National Republican., 1882-10-21
one of these editorials will be read with

interest.
[From On editorial in the New York Tribune Of
August n, lSsi.l
Tho Bourbon notion of respectabilty seems TO
vary with occasion and circumstance. Accounts
from Virginia represent that they are just now in
great distress OF mind for fear the Republicans OF
that State will disgrace themselves by association
with those very disrcpuablo persons, the Read.
justers. I" The tender regard they exhibit for
the reputation and character of the Republicans is
quite phenomenal in the history of Southern poll
ties. They Nre exceedingly anxious lest the Vir-
ginio Republicans should bring discredt upon
the Republican party Of the Nation by allying
themselves with Democratic faction, which does
not recognize the Bourbon standard of political
honor. "Do anything but that" they say. Run
ticket Of your own; nominate candidates indo.
pendenlly fany such iniquitous alliance; cnndi.
dates whom we should be proud to support-if we
hadn't n ticket of our own; only do not do not
overlastingly dishonoryourselyes and the gIorious
old Republican party by voting with the dis
reputable anti Bourbons." The only real
inducement offered tho Republicans TO play into
the BOURBON hands by AN INDEPENDENT TICKET, is
that thereby they will gain the respect Of Me BoUr
bohs aud escape the contamination of what Tho
latter consider disrcputuble alliance. Tho Bour-
bon sollcitudo for the reputation Of their oppo-
ncnts is beautiful to behold. The question is
phether Tie Virginia Republicans can be caught 6y that
kind Of chgG.
Then the Tribune was Garfield organ,
and echoed his wish. Notv it is Blaine
organ, and, presto, change, it calls it
"abusing Garfield to say that he ever
agreed with what it then snid. Mr..
Blaine himself was silent then. The Re-
publican party heard no protest from him
against coalition. He knew the election
then to be held was to decide the debt
question; that the legislature to be
chosen would pass the Riddleberger bill
if the Coalition prevailed. But we heard
not sigh from him about what he now
slanderously calls " the reputation wing
of the Democratic party" Now, after
the Riddleberger bill has become law
and the debt question has been settled,
he rushes into the arena to cry out against
continuance of the Coalition, without
which he knows Virginia would go back
into the hands of the Bourbon Democ-
racy. We have not yet done with the
Tribune. In its issue of August u, 1881,
the day after the adjournment of the
Virginia Republican State convention,
there appeared the following editorial:
The regular Republican convention at Lynch
burg finished its work early yesterday morning
by adopting an excellent platform, and in obodi-
ence to the clearly oppressed i0Rl Of The Republican,
party Of Virginia, deciding to support the anti
Bourbon ticket. The boilers at Z late hour NOM
mated General Wickham for governor and Major
fost for lieutenant governor; but these gentle
men, although connected with the So called
"Straightout" movement had too much sense TO
put themselves in the ridiculous position of can.
didates tCithoM party, and positively declined to
accept the nominations Then the little gather
ing Of boilers, calling themselves a convention,
showed for the first time n streak of sanity, re-
solved that 1t was inexpedient to nominate q
ticket, and adjourned sine die This action leaves
only two tickets In the feld-the Bourbon Demo.
cratic ticket and The Ant Bourbon ticket Endorsed
by the regular Republican convention. The
Republicans of Virginia, whether they have here.
tofore called themselves Liberals or straighouts,
will not hesitate moment in making choice
between those two tickets. The election of one
means the perpetuaton of the intolerant reaction
AIRY, dishonest Bourbon rule that has cursed the
State for decade the success of the other means
free Schools fair elections, and era of social
political, and industrial progress.
This will do for to-day. We shall here
after reproduce another editorial from
the Tribune of August IL, 1881, in which
the folly of Straightoutism is ridiculed,
and the regularity of Coalition demon
strated.