Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-06-03
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The factions which now divide the
Republican party are irreconcilable.
The Republican party 10 spht.
The breach cannot be healed by The
rstura Of CONFUSE to the Senate, or By
his defeat. :.
Between the GARFrELD-BLAISE gang
and the GRANT. CoSKLISa gang there 70
a great gulf fixed.
On one side are GARFIELD, BLAINE
and the spoils. On the other side are
GRANT, CoSKLINe, CAMERON, LOGAN
and a desire for spoils.
When political organization is he'd
together by nothing stronger than the
cohesive power OF the spoils, and dis
sension arises over the division, there
is nothing TO save it from going to
pieces.
II the Republican party were called
together in National Convention to-mor-
row to nominate a President it would
be the most bitter pandemonium ever
enacted in politics. They would fight
like hounds over bone, and wind up
with organizing two opposing factions
to fight each other to death.
GRANT & Co. and BLAINE & 20.
represent within the Republican orga-
nization two nearly equal divisions OF
the Republican party, which are more
hostile toward each other than are the
Democratic and Republican parties.
Through the influence Of this conflict,
New York has already been wiped out
OF the list OF Republican States as clean
as with sponge.
But the demolition will not stop here.
n the GARFIELD BLAINE faction propose
10 follow out the programme they have
announced OF building mp an Admin
istratien party" throughout the States,
to the extirpation Of the Bosses and all
other political influences and agencies
which do not acknowledge uncondi-
tional allegiance to the powers that be,
they must necessarily come into conflict
with the CAMxRoSs in the great State OF
PENNSYLVANIA, and with the LOGAN
cohorts in the great State OF Illinois, and
although the Administration may sue
coed through the power OF patronage in
defeating the unfriendiy elements in its
own party, it cannot utterly destroy
them, but simply pulls the temple down
on its own head by removing the chief
props upon which its party rests.
We need not look so far ahead as the
next Presidential campaign 10 see the
results OF this Kilkenny fight. Fit has
not already destroyed the Republican
majority in the Forty-seventh Congress
We are much deceived in the outlook.
Is anybody so charitable as to sup
pose that if CoSKLrNG and PLATT are de-
ieated in New York through the opposi-
ton of the administration, that the Stall
wart element in either House OF Con-
gress will help to organize Congress on
an administration basis next winter?
Is il characteristic of the GRANT gang to
pay off their debts by helping their en-
emies?
Neither, in fact, need any such aid be
expected ii Mr.. CoNKLING should by
any possibility manage to secure his re-
election. 1t is safe, therefore, to assume
that irrespective OF other considerations
which are bound to exert a large adj.
verse influence, the administration has
already destroyed its prospects for hav-
ing Congress in harmony with itself;
and if three months Of GARFIELD and
BLAINE have been so fatal to Republic
can harmony, what may not We expect by
the time Congress assemblies in Decem-
Der? Will the Stalwarts, Half-Breeds
or-Democrats organize itP