Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-15
STATE CORRESPONDENCE.
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BIRD IN THE HAND WORTH TWO IN THE
 BUsH-rHE REPUBLICAN CLUB-REPUBLI-
 CANS TO KEEP THEIR ARMoR oN-THE
 THIRD PARTY ADHERENTS.
 Nov. 14.-Promises to pay are better be- fore election then few days after. So argues the janitor of the Democratic club rooms, who has tried once and again but with no avail to get from the town committes the sum of $56, his little bill against the depart ing administration. The funds are minus, and unless a day of reckoning comes soon this young Jscksonian proposes to quit his first love and go over to the majority.
 The Republican club headquarters have not shut shop. The lights still attrack the enthusiastic Tips" The campaign songs are yet caroled of the evening air. There are no signs of disintegration aA.yet. The boys have not celebrated enough. Though the red fire burneth no more, and the fish horn is pronounced Contraband by the police. There is fire and grit enough for an- other campaign. It has been proposed to continue the organization or to turn it into a permanent club. There is strong purpose, particularly with the young Republicans, to keep in fighting trim. It is true Derby did not do herself credit last week, but there are hosts of Republicans left here who are by no means disheartened, and the feeling is gaining every day that & society on regular footing. with we'll equipped room, plenty of reading matter and billiard table possibly, will be g nucleus that will be felt in the various local and State elections the books for the four years to come. Fifty already have expressed an intention to organize F'for all time' and ii will be an easy undertaking to enroll three | hundred at this end of the town. The clut | has done thorough and energetic work and il | is nor at it's door that the late unfortunate l clashing of arms can be laid. The cause o1 | the defection was 8 personal difference IT ! sentiment about local candidates, and 1 while this strife hurt the various | tickets in the field the majority of the vot | CTS, with a sincere regret at the disturbance | have by no means forsaken their colors, ol | lost their grip. Out of the smoke there vii l arise resolve to conciliate, in the future, dl ! vergent interests, before 8 caucus intensi6es the variances, and determination to put ul l nominees that represent no particular faction
 and have the highest good of the party 8
 heart. Derby has not gone over, body ant soul, to the Democratic cohort, and chuck ling cynics will not to any great extent sati
 ate their delight at 8 running sore in the Re
 publican body. There is too much hart sense left to pet or bolster up 8 jealousy or
 grievance. The next pull will be long on
 and one all together.
 It is amusing to note the deathlike still I ness that possesses the third party followers
 They are dumb-founded at their insignia
 canoe. One of them remarked to-day philo
 sophically that he guessed prohibition in thl l country would be long deferred good. II lieu of bitter hatred of the G. O. P. ant
 the certainty of smashing political slates,
 gentle observer can hesr--nothing. Occa
 sionally remark is let loose about gam ! somewhere "down South" At heart thes
 sincere but premature novicss in politics ar coming to the conclusion that the Rspubli
 can is the better of the two dominant par ties, and they are all glad within their bc
 som, if they do not 5ruit it, at the result,
 not sorry for their waste of energy.