, 1884-02-28

IHE SOhINe eEtAFhS
The sounding of sentiment by prom
inent republican papers at different
points throughout the country regard.
ing the preferences of the voters OF
their party for presidential candidates
places Mr.. Blaine far in the foreground.
That the honest masses of his party
are unqualiHedly for him, there can be
no question, as viewed calmly and un-
preiudicedly in the light of existing
events; but. when his honored name
goes into the nominating convention, it
will unquestionably be quite another
thing SO far as his personal popularity
and political purity are concerned.
The Stalwarts will down him beyond
peradventure, though not in the same
cruel and dastardly way that the Ia
mented Mr.. Garfield was untimely re-
moved, bat by methods equally as in
sidious, vile and vicious in their very
inception. The elements of a foul, red
handed, carnsl assassination may be
lacking in the execution Of a deep laid
and well-devised scheme of ~crucidxion,
but the poisonous %factional venom of
combined spite, fear and anger will be
Enthusiastically there; and ~unreientingly,
too, to vent its violence and malevo-
lence in seeking to execute its long
pent-up revenge and thereby secure
sweet satisfaction for fancied wrongs
committed within the pales of the
party which long has been reeking with
rapacity, rascslity and r%ottenness.
Now, we feel free to venture the
we'll warrented prediction, right here,
that a brief lapse of time will thorough
ly exemplify its force and correctness
to the end that The national republican
convention at Chicago will be the inter
esting theatre of a furious political fac.
tlonal fight, whose fury and whose fol-
ly will be as fierce, fearful ana intense
IS the violent and unreasonable section
al spirit which rent in twain the memoir
able national democratic convention of
1869. The probabilities are strongly
nhkkCollNo y Tx lOiSlblO idNb bAdL lut
aggressive Stalwarts will virtually have
complete control of the workings of the
convention, and this from the stern
and convincing logic OF existing events
which assign to the ofice-holding ele-
ment of the veil organized administra.
tiOn clique the strong-hand Of unrelen-
ting power secured and retained
through the force OF place and patron
age.
The break in the ranks of the repub-
llcan party in the face of the closely
approaching presidential campaign is
inevitable, wheather it occur inside or
outside of its convention. The bullet
that robbed President Garfield OF his
life rent in twain the party which he
represented. Alike did the first and
the last elective chief magistrate of our
nation, elected by the republican party,
fall by the foul hands of cowardly as
sassins. The wide breach made by the
fatal bullet of the craven coward, new
er will, nor never can be healed. The
ranks OF the republican party thus rent
ruthlessly asunder can never be CLOSED
again in harmony.
The feeling of hatred, luminosity and
jealousy engendered between the Stal.
wart aud Half-breed factions instead Of
nbaJiug, through the lapse Of time is con
tinually MISUNDERSTANDING ranker
and ranker, more malignant and alb
solutely revengetul. Though the fires
of revenge have been slowly and insid
iously slumbering they will with but
little flaming break out suddenly into
u rips, roaring hIme at Chicago, and,
like a seething cauldron, will consume
and devour that purity which, for aquar-
ter of a century, has held almost uudis-
puted sway at the national capital, de-
flying and destroying all who have
sought TO curb its uubridled way in
the audacious exercise of ar bitrary and
unjust power. Its day of devastation
and destruction Is close at hand. 1t
will fall-fall broken, dismantled, dis.
membered, disrupted and dismayed, a
prey to the flames of its own fearful
folly. Its loss will be the people 5 gain.
Peace to It's scattering ashes amid its
unerring cremation which is an absolute
political necessity of the-times.