Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-23
EFFECTS OF PARTY FEUDS.

EFFECTS OF PARTY FEUDS.
The fact that Bob Ingersoll declares his
preference for Sherman as the Republican
candidate for President in 1884, is signif-
cant. Ingersoll is Blaine's ''other-self,"
and this declared preference, but repeats
the wish of Blaine. There never can be
harmony in the Republican ranks
while those Titans of the
party, Blaine and Conkling, exist
and act in it. Their fight with each other
is irreconcilable Blaines s'turkey-c ock''
speech many years ago, has cost him the
Presidency. Blaine, despairing of the can
idacy himself, wishes to trot out Sherman
to antagenize Grant and Sherman.
Blaine and Conkling cried a truce during
the campaign of 1880, but the truce
was broken, and war declared with
fiercer intent than ever, when Garfield, un-
wisely, called Blaine into his cabinet.
That act cost Garfield his life, and wrecked
the party.
The irreconcilable element of discord in
the party, growing out of the unappeased
and unappeasable hates of Blaine and
Conkling, place success in 1884: out of the
question. Whoever supposes that Conkling
is no longer power in party politics
speculates unwisely. He can defeat any
candidate not to his wishes, and he
will defeat any candidate that has the
Blaine brand upon him, even though to do
it, he fccomplishes the final wreck of the
party. This is not patriotic, but it is
simple, blind, unreasonihg hate.
Now this is the. opportunity of
the Democracy. Wisely used, sue
cess is within reach The Republican
party is not wise enough, nor strong
enough, nor coherent enough to cast both
their Jonahs overheard, and reconstruct
the broken ranks with bosses and their
''annexes" left out. If the party were wise
enough to do TINS, there might be hope OF
its continued life, if not of it's immediate
success. When two unreconcilable warning
elements have been exalted to leadership
in party, to subordinate, or to undertake
to subordinate one to the other, will inev-
itably lead to irretrievable disorder. Both
must be eliminated, or hope of success has
no possible survival. This, then, is the
situation.
The Republican party is handicapped
beyond retrieval. Sinbad the sailor was
never more fatally oversloughed by the
sOld Man of the Sea-" than is the Repub-
lican party by these fatal clogs. Neither
Of these men have magnanimity enough to
bury their quarrel for the good of the par
ty, or to retire from active participation
in party cabals. If the Re-
publican party, like patient
ass, prefers to plod on under this load, let
it take the consequences.
The feud has resulted in the death of one
President. It will forever prevent the cleo
ton of another by the party. The party
is too far gone for patriotism ever again to
take the place of personal likes and dis.
likes, d, and indispensable hatred.
This has arisen from long
lease of power, and the
creeping in of the direst personal, party
and political corruption.
It is time for party to rise controlled
by purer, better element. It is time to
put the welfare of the people above mere
personal aggrandizement. It is time to
give patriots. not partisans, the helm. Elm
the rejuyenated political fervor of the De-
mocracy would now seem to be the nations
hope. If not, how, when and where is help
to come? How else is demoralizing cor
ruption to be- set back? How else are
better days, like the better, purer, more
patriotic days of the republic to be again
enjoyed?
Let the thoughtful, the cautious, the
wise, ponder these things and shape
their future party conduct y in
accordance with the true principles. of a
popular government, now writhing in the
tolls of the spoilers, and demanding relief
from the people. acting on the great. un-
DERIVING principle of self-preservation.