The bee., 1884-07-12
THE REVOLT IN THE RE-
PUBLICAN PARTY CAN
DIDLY CONSIDERED.

the readers of the BEE in our last
issue, after a careful survey of the
situation by such means of obser-
vation as are at our command. we
give them our opinion as to the
so-called revolt or Independent
movement manifested in certain
quarters in opposition to the cleo
ton of Blaine and Logan as Pres
ident and Vice-Presldent of the
United States, and the effect of
said movement upon the success
of the Republican party.
Therevolt tinaugurated andiledby
George William Curtis, Carl Schurz,
Henry Ward Beecher, Charles
Francis Adams, ct al, seconded
by certain ofthe blue bloods of Bea-
con Hill, Boston, Mass, men who
think themselves better, wiser, and
more virtuous than all the other
citizens of this Democratic Repub-
lie, and pharisaieally thank God
that they are not like other men,
is nothing more than a repetition
of what has happened before, and
we venture the prediction that it
will terminate like its predecessors,
in the ignominious discontinue
of its projectors, aud glorious
triumph of the people by the cleo
ton of'their candidates, the nomi-
nees of the Republican party, de-
spite the fiantic protests of these
chronic political scnsationalists,
who are nothing if not antagonistic
to the views of the masses or
"common herd" which constitute
the great body of the American
people. These truly good, wise,
and virtuous men Gncluding that
supereminently virtuous divine,
Henry Ward Beecher) would in
augurate government so excel
lent I'm all of its details that it
would be far above the compre-
hension of the plain, matter-of- fact
every day people of this or any
other country. In short, if their
ideas could prevail, Qet them tell
iD, we should have a government
which would surpass in excellence
even perfection itself; a govern
ment such as has never been vouch-
safed to mankind before; a gov
evernment whose chief magistrate
and other dignitaries, acting under
their intallible dictation and
unerring direction, would be
immaculate, free from suspicion
of ever having erred in the past,
and safe from doing SO IN the fu-
ture. But it Is our opinion that
the common sense American peo-
pie who elect presidents will have
none of these men nor their
visionary ideas to guide them in
their political action, and that they
feel fully competent to take care of
themselves and their government
without adopting the Ut6pian
dreams Gf these w0uld-be reform
ers who would uproot the very
foundation of our political system
itself to have their peculiar ideas
prevail IN the administration of
our governmental affairs.
The men who participated in the
proceedings ofthe convention which
nominated Blaine and Logan as
the stanlard-bearers of the repub-
lican party, and are now endeavor-
ing to compass their defeat, not
withstanding their loud and pre-
eminent pretensions to honesty
and great political wisdom and
virtue, by their actions since the
adjournment of the convention
are proving themselves to be the
very reverse of what they claim to
be. By every obligation implied
among all honorable men, it is dis
honorable in the extreme in any
man or set of men to stay in a
convention from it's organization
to adjournment, participating IN
all of its deliberations and pro-
ceedings, and failing to force his
or their plans upon the body of
which he or they were members,
then after its adjournment en-
deavor to defeat the object for