The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-06-29
THE NEE

The perusal of the recorded proceedings Of
the Cincinnati convention cannot but inspire
as the predominating feeling in the mind Of
every democrat a sense Of sincere satisfaction
with the ticket presented, but still more with
manner in which the ticket was agreed upon.
For months we have anxiously awaited the
convention. For months we have felt our
selves now inspired by hope, but again preyed
upon by fear as occurrences transporting III
the world Of politics might be interpreted
one way or the other in giving a favorable
forecast. or the reverse, to the mOmentous de-
cislon to be reached al Cincinnati. Was the
"machine' to prove all powerful in shaping
the convention proceedings? Would our
tirst-class men be found divided, as the re-
publicans were, by luminosity so bitter as to
preven mt the selection of any one Of our lead
ers. and force lis at length to bring out some
fourlh-class candidate as the weak compro-
mise reached in a war of giants? And,
finally, was the convention to be character
lied by a spirit of moderation or the reverse,
would its proceeding show thai wisdom had
been learned in the hard school of adversely,
or would a manifestation of the olAxeSellious
spirit alarm the loyal people Of the north,
and drive them back into the ranks of the
republican party, the party which thousands
would have left ere this if they could only
have felt satlified that the democrats were to
be trusted: These questions lave lately been
occupying tile minds Of thoughtful, anxious
L.. -.t, n,.J ,rI,o, ,ra Etl tL,,, n ,,e,r,ra
and ind the answers more favorable han
even our most sanguine hopes would have
dared suggest, it Is no wonder that bontires
are lighted and streamers thrown to the wind;
that the thunder Of artillery wakes the even
ing echoes and that popular orators are called
forth to give voice to the peoples joy.
The convention, viewed in The aspect of its
moral ELECT upon the party's fortunes, Was
all that The purest, the most devoted Uf acii-
oclats could have wished il to be. The ''ma-
clline"-that moualrosity born of republican
misrule in the evil days following the war,
and partially adopted by a certain wing OF Our
party-dih not even venture to prcsen3 itself.
Reading his defeat in the uAreservcd express
sion of public opinion in tlic pages Of the
party press; knowing himself rejected Of the
people and his methods condemned by the
popular conscience, the hero Of the cipher
dispatches did not allow his name to be for
mally presented before the convention. In
this lie manifested a better Judgment, a keener
Discrimination than that evinced by the can
didaLe of the republican machine. Although
he is not without his reward, inasmuch as by
SO doing he at least saves his personal dignity
from the overwhelming ruin experienced by
Grants prestige a. Chicago, his withdrawal
t by no means saved The machine itself. The
Cincinnati convention was ii condemnation
in actions more eloquent, more impressive
> than mere words could be, of the attempt tt
saddle machine rule upon the democratic
. party upon The party whose very essence 0
y vitality is the doctrine that the great mass o
the people acting through properly chosei
Il representatives should rule, and it will be
{ lon. time before another such attempt i
made. Thus to have relieved our party Of it
{ cold Ma of the Sea- and at The same tim
t to purify it of the Ubiquitous boss government
weakly copied from the republicans woul'
seem quite enough to accomplish at one coun
! Gil meeting of the party chiefs. But when t
i this we add that harmony within the part
III lines has been restored; that warning faction
&c have been reconciled repellant fragment
N reunited into one homogeneous whole, an
that the great democratic party with unbroke
~ front, discipline aud organization perfect, hi
'' been brought on the field in magnificent ba
tie array for the struggle of November, the
it really seems as if our good fortune wei
ra too good to be real. We feel half incline
IN closely to scrutinize passing events to see
es they do not contain the germ of some futu
st misfortune whose effect will be to reduce OIL
III
nd party prospects to something like the plane
aai which a week ago the predictions of goo
nd judgment might have assigned them. But l
lid such i'll promising omen of disaster is to