The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-23
Some Talk About Politics.
National Republican,

pSS interests 1pIlutetOil lies pOllt- |
ically stark and stiff from an over.
dose of civil service reform. while
Payne and Hoadley quickly cast lots
for the mantle of the slain. The
bourbon bloodhound, with full sto-
mach, and confident in not being dis.
turhed, sleeps between elections,
knowing that the memory of his en-
venomed tooth is protection enough
for the solid South against Republi.
can interference.
The Democratic serpent lazily adj
vances upOn the white house, having
no policy other than repose. He
breads no foe he does not himself
arouse. Reposing in the most per-
feet faith that he will only be feared
when he angriIy demonstrates, he
takes upon himself the hues of the
objects around him and abstains from
all noise. In Pennsylvania he is a
protectionist, in Kentucky he is a
free-trader, and in Ohio and Wash.
ington he is both. In the West he is
for the machine. in New England he
is for civil service reform, and in
New York and Washington he isfor
both. In the North he homes forthe
negroes fellowship, in the South he
thirsts for his blood, and at Wash
ington he is opposed only 10 the
bloody shirt. The political waters
are not being agitated by the Demo-
cracy.
The Republicans listen, charmed
as usual at the Democratic assurance
of future good behavior. They read
and hear with humiliation the con
fession of Republican sins by Demo-
cratic writers and orators, and beat
upon their breasts, crying out against
themselves as miserable sinners. The
Republican desire to be good creates
"A tendency to magnify their own
faults, and they feel that the joy of
repen,ing and reforming is a fair Off
set, if not an inducement, to sin.
| The perfect peace between sentiment
and business, which is the charm OF
| Northern politics, has a SOOt hing eff
| feet, and the chained states of the
South are the sources ofsmall anxiety
| to their more fortunate sisters. The
political waters and not being agita.
ted by the Republicans.
Yet Time rolls her ceaseless course
and within four months from this
date the national Republican Con-
ventiOn will have decided who is to
he the next President, if Republi
can he is to he. Not long after, the
Democracy will have put fo ward
their champion.
As to the Democratic candidate, il
matters but little to Republicans WIN
he is. He will represented the South
only, because thai section will furnish
most of the electoral votes he is to re-
reive. If he receives 4S out of the 24S
electoral votes of the North, for which
alone there is to be, he will wiel the
bourbon sceDter over the nation.
The 153 votes of the South are a.
much his to-day as they will be next
February.
The great task before the Republi.
cans, then. is to present a candidate
whose election will be worth the eff.
fort, and who can carry all but AZ Of
! of the 2iS Northern electors, and at
the same time to obtain control of the
House of representatives, either by
choosing 1853 out of the 20i Northern
members Of Congress, or by carrying
as many of the III Southern districts
as they fall short of the 1853 at the
North. This will tax every Repuh.
LEANS energy, liberation and fidelity
to his cause. 1t will require the uni.
ted Republican vote.
The Republican party is not a priv.
LEGGED order or class. standing off from
the body of the people. 1t is rather
a majority of the people themselves
speaking through chosen representa-
tives. Its great governing authority
is the convention, and if that body is
unfaithful to its trust the party can
not survive. 1t will not command
the respect of the voters of the party
unless it endeavors to speak for them.
1t will invite disaster and defeat if il
falls into the keeping of any ambi-
tious party tyrant or if it takes fright
at the Outcries of blackmailerS WIN
attempt to govern it by threats. 1t
cannot safely ignore any element or
any tenet of the party faith. 1t must
stand by national citizenship, nation
al supremacy, and American labor
not in words only, but in the nomi
nation of a man who is known of all
to be honestly and earnestly devoted
to these.
The party which has been trusted
for twenty-four years by the people
can only succeed DOW if the great
heart of the people can be felt beating