The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-07-21
Cyci0nic Democracy.
JUNIUS.


compass at this juncture in its hapless
wanderings, the needle undoubtedly
dips and t1utters and capers in the
most bewildering way. There are so
many fellows with lightning-rods up,
and so many others heavily ballasted
with Presidential lode-stone, that the
best regulated compass in the world
would be of little use in such an era
of botheration and speculation. If
the Weather-cOcks of the party know
anything about the present condi-
tions. the wind is blowing hot and
cold from at least a dozen different
quarters at one and the same time.
With the wind in this incendiary
frame of mind and the needle of the
party compass as tidgety and as ex-
temporaneous in its movements as
the traditional bed-bug, little wonder
is it that the old party is little I'M
steady in the matter of head and legs.
Mr.. Dana has started an innocent
little wind movement of his own in
Ohio. He has discovered that Judge
George Hoadly is rising man, and
intimates that he will, if elected Gov
ernOr, become as formidable candi-
date for President as Hays became
in 1876. But Mr.. Dana twists the
tail of his incipient cyclone and shows
its animus when he says: 1--WE con-
tess that we cannot look without an
impulse of regret at the prospect of
young and less substantial man rising
suddenly into a position that we have
often hoped might sooner or later be
allotted by the people of the United
States to that noble veteran of public
lie --.-s- - ->------~-.->y, --a.oII ~. AIur- I
man, of Columbus -
o, man of the crocodile tears with
the big bandanna waving in the back
ground, there is not Democrat in
Ohio but will understand that little
vancouver. If Hoadly can be put
forward in Ohio, Thurman and PEN
dleton must 60 to the rear as Presi-
dental aspirants. 1t will be easier to
kill HOadly in the convention of 1884
than Thurman, therefore the Demo-
Gratis who do not want an Ohio can
didate will cheer for Headly. This
is in brief the plan of Mr.. Dana for
settling the Ohio question.
The situation in Indiana is little
more complicated. The aspirats in
direct line are Hendricks and DcDon-
aid. Both have been in training for
long time, and their respective adj
herents are ready to fight at the drop
of hat. The prescription for this
trouble forwarded from New York
was to turn the hose on the combat
ants. In other words, the scheme was
to throw cold water on the Indiana
movement by declaring that it was
the will of the Democratic party that
the old ticket of 1876 be renominated.
This spectacular programme did not
find favor in Indiana, not even with
Mr.. Hendricks, and certainly not
with Mcdonald. If it did not meet
with approval in Indiana what shall
be said of the way it was spat upon
in some other Western States?
The New York World sheds little
light on the reasons for recent change
in ownership by taking hold of the
Hoadly boom with firm grip. On
the World theory Hoadly is such
favorite with the Germans and the
anti-temperance people generally that
he will call out more than party
vote. Against this the Ohio friends
of General Ward and Judge Geddes
emphatically protest; but there is
something in the wind that Judge
Hoadly's friends regard with suspi-
cion. While their noses were high
in air, waiting for developments, Mr..
Henry Watterson let the kitten out
of the sachel, as it were, and the cy-
clonic disturbance is like unto the
whirllng recklessness of dog trying
to catch his own tail.
Mr.. Watterson was sent for and
went to Gramercy Park in a sorrow
fnl, sympathetic state of mind. But
he found Governor Tilden with
bright eyes, rosy cheeks, sinewy in-
tellect, incisive wit, and the endur-
ance of a soldier trained to march
forty miles day. The ablebodied
and sinewy-minded Tilden took Wat
terson in hand and took him up stairs