The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-02-23
Tho Much TaiLed Of Combiaation Ticket


1t was absurd tosuppose that there could
really be any foundation for the report sent
out from Washington 10 tho effect that
serious movement was on foot to nominate
Blaine and Voorhees, on combination
Presidential ticket for 1891. Still the report,
absurd as 1t was, Is one Of tho straws that
show which way tho wind Is blowing these
days. Party sails are tapping idly in the.
breeze. There Is no issue, not even the
tariff the Democrats will not disclose
any further on the subject, and the Repub.
Iicans arc by no means unanimous as to
what they should do on the matter Of
tariff revision. There is n notable lack Of
party spirit. The old Issues Of the war are
80 far faded as to be almost invisible. Presi.
dent Arthur did not even allude to the
South in his message, something that has
notoccurrcd before since 1861. He assumed
that the two sections were at peace, both
sympathetic and sorrowing over the death
Of Garfield, and that there was nothing in
the local situation at tho South to be re-
marked upon in his message. He there
fore devoted himself to the country at large
as a whole, not particularizing as to sec
tons.
No doubt the result in Virginia has had
much to do with the talk about Blaine, Of
Maine," and Joe Brown, Of Georgia, us
another and alternative combination ticket.
1t would be better ticket than the former,
il there was any necessity for instituting
comparison. There is no such necessity,
for the reason that there is ne likelihood Of
any such combination being seriously en-.
tertained by enough public sentiment to
make it respectable.
The people do not want fantastic ex-
hibition Of reconciliation between the sec.
tons. An em Of good Telling is not forced
to manifest itself in that way. The eternal
fitness Of things was violated by the Demo.
Gratis in 1872 when they took up Horace
Greeley, and the result Of that campaign is
too well known to encourage a new expert.
ment. The Republican party need not 60
out oil its organization to give the whole
country assurance by the character Of its
nominees that it means to be thoroughly
national. The present temper OF public
sentiment is fast producing such men in
both parties, and it is between a set Of
candidates otthis national character, taken
fromtthe two Sides that the choice Of the
people will be made in 1854.
The present indications arc that the
political unity Of the South is broken up,
and that all that the people OF that section
will hereafter desire will be candidates
who shall not be run on the issues Of the
war, provided nothing develops itselfme
while in the South to justify revival Of
Northern apprehension. II there is a fair
vote and fair count in the Congressional
elections this year. the contest OF 1854 will be
in every sense national one. The fact that
the men who were elected in the South By
fraud and violence are being weeded out
Of the present Congress, will 60 very far to
insure peaceful and legal result this year
in that section. This is all that the people
Of the United States desire or expect.
Malone and his followers stand pledged
in Virginia to a perfectly free and fair
election. This fact has had its influence
already, and will have continued influence
in the South. Brown, Of Georgia, is pro-
fessedly on the same side, and he went so
fur the other day as to vote with the Re
publicans in the Senate against the nomi-
nee Of his fellow Democrats. This was
interpreted Us an earnest of his intention
to cultivate the Independent sentiment
now showing itself in Georgian fact all
over the South. 1t is not to be supposed
that he was bidding for support for a
Blaine and Brown movement for
1854. The old Governor is too shrewd
politician not 10 see that the nominee
for Vice President next time, after the
death OF President SO soon after his
Inauguration, must not stand in an incon-
gruous relation to the ticket. The people
will demand homoCeneity for the successful
ticket, whether they choose il from the one
side or the other but as events are now
shaping themselves, tho men elected will
have to be thoroughly representative Of the
WEAKNESS Of the public Of all war issues
and their determination to have, il pos
sible, an era Of cordial national feeling
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