New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-06-01
pOTT IND SLURR.

The diligent readers OF political newspapers
must have been struck, during the past lew
weeks, by O remarkably violent and prolonged
outbreak of bad temper on the part OF some
of the third-term organs. 1t is pretty clear that
q majority of the Republican party is opposed
to the denomination of ex-President Grant; yet
everybody who ventures, however decOrously,
to express his objections to the third term, Is
straightway attacked with a fury We have
rarely seen equalled in q political discussion.
Everything done to further the denomination
scheme becomes, in these veracious and
unprcjudiced journals, spontaneous eX-
preston of popular enthusiasm while every
thing undertaken to prevent it is denounced as
a piece of atrOciOuS rasCality. " Honest Work
and Base Trickery at Chicago is the heading
affixed to Il recent dispatch in which the blood
curdling operations of the "viOlent, vituperative
land malignant opponents" of the Logan plan
for compelling delegates to be registered as
voting for a candidate they do not wish to
vote for, are described in language never
couaned except by Mr.. POtt in the columns of
The Eotans,rW Gazette, or Mr.. Slurk in The
EatansriH Independent. Ifthe third-term news
papers are to be depended upon, their side OF
the contest is invariably illustrated by states
nlunSllD anu DuIliOliSu VI bilO WY p"hNpN
variety, while the other is conducted entirely
by the "brag and buster of "paid agents"
by infamous combinations, Opposition
ISLANDER" fragrant bribery, INSCRIPTIONS
"schemcs' characteristic tricks etc. ETC., etc.
The damning exposures" Of the Blaine and
Sherman men, it should be added, though
announced so often in the head lines with
reckless profusion of large type, are rarely or
never found in the body of the article. We
have read most Of these fiery productions with
some care and yet we cannot discover what
villany the vituperative opposition has been
up to-
The despicably disgusting conduct of the
UNPARALLELED and unmidgated vipers who desire
the nomination of Mr. Blaine. or Mr.. Sherman,
or Mr.. Edmunds, or Mr.. Washburnc, having
been so often cOnt7asted with the spontaneous
ness of the hgh-mindcd people who are shout
ing for General Grant, we were amazed at
reading in one Of the Eatanswill organs
recently the following words: ITO those who
ARE interested in the results throughout the
country, it may be said that no closer, more
compact, or better planned political OrganZa-
" ton has ever existed than that which," That
which is trying to carry out the INSCRIPTIONS
schemes of the vituperativo opposition, OF
course the reader will say. Oh no; not at all !;
but that which in the interest of the ex-
President, will combat the many tricks of
those who are opposed to him. There could
not be a more delicate or gcntlcmanly formula
for the expression of an awkward truth. But
suppose Mr. POtt or Mr.. Slurk had been talk
ing about the political organization of one of
the other parties How his sentences would
have bristled with ugly words and what a
murderous conspiracy of thieves, bribers, adj
vcnturcrs, liars and Judases this compact
political organization would have appeared
before he got through with it
All the rant will appear so foolish one of these
days that the Eatanswill editors will be tempted
to burn their own files. 1t seems absurd
| enough now except to certain professional
politicians, for the people are by no means SO
crazy with faction animOsities as some Of these
instructors seem to imagine. And it has
probably not escaped notice that the friends Of
Blaine, Sherman, Edmnnds and Washburne,
! both in the press and in the convention, have
carefully rcfrained from Safeguarding any
other candidate for the nomination. Before
the campaign is over the friends of General
Grant will wish they could say the same thing.