The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-01
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All hearts turn toward the lonely
iathcr-children bcreft-the stricken
household.
The shadow Of gricf darkens the clos
ing hours of well fought field. We
can survey the field with sentiment
apar. from politics. What have We
ilearned-wlat have We forgotten? The
campaign began in political strife. No
intsrnecinc party warfare SO bitter as
that which preaaged the nominations
OF Harrison ard Cleveland. 1t ends in
Republican apathy and Democratic dis
may. The Democrats are not even
sure OF harmony. Has Hill forgiven
Cleveland and been forgiven? This is
still problem.
The south is coagulated rather than
solid. There are 10 signs OF disin-
teGration in Alabama and the Virgin
las. There is potent element among
the southern white voters which re-
cents the perpctuation Of Bourbon pol:
itica! dynnsties based upon hatred and
revenge.
There is motto OF dissonance in
northern Democratic circles as in the
treatment OF MacVeash by Hill. This
incident awakens tender sympathies
MacVeagh sacrificed much when he
abandoned the party which had petted
and honored him. He should have had
at least welcome, his pottage and
warm place at the freside. Senator
Hill, the New York leader and Mr.
Clevelands greatest living opponent,
should have been the first in cheering
SO illustrious recruit. The words OF
the governor are words OF scorn. He
has no use for "renegades." Nor can
he respect the leader who, believing
that Mr.. ridden was lawfully chosen
President OF the United States in 1876,
waits until to-day to make public ex-
preston OF this belief. Moreover, Mr..
MacVeash's words of contumely toward
Mr.. Egan are enough to justify resent
ment-as an insult to the Irish race.
HILL AND M'vEAGH.
But Mr.. MacVeagh is an ADLER, more
experienced and Qore deserving man
than his assailant. Senior in years to
Mr.. Hill, he has shown shining quail.
ties in the conduct of affairs, occupied
high place, and by impartial criticism
would be deemed the elder and better
soldier.
The qualities which underly the men.
acinC popularity OF Senator Hill; his
audacity as an executive; his political
intolerance; his cynical creed that
nothing is wrong that is expedient; his
morbid fancy for abhorrent and forbid
ding forces in political action-these are
not found in Mr.. MacVeagh. Weshould
not therefore be surprised II such a
leader should revolt against such a fol-
lower. 1t should drive from the sup
port Of Mr.. Cleveland that patient, tim
orous group OF self-consecrated saints
who support the ex-President because
he is "better than his party"
DochE UNDER THE PARTY LASH.
To this we must add tho present out
look OF what is called Democratic har-
mony in New York" There will be no
Citizens" or REFORM" or other such
contrivance. All is Harmony" Grace
and Whitney, Fairchild and Coudert,
and that select coterie OF truly good and
effervescently and respectable Demo
Gratis who have made the air resonant
with their protests against the machine
are now meekly in line with Tammany
Hall. They hew wood and carry water
with the docility OF much bartered
slaves
Organs OF public opinion of the
sublime, select species, like the ECeaing
Posi- aud New York Times, are silent
over men and issues for whom no cen
sure was too severe some months ago.
Tammany rcigns. She has made des-
ola,ion and calls it peace. A desolation
OF high and profIercd regulations like
that OF MIR. MacVGaSh,; of reform move
ments like those inspired by Fairchild
ndGrace; of earnest leadership toward
good government like tho journals
named. As to what has become OF Mr..
schurz in this general immolation no
ono has the heart to tell. He must have
fallen upon an unspeakable fate. Tam
many, as we have said, has ma1s des-
CLINTON and calls it peace.
REPUBLICANS SHOULD BIZ CONTENT.
%lnything to carry New York.
We'll, yes-when the vessel is keeling
TO capsizc, over with the holy vessel;
over with the decorations anu tinery;
over with the saints Themselves, who,
ii they cannot swim, will find in their
vanity Mt least the comforting assurance
OF better fate. The Democratic can
vass in New York has all the elements
eli campaign OF solicitude and despair.
The Cleveland campaign OF peetense,
experiment, chioaneTy and change,
with his leaping Niagara on financial
questions, his abandonment of the
principles which have given the repub-
lie generation OF unexaDpled glory
and good fortune, has fallen into cure
less moral ruin in the hope OF winning
political success. with Robespierre once
more on the mountain and the metro
polls rescued from political dissolution,
to be ruled as it was under Tweed
twenty-five years ago.
Republicans may look on this pros.
poet with content. In the silence de-
volving upon US through the supreme
grief which reats upon the nation like
n pail we can look out upon what We
have done; upon what We can do on
this imminent November day Of des.
tiny and hopo i! We are but true, in.
stant-at our dlty in season, rssolute to
the close OF the poll. The voice Of tile
President is husasd in sovesont un-
speLkable sprsoW. BuC his name, his
administrative achievements, the les
sons OF his craftsmanship lead us on,
We march to a victory that will be his
high and true reward; a victory of