Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-15

The Hon. Roscoe COnkling Is rather
free-speaking citizen. We recently NEIL
toned the fact that Mr.. Conkiing an
n0unced in the presence OF seNeral US
tinguished representatives oil ooth par
ties that the Democrats were about 10
take control Of affairs. Democratic
journals were not little
oratitied TO learn that their expectations
for 1884 were shared by so eminent a
Republican as Mr.. Conkling. Republic
can journals. however. denounced Mr..
Conkling with mingled scOrn and ferocity.
Among our Republican contemporaries
none Is valued more highly than the Phil
adelphia Press. 1t treated Mr.. COnkling
To a rafting fire Of singing sarcasm, but
on mature deliberatiOn, singular to say,
shares that statesman's apprehenslons-
our valued contemporary recently re-
marked in calm and pointed editorial:
..The spring Of $50 saw strong hope OF
Democratic success. but il saw none so
general nor 80 widespread As the spring
OF ISs;}. Current prediction sets that way.
All the Democrats and many Republicans
share in the prophecy that 1854 will see a
Democrat elected President. This wide
sDread belief exists. There is no more use
in quarreling with it or denying il than in
turning tail 10 any other fact. Nor is ii
accompanied by that general and univer-
sal dread Of Democratic success which an
outlook of this kind has aroused in the
past
After remarking that there i consider
able alarm lest the mills should be closed
and industry paralyzed. so TO speak, in
the event of Democratic supremacy. our
contemporary pithily says: 1T is no use
10 try and protect this years planting
with last years scarecrOws. But there is
"a great deal in farming besides scare
crows" II Will be perceived that by linn
iting the efficacy of scarecrOws TO such as
may be duly approved on fabrication.
those upon which the grand old party has
80 steadily relied in the past are rejected as
worthless. The party the grand oldparty
must deserve success to whit. We have
never believed that it had life interest
In the government" There is n popular
impression that the grand old party has
succeeded on numerous occasions when
il did not deserve Ia win. notably in lS7G
and l>>o.
After bracing mp the faithful with the
announcement that the party is i'm
t0lerable condition to start business anew,
4 our contemporary suggests the following
stock in trade, which it may he wise Ia
keep ON hand;
The ISSUES are all before it where 10
/ choose. In our foreign policy, peace and
arbitration upon this hemisphere. North
and south. among nations bound by treaty
70 adjust their differences by law; protec-
tiOn 10 our industries at home, joined to a
wise reciprocity with our neighbors on
each side; equality for all American citi.
zens within our borders, and without them
the protection Of Just laws for our citi-
Zens. their enterprises and their capital: al
home, freedom for the ballOt-bOX. equality
in taxation. a sound currency. no more
silver, no more needless internal revenue
taxation. and the wise use Of Federal re-
sources for internal improvements on both
seab0ards, the Mississippi and the Great
/ Lakes alike. If the Republican party
/ rises TO these new responsibilities, and
/ proposes next year an affirmative aggres
siye policy to the country, its success will
F Ice as certain and as sweeping in the fu
/ turc as in the past
This j. an admirable assortment, but
We are inclined to think that about Sep.
TENDER, 1884, the Hon. Jay 4. Hubbell OF
some other capable solicitor will make
another .'break among the capitalists =
( Mr.. Dorsey. too, if at leisure at that time
may undertake his old job of distributing
soap" for it looks as though Indiana
would he pretty much pivotal State
about that time. Mr.. Flannagan's
+ views. too, should not be lost
sight of. for in point Of fact he
summed up the raiS0a Fetre of Radical.
( ism in his famous inquiry at Chicago
Radicalism has but one guiding princi-
( ple-the Offices, and it is the probability
I that these will 20 elsewhere that alarms
/ the Grand old party.