Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-14
DANGEROUS

W piuleC tho CoullJTy INTO disorder aDt
revolution. 1t has been manifest to level
headed republicans hat the prospects, o.
Blaine and Logan are almobt hopeless.
The loss Of Indiana, Connecticut and
New jersey has left no possible chance
for the election of the republican candl.
dates outside cf New York, and while the
state of New York is very close the pre-.
ponderance Of testimony from reliable
sources has been from the start in
favor OF Cleveland and Hendricks. The
patriotic and conservative class of the
republican party cannot afford to counte-
nance or encourage any attempt to over
ride the popular verdict by legal bubbles
and technicalities. The republican party
can better afford to accept defeat than to
try to extend its tenure of power by dis.
honest methods. The democratic party
has survived twenty.four years of defeat,
and has in a great measure outlived the
odium that was fastened to it on account
Of its disloyal tendency during the war
Of the rebellion. With Its patriotic and
splendid record as the savior of the union
and conservator of good govern
ment the republican party
should certainly not despair
Of success in the future, provided always
1t can maintain the respect of the great
body of its followers. The marrow mar
gin with which the democracy goes into
power is within itself a guaranty that 1t
will not dare to seriously imperil the
posperlty of any part of the country or
attempt to reverse any of the results of
tho war.
The balance of power in this country
to-day is held by the Independent voters,
and they would rally around the repub-
lican banners four years hence to de-
pose the democracy if that party
should dare to do what the
%zealotS are predicting, namely, to attempt
to pay the confederate debt, pension the
rebel soldiers, and cripple the commercial
and industrial affairs of the country by
some radical and ill.advised policy. The
safe leaders of the republican party are
not by any means thosa who now are
shouting for gore and insisting upon re-
s~istance to the decree of popular majorl-
ties, but those who are willing to bow to
the will of the people and accept the in
evitable.
When Abraham Lincoln was elected
president, the fire. eaters of the south and
the spoils-hunters of the democ.
racy aroused the southern people
into rebellion before a single
overt act had been committed by the re.
publican president. Rather than submit
to the popular verdict they sought to de-
stroy the union and establish a oonfeder-
acy upon it's ruins. At the end of twenty
four years of rule the republican party
has met with a reverse, and an element
chiefly composed of political desperadoes
is trying to create a revolution, which
would not only destroy the republican
party but the government as we'll. Are
these reckless swashbucklers and spoils
mongers who have dragged the
party down into defeat, to be
backed by honorable republicans
their schemes2 They do not seem to
that they have put themselves in
The same attitude as the southern fire.
caters and democratic place-seekers gen.
orally placed themselves immediately fol-
the bourbon defeat in 1860.
Among those loud-mouthed politicians
who endorse the methods now being
pursued by Elkins, Chatfee, Bliss, Jones
4 Co., there is net to BIO found a single
eminent republican leader who enjoys the
and respect of the party.
Who is this man Elkins2 He was a rebel
during the war, and a democrat up
TO within eight years ago. He has ven-
into this campaign like a reckless
gambler and has grown desperate over
his impending wreck. Who is this 'raan
.haifee? He is a bonanza king from Colo
RADIO, whose leadership has been 80 COR
rupt and rotten that his W people have
repudiated him. Who is this man Bliss2
He was the star-route prosecutor, who
allowed the thieves to escape while he
drew o fortune in fees from the govern.
.ent. Who Is this man Jones2 He is a
non-entity, with more money than brains,
and whom nobody ever heard of outside
of PittsbuIg in the great political strug.
gles which the party has gone through.
Surely these men cannot be regarded as
safe pilots.
Such eminent, influential and discreet
as John Sherman. Eugene Haze, |
George f. Edmunds, William b. Allison,
William Window, George f. Hoar,
S. Boutwell,, Justin NJ. Morrill,,
Storrs, Joseph II Hawley, Simon
Cameron, Ben. Harrison, Samuel Kirk
wood, and even John A. Logan, have
sad nothing TO disturb or agitate the
during this critical period.
they conjured up the bitter resen.
aud sectional hatreds of the war;
Do they c~ountenance any man or any
mnyamant lookino tnwardA n reAiatance /