Show PREPARING FOR ACTION the louisville gathering gath ring which is ie now DOW on OD ie 18 not dot a COU oi 01 war but a conference having in view the perpetuation of certain lines of national policy if such cannot be passed along to posterity for an indefinite feriod ier iod then the con conference terence will try to revitalize their organization and keep it ita standard principles afloat during the life of the generation at least it is useless to discuss such a meet tug ing with such objects in view in a tone of impartiality and fairness and look for endorsements from either side because it is a partisan body and controlled by partisanship in its strictest sense but that is the proper abi in to do A few of the aimea of attendants are enough to settle the point of partisanship conclusively clu Benja benjamin miu harrlson harrison william mckenley J B R clarkson L P morton B R A alger john sherman Bb erman james longstreet JLong Longe street treet and frederick douglass dauglass for example nothing coul coult t be more strictly republican than such an array and they constitute but a very minute fractious frac tiou numer cally speaking of the names of men I 1 in n attendance who are prominent in the party arty and with whom all readers are more or less jeaa familiar the understanding is we belie believe ve to L outline the work ahead ana ami secure concerted action in every part of the country that is ie the east and the west are to get together on the silver and other interests peculiar to one or the other while the north and the south are not only to shake bands over the abe once floody chasm now reduced to the proportions of an irrigation ilitch and largely imaginary in places at that but are to embrace and lot let their tears of joy blend within the common soil oil this we would suggest is good politics it is the only plan upon which a party can hold together let alone assume the offensive and make a successful dash dach for supremacy the republican Republic ad history to is the most eventful of any in our land it is called an old party but as compared with its chief appon opponent r nt it is an infant it was born in 1856 and habilitated with power five years later practically con si deredi Jered therefore it to is but thirty two years of age up to and even away past which time men are conf considered jid young but take a glance at its A league of commonwealths forged into an indissoluble union the right to own human flesh forever extinguished and the former chattels themselves elevated to the dignity of full manhood and equal citizenship the most harrowing destructive truc tive expensive and consequential war of the century fought out peace with honor restored the debt well nigh paid and the newly born nation bathed in the sunshine of a prosperity and advancement which its people before only dreamed of had we not passed through it it would all sound like the narration of some wondrously gifted romancer instead of a plain recital of mere matters ut of fact and yet iu in respect to this a party is on au an equal tooting footing with its individual entities As ae a man cannot live and flourish on his past good deeds so cannot the republican or any other partisan organization keep itself above the surface of things anu steadily forging ahead because of its ite former achievements it must act in the living present and show itself as capable of dealing with and adjusting the vital questions of today as it was at any ti time me U during the sixth decade of the century the democrats claim that iao BO now exist that all that we have now to contee d with are the hereditary questions which we had before and always have and that thus the republican party with its mission of war and transformation ended has no longer any ADY reason for living can the he louisville conference overcome that position by anything more than a general traverse or will it as formerly stare ste fate in the face and defy the lightning of a sections wrath and a worlds displeasure these it will do if it ii grapples fearlessly and justly with the silver oliver question and yet it is one that must receive attention and solution without lurther further delay perhaps the democrats way may their opponents in this but it does not seem eem likely now and yet it is when fully and farly fairly considered a more vital and more pressing question than the tariff the south demands it the west will no DO longer be denied but would it not cot pe be one of the strangest developments of politics if the republican patty party already partly dislodged its ita cradle and its home the north were to find rehabilitation and renewed strength in the section where it has haa had bad but partial backing atio aon that where it has haa practically received none at all of late the west and the south |