Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1880 — POLITICAL SCINTILLATIONS [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL SCINTILLATIONS

The Chicago Convention, like every other event of more or less moment, wa.‘|and remains a topic for study, rather reflection, and was not without lessons to be analyzed, and made to point a moral, especially when its/nZeis lolled. The imperious Conkling, who led the distanced host that rallied and stood with such fidelity to the man on horseback, ehallenP ed the admiration of his foes as warmly as he held the confidence of his friends. The swarthy Logan, who in practice damns “them d—u literary fellers” as vigorously and -incerely as Pennsylvania’s Winnebago chieftain does in phrase, never cowered in the darkest hour of the conflict. D n Cameron— sardonic, sly Don — stood io bis guns and followed the tr d! of his ambition with the fidditv of the sleuth Mat. Car pe iter hadn’t the mettle to bear h s compatriots company to the deadly brea ;h, and Arab like, folded his tent and got him back to Washington. Robeson, the man of large promises and larger pilfering*, never faced the battle. For the first three, the “Senatorial Syndicate,” there are victories, which will pale the ephemeral tri imph of their foes a* Chicago. Tile party that calls itself republican, and travesties its profession in it s practice, can’t live without “Bosses,” and now, having struck down all it had worth keeping, it is at sea with an amateur pilot and a shaky helms-

man. A word hero of Blaine, the “idol” of the corporations, who had him chattered to rule in their favor when lie played Speaker of the House: The “republican” party were not indifferent to his claim on their favor by hose rulings, and if they could have afforded it would have added the-no-mination for President as a bonus to the cash price they paid him for them. They were not ungrateful, for once, but they were “looking ahead.” in contemplation of retaining executive power, and the history of these rulings and Blaino-’s ready aequieseuce‘ in making them, in some mysterious way “got out” and become public property. They didn’t believe that the “magnetism” with which ho is personally credited was strong on ough to snow that ugly fact under, If that part of his record had escaped the vigilance of acute reporters it is even possible that Conkling, would have condoned the indignity of Blaine posting him as a “strutting turkey cock,” and opposed no serious obstacles to his success at Chicago.— Bitline, when sifted, is at best a mere charlatan. He has been on every side of every issue that has excited public thought, all to make him “all tilings to all men.” We imagine that he has met his Waterloo, for ho possesses no such tangible qualities as fit him for the discharge of any public trust. Certainly he is nor, a man to confide in . in any position where his personal ambition could in any possible manner be brought in contact with the public interest. He is, or should bo a “dead duck,” and bis feathers are too much soiled with corruption to allow him ever again to enter into serious consideration for a term in the White House.