Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1880-05-08
no TINE FOR BLENDERS.

| iifical parties arrayed against earh 9th
, er, both hoping for victory. yet neithe
having enough advantage over the 9th
. er TO give it an overweening confdenc,
in its own success. Yet should republi
. cans put forward first class men at Chi
, cago, and the democrats do the same n
Cincinnati the republicans will hav,
quite large advantage.
| But should there be a mistake M j,
at Chicago, should man be put at tn,
head Of the ticket. who cannot carry Tho
full strength of the party in the north
ern states. it may result disastrously to
us. The people have confidence in the
cardinal principles of rcpublicanism
and the party can point with pride ia
its past record point TO n mighty ma
ton which it has saved can point to
the millions of men and women whose
freedom it has brought about can
point to many reasons why it should be
trusted. Upon the other hand the his
tory of the democratic party, for the
past twenty years, is one continued Sc
rics of blunders. Yet. Notwithstanding
all this. a mistake at Chicago might re-
suit in placing the party of blunders in
power ; at least we cannot afford to
take the risk.
The Chicago convention meets first,
and the democratic convention coming
nearly month later, gives the demo
cratS an opportunity to take advantage
of any mistakes we unfortunately might
make. We cannot always trust TO blum
ders on the part of the democracy; there
may be time, and that time may be
near at hand, when they may learn wis
dom. and it is wrong to attempt to dis
g,,ise the fact that there is danger.
The American people are changeable !.
Why, in the single state Of New York
there is sometimes change of more
than fifty thousand votes in two success
i've elections. and there are thousands
upon thousands of Independent voters
throughout the country who have been
voting the republican ticket. who may
be driven from it by an iniuaicious nom
ination, at Chicago. These are men
who vote from principle-men who are
not favorably impressed by hero wor-
ship-men who cannot be carried by
party enthusiasm. and it depends upon
the action of the Chicago convention,
whether this Independent vote is for lis
or against us Indeed it depends in
great measure upon the action of the
Chicago convention whether we are sue
cessful at all, or not.
We must have candidate who is ac
ceptable to the independent votes of the
northern states man who can
carry the full strength of the party III
such states as Ohio. Indiana. New York
and Connecticut, otherwise. if the dem
ocracy make wise selection at Cincin-
natl. we will have our battle to fight
with the chances equally in favor of the
enemy, for he who counts upon many
electoral votes for our ticket in the
southern states, will find when the ides
of November come, that he has counted
without his host. Hence there cannot
be two much wisdom brought to bear
in the deliberations at Chicago for &
single blunder may be fatal to the sue
cess of the republican party
1t is fact as proven 10y the history
of our elections for some years past that
when we can get ont the full republican
vote we are victorious. and that it is on
ly when we fail to do so that we are de-
feated. The man who can carry the /
independent votes and work up such !
an enthusiasm as to bring out the care
less and lukewarin, man tried and
true, is the man we want at the head OF |
our ticket. and with such man victory
is assured.
THE POLITICIAN VS. STATESMAN. !
Though really synonymous terms,
popular use applies the latter to the
genuine public servant, and the former
to the spurious. Nearly every yalua-
bic article of commerce has its counter
felt. and every noble calling its spurious
representatives. As soon as God mad ,
ordered for man religious service,
with priests to conduct it, then the dev
il had for man religion, a! l!so, and
priests with more gorgeous ritual-a
close counterfeit of the genuine. But
no calling is so nulnerously and vicious
ly misrepresented as true statesman
ship.
tn detect the S,uriouS IF nuSt ba