The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-03
Another Presidential MOve-The Pro
posed Flanagan Party.

Another Presidential MOve-The Pro-
posed Flanagan Party.
From the Herald
Two or three days ago the President issued
very sensible order to United States Mar
shals, instructing them to 'observe with vigi-
lance all persons whom they had reasonable
cause to suspect" of filibustering purposes.
The marshals were also authorized to
promptly interpose the authority of the
United States" in these cases for the preven-
tiOn of dangerous consequences Occasion has
arisen for the enforcement of this order sooner
than seemed probable. Here is Flanagan, of
Pennsylvania, and here are Welsh and Top
sawyer, and other illustrious citizens of the
same great ommonwealth-arrant flibusters
all-and where are the marshals Out of
sight as yet going down the round turn, and
over the hOmestretch, and on the second half
mile, and up the distance pole, and in all
those sorts of places, but of course not
where they ought to be-interposing the
authority of the United States against the
dangerous scheme of these political scape-
graces and speculators and their flibustering
attempt to build up private party OF their
own, to the great disturbance and probable
ruin of the regularly established parties that
now control the people and the spolls. II there
ever was case for the marshals, this is one.
If flibustering is dangerous anywhere, it is on
occasions like this, where distinguished sons
of the republic, with political ambition soaring
beyond all ordinary control, with hunger
and thirst for Office and plunder such as no
possible party can hope to satisfy, throw them
selves out of the common trammels of life, and
start ON career as ambitious as that of Phe-
ton, who took Apollo's ribbons for day and
ran his establishment into the Po. Having
(perhaps) nothing to lose and (another per-
hapsl much to gain, who knows what parties
they may destroy, or with what "sudden
making Of splendid names" they may illumi-
nate the century, Who shall say that they
may not make Andrew Johnson President, or,
failing that, land him lower than President
of the United States ought to go
SeHnmes, the illustrious Admiral of the once
Confederate Navy, acknowledged recently the
embarrassment of not knowing man who
had forced himself upon his attention. He
had never before ''heard of his name or fame. %
However we might desire such refuge as this
in regard to the Flanagan party, it is denied
us. Who could expect to be credited in say
ing that he had never heard the name OF
FlanaganY We have heard the name of Welsh
also. Nor can we conscientiously deny our
familiarity with the name Of Sawyer. We
would not, however, undertake to answer fol
the identity of the particular Flanagan, Welsh
and SAWYER in question; but they cannot pre-
tend to be more respectfully obscure than Others
of their names, and, therefore, this point is o
lass consequence. There Is one identity we Car
answer for, and that is the identity of thei
little game. We have seen that played in al
sorts Of shapes, in all sorts Of ways and unde
all conceivable names, and 1t is still the sam
old game Indeed, we have been expecting
the appearance Of Flanagan, Welsh, an'
Sawyer with this grand game for about nv
days. That number Of days ago, If we re
member accurately, the President was re
norted as saying that "the Mcclellan vote
he anti-negro suffrage vote, and the Southern
vote would elect the next President" ,ottaa Tina
"a Tromisos to bloom into the great Flana
can can Tpsrty. II is not important, whethe
t6is delegation answers for the amt
negro suffrage or Mcclellan vote ., i the tH9
md their intention to form new party dif
finot from either of the great political parties
II carried out-will furnish broad and room
platform that any one can stand upon IL
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