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Show If the republican parly can manage man-age lo elect its president this year on the issues of tho abolition war of 1S60 it will be a great inducement for it to bring about another war of some kind beforo 1&30 to arouse popular enthusiasm, and set in operation the machinery by which fortunes, pensions pen-sions and partisans can be created to i carry it through another decade. To a man up a tree, however, it looks as i if tho Bl.unc bloodyshirt campaign would be a fi.ut-0. Grant holds the hand which wiLl euchre Jim Blaine, ' and in tho present western and southern march of tho empire not even a Xcw Koglaud Webster could hope- to secure the presidency. If tho 1'renchrnan Washburuo can be brought to the front thcc might bo a j chance; but in tho meantime we must watch lo see what Gid Tucker i and Dick Hchell (the chairman of tho democratic national committee) pro-poko pro-poko to do at their New York curren-; curren-; .cy convention on tho 10th. Tho ! lomenU of tho contest are still in- ol vtU in great doubt, and the prob- nlnliLic3 vl thrto or four candidates increase. 3 v |