Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-15
The Situation.

ately look over the field and note the
salient features of the situation. There
is no Disgusting the fact that the Chi
cago nominations fell still-born upon
the masses of the Republican party.
While the selection of either Blaine
or Grant would have aroused the
most unexampled enthusiasm in every
portion of the country, the nomina-
ton of General Garfield was received
only in mild astonishment, and in some
influential quarters with unqualified
and open disgust. The rank and file
of the party were not familiar with
either his name or his deeds, while the
leaders of Republican sentiment knew
entirely too much of both. The NOM
ination was the outcome of passion,
and was made without a thought as
to the strength or fitness of the man
whom accident enveloped in the man
tie of leadership. The determined
men who planted the banner of the
old Commander above their heads
withstood the shock of battle with
Spartan heroism, and when the final
break came they were found as solid
and compact as when they smilingly
received the first fusilade of the ene-
my. They did not contribute to the
mistake, and they now show little or
no disposition to come to the rescue of
the men who perpetrated this hideous
blunder upon their party. The i'm
perious senior Senator from New York
sulks in his tent as he perfects his
arrangements for extensive travel in
foreign lands, which will cover the
summer and extend far into the au-
tumn months. Carpenter is suddenly
overwhelmed in the meshes of large
ly augmented law practice, which ut
terly precludes him from even pausing
for moment to endorse his candidate.
Our own Don, broken in health and
spirit, reflects in elegant leisure over
the ingratitude of political parties as
he proudly waves aside the gift bear.
ing Greeks who come to him from the
fountain Of power to tempt him from
his retirement. Forney's trenchant,
glittering blade flashes in the sunlight
as he kindles the patriotic fires of 1868
upon the hearthstones of the grateful
people of his native State and city.
Pearson feshes his maiden sword as
a champion of the Democracy, and
summons in ringing sentences the
brave soldiery of the Republic to the
standard of Hancock. The lines
of the opposition are sadly broken
and there are yawning spaces here
and there which tell either of actual
desertion or defiant insubordination
The tried and trusted Captains who
were wont to lead these serried legions
to victory are not visible, and the
symbol of authority is welded by
those who were unknown in the re-
cent battles of our hereditary foe. 1t
is relief to turn from the confused
and struggling columns of Republi-
canism to gaze upon the matchless
proportions of the army of constitu-
tional liberty. Never in the history
of the great Democratic party has it
presented so striking and brilliant
picture as it does to-day. From the
Lakes to the Gulf, from the Kennebec
to the Columbia it is the same. Unit
ed, enthusiastic and confident, the
Democratic h&ts are marching, with
the resistless sweep of an Alpine avail
anche, to an assured and splendid VIC
tory in November. The ingenuity,
craft and cunning of the enemy are
alike impoteut to arrest or check this
onward movement. Blundering organs
have sought in vain for some flaw in
the armor of our candidates, and have
neither spared truth or exaggeration
in their endeavor to mix some kind of
mud that would stick. Forged inter-
views, bald and awkward inventions,
fictitious letters and wholesale lies
have all met the same fate. General
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