The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-07-28
while the two parties are preparing for
q new National contest. = Butaio
Courier.



The Decay Of the Republican Party.
Our esteemed contemporary, the
Tribune, processes to be satisfied with
the prospects Of the Republican party.
1t said yesterday:
Having nothing to hide, it can nominate
fed with its history, as circumstances in each
case may dictate. 1t will net be foolish
enough to pretend that in every particular
President Arthur. has met its highest aspira-
lions, and yet II will have no occasion or de-
sire to disavow or diaown that Administers
ton, az whole; or any other; on the con-
for the general conduct Of the Government
under tho present Administrator"
Who are these "new men" in the
Republican party that can be nomi-
natedp Who are the "old" leaders
long identified with its history" Of
whom the Tribune speaks?
Has the Republican party not been
lately engaged in physically, mentally
or morally assassinating nearly every
one of its former chieftainsp Is there
a single former Presidential candidate
or leader sslong identified with its his
tory" left aliveP
Take the Presidential candidates at
the Chicago Convention. Is there one
of them still seriously considered?
Blaine, Grant, Washburne, Window
and Sherman were the five principal
contestants at Chicago. Where are
they now!
Grant, the great ''s:Ient man." now
dabbles in stocks as the silent partner
OF brokers in Wall street.
Blaine, the formerly popular ''plumed
knight, " is out of the Senate, out of the
Cabinet. ont OF his former element, re-
tired to private life, absorbed in build
ing railroad and writing book.
Window is out OF the Treasury, out
OF the Senate, ont OF his former State
ana out OF all PRESIDENTIAL possibility,
trying to make living IN Mall street
py forming another stock exchange.
Sherman, though in the Senate and
. man OF ability, has lost his prestige
ana prominence he Is no longer In
the public mno-
Garfield is dead-murdered by Re-
publican spolls politician.
And where are the Republican candf-
dates for the Presidency in lS76-whers
are they!
Morton Is dead.
Brlstow-who even remembers that
br1stow once was the great "reform"
candidate for the Presidency with Sc
rIous prospects OF successP BrIstow--
well. brlstow Is pretty completely out
OF politics.
Conkiing, the abiest and most daring
leader OF them all, has retired to prac-
tice law.
Hayes, who carried on the prize and
served through his fraudulent term, has
sunk into the obscurity to which he Is
so eminentiy fitted.
Who. then, is there left OF the ''old''
republican leaders!
Edmunds seems to De the last OF
the Mohicans-the only one OF the old
chiefs who still has political life and is
But the Tribune speaks ct "new men,
the Republican party can nominate.
Who are the new men wh1 have
taken the places OF the old chiefsr
Is 1t. perhaps, the great and distin-
guished Senator Miller, of wood-pulp
fameP Or is it the great and distin-
guished Senator Lapham, OF this State?
DE Is q new man, indeed, as successor
70 Conkiing.
Or IS it that extraordinary mediocrity.
keiferf Or is it ex-Secretary Robson,
the leader OF the last Republican House?
or did possibly the 1rt6use mean SEN
ator TABOR, OF Colorado, the latest of
the new Republican stars, Senator's
and leaders,
The decay OF the Republican party b
Natural causes; ronnca parties de-
Penu upon ieaoers ana issues: All the
ISSUES mat nave enabled tne nepupncan
par.y 70 lenaln - power lor Tue last
lwsn'y Tl years are pracucaily set
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