The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-09-17

The conference If Republican chiefs
IN New YORK. and the counsel that they
Individually and collectively offered. IA
Tact thrust upon the party. were fruit
fEl IN warning. Once more that great
parry takes it, stand ur.on the old worn
cut sectional Issue which ha- - lone
neen a disgrace 10 our country. re-
pruaeh ~ the governing elements and
= PAR ~ perfect reconciliation and zen
era prosperity. We have enough
faith In the better instincts Or some IL
these Republican leaders to believe thar
n that consultation they took this s,..r.
they fted 70 this dernier resort with r.
luciance. AMI only after thorough con
vietiol that everything else had failed.
But the deai Cid has done service once
or twice IN It's martial winding sheet.
and Il has now reached point where il
betray~ itself. not alone hv its rhastlv
textures. but ~ is unmistakabie os!or
~ decay What a fail for party that
can point with prisies) 10 many tri-
umphs- - BE- reduced 70 the extremity
Of raaSacking the charneI house Tor an
Issue that has no more vitality TODAY
than the old question Of embargo. Yet
when these men hal looked upon the
situation in AL is bearings. from their
standpoint. AMI hal considered one
with another the dangers and the
chances they saw nothing left for them
~ - p-Ir bring out again that raunt
and CORY emblem under which they had
nlarshaled in the past. ISLANDERS and
falsehoo.ls. and fears and ku-Klux
alarms
We 1re aware that very larye pro
portion ~ Republicans who 10 not
make politic~ \ trade have supposed
that se-.ionalism was 10 be left out az
account General Grant. ia his south
ern tour. found every reason 20 treat IL
a. thing q the past and 20 expressed
himself Even Garfield. when bidding
torthe Presidential nomination. through
the sober sense ~ the people. deplored
a revival of sectionaliSm. fsut the men
who direct his political fortunes have
agreed with him % adopt new kew
note They appeal from their Philips
sober and viewing the situation with
minds 10 wnich reason il given fair
competition with prejudice. to their
Philips drunk with political excitement
md in the frenzy II desperation. DO
my think that we exaggerate2 Let rs
Zee what their foremost men said al the
New YORK conference. Mr.. Blaine
'tafet the issue 10 be whether .the /
mem who fought the civil war shall sur
Iender 10 the men who fought against
he Union-r As Mr. Logan viewed I
T. the question was whether ..the
oval men Of this land. who stood \
~ her Constitution and flag when
wori and flame were applied 10 her
emple. or .the rebel army and the
;opperheads Of the North shall have 4
i-ht ~ govern this country Mr..
HERMAN said il is whether .the Re-
'ublican party shall resign 10 the solid
Ouih- headed BY Wade Hampton and
he KH-klux Khan. and little segment
= the Northern States calling itself the
iemocratic party" General Harrison
nid i j. chow wc will defend Wash
1gton against the enemy that once
opposed il in arms And thus each
,0k turn At the same old monotonous
rtion- They have nothing else. and
1is has long ceased to be an issue
serywhere except in the imaginafions
organs stump speakers and cam
aign correspondents We do not be-
eve such wretched and putrid lies can
2 again made to supply the place Of
Boston Post.
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