The Daily Cairo Bulletin

-Among all the great speeches which were made by the leaders of the Republican party at Chicago, The Bulletin is inclined to reckon that of Mr. Flannagan, of Texas, as entitled to the highest praise. Mr. Flannagan's succinct and comprehensive statement of the end and object of the great Republican party, has never, we believe, been equalled in any national convention of the party since the party began. Indeed, we cannot help but think that the convention ought there and then to have nominated Mr. Flannagan for President, for he showed a greater knowledge of the true principles of the party, and more correct views of what the party expects of its president, than the duke of America, down to William Windom. "We want the offices," said this great and shining light of the party of lofty ideas. "We want the offices; we don't want no civil service reform. If Republicans are not to have the offices, what are we here for?" Could anything be neater than that? Could the very pith and essence, so to speak of Republican principles, be stated so comprehensively in fewer words? What was the convention for, what all the worry and toil and trouble and wear and tear of mind and body, to say nothing of the expense, if the illustrious patriots were not to get office? No wonder Mr. Flannagan was disgusted when a sentimental delegate from Massachusetts who had imbibed heretical ideas from Harper's Journal of Civilization, or was a college president, or a "dam litterary feller" perhaps, intimated that the party ought to declare in favor of civil service reform. No wonder Mr. Flannagan sat down on that Massachusetts man, and sat on him hard. Civil service reform indeed! The true and only object and purpose of the seven hundred and fifty-six delegates who sweltered and swore and fought and yelled through a whole weary week in that convention was office, and to have a resolution declaring that the party was in favor of dividing with the Democrats was insulting in the extreme and filled Mr. Flannagan with wrath. His little speech on the occasion was a gem Mr. Conkling might have said it more elegantly, but no man could have presented the true principles of the party better than did Mr. Flannagan, of Texas.