Show 11 I I republican I I I I I W I since the november storms of I I I popular M ular indignation have prostrated E nw 1111 ally a republican magnate and ard I II 11 scattered not a few idols of bf the party I that has been in power power for 11 I ty T years C a feeling lias has come over I their minds that there must be a reformats in ill ct in a reorganization organization rc from the top to the A bottom the old party platform has bas long ion since decayed and crum bled array it was rallied and I J v r us ed in 1860 under the battle cry of the twin relic slave slavery and polygamy it has bs abolished the servitude of the negro nezro at sit the cost I ao 10 afa of a million lives and billions of f dollars do worth of property As to the otner relic however the grand party of moral ideas has bets not ad j danced an inch the peculiar in ution stands where it did lid when the first fira republican national conf bention hurled burled ita its fragile z thunder bolls against tho people in trenched not only behind the rugged side of the rocky M Mountains but behind the rove revelations lations of their god ali the dictates of their consciences and the safe safeguard bards of the united states I constitution ft the prestige which alis p bubli I party gained by the success of the civil war dearly though it I wag was gamed lasted several years to carry it into renewed awer but the fire of patriotism and lovo of the union that warmed it into life lifland and strife and euc cea oon was and individual ambition and personal greed the place of the nobler aspirations of the citizen As the san francisco bulletin of a late date deso de ribes the v sr r A I if wo r a I IDA I ya net not call it putrefaction I ic I T wai niad into political life by the ft ans of the slave power there avas ito bitite for the beplar regular an t orpa erlat development of of its internal i mechanism in ili preparing it adf for ii tho great career which lay before it it hastily borrowed such aiu h mades modes of action as appeared to suit sult it from the tile party which it succeeded as a well as from front the file party n ainest which it has been arrayed from the start in its first years it had more to do with the tile I internal facts of organization in this dav it has become loaded down I with a body of rules and modes of f procedure re chieh in many cases are I i wholly cited to it the result is I what might have been naturally sus y pa belted pelted S ted general dissatisfaction ion with w ith the way in iii which things are managed a th the e been il ll y aare and alla more unwilling to par I in the primary movements ts of the party which asa as a matter of fact a t aro are more important than the legal ie election C k t the life has fled from the party with th the a escape of the last spark of civic virtue and patriotic self bacri rf i Y rice almost every ev or y popular pop ill P ar ff fe attune a t u i r ei f ap lias has been stamped out of the organization or gan iza tion and aud the body of republicanism rhose godfather was an I abra abrabham am Lin lincoln colu now pre presents tents the t it p in I Shake As I you iab koIt it I I sans sins teeth san sa n s eyes bans ganil taste I I sans everything in california enli for instance a I small clique I usurped all al wit its bunc bious tic ns and privileges and reduce d the masses to a condition which T coufa imposed on southern tP vs y s as negroes r two tito years after ci pation the national machine ff roce received ived its death blow at tho the chicago Conven convention eion of 1880 when the stalwart phalanx of the wai ai routed is is now broken up its cogs I are I I worn wot off oft its iti i screws joose 10 se its r I I I levers bent ent b ita its wheels wh c li out 01 ot gear and there is no engineer to repair I the mechanism and put it in running order again y r the great trouble exists in the fact that the people we mean the republican masses rowes have nothing at aalto say in the internal manage I t merit ali t ethe party part they aro aia led to the tile polls like cattle to I the shambles that is as long as they submit in dumb resignation but havo have thrown off the of bossism and cliques and it remains with the national Convention which is to meet on january next in ill new lew I york to take measures to re gain zain the vanished confidence by reorganizing the tile demoralized party in in a manner which will restore tho chief control of its policy and the decision of its platform into the tile hands where it belongs the sovereign voters if rf they fail to do so then wa we may surely say that tho tile republican party is dead that the wine of ufa life is drawn and tho baere lees T f j |