Year: 1879

Finds No stampede.


Our big two. cent neighbor, up town,
lsars that the Presidential contest In
1880 will be between Grant and Tilden,
and that the campaign will be- one OF
mere vitupsration, and then 1t pro-
nounces the prospect dreary. 1t is but
seldom that VIZ hear our neighbor
"take on so," and in spite Of our effort
TO treat it lightly, We cannot help but
pity him. He had been commenting
upon an extra session Of Congress, the
necessity Of which the Republicans, Of
course, are blamed for: not that what
they opposed was wrong, but because
the Democrats, in an extra session, will
get what they want anyhow, and there
fore 1t WAS useless for Republicans to
oppose it. We are little surprised
that our neighbor misIndsrstands the
character Of Rspu blicans, - to conclude
that they should abandon = question Of
principle simply because they could
not defeat q certain measure. He was
. member Of the Republican party long
enough to know better, and he surely
knew that when he left the party 1t
still lived, and according to his confess
sion in yesterdays editorial II is in the
field ready for one Of the grandest VIC
tories it ever achieved in 1880. This
il thsway the "Evsry Evening" throws
up the sponge:


"Since the Republican party accepted
the Presidency as it came to it in 1876,
without any stampede from its ranks,
there is nothing under heaven that will
cause such stampede, and it may be
depended on to sustain any means by
which its candidates can be placed in
power. The Democrats cannot hope by
any possible conservatism or concilia-
ton TO win its favor or even escape its
condemnation, and as a matter of party
policy the wisest thing for the party
which controls the next Congress to do,
IL that which will benefit it most. We
t.sret that this should be the case, but
it is = tact tha. had inst as we'll be re-
cOgnized.


Our contemporary has at last woke
up to the fact that the Republican par
ty don't stampede very fast, and that
nothing under heavens will cause a
stampede. He is right for snce If he
never was before, and he night have al
30 said that there never was time
when Republicans we're more harmon,
ious and determined to stand together
than now. The action OF the last Con-
gress in its attempt to repeal every safe
guard of the ballot box and to pen
sion Jeff. Davis has unified them
and they expect TO be victorious in
1880 under General Grant or any other
Republican that may be nominated.
'.That the laws over which the two
houses have disagreed will be passed
by the next Congress, we have nt
doubt" says the "E. E., and then in
something very much like the Language
of threat it says: "Mr. Hayes nevel
will WELD the full power which
Peresidents who were elected have WELD
ed and can WELD again" 1t is hare
to conceive what is meant by this las
quoted sentence, if it does not near
revolution. Mr.. Hayes is President o
these Unitel States and he will exer
else the full power intrusted to him il
the discharge of his duties, even to tn
vetoing of every obnoxious partisan
measure whether connected with an ap
preparation bill or not. Unless Presiden
Hayes sees proper to sign the bill
which are threatened to be passed W.
cannot conceive how they are to be
come laws in the absence Of a two-thirt
Congress which cannot be had in neith
or House the way parties are constitu
ted. The Republicans are prepared t.
stand by the President in his vetoe
Bipartisan measures and if such action
block the wheels Of government let tn
responsibility rest where it belongs.