The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-09
THE POLITICAL WORK AT CHICAGO.

by the Adonis of national notoriety he en-
tered the lists against the "Plumed knight
and others. and for one week his drlll-master
and ade-de,camp, with his assistants, Cam
eron, Logan, and others-with zeal and
devotion worthy of better cause, in the very
heats of June, sought to impress upon the
American mind the beauty Of their "banner
with the strange Device" They urged the
claim with faith that seemed akin to East
ern idolatry, for the man, Mr.. Conkling asserted
in the convention, whose "name is the most
illustr,us borne by living men" for man
whom ex-senator Howe recently pronounced
"the foremost man Of all his age, stand
ing upon the mountain top and on whom the
eagar world had set the seal of primacy,' for
a man who islands upon the highest emf
hence of human distinction, and whose re-
nown has filed all lands and has made the
titled and the lowly in the uttermost parts of
the earth, rise and uncover before hin"
And yet in the face of all this, truths let it be
conceded, the American idea, American
virtue, rises grandly superior, and in the full
ness of patriotism rebukes a spirit whose
tendency is to inject the poison of C@sarism
into the political veins of the Republic.
Thus, before we had reached the degeneracy
of our Roman progenitors, the "Man on
Horseback" was stopped on the other side of
the Rubicon, and in the presence of
ten thousand spectators and fifty
millions of people the Spartan
hosts of the opposition broke in upon the
solid phaanx of ell-disciplined and obedient
troops that the Xerxes of Grantism or its
SYNONYM Third ,termism, with such crushing
effect that not for generations to come can
we quarry from the American mind the
smallest amount of third-term ore. When
we consider how great how felicitous an OPP
portunity was afforded to "the foremost man
of all the world" to add to his glory-wreath
one flower the more, to add to his coronet of
Jewels one gem the more, one that would
have been the brightest, the purest and most
respondent of them all by opposing this ar
bitrary bossism of "Aut Caesar, aut Nullus,"
this repellent doctrine of imperialism and
how thus emblazon with true greatness
and the grandest of patriotism, he might
have photographed in fadeless colors his
name and his deeds in the hearts of all his
fellow citizens who had before
so honored him, we are amazed
at the slaughter that was prepared for him
by his own scquiesance. He had been
warned by some ofhs less selishly ambitious
friends, of his fate but despite Of that he
went like the mighty and increlulous julius
to fall at the base of Pompey's pillar, like
the self.reliant hero of Jena and Austerltz
to meet his Waterloo defeat, and that too, in
the very shades Of his home. So much for
the representative of an idea now shown to
be so obnoxious to even those who originated
and who advocated it. As to the lessons to
DO read of the convention thus far, they
blaze with the light of hope for the Democ-
racy. The Chicago National Republican
convention may sugar-coat the bitter pill
which the Maine knight-errant has to
swallow, and.do other things to civ" an APP
pearance of solidity, but resolutions
of this character are but the veneering to
bite the weaknesses of the actuslity behind.
When Mr.. delegate Pixley, of California, said
the other day that the delegates in Music
hall we're "worthy only of France and the
Commune" he not only administered sting
ing rebuke, but he intimated the idea that
the final result of the want of harmony there
portended the fate that almost invariably be-
falls communistic bodies. There must in
eyi;ably remain sulks and sorts that it will
be difficult, it, indeed, possible, so to cure that
Republican unity can overcome the quarter OF
amillion maj ority which the country gave to
the Democratic nominee nearly four years ago,
That General Garfield, the nominee, is in
every way an able man, his record as orator,
politician and statesman, Invertebrates the
most uncontrolled proof. But that he is
imbued with unfortunately bitter feelings
against the South is equally true. How ii
was that he obtained the nomination rs the
dark horse, is inexplicable, except on the
principle that many one who comes into
church last secures front seat. But Gar
| fields devotion to Sherman and his consistent
course in the past did much to start the aid
| for him when it was found it could not ayai
where first applied, and added to this perhaps
the other idea that "He is an Ohio man.
Who will be the nominee for the Vice. Pres
dency we cannot state at this writing, but al
indications point to the fact that there vii
be but little contestaton over choice. w,
assume, on general principles, that it will b
nm Eastern man, possibly Collector Cheste
Arthur, the friend of Mr.. Conkling, whom
the stalwarts will doubtless be desirous o
couciliating, while at the same time cndeav
orirg to secure the important State of New
York For the rest, let the country rejoice
and be exceeding glad that thu
fungi of imperialism that threatened Il
spread the cancerous evil over Republican
patriotism has been cut out by the roots; lie