Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-13
BUSINESS AND SHERMAN,

ing at st. Louis has endorsed Mr.. Cleve-
lands position in his menacing the basis
of the country's business in the interest
of Europe, simply because Democratic
tenure hangs by the Buffalo thread, and
also put Allen G. Thurman ON the tail of
their kite to offset their well founded fears
of the nomination of John Sherman on
the Republican antithesis platform of
Grover Cleveland.
The Democrats, in putting Mr.. Thur
man on their ticket combined not only
their available tactics and grand strategy
in this campaign, but honor, as dernier
resort, this greatest individual, so far as
personal character is known to the pub
lie, amongst their leaders. But it would
indicate revolutionary possibility if we
may Judge of Mr.. Humans age and the
unsettled succession question of death
from senile debility or other cause, of the
incumbents of the first and second places
in the national government. In such
event we should certainly nearly APP
proach either the conditions of Rome
under Marius and Scylla, or most likely
a re-enactment of 1861, in a pantomime
of one section against another, in which
business not, blood would be disastrously
involved.
To offset all this, however, now that
the superficial light weight politicians
and penny-a-liners of the press have
done Mr.. Blaine and are beginning to do
Mr.. Gresham, we may reasonably hope
that the solid elements of that grand
party which is the talisman of national
integrity, will recognize this as bust
ness and not a buncombe campaign. If
this shall happily, as we believe it will,
turn out, John Sherman, the peer of
any statesman of modern times, in any
country, both in point of natural ability,
studious habits, exalted and patriotic
aims, coupled with ripe experience,
will be the nominee of the Republican
party for president, upon sound bust
ness platform-the certain harbinger of
success.
After all this is a conservative bust
ness period. The socio-commercial inc
qualities incident to the PROCESS of the
country through the past quarter Of
century calls for the Inauguration of a
business regime in our national admins
tration coextensive with the power and
grandeur, geographical and commercial,
of the great republic in both its internal
and external relations. If we agree that
the great party which preserved the
unity and glory of our country through
its greatest crisis is additionally deserv-
ing of national confidence by reason of
the failure of its opponents in power at
the golden moment of their opportunity;
we shall next have to admit the COM
pleteness of the period and mission of
the soldier, as well as that of the recon-
structionist And thus the logic of the
situation leads us into the period of the
adjustment and administration of the
government to best serve the business
interests, internal and external of the
whole country and people.
The very initial step involves the re-
form of the taxing system according to
the ideas and principles of either the Re-
publican or Democratic parties. In view
of all this. whom could the Republicans
better select as leader than the man
who has been an active participant in
e. erY mo- ement, politically ,martially and
financially, that led up to our great crisis
and through it. and then stood at the
head of the treasury when 1t resumed
specie payments, and who has been a
student of and participator in every i'm
portant legislative act to the present,
who stands now the embodiment Of ripe
age and physical preservation as well as
unrivaled experience in progressive and
practicable Republican methods.
W. E. HUTCHINSON.