The San Francisco call., 1896-05-28
THERE WILL BE NO SPLIT.

The leaders of the Democratic party are
trying very hard to divert public attention
from the dissensions in their ranks by
scattering it broadcast that splitting up
of the Republican party will follow the
action of the st. Louis convention, no
matter what kind of platform is adopted
but it will avail them nothing. And we
venture the suggestion that when po-
litical organization is in so much OF a
tangle that it resorts to hypocrisy, deceit
and subterfuge to call attention away from
its Kilkenny performances, it is safe to
predict that its dissolution is ineyita bic,
for 1t is the law of compensation that
iniauity shall be hoist by ITS own petard,
There are dissensions in the Republican
party, as there should be. The Republican
| party as whole stands the protector and
defender of the ethical and commercial
agencies of the country's progress. and
since its influence reaches to every neigh
borhood in the land, it is to be expected
that there would be clamoring here ana
clamoring there for protection and en-
couragement without much reference to
the needs of one another. 1t is this that
creates enthusiasm and causes party allie
glance, which eliminates in willing ac-
quiescence in compromises, and gives to
each interest to the point where more
would be an infringement upon the rights
of the other. Hence, out OF dissensions
there comes acquaintance with the needs
of the several communities, and also in
clination 10 harmonic differences upon
the basis of the greatest possible good to
all. 1t is this that makes the Republican
party National party in contradistiction
to the Democratic party, which is thor
oughly sectional.
There could not, therefore, be "split'
in the st. Louis or in any other Repab-
lican convention without the party first
sacrificing its function of universality or
representative of the individual and collect
i've interests of ali the people, and were it
to do that it would no longer be the Re-
publican party. No doubt there will be
extremists in the st. Louis convention,
but their ultra-radicalism will serve to
make the conservative element all the
more alert in watchfulness of the general
good of the country, and out of the agita-
ton will come a far better knowledge of
the actual needs of the several sections of
the country, which will be useful in franz
ing platform, for the platform must bind
ests of every community up to where fur
ther advantage would be encroachment
upon the rights of others.
The Republican party is party of com.
promisesas between the demands OF the
various interests that require Government
protection and encouragement, but party
of no compromise as between the business
interests of the people of the United
States and foreign nations and peoples
who seek to make this country subservicnt
to them. The mission of the Republican
party is to create first and then enlarge
and strengthen the opportunity of the
people of the United States to acquire
homes under the easiest and most favor
able circumstances possible, and to build
up about them such defenses as shall
| secure them against hostile invasion
Hence the Republican party could not
''split" until it had renounced its alle-
glance to those principles which stand for
government that is of the people, by the
| people and for The people.