Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-12-15
LIGHTLY.


Under the heading, History Will Re-
peat ITSELF" which is the ingenious for
''History Repeats ITSELF" the Reno Jour-
nal says:
The Republican National Committee
met at Washington yesterday and elect
ed Senator Sabin of Minnesota Chairman.
Chicago was selected as the place for
holding the convention, and June 3 the
date. Garfield was nominated at Chi
cago.
Our n~eighbor should beware Of edge
tools. Garfield was nominated at Chi.
cago, and he was elected President of the
United States in due course of time
afterwards. Victory and party glory so
far. But the memory of Chicago in 80
is not all a pleasure to our political
friends. 1t was there that the great
chiefs of the Republican party were put
aside for a new nan They went away
crashing their teeth and breathing con.
tempt for their hall. breed %conquerors.
It was at Chicago that the Republican
party, harmonious up to that time, came
to an open rupture. Instead of the old
phalanx, two hostile factions appeared
on the political arena. The party was
barely successful in electing a President
whom the big men Of the stalwart fac.
ton could never be reconciled to. Is it
sweet for Republicans to recall the fact
that at Chicago they nominated a Presi-
dent whose first conspicuous public act
was to drive out of the United States SEN
ate Roscoe Con1ling. a man whose reputa-
ton for strength as a servant OF the peo-
pie is inferior to that of no other in his
party and whose character for integrity
is above comparison with theirs! Is it
a pleasure for our political brethren to
think that ''history will repeat itself" in
such important facts as these or that it
will beso thoroughly consistent as to re-
produce the eccentricities of blood
poisoning at Chicago? History must be
thoughtfully and cautiously invoked.
History records the disgrace of the
American people as originating in the
broils and consequent bad blood of the
memorable Chicago Convention. Until
its strife crazed the brain Of Assassin
Guiteau had there ever been, in times
of full peace and quiet throughout the
nation otherwise. any cause for q Presi.
dent to fear as be walked the streets and
in~termingled with the people? History
says nc. The Chicago Convention *
hibited to the country "a house arrayed
against itself" which ''cannot stand"
A great and magnificent organization.
under discipline strengthened by long
rule and braced by the power Of Office,
by the impetus Of its remaining vitality
tottered for the last time into control of
the Government. 1t accomplished the
~prodigious feat of a dying man crazed by
. single idea in the paroxysm of fever.
The reaction has come, and four years of
lingering has put it beyond the power of
another such itful and desperate rally.
History win not repeat itself in this last
particular, for it records facts which re-
suit from the action of political forces
with the same precision that marks its
record of cause and effect in physical
nature. But presume that it could so
repeat itself, would our contemporary
invoke history to reproduce the Chicago
Convention OF 1880 for the sake of one
more victory coupled with its many
disasters and its one eliminating hor.
ror? It is hardly partisan enough
for that. History is logically of the
past, and in this instance certainly it
will be we'll to let the dead past bury its
,