National Republican., 1882-08-26

attentions with thanks. The Bourbons
who are running Massey in Virginia aud
Stephens in Georgia and Greenbackers in
Maine and Michigan will be very likely
to hunt up some broken-down Repub-
lican to run for President in 1884, and
they may employ renegade Republicans
to trot him out, so that they may seem
to be liberal in indorsing him; but Mr..
Blaine has not given any evidence Of
political insanity to justify the suspicion
that he has any thought Of follow
ing in the footsteps of Horace
Greeley. The Straightouts can never
serve any other purpose in 1884
than to be the decoy-ducks of the Bour-
bon Democracy. The regular organiza-
ton of the Republican party of Virginia
is now hard at work with its co-laborer,
the Readiustcr party, and both have
again fused this year into Liberal Adj
ministration party. This does not mean
an Arthur party; it means the govern
ment party. A failure to comprehend
this simple proposition is what muddlcs
the narrow minds of the mischief max
ers. But as in 1861 Stephen A. Douglas
and his associates who sustained the
government were known as administra-
ton men, so in 1882 Malone and his as
sociates who stand by the national cause
as against Bourbon provincialism call
themselves administration men. The
Sun correspondent (no doubt Straight
out vOunteer) says:
Malone and Edilebcrgcr will be Arthur men
in the Republican convention IN 1854, just they
now, and for the same concise and satisfactory
reason. No wonder, then, that Blaine is against
them. IT Is, indeed, currently reported In Vir-
ginia that earnest has Blaine been i'll this mat
ter that the Straishtouts are prepared, if neccs-
sary, 10 go to the Presidential convention as
iolters, and compel that convention to choose be-
| tween Mahoncism and Republcanism.
Tho Straightouts can never have n
| standing as contestants in Il Republican
National Convention, for the same reason
that the Democrats cannot; and that is
that they form no portion of the Repub-
lican party. This the merest tyro in
party laws and usages knows perfectly
well. In 1884 ii aciN be for Me National
Committee Of the Republican party to decide
whether its call for National Contention
shalt jnritc to a participation IN the election
| Of delegates ALL WHO ARE OPPOSED TO THE
RESTORATION OF THE Bourbon DEMOCRACY
TO POWER, or whether only those
who htve been orthodox partisan
Republicans shall aid in the selection of
Il candidate for the Presidency. The Re-
publicans, unaided by other opponents
of the Bourbon party, cannot carry the
electoral vote of q single Southern State
Aided by Liberals who do not call them
selves Republicans, but who desire to act
with us in maintaining national au-
thority, national ideas, universal cduca-
ton, and universal suffrage, we can give
Bourbon Democracy its final quietus
llide-bound partisanship will do well
to commence realizing the fact
that those whose votes are wanted
in 1854 must be included in the
consultations as to aCho shall be yOtea for
The Republican party of the North will
never heed those malcontents who are
arrayed against the regular Republican
organization of Virginia solely because
majority party, which stands on as ad
vanced principles as does the Republican
party itself No Presidential aspiran
will want to make electors impossible in
a wild grab for delegates. The Straight.
out party of Virginia is but little faded
flower. Its manipulutors cannot get it
stock on the political market even by the
pretense that it is being bulled by i:
"blind pool" with Mr. Blaine at the
head
That some may think your story true,
| Keep probability in view.