Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-09-24
CIR LONG BRANCH POLITICAL LETTER.

S,,rfal Correspondence Of the Sunday Register.
Lose BRNSCH, September %. Nearly
everybody thar is anybody has left here, or
=, rrepairlng to leave, but remain. Do
Won remember where We were when We left
~ ,sst week? We were taking a look at
Garfield. Ben Hill and other statesmen who
were setting up a gcnteel conspiracy to
hn;,i MP a new party with liberal South
o., contingent as an important foundation
Stone.
To the AStOnishment OF the Country
fairfield WAS nominated, and 10 the graft
r.4 aDszymcut of himself he was elected.
Then they got 1T il again. This time Blaine
.,,nductcd the negotiations on the Repub-
I,..rD side, which happened also % be the
,trruiSiratiOn side, with hundred thOus-
.-l officers 10 enforce its principles Blaine
l.gu to work. lie knows how, and he got
h., work in well. Ii YOU kept your eye
r,sn YOU saw the OutCrOp. There were
Mysterious Indications
q, .,methius which very few could get
,-a hang Of After Ben Hill-braye. manly
,r,,nw. had passed through the terrible or
t,sl ui his second operation in Philadcl-
rrtg I had a long ;alk with him, the main
i,ir,> Cf which jotted down the same
r,,bt in my Daily diary; or, every mau
E..,yn enemy." What / am telling you
a,,s not depend entirely on what l heard
from him
Not by JnSful
And | am not going to say now much of
all he told me aud now much comes from
,rLrr equally good sources. will say,
however, that Ben Hill CorrOborated the
sorry and spoke with hopeful patriotism of
.sv,., a NJ han Ron rbnniSm North
and south would go TO the wall and liberal
minded men Of both parties come together
in new relations. ] wish he had made in
the senate such a speech rs he made in the
hO,e room that night.
You remember the disgust that seized on
The Democrats OF the south
after Garfeld's election. The movement
r.-,spered under Blaiue'S management.
G,rscld wanted 20 know just where the
Southern malCOntents stood; what they
wanted and what they were willing to do
in return. Responses came in abundance,
s.l the letters have been preserved. 50
have Gariields letters, some OF which
would not be thought discreet oy Northern
Republicans. The letters written by Gar
field would have given little comfort to
Those Southern Republicans
Who preferred martyrdom TO the loss of
ONCE. Nlue letter III pa AlGuAdAs NAALNStA "
a Southern Democrat of name and station,
gave Garfield great satisfaction. 1t told
HIM that the Southern masses could be
brought in on q basis of broad nationality.
Tie war must be forgotten,
The south Must be Recognized
S. having equal rights withe the North
sni Southern men must come IN
for good share OF offices as an
earnest OF good faith. Garfield was
wiling. | know who laid that correSpOn-
Csnrs before Garfield, and who was the bear
eroi his replies. He will never tell on HIM
self After this came conference between
Garfield and certain Southern Democratic
leaders.
Platform was Agreed Upon.
The war was over. The South had acqui-
C,rrd. The result of the conflict was
blessing 10 the whole country. The North
had no desire TO humiliate the South. Old
prrjudicrs must be wiped out. Good
fellowship must be restored. y tariff for
revenue only is fraud. The RepubIi-
can rartv Is right on the financial question.
A lair distribution OF Federal patronage,
These are the points Of the platform. |
could give them more fully, but 1t IS not
necessary. This is enough. You see how
tie cat was jumping. No name was decided
On Tor
The New Organization,
hut twas 70 break out in fury in 1881.
The further Blaine got into it the better he
liked il, and the less Garfield liked his
kindly way OF taking TO it. He fancied 1t
even less when he Saw how the Southern
leaders in the business took to Blaine. IL
Vas q sort of John Alden-MileS S-andiSh
business in politics.
Blaine Caught ON with the southern
Leaders.
And the Southern papers were willing
10 take hand for him. They were not
enthusiastic for Garfield. l have in mind
four newspapers that were particularly
wanted in the pool, and each one was par
t.cu'arly reluctant 10 90 in. Every one OF
them lodged his chief objection on Car
fields record. We needn't say much OF
that now, but you know that ugly things
were said, and many people besides
CreduIOus Democrats Believed Them.
Gulteau came in as the arbiter OF Gar
fields destiny, and then it was compare
lively plain sailing. Blaine captured the
meeting. The newspapers which had OBJ
rrred TO Garfield whetted their knives and
proposed to do some slaShing for Blaine
They didn't care 4 nickel about his bloody
shirt speeches. He was willing to stand on
platform acceptable to them. He was en-
gagged in Southern development. He
wanted
Plenty OF Tariff,
aud public sentiment in the South was tax
ing rapid strides in that direCtion-getting
back "a where John c. Calhoun stood before
lie took ii into his perverSe head to try q
little multiplying. And this reminds me l
saw q letter the other day in which Andrew
Jackson said that if Calhoun hadn't quiet
Td down il was his intention TO have
brought him TO Washington and
strung Him Up
in the White House yard l suppose Gen
eral Jackson wouldn't have respected the
little tOrmality Of catching Calhoun before
hanging him. But Calhoun is only incl
tentally in the deck we are shutting now.
Blaine is catching. You can't be near
him without getting it. He fired the
g"ntlemanlv conspiratOrs with enthusiasm
which hasn't run out yet. His boom IS
being engineered quietly but Persistently
through the South. IL the Republican
convention
Gives Him the Nomination
50 much the better. He will have bigger
base Of operations. II not, the other course
IS open. Ii elected as the Republican
candidate he is 20 carry out the original
compact, give the South chance, and try
his hand at a new party. This is the
scheme. You and are not responsible Tor
It's success. II is enough for US TO outline
Inc programme and 10 assure our friends
hat we've got il straight.
See How Blaine worked it
In Maine Frye wanted to manage the
Campaign. Blaine allowed him to take the
helm, and encouraged the idea that there
was desire on the part Of the younger ell
ment 10 onst him from the leadership in
MS State. Two weeks before the election
certainly up TO the time Blaine began to
lA!S-the outlook for Republican success
was deeply, darkly, beautifully blue A
Ceieat would not have
Broken BIaIne's Heart,
But he ''coppered' here, hedged there, and
and located himself so pleasantly that in
any event he stood to. win. LOng.headed
nan, shrewd politician, James Gillespie
pane. Well, Maine went hell-bent'
bIa!ne'S is the honor and his the increase.
IN the strength of it he was at once invited
Sy General Beaver, Chairman Cooper and
senator Cameron to enter Pennsylvania and
sur up the faithful. He can draw bigger
crowds in Pennsylvania than any liy-