Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-19
A CANDIDATE OUTSIDE OF POLITICS

A CANDIDATE OUTSIDE OF POLITICS.
 The various factions of the Republican machine are busy laying plans to capture the esting to know what the Independents pro- pose to do about it. Do they intend to sit quietly by and let the machine politicians arrange the whole matter Most likely not They have recently made some important discoveries. They have found out their own strength. They know, to say the least, that they are sufficiently numerous to control the election. They have shown themselves mas ters of the situation in the great States of New York and Pennsylvania and they are in Q fair way to turn the scale in Massachusetts. Holding the balance of power in the decisive States they have the key to the presidential campaign, in other words they have it in their power to dictate the nomination. Let them but set to work to do it and they can force the machine to accept half-breed can- didate. The so called independent element is really the party. How much was there left in the party in New York when the Inde- pendents voted for Cleveland? Outside the oficeholders and party-workers almost every Republican is independent. Why should the great mass of the party submit to the con- trol of handful of professional politicians :?
 The party newspapers are busy discussing the claims of this and that leading politician. We do not know what sort of a candidate the Independents will want. As yet they have given no sign. But why not drop the politi- cal hacks, each and all of them. Why not nominate somebody who is not politician at all. The people have had enough of politicians. They have little faith in any of them. Why not choose some man distinguished in the field of letters or in the eommercialworld or in the professions-some man of recognized ability and integrity wholly outside of political circles? The ma chine papers will say that such man would lack experience. That is just what is wanted. The less experience hs has had with the pre- vailing political methods the better he will be liked and the more he will be trusted. Everybody knows that scarcely anyone has in these days obtained any important politi- cal preferment without pulling wires, making corrupt bargains or spending money. At all events no one gets an office without wig OEOuS4H ScoA1uk "Ay S4Ou4A H0 HUI Aht0 presidential candidate who has never done any of these things, and who is not open to the suspicion of having done any of them one whom the office seeks and who is not seeking the officer
 It is historical maxim in the country that party leaders make poor candidates. The most popular presidential candidates have IL old Whig party was led to it's greatest vic- tory by William Henry Harrison, man scarcely known to political circles. General Grant got his nomination by exclamation from the people and that too when it was hardly known to which party he belonged. The New York Sun is taking a wise course in booming William s. Holman for the Democratic nomination. It could scarcely have chosen Democrat in public life who is less of a politician than he. The Sun, always quick to feel the public pulse, has found out that the people don't want political hack. At first the Sun used up good deal of space in discussing the proposed principles of the Democratic platform. It directs it's entire attention now to the candidates. It has evil dently made up it's uniad that the candidate is the most important thing in the coming canvass. Years ago the platform was the first thing, but the people have ceased to pay any attention to platforms and letters of &C., ceptance which say everything without meaning anything.
 The ground swell of independence in the re cent elections indicates just one thing. The people are tired of the rule of bosses and rings and mean to shake it of. candidate who is Giistinctively not 8 politician is the kind of candidate that is wanted and will be about all the platform there is any need of'