Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-12
-. ,.taslrr EmtelI:Ie,1rel,
THURSDAY EVENING. OCT. u. 1892

THURSDAY EVENING. OCT. u. 1892.
The Republican Breakup.
The leading Republican paper of st.
Louis, referring to the condition Of its
party in Missouri, candidly says:
'What the Republican party in this
state needs to-day IS peace within Its
own ranks, ''and noticing this statement,
Boston journal remarks: d" That seems
to be the great need of the Republican
party everywhere" Just so. This
once invincible political organization is
ia the condition of man in the prime Of
life, as to years, but physically, men
tally and morally all broken up" 1t
is not only in Pennsylvania and New
York that grave trouble exists, but all
ominous condition of affairs is to be
noted throughout the country, as a
call of the states I" will develop. Let US
see.
In Maine the Republican factional
quarrel became so bitter two years ago,
that in the midst of a heated presiden
tial contest, the state was lost to the
party in September, and was only recov
cred in November after a desperate
struggle. 1t WAS successful again last
month, but by reduced majority, and
it is wei! known that the rarai lead
ers have only pooled their issues fs'
the time being. In New Hampshire a
fierce internal contest has been going on
for several years, which will culminate
a. the coming election of a United States
Senator, a prize which Secretary Chand
Ter has determined to ruin at any cost
In Massachu setts where the Republi-
can majority used to range from seventy
to one hundred thousand, the party has
recently made a narrow escape from open
rupture, and it will BE- thankful if its
candidate for governor runs the race
against General Butler by Il neck. In
New York the fires Of internal rrvulu
tion are burning furipusly and no i,!-
telligent observer could expect any
thing hut overwhelming disaster at the
polls i'll November, as the fitting reward
of Arthurism. In New Jersey tie Re
publicans carrie the Legislature ir
1880, only to tear themselves into pieces
over the United States senatOrsh;p, and
tod ay, between Robesonism at one end
of the state and Walter Phelpsism at
the other, the party is steadily losing
ground.
In Pennsylvania the conflict between
the machine and the d;sinterested, honest
voters is irreconcilable. The bosses have
heard their death warrants read, and in
return they will pull down the pillars of
the temple. In little Delaware even Re-
publicanism has become synonymous
with factionaIism of the tirrcest kind,
a1d in Maryland the party has not known
pelce and unity since Creswsl! was given
the rank and emoluments of boss in
the Grant caoiEet in 1859. In Virginia
one branch Of the party has committed
Mahoneicile and the other is having the
life choked out of it because it will not
do likewise. From the CarOlinas clear
round to Tennesse, not excepting that
state, nothing in the shape of an efficient
Republican state organization is to be
found. Everywhere the party is torn
into fragments and franticalIy clutching
at all sorts Of Inconsistent, disreputabla
and illusoTy coalitions" and in the
few congressional districts, where it hap
pens to retain, temporarily, majority
it is torn and rent with Mackeyism, Kel
logism and Chalmersism.
Ohio has been heard from. In
Indiana there is no peace in the
Republican family. In Michigan Jay
Hubbellism is becoming a heavy load
for Re3u5Iicanism. AS to Iiliuois, Sem
ator Logan's irrepressible bossing pro-
pensities, local corruption III party
methods, and the prohibition issue has
made sorry work of the Republican
party in the great prairie state. Through
Matt Carpenterism, though the senator
is dead, and bossism, Wisconsin has
been made doubtful state. In Mis-,
souri, the Stalwarts cannot agree even
among themselves, and are engaged in a
desperate fight over the federal spoils.
Colorado, the youngest state in the
Union, and not yet out of political pima
fores, has been iseized by ambitious and
reckless Republican bosses, backed up
by the administration, and Republican
factional fight rrecipitated that can
scarcely he sablued, even on the sur
face, before election day. In far away
Oregon the Republicans carried the Leg
islature only to get into bitter quarrel,
already disgraced by open vena!ity ever
the United States senatorskip.
What a Kilkenny cat spectacle is thus
presented by bird's-eye view of the
party of great moral ideas and national
regeneration, from ocean to ocean and
the lakes to the gulf. In less than ten
states is it at peace with itself, and the
root and cause of its destroying and con-
suming internal troubles is the spoils
system. The party is being torn in
pieces by place-holders and p!acehunt
ers, who, in turn, are hc:ly broken or
the wheel by their betrayed. disyraced
and indignant followers. P,liiica! his
tory may be searched in vain for an il,
stance where party ever recovered
from such volcanic d;sor.ier. 1t IS a
mass Of factional fire and its days are
numbered. II it Can no longer control
itself in three fcurths of the states n.