The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-05-03
THE EMBAKRAssMENTs OF THE RE
IIHII(ANS

"Iwant q hero an uncommon want,
When every year and month sends forth a
new one.
Till after cloying the gazeites with cant.
The age discovers be is not the true one.
OF such as these ] should not care To yaunt;
III therefore take our ancient friend Don
We all have seen him, in the pantomime,
Sent 10 the devil somewhat ere his tine
Lord Byron had no harder time selecting
hero than the Republicans have in settling
on their nominee II the Democrats are hay-
ing hard time selecting their candidate the
Republicans are having no easy time oft eth
or. They have one man VINO is f0cie prmceps
amongst Republicans, the tattoed man from
Maine. but because he can't quite make up
his mind that he can be elected 1854 being
wildly before bis mnd--or because the party
can't make up its mind it can elect him, there
is hitch somewhere. and we don't know
Just exactly where 10 place Blaine OF Maine
The good man Benjamin then seems to be
the last resort but there IS much
against him. In the first place
the whole world knows him to be hypocrte
with his cant about civil service, when he
knows the law is every day being violated
under his very nose while he pretends to
know nothing of it. However bad people
may be- and none can be worse than the Re
publican party, they do not like hypocrites
Junius said ''As for Wedderburn. there is
something about him that not even treachery
can trust" BY which he meant that thieves
trust each other. There is honor amongst
thieves. but Wedderburn was too treacher-
GUS to be trusted even by traitor. And SO,
even hypocrites have no use fot a hypocrite.
In the next place. he Is blus-
terer and a bully. as he plainly showed
in the Chill and Behring Sea businesses. lie
knew Chill had acceded 10 our demands be-
fore he sent his bullying ultimatum, and he
knew Lord Salisbury had notified British
sealers that if they went TO Behring Sea they
would DO 50 at their own peril before he sent
him his insulting cable. That notice to sealers
was the same thing as notice that Do1uS
Uiued would be agreed 10. These two acts
were distinctly the acts of bully aud if
there is anything the robust maniness of
the American people detest il is the swagger
of q swashbuckler. If. therefore, the Republic
can party shall feel compelled TO take Mr..
Harrison up again for want of some other
candidate. the party will take its dose with
violent retchings.
But now comes the most serious trouble Of
all. Mr.. Teller has notified his party that /,
an opponent of free silver IS nominated tie
four new States will not vote the Republican
ticket The only thing about Harrison that
has made him toerable to the great body Of
his party Is his declared opposition to free
silver. and now it is notified that that opinion
of his will lose him the new States What
will the Republican party do about it?
A story is told of Democratic ofice-seeker
who went 70 Washington to get an appoint
meut. He was told that the administration
had changed and was now Republican, TO
which he replied: If any administration can
change any quicker than | can | would ike to
see it," Perhaps Nj Harrison may relieve
his party's embarrassment 10y changing his
views on silver.