A Discontented Element

Franklin Blades, a prominent RepubHoan of Iroquois County, Illinos, writes the following plaia words concerning the Bepublican party : There is a restlessa, discontented element in the Eepublican party ; it is folly to shut our eyes to that faot. The present position of the party on the currency question has increased that diseontent. Many have gone out of the party seeking new affiliations. Others pause at the threshold because recent developments have impressed them with, the melancholy conviction that there is no hope elsewhere. Within, the tide of repudiation has "been but barely stsyed. Within, there has never been more than there is to-day, the odor of rottenness. Within, a too intensely partisan spirit has prevailed - in so mucb. that bad, selfish men, men of no oonvictions, have been able to use it as an instrument of spoils to the unutterable disgust of those who have had life-long convictions, and who have long and earnestly struggled - and that, too, in days of adversity, when there were no offices to be had - to make the Republican party great and strong so that it might beoome a means, as it did, of accomplishing grand and good things for their country For a closing word let me say if before the next general election, the Kepublioan party shall notrosume its old honest position in regard to the currency, and 8nt out upon a definite, fixed policy leading to specie resuinption, there is a goodly number, who linger and hope still in its ranks, who will avail themselves of their liberation from party serfdom,