The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-09-09
THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

There IS an able article In the St.
Louis Post Dispatch, on the political
situation. The Post Dispatch, is an
Independent paper of Democratic pro-
clivities. The Post was formerly owned
by Carl Schurz. When he was APP
pointed Secretary of the Interior the
paper was consolidated with the Dis
patch, and is now edited by Joseph
Pulitzer, who, we believe is brother
in-law of Secretary Schurz. In dis
cussing the political prospects, he says
"Judging from the regular party
organs, there is no doubt whatever
about the overwhelming election Of
both Hancock and Garfield. But as
both cannot be elected, who. will be !?
What is the real situation p
In answering this. question the POST
Dispatch states the fact that nearly
three months. have elapsed since Gar
field was nominated at Chicago, and
over two months since Hancock was
nominated at Cincinnati. Enough has
been developed in this time to show
that the grave personal charges of
venality against Mr. Garfield make no
Impression on Republicans. Every Re-
publican leader and journal insists, in
the face of the most embarrassing Re-
publican testimony to the contrary, that
Garfield is as white as snow and as pure
as ice, and with the honorable excep-
ton of the Springfield, Massachusetts,
Republican, even the respectable indie
pendent journals, like the Nation and
harper's Weekly eat their own words
Of previous condemnation to whitewash
Garfield's dark record.
From this the Post Dispatch con-
cludes that the contest will be close,
though revolutions never go backward,
and the logic and force of ideas go for
ward. What ever effort or struggle the
Republicans may make it cannot exceed,
and can scarcely fully equal the des-
perate and unparalleled contest Of
1875. The. irresistible, though slow
tendency since the close of the war has
been toward change,-toward the re-
storation of real self government, to-
ward liberating people from the fanati-
cisin, tLe passions and prejudices of the
war toward the sunlight of new issues
and liberal ideas, and away from the
cemetery of the rebellion. The great
est enemy of the Republican party is
silent, but invincible. 1t is time.
Every year that passes away since the
war buries thousands of passions and
hatreds and reduces the vote. Every
year it becomes more difficult, more
unnatural, more monstrous, to insist
that war which closed fifteen years
ago, is still the leading issue of the day /;
that party which comprises a great
majority of the American people is
reasonable ; that the country is as
much i'll danger in 1850 as in 1860, and
that practically the Republican party
must remain in power forever.
From this reasoning the Post Dis
patch concludes that the Republicans
will carry Maine next week, and of
course Vermont; that Colorado will
also go Republican in October, and that
the Indiana and Ohio elections will
show about the same result as in 1876,
Indiana going Democratic and Ohio Re-
publican, and that Hancock will carry
New York, New JERSEY, Connecticut
and Indiana in November, and that he
will have 203 Electoral votes, or a ma.
jority OF 10. precisely as Tilden had in
1876, bat that the eighteen votes of
Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina,
will not be stolen by'Returning Boards,
and that General Hancock will be in
anguated On the 4th of March next.
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