Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-16
DEATH IN THE POT.
The Sinister Countenance of the G. o. F.
 Livid in Death.

The Sinister Countenance of the G. O. Ps
 Liyid in Death.
 The countenance which the Republican party turns upon the country at this time Is sinister enough, and ominous of fu- ture which has very little to irradiate it. Between Ingalls, sheer and Shermans scowl there are, indeed, many aspects and varying degrees of expression; but all, all are lowering; the stony stare of Harrison making a solemn background for the scared smile of Allison; the furtive glance of Hawley playing bo-peep with the melancholy smirk of Evarts; and Reid beating a tarantella on the kettle drum, and Halstead burning sulphur be- hind the flag; and the wistful, half ex- pectant faces of Depew, Stanford and Gresham looking sadly down from the gallery upon Hale, Hoar and Frye dancing the Fishers Hornpipe" as if it were dead march. lurid scene, truly, yet full of gloom. One can easily see that there's death in the pot, or that there would be if there were any pot to hold it, more's the pity.
 The Republican party has it's boys in tho tIouo1l1s, lust 1iho tue DeuoCrat1C party-no such boys as our boys, to be sure, but still tolerably lively set-and they are solid, as solid as the solid south, for the tattooed giant of their dime mu- scum
 Where'er he roves, on ocean, mount or plain,
 Their hearts, unfailing, fondly turn to Blaine. Shall they prevail7 "That depends" as the French say. But, let us consider this question seriously, and without further quibble or ado.
 Precisely the same tactics are being en- ployed to defeat the renomination of MT. Blaine as were employed to defeat the renomination of Mr. Tilden. Like MT. Tilden, MT. Blaine is out of the race. Yet his enemies persist in claiming that his withdrawal was a sham, and to clinch this point against him they are loud in pro- claiming him very sick man. Here we have recurrence to the experience had by the country in MT. Tilden's case. Every few days a son-of-aegun from no- where turns up and rushes into print with positive information on the subject. It only needs that some recognized friend of MT. Blaine should write letter giving an account in detail of the Plumed Knight s recreations abroad and showing that he enjoys his holiday, and eats three square meals a day, to set the wags a-going with their jokes, and thus to make the two in- stances entirely analogous.
 But that sort of thing did beat MT. Tilden. and we think it will beat MT. Blaine. MT. Reid may ramble over the broad editorial page of The Tribune and give out the notion that no one can get as many votes as his favorite, and MT. Gil- lam may draw strong cartoons in The Judge depicting his absent hero as a Titan among pigmies. But when the supreme moment comes ill national convention, the pig1nies, forewarned and forearmed, will be strong enough to resist the storm, and when it breaks, it will disclose-as in 18S0-what MT. ConlSling called ''the brilliant insuficiency of the 306." Then what? Why, then a renewal of the struggle. Then exhaustion. Then a barley. Then Depcw. It seems to us that the president of tho Now York Cen. ] tral is tho coming man i!c is abl, and
 popular. He has bar'l. He is offensive
 to none of the factions. I1c. if any ono,
 can unite the party. He. if al,y o:a,.. can ] carry New York. If he cannc. i...t ;cve-
 land nobody can; and so ,yc ..G,. .: .,a,sed to put something on Depc.y as 1., turf ] men say, flor place.
 But, if nominated, will Dcpyv-, :. ort a Polk or Pierce to the Republicans: !.,,7c think not. It seems written i:, t,sc :cois of fate that Cleveland will succeed: Linn self. The presidential elections are not determined by personal considerations. but by organized ideas and moral forces The Republican party is grown to be what old Storey used to call the Democratic party, "a putrid reminiscence. It is the slave of obsolete passions and 8 master only of fraudulent claims. It is doomed to die, having outlived it's usefulness. Il may come again, but not as herald o1 race war and anarchy. The Democratic party is now the representative of all that is good in the immediate future, and, fol the present, no matter whom the Repub icans put up, it is in. to stay.-Louisyiilt Courier Journal
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