Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-11-04

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the leaders Of the GRANT element. Then
the leaders OF the GRANT element visit
GARFIELD at his home. Then active
work begins. The party uni.es its forces,
and even GRANT himself breaks his
constitutional silence and actually be-
comes stumper for the nominee which
he and his hackers had heretofore even
80 much as refused to congratulate on
his nomination.
Now between The nomination OF GAR.
FrLD at Chicago and the reconciliation
of the GRANTEES at Mentor, an impor-
tant change had been wrought III the
public sentiment.
The real issue OF fae campaign bal
been obscured. The people had come
to believe that Grantism had been de-
ieated and annihilatel. They no lon
ger regarded the issues which divided
the Chicago convention as OF import
ance. They even failed to observe that
the defeated faction OF the Chicago con-
yention had resumed its leadership in
the party, were holding the reinsf and
doing the driving.
Even vet, the people DO no: perceive
that it is not GARFIELD but GRANT that
has gained TIE victory for the Republi-
can party.
They 10 not perceive that il is the im-
mortal trio, CoSHLISG, CAMERON and
LOGAN, who led the 500 in the Chicago
convention, who have resumed leader
ship and control OF the Republican
party.
They do not yet comprehend that the
man at Washington is and will be SIM
ply the plastic agent to execute their
purpose and policy Tor the next four
years.
But let us say I, those Republicans
who desire u anticipate the future, that
the man who now throws up his hat for
GRANT and GRANrIsM will find himself
in complete accord with the purposes
and policy OF his party in the campaign
OF lSSi.
With the leadership OF the party again
in the hands OF the experienced, astute
and resolute GRANT faction, the Maine
defeat was the opportune event for
arousing the rank and file OF the party
from one end OF the country TO the other.
The host OF olliceholders, from the most
Insignificant clerk. 10 the lat salaried
revenue official, who felt their offices
slipping from them, poured their contri-
buttons and assessments in
to the party fund for
MOULDING, buying and enforcing adhe-
zion and support to the party upon
which they depended for their daily
bread. We all know how the money
was applied and wha; effect it wrought.
What Maine did to arouse the Repub-
lican party on the one hand, it did no
less to delude and defeat the Democratic
patty on the other. The campaign OF
the Republican party became aggressive.
IL made determined, desperate and
unparalleled effort 10 capture Indiana
and thus offset the defeat in Maine. The
energy, the tact, TIE boldness and the
success OF the Republican campaign in
Indiana scared the Democrats
oct OF their boots. They abandoned
the issues upon which they had won
and held the public favor. They al.
lowed the country TO forget that the can
didale whom the Republicans were
seeking to place in the highest office OF
the country was the man whose politi-
cal friends had branded with perjury,
bribe-taking and corruption in public
office; to forget that he was the most
prominent agent and actor in the revo-
luton by which the election OF 1876 was
set aside; to forget that his whole polit-
icsl career proves him to he
trimmer and charlatan through
whom al that has been
most disgraceiul in cur political
past, all that is most shameful in the
present, all that is most dangerous in
the future, has been aud may be accom-
plished through his election tothe Presi-
dency.
1t was easy for the experienced and
able leaders OF the Republican party,
already in power, with all the machinery
of the administration in their hands,
with all the money and monisd inhn-
ences and agencies Of the country at
their command, to maintain their advar-
tage and to appropriate whatever benefits
the country seemed to have derived