The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-08-11
Republican Harmony

It Is wonderful how soon oblivion |
covers the memory of the dead; with |
what alacrity place hunters desert the
cause of fallen statesmen, when the
dark pail has shut him out from the |
busy walks of life and he is no longer
powerful to minister to their wants or
expectations. No party, people or
faction are more willing to allow the
dead past to bury its dead, than the
Republ tcan party of to-day. This is
demonstrated by the change from Gar
field and Blaine to Arthur, Conkling
and the cid Grant ring, which is now
on exhibition, fixing the slate for 1884.
The old stalwart wing of the party are
masters of the situation; they have the
places and the organization and will
not release the ono nor give mp the
other, but unsparingly use the panty
lash to bring to terms the refractory
Hhalf breeds"
Should Arthur be renominated, as
present appearances indicate, the " half
breeds" would be asked to forget all
about his being turned out of the New
York custom house by Hayes in order
that the Office might be honestly adj
ministered; they would be expected to
shut their eyes to the painful truth that
he vetoed the Chinese restriction bill;
that he set his seal of condemnation
upon certain Of our improvements and
defeated needful appropriations for the
improvement of the rivers and harbors
of the Pacific coast. They would
be expected to Grace from their memo
ries the weeks of suffering by the Po-
tomac and the death at Elberton Of the
murdered President, while Arthur was
closeted with Grant and Conkling,
forming his administration and devils
ng ways and means for the escape of
the band of thieves who for years had
been plundering the government and
who the brief administration of Presi-
jdent Garfield had unearthed and ex-
posed to such an extent as to mako q
prosecution necessary.
SO dexterously has the party lash
been applied that even here on this
coast the Oregonian, a paper that
made some pretensions to respectability,
is forced to eschew its opposition to
BtaIwart bossism and swallows the old
E.ing, with all its corruption and nasti-
ness, where only a few short months
ago it detected blood stains on the
Presidents robes and publicly de-
claimed through it's columns that the
opposition of Conkling, Arthur y Co.
to Garfield's administration was the
primary cause of his assassination. II
at this time finds itself at loss fol
choice expressions to sound the praises
of that great incubus, as the presi
dental party approaches the Pacific
slope Take the Oregonian then ant
now and one is forced to exclaim
Consistency, thou art a jewel in th'
Republican household, and it is wei
that the bretheren should dwell to
gether in harmony, that the peopl'
may be robbed of their substance
The pressure that has been brought t,
bear on the Oregonian an(
other leaders of the "half breeds
is not so mysterious but that it can b
seen by the naked eye. Having cap
tured and whipped i'll the refractor'
leaders, the rank and file will be ex
pected to march up to the polls AM
vote the ticket straight, just as tn
bosses dictate, and that without mui
mur, whether they like it or not.
The stalwarts having received sue
setback in 1880, will not permit of
repetition in 1884, and so thorough
are they executing the work they hav
in hand, that it will be impossible fo
any considerable opposition to the rln
to get ssats in tho convention Of 1884
There will be no dark horse this time
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