Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-11-15


march at the head of the Republican organ
iZation they have toppled over both the
creatures and the creator in one common
ruin. Until the Republican party learns
wisdom in the school of adversely, or until
the Democratic party exhibits an equal
disregard Of the rights and interests Of the
people, it cannot hope for renewal of the
public confidence"
The people who have taken the work
in hand of purging the civil service are
not likely to be deceived by the effects
of one dOse-they will, doubtless, make
the purifying process very thorough,
and the one question with the Republi-
can party is whether it will have suffi-
cient vitality to survive the unloading
process which has been demanded of it.
On this point, the New York Herald
says:
The Republican machine is not smashed.
Nothing is smashed excep. a single batch
of the nominations. The machinery by
which Mr.. FOlger was nominated in New
York and Mr.. Beaver was nominated in
Pennsylvania has not been "hurlei" into
any abyss" II continues to exist in per-
feet running order, and if Republican State
Conventions were now to be summoned to
elect delegations to Republican National
Convention it is capable of grinding them
out OF Just such a pattern as Mr.. Arthur
and Mr.. Cameron should please to order.
Reform within the Republican party"
is unaccomplished until the organization
of the party is wrested from such men as
now control it."
The New York Times comments in
the same vein, as follows:
1T will probably be found that the poll
ticians who have been accustomed to di-
rect the operations of the machinery of
party management will not be readily
shaken off. The system that has been in
vogue for generation gives them strong
hold, and so long as the head of the ma
tional Administration is welded to that
system he is able to do much to block the
way of reform within the party. Ii the
President were a man who sympathized
with the tendency of public sentiment
which made itself so manifest on Tuesday,
or if he were quick to recognize and willing
to promote it, he might exert a powerful
influence toward the party transformation
that is desired. But if he is to use the
power and patronage of the Government to
sustain the very men whose conduct has
contributed to defeat and to prevent their
displacement in The party councils by those
who represent reform sentiments, he will
stand in the way of any recovery of party
strength. The attitude of the Administra-
ton can not fail To have a material effect
upon the movement for placing better ele-
ments in control. 1t could lend it power
ful aid, and it may present barrier against
it hard to overcome"
The view of the situation taken by the
Administration itself is thus also given by
the Times:
Mr.. George Bliss has a representative
character. Whatever he may claim or dis
claim, he is known to be in the confidence
of the President as perhaps no other man
is. He may not speak for Mr.. Arthur, but
there is such a sympathy and mutual un.
Outstanding between them that we may be
sure that what he says represents the
opinions of the distinguished city politi.
clan who now occupies the seat to which
Garfield was elected. This fact alone gives
special interest to his utterances. Mr..
Bliss was asked yesterday to give his views
upon the present political situation, to
state how he accounted for the Republi
can overthrow of Tuesday, and in regard
to the future of the party. In reply to the
latter question he said:
IL have little faith that the control which
has been given TO the Democracy by the
result of last weeks elections can be wreSt.
ed from them prior TO the next fresidcn.
tial election. My feeling about that is this.
The men who feel to-day that they have
been stricken down by the acts of their
fellow Republicans are, l am afraid, so hu-
man that when next year or the year after
some one of those fellow Republican,
comes up for support, they will be apt TO
apply 10 him the same treatment which
has been applied to Fslger. For instance,
suppose some man comes up as candi-
date who is recognized as Blaine
man. Can there be any question thit
a sufficient number of Republicans in tn.
State OF New York will be either hos
State from being carried by the Republi.
cans? Would not the same thing prevail
in the case of Cornell man, il indeed Cor
nell has sufficient political vitality to con-
tinue factor in the Republican problem?
The same would be true in the nation, and,
therefore, all that seems to me to remain
would be the nomination Of some neutral
man with no CO or, of good character and
little ability-some second Hayes-and I
think there are enough Republicans in the
country who would be determined not to
support any man of that character TO in
sure his defeat. These are my vie VS. of the
prospects. am not depressed by them,
because think the country can even stand
one term Of a Democratic administration.
These are the views Of the situation as
reflected by leading Republican sources.
On the part of the Democrats Senator
Baysrd sums up the situation as follows:
Believing in parties only as means
20 an end, my earnest hope is that the
Democratic party, which has now had long
training in adversely, may fully compre-
bend the situation and not be.ittle itself by
classifying the late elections as mere party
triumphs. 1t matters little how the result
was caused. II illustrates the power of the
people acting in their primary capacity as
citizens at the polls to relieve themselves
from bsd rulers and evil methods by the
peaceful forms of election, and this Vindi-
Gates the American principle of govern
ment. The result now IS to throw the cen
troll of the governments of the group
Of Central States - those chief in
wealth, population a2i political influence