The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-06-11

The rmperielists and Their Opponents.
The people are so generally rejoicing
Z, over the defeat Of General GRANT at Chica-
70 that they are for the present obliv'ors
Or The met that the leading representative
men Of the Republican party ola III they
could to impose upon the country GRANT
dynasty. CoxKLIEo, CAKE Aox, sad LOGAN,
ere the men who up to this TINA have been
authorized above oil othefs 70 speak for the
Republican party. They have had COM
maud Of the Republican aIschine. 1t was
their hand that was always upon the lever.
II Is stiIl there, we suppose. They did
II Chicago all that man could do to secure
the bexiuuing Of rule Which almost every
body thinks would hav~ ended in imperial.
Ism.
We would not be ugjust to the Republi-
can party. As we Sid the other day, 1t
was the people Of the Republican party that
saved the people Of the whole country the
trouble Of putting c'ae seal OF their condem'
nation upon the ambitious, naughty, ana
insoleut leaders who were ready to drag
their country down into the pit OF ruin In
order to gratifs personal greed and love oil
Office. The asti.imperialists in the Chicago
Convention made gallant fight and won
glorious triumph. No fault can be found
with them Mr.. BLAINE particularly has
earned the gratitude OF the people by
the courx,e, zeal, tact, perseverance, and
ability which he exhibited In an arduous
contcstof months duration with the pow
erful ystrfisan potentates who assumed TO
rule the Republican party. No other man
in the Republican ranks could have pre-
vented the nomination Of General GRANT.
1t was not In the power Of any other to
have won victory over the Imperialists.
AS HENRY VII. was In 1856 the one man In
England who by marriage and inheritance
combined In himself all the qualifications
which were necessary to quiet the title to
tbe crown, and bad himself slain the crook
ed.back tyrant on the field OF Bosworth,
thus putting an end to all internecine
feuds, and establishing succession that
was never disturbed until JAMES ii. abdi-
Gated the throne, so Mr.. BLAINE combined in
himself in this land and In the year 1880
all the qualities which were indispensable
in the man who was to save the United
States from the evils OF third term, and
the southern people from the terrors Of a
third-term campaign, and so be slew the ty-
rant GRANT In the Chicago Convention. Let
US hope that as ii was two hundred years be-
fore there was any break in the line OF sue.
cession thus established, so it will be at least
as long before any third.term aspirant will
ever again have respectable following in
this country. The parallel stops inst here.
HENRY enjoyed the fruits OF his good for
tune, and founded the House OF TUDOR.
BLAINE laid the foundation, but another
man built upon it. We trust, nevertheless,
that 1t will not be GARFIELD, but the nomi-
nee Of the Cincinnati Convention who will
be the beneficiary in the end.
Mr.. BLAINE and his supporters have thus
put an end to the GRANT dynasty; but
Messrs. C0NKLING, CAMERON, and LOGAN,
and their allies, deserve none OF the credit.
The Democratic presses and speakers must
hold these latter up for the condemnation of
the voters. The conspiracy against the peo-
pie must not be forgotten nor forgiven.
Upon every stump, the charge must be
brought home to them. They failed to con-
vert our republic into an autocracy; but
their failure constitutes no excuse for their
premedtated and intended crime. They
did all they could, and did not succeed only
because their strength was not equal to
their will. They must be branded as
guilty OF treason to the free institutions
OF America, and their names must be handed
down TO posterity as those OF enemies to the
true interests OF their country. The Re-
publican party must purge itself OF such
leaders, and remand to private life all adj
vocates Of imperialism, or else the Demo-
cratic party must make the country too hot
for the Republican party itself. II the Re-
pubIicans wish to clear their skirts OF the
faint Of Imperialism, they must denounce
and renounce the OeNXLIYGs, the CAMERoNs,
and the L0GASs, and all the others OF their
leaders who came so near establishing a
third.term party at Chicago. The Demo-
Gratis must aid them in the work OF purging
their party by never allowing them one
moments peace until they have depOsed
their imperialist leaders.