Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1880-02-18

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Government they propose means =
ruler who will not be restrained
either by laws or public opinion.
and /; Is altogether fit that neither
law nor public opinion should be
consulted in the process Of impOs-
ing such g mab upon the country.
II Is now settled beyond donbt
that the fifiy-eight votes Of Penn
sylvania will be cast in the Repub-
lican Convention for Grant and the
third term, with al they imply.
Mr.. Cameron is On pathway
where there is no halting place.
To hesitate is TO be lost, TO doubt
Is TO be damned. He is now
doubly, irretrievsbly committed.
The defeat Of Grant at Chicago
would be far more disastrous and
humiliating TO Cameron than
would have been a defeat at Har-
risburg. He assured Grant, and
be assured his own followers, that
the voices Of Pennsylvania would
determine the result, and they
crushed all independence Of judg-
ment, all liberty Of action, all pop
ular sentiment in the State, in or
der TO force this voice, false and
simulated, yet loud and strong,
through the iron throat of the ma
chine. To fail now would be the
ruin Of all concerned to surrend-
er or even to compromise would be
70 abandon the machine to utter
destruction. Mr.. Cameron cam
not turn back, IL he would. for the
good reason that greater peril lies
that way than the other. Mr..
Quay, bis own lieutenant, who
went South with his instructions
to look after the fraud in 1876, and
was bis right hand at Harrisburg,
illustrated the desperate nature Of
the struggle when he boldly init
mated the other day that there
could be no failure with Grant;
the Congressional count Of the
votes would be disregarded by him,
and he would take the presidency
Of lis own motion If in bis opin-
ion be had been, or ought to have
ureU, elected. That the conspiracy
goes this length, and was design
ed to go this length from the be-
ginning, is shown by all the meth
DDS of the conspirators, and es-
pecially hy their logged and threat
ening defiance of public opinion
in their own party.
Nor is there anything TO be
hoped from the personal manhood
or the political independence OF
the other candidates. John Sher-
man had 10 strength in Pennsyl-
vania, nor has he much real strength
anywhere. He will back off when
ever be can trade bis office-holding
delegates into the Grant column to
the best advantage. OF Mr.. Blaine
other things were expected, but he
has shamefully disappointed the
country. The Republican party
of Pennsylvania was unmistak-
ably and overwhelmingly for him,
and the preference was represent
ed by a large majority of dele
gates in the Convention. They
did not even require to be led ;
they only wanted permission to
fight, to have smashed the machine
to atoms. OF the Philadelphia
delegation one only was for Grant,
while forty-fve were declared
against him, yet they were all
made to vote for him against their
own judgment and that of their
constituents. Will any man con-
tend that a corrupt and treason
able set-up like this could with
stand batrering even of the feeblest
kindi But it was not battered at
all. Mr.. Blaine's cause was basely
given away. Had he committed
it to the keeping Of such upright
and fearless men as Koontz, Ewing,
Mcpherson, or even Strang, the
result would have been entirely
different. Bot he had selected for
his manager an obscure person
named Hays, who opened head
quarters where delegates were de-
moralized by being told that Mr.
Blaine desired bis friends to take
only what Mr.. Cameron would
give them. This was the work
which Mr.. Blaine's leader outside
the Convention did for Mr.. Cam
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