were going to give the Democracy
a victory, because their personal pref
erences had not been in all respects
consulted. The conference held re-
Gently completely disposed of that lie.
The Republican party has never been
more thoroughly and heartily united
than it is to-day. 1t gals the Demo
cratic party to admit the fact, but
it is true. They have built such
extravagant hopes upon the possibili-
ty of Republican dissensions that proof
of Republican unity comes upon them
like clap of thunder out of clear
sky.
Herein is the difference of parties
Some Republicans thought much would
come out of the quarrel between Kelly
and Tilden. Much may, perhaps.
But cold-headed Republicans have new
er estimated that possibility as worth a
single vote. On the contrary, the
Democrats have been continually claim
ing States which they could not hope
to carry unless by Republican discords
and wranglings The discords vanish
when Republicans come face to face.
But the Democratic party well knows
that it would give more money than
would enable Mr. Barnum to buy
seven thousands mules if it could
be sure of the electoral vote of a single
doubtful October State.
The fight opens in favor of the Re-
publicans. Their nominations unite
their votes; Democratic nominations
send great many Democratic voters
to the rear with the celic, Back among
the voters there are two thoughts
which hold sway, and will ride the
storm. The people do not want a
change, for they are prosperous now.
They are not willing to put the mas
terry of the country into the hands of
the reactionary and revolutionary DEM
ocrats, and have lingering notion
that those who saved the Union had
better rule it yet little longer. The
conference ends with bright prospects
of Republican victory in every North
ern State. But behind it is stalwart
and stern Republican, feeling which
would have marched over any Repub-
.Hcan leaders who had wayered. or hesi-
tated.
Connecticut is called a doubtful
State. But the coldest and best polit-
ical calculator in the State says, "We
shall have hard fight, and need all
the aid in speakers, documents, and
the like, which the Committee can
give. But we shall carry Connecticut. "