The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-28
THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE.

THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE,
While the Republican party is united as to
purposes, and while these are questioned by
none in the party there is too much DISPOSE
ton among some few to indulge in personal
talk that can do no possible good and may do
harm. With wel-defned plan Of action,
practically acceptable to all within the party,
and one that must commend itself to indie
pendent voters; with a reputation established
for wise legislation and an honest administra-
ton of public affairs, there should be no diff
fculty in again winning the suffrage of the
people. A large block of electoral votes has
been practically cut out of calculation and
given to the Democratic party. The solid South
will probably cast solid vote in the electoral
college for the Democratic party, regardless of
candidates chosen and principles enunciated.
1t is before the Republican party, by argu-
ment and appeal to reason, by guaranteeing
better things than the Democratic party ever
did or ever can accomplish, to overcome this
preiudged vote and to save the country from
the evils of Democratic administration. We
have seen what Democratic Congresses have
threatened from time to time. We are wit
nesses of the incompetency and manifest in
sincerity of the Democratic majority of the
present House. A dangerously narrow Re
publican majority in the Senate and a Re
publican President stand between the country
and Legislation such as would tear down more
of the countly's prosperity than could be re
built in years. The Democratic tidal wave
of 1882 has had q salutary effect
upon all concerned. To the Republican
party it was a hint well timed
and seriously interpreted. To the country it
has afforded an opportunity to see how hope
lessly divided the Democratic party is on all
questions of moment, and how impossible it is
for it to accomplish desirable legislation.
The Republican party must be perfect
unit now. That it is incomparably better in
every respect than is the Democratic party is
realized by every Republican. No man in
the party, strong enough to command re-
spectacle support in the national convention,
but would, backed by the party, give
better administration than could
any man who, by any possibility could
be elevated to the presidency through the
Democratic party. This being conceded,
there is no excuse for laggard support or
wholesome predictions that this or that man
could not carry Ohio or New York, OF Indi-
ana, or any other State. If the country
would maintain the industrial prestige it has
gained if it would have some assurance
whereon to build for future operations, it
must look to Republican administration for
it. The delegates to the Chicago convention
should be representative of the party; they
should go uninstructed as to any candidate,
and their verdict viii be cheerfnlly accepted
by all in the interest of all.
The preliminary skirmishes of the great
next have already begun, and the question
now is not whether this OF that man shall
be able to carry this or that State,
but whether the possibility of Democratic
success should not unite all Republicans in
cordial support of any man who mayb be named
at Chicago. Less than this is simply con-
fession that the majority of the Republican
party is not better than is the Democratic, an
admission that no Republican can make. Let
the friends of the several candidates make
a manly and honest fight in their behalf,
but it should be constantly borne in
mind that all but one must be de-
feated. The opposition will probably choose
a man for his millions, and may possibly again
attempt to buy electoral votes to which the
party have no honest claim. Let the Chicago
nomination be made on the merits of the
man, and, once mads let that man have that
which is due him as the visible exponent of all
that is good in the Republican party and its
ambitions.
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THE rather startling announcement is made
that gold is at a premium in New York city,
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