Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-06-21
TSaURsDAy, JUNE FL, 1883.
A Great CoDtrast-rhe serenity of "a
Party surely Successful.

esTemt gontrast-The serenity of q
Party surely Successful.
Republicans can experience very LITTLE
and proceedings of their National Con
vention. II has assembled under cir
cnmsiances of confusion, vascilatior
and inoertitnde which never attend tn,
action OF bodies which successfully crys
inlize any national idea.
The outcome of the Convention as tC
President we feel almost assured will be
either Blaine or Gresham.
II will be Blaine If that gentleman'i
henchmen, led by Depew, shall conclude
that there is show for fighting chance
Of success. The great difficulty as tc
this programme will be that Blaine him.
self doubted his success in 1884, and
doubts it still more markedly in 1888
The Plumed Knight could write tele-
gram OF three words which would make
him the nominee of the Chicago Con-
veniion by what would look like a popu-
lar ground swell, but which would really
be a cunningly contrved political tour de
force. The element of doubt in Chicago
to-day is simply whether or no Blaine
ca n be persuaded to wire his friends his
willingness to enter into contest in
which Cleveland will knock him out far
more disastrously than in their first
oust.
Failing Blaine, Gresham, if he has
made himself acceptable to Blaine
friends, has just made enough of a sur.
lace anti-monopoly record to render him
acceptable to the corporations under
proper guarantees. The dinner bucket
brigade racket-a feature of the Chicago
parade in Gresham's interest-would be
very fascinating feature of such an in
genious development. Sherman has
been too entirely the tool OF all corpora
tion interests TO be serviceable to them
IN the present conjuncture, and it is
therefore pretty safe to say that he will
not be the man. Alger has been too in
decent with his sack to make his selec-
tion at all prudent or probable.
But, whether the outcome be Blaine,
Sherman. Allison, Alger or Foraker,
what pitiful exhibit the best OF them
will prove against the peerless Demo-
cratic President!
Sensible Republicans smile at the idea
OF replacing n responsible and patriotic
Democratic administration by the candi-
date of q party which resists the most
moderate schemes OF political and fiscal
reform; and which party, as against a
ssgaeious and conservative Democratic
programme, has nothing to oppose but a
hollow and insincere howl about pro-
iecting the American working man, and
lot Ofwild nonsense which aims at over
turning the results OF twenty-five years
work in the rehabilitation of the South !:
work often obstructed, but which has
resulted in giving us harmonious
Union and country exceptionally
prosperous.
The belief in the ability of political
Ihodomontade to dispossess a strongly
entrenched party from power
which has been used with notable
patriotism cannot be very strong
At bottom really shrewd Republican
nanipulators are only fighting for posi-
ticn, and anything approaching a con-
yiction of possible Republican success is
restricted to amiable enthusiasts, pre-
cisely of the class who, in the Democratic
party, in former days, hoped for success
IN the Mcclellan, Seymour and Greeley
campaigns.
Think Of it for a moment, Republican
man and brother What has Cleveland
done TO lose his stalwart support in such
Stn.es as New York, New Jersey, Con-
necticut, Indiana and in the solid South,
with its one hundred and fiity-three
electoral votes? Where is the scandal or
the failure as to the patriotic and intelli-
gent administration OF any public trust
Yhieh should lead the people to cashier
such conscientious and admir-
able public servant as Cleve-
land? Then think, for a moment, on
lhe other hand, of the difference between
lhe port and carriage OF the two great
national parties-the one assembling in
rs National Convention at St. Louis to
acclaim successful administration of
our national affairs with unexampled
sP0ntaniety and directness; the national
Convention of the other sitting at Chicago
irresoluie, with hopelessly divided coun-
sells, certain that its party has forfeited
lis claim on the support OF the nation,
and cropping around in a feeble way for
some clap-trap cries and attractive per
soaali;ies to enable 1t TO again place
Itself in some sort OF standing in the race
for power, certain that, at the best, the
betting odds and the issue are against
it, This is, without exaggeration, the
position OF the Republican party. This
Is, without harsh judgment, the dilemma
OF the Chicago Convention. "'Tis true,
tits pity, and pity It's it's true." And,
as consequence, Democrats are not only
ccntident; they are serene. ]