Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-26
Tie Next Presidential Campaign.

About this time four years ago the Re-
publican family was badly divided on
the third-term question. and each side
was vigorously preparing for the ''bat-
tie royal which occurred at Chicago.
The high enthusiasm and thorough Or
ganization of the third-termers seemed
to promise an easy victory. and their
organs talked as glibly of what the new
Administration would be and do as if
Grant s nomination and election We're a
foregone conclusion. This counting
of chickens before they were hatched'
continued up to the day the National
I Convention met, and not until the neck
of the hen had been duly and truly
wrung did the Ihird-teraners wake up to
4 realizing sense of their obstinate folly
and its consequences. Even then they
could not or would not understand the
causes of the disastrous defeat, and
persisted m attributing to .'treachery
and fraud what was simply the logical
result of eight years of Grantism. So,
instead of accepting defeat gracefully
and shaking hands with the victors.
they grumbled and growled, kicked
and cursed, and finally were only
whipped into the traces by the dread of
Democratic success. But they never
forgot nor forgave those who had
spoiled their plans, and compelled
them to eat humble pie, and dur
ing Gartield's brief term his bit
tefest ass;tilants were the men without
whose efforts and influence he never
could have been President. The pecll-
liar circumstances of his death tempo
rarly suspended hostilities, but these
were renewed before ,..the funeral baked
meats had grown cold. What the
ballot box did not do for the Stalwarts,
the assassin's bullet did; and they at
once proceeded to make the most of
their unexpected luck. a. AS soon as Ar
thur had laid aside his mourning gloves
and note paper, he dismissed all the
members of the Garfield Cabinet except
Lincoln, who happened to be the only
Stalwart that Garfield had admitted to
lis council board When the big heads
had dropped into the basket the little
ones followed, and very few anti-Stal-,
warts are now feeding at the public
crib, save in cases where the office is,
not worth having. SO matters went on
until the Administration candidate for
Governor of New York was buried be-!
meath n hundred thousand Democratic;
majority; the Republican ticket else
where faring little better. Since then
Arthur has ..gone Slow and the Stall
warts have contented themselves with
occasional thTusts at their enemies. by
way of reminding them of the wrath to
come. There has been no compromise,
and the two factions are practically as
wide apart to-day as when the third
term business fell at Chicago never to
rise again. .....,. .a.s|
1t remains to be seen how the family
fcud will be patched up for the approach
ing Presidential campaign. 1t is evil
dent that no man who was conspicuous
and active in beating Grant in 1880 can
be nominated with the consent of the
Stalwarts in 1884: and equally evident
that no man conspicuous and active in
pushing Grant can be nominated with
the consent of the anti-Stalwarts. AS
it will be hard to find a Republican of
any considerable prominence and popu-
larity who did not -commit himself with
more or less emphasis to one side or the
other, the selection of an available can
didate will not be an easy task, and the
chances for a good deal Of Republican
bad blood before and during the Con-
venfion are encouraging. Blaine an
nounCcS nlUScl1 ttS Ottt Oh Inc
ial ring. and it is certainly time he was;
but as he has plenty of friends to re-
ward and enemies to punish, his power
is sure to be felt when the opportunity
arrives. On the other hand, there is
Conkling, soured and surly, waiting to
s'oet even" with his rebeilious subjects
in New York, and determined to have a
candidate of his own stripe or make
things lively for the party. Logan and J
Cameron. too. are on the war-path and j
will take several seal ps before the fight !
is over, even if they lose their own; so |
that from present appearances an ocean
of oil will be required to smooth the
troubled waters sufficiently to insure The /
ship safe andhappy sailing. /
MEANWHILE; we may observe, the Re- |
publicans have given up all hopes of !
breaking the solid South, and the eX- !
pertinent SO .fragrantly illustrated by i
Malone and Chalmers is a confessed |
failure. So the probabilities are that /
the Southern de e@ates to the Conven- |
lion will be treated with much less con-
sideration, and have much less weight |
han in 1880: which must, to some cx- I
tent, assist the anti-StalWarts. How :,
ever, the full strength of the Admins
.FitloH IS HkelS 10 Dc l1fOWl tlntO tle
opposite scale, thereby restoring the
oalance and leaving the forces Of the
1elligerents nearly or quite equal,
which means q sharp contest, in which
40 quarter is given or asked. i
Though Democrats are not rs united
Is they ought to be, their union is COM
)lete, hearty compared with that of
he Republicans, and the points of Diff
ererce can and will be easily recon-
;iled. If the party will cut loose from
leaders, treat with con-
empt the dictatorial advice of self-ap-
pointed organs, reaiiirm its old princi-
oles for an all-sutiicient platform, and
ION nate a ticket which Enthusiastically
epresents these principles, a Demo-
ratio triumph next year is assured. All
he signs now look that way, and moth
ne but great and inexcusable plumbers
an neutralize the effects of Republ can
ascension and generalization and drive
ictory from the Democratic banners
Il. Louis Republican.