The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-24
The Republican RaIlying Cry.
The note Of the Republican carnpai


The note Of the Republican campaign
has been sounded ut last, and it is q
note not of discord. but of harmony. It
comes from tuning fork which not
long ago was producing very tangled
sounds. The yet unratified Republican,
ism of Massachusetts emits this sweet
note, but it will have a long echo in
States where the sound of the boiling is
much lower than it is just now in the
Commonwealth of Otis and Adams and
J. Lawrence Sullivan. Our solemn
contemporary, the Worcester Spy, has
left off making damnable faces at Broth
er Blaine, fixes its sad gaze upon the
main chance once more, and talks like
little man. Let the competent ears OF
ali unterrified Republicans drink in It's
words for through this Worcester tele-
phone speaks the cracked voice or
George FIR sbie Hoar.
And this is his message: every Post
Office in this State will be in the hands
of Democrats next summer if we falter
now" Could a more truly Republican
rallying cry be devised? But it might
be put into fewer words. 1t ought to
read: keep the rascals in" This is
the Republican notion of civil service
reform. 1t is the only surviving Re-
publican principle. Nobody needs to
bother himself with the rigmarole of the
Republican platform. The sole plank
to which the party clipgs. the quintes-
sence of Republican belief. may be found
in this simple watchword from WOr-
cester.
1t is not likely that there will be
much quarreling in the party when it
once takes up this cry. The noble
company of office-holders will rally
around the Post-offices and the Custom
houses and the Internal Revenue Offices
and the departments, and all the parts
and annexes of the public crib. The
great host of contractors and joobers
and thieves will rally to man IN de-
fence of the grand old party which has
allowed them for so many years to loot
the Government. The Worcester SpV
may ease its throbbing anxiety; the
Republicans won't '.falter" till they are
thrown out from the Treasury, neck and
heels.
The love of plumber is the great band
which holds the Republican party to-
gether; but it is a band as hard as Steve
Elkins' cheek, and will not be easily
parted. The nomination of Blaine has
fired the hopes of all the enemies of
honest government, the survivors of the
gang which waxed fat under Grant, the
wreckers of the Treasury under Hayes
and Garfield. Star-routers, land thieves,
pension thieves, all who have got rich
or expect to get rich under Republican
rule. If they can put in Blaine, they
will see flusher times and a bigger
area of jobbery than they have ever
seen before; if they are beaten, they
will have to try to earn an honest
living.
The election of Blaine is matter
which goes straight to their pockets, as
the cry of ''Rally round the Offices will
90 straight to their hearts. In the des-
perate struggle which they will make
before they can be compelled TO give up
office and the hope of plumber and
the prospect of plumber, it is
evident that they are to have the
Jealous assistance of those who. like
most of the Massachusetts Republicans,
protest feebly against the supremacy of
the baser elements of the party, and
then 90 to work with all their might to
put these baser elements in power. The
Republican party is q great party, and
the Worcester Spy is entitled to be its
prophet. -EIchallQe