Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-23
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lFrom the New York Times, Oct. al
A Warming to Congress and Il
Party Managers.

lFrom the New York Times. Oct. 2l.l
A Warning TO Congress and 10
Party Managers.
An Ohio correspondent of the Chicaqo
Tribune, discussing the lesson OF the late
elections, adduces the shortcomings of Con-
gress as well as the blunders of local man.
ayers as the causes of disaster.
In Ohio, as in California and now again
in this State, the local organizations ap-
pear to have displayed remarkable indit-
ference to the moral sense of the Republi-
can party. The CORE spondent of our
Radical contemporary charges that in Ohio,
in many instances, the worst men were
nominated for roffice-"government plum
derers and political outcasts'-from whose
support the best elements of the party
naturally recoiled. In the writer's own
county, Quartermaster who had been
convicted and dismissed the service by
cOurt-martial was awarded con-
spicuous position on the ticket, and
in other counties the Character of
the nominees is alleged to ave been
vile. Another cause of alienation has been
the prescription of the soldiers in the Or
,ganization of the county tickets; while the
Democrats adroitly acceded them honora-
BILE positions. To these local circumstanc-
es the Tribune's correspondent attributes
the detection of thousands of Republicans,
who refused to be participators in the deg
radiation of their party. Will not our New
York managers profit by the lesson while
time remains to correct the blunders which
in some districts have been committed?-
They NAV rest assured that here, as in
Ohio, large class of Republican voters
will refuse to support the nomination of
candidates whose antecedents render them
unworthy of confidence. Party allegiance
is not strong enough in these days to carry
through corrupt and dishonest nominees !;
and any attempt to test the question will
enure to the benefit of the Democrats.
But the correspondence of our Chicago
does not limit the moral of
the Ohio election to local considerations
These were sufficient, no doubt, to
render ineligible many of the changes
in the composition, of the State Leg
islature and the filling of local Of
tices !; but they represent only imper
fectly the influences that have operated to
the prejudice of the Republican party
Any lesson upon the subject would be in
that failed to touch the discomfort
which has been occasioned by the refusal
of Congress to satisfy the demands of the
country on other questions than recon-
struction. Here is the first count in the
Indictment to which the leaGing Radical
journal of the Northwest gives cIrculation:
"A groundwork for serious dissatisfac-
tion among the most sincere adherents OF
the Republican party, has been the rapac
ity of its Office-hOlders and the Indifference
of the National Legislature to the imme-
diate ills from which the nation suffered.
1t has been a subject OF universal COM
plaint that while the trade of the country
is well nigh at a stand-still, the laborer
abroad in search OF employment, taxes
and the cost of living enormously high.
and the profits of labor and merchandising
small, that body has been
possessed with mania for diSposing of
the public moneys by continued appropri-
ations; that it has arbitrarily increased its
salaries and perquisites that in the course
OF three sessions since the cessation of hos
tilities it has provided no method of re-
no looping off of useless and
devouring offices, no economizing in the
of the revenues, no checking the
defalcatiOns and whisky frauds, and the
thousand instances of official perfidy by
which the Federal treasury is being
drained"
These are complaints to which the popu-
ar heart of the country most earnestly re-
spends. Outside of the circle of party
managers and office-holders. the feeling is
universal that Congress has addressed it
self too exclusively to the strictly political
aspect of reconstruction, and has conse-
4uently overlooked the urgent practical
wants which have followed the suppression
of the rebellion. The necessity of retrench-
ment has not been recognized. The evils
and injustice OF crude and veXatious
system of taxation have received very
limited attention. The dangers incident to
an inflated and inconvertible currency
have been met with nothing like adequate
On each of these points Con-
yress is chargeable with more than mega
i've faults. Its sins had been few
sr were they only sins of omis-
sion. En- truth, however, it has
been lavish instead OF thrifty in
its expenditures. Although it has effected
some reduction of internal taxation, it has
1octored the tariff for the benefit of special
interests and almost always for the worse.
And though it sustained the very moder-
lite scheme of contraction which Mr.. Nc
Culloch has partially carried out, it produc-
I'd an impression which the speculators ana
gold gamblers have turned to account.
Judged according to any. intelligent stand
,rd of craftsmanship, it must be admitted
hat the last Congress signally failed to re-
,lize the wants of the country, and the op-
Dortunities for affording relief which eX-
sted side by side with the question of
Southern reconstruction.
+ A similar consciousness of the weakness
which the inefficiency of Congress has en-
,ailed upon the Republican party may be
raced, we think, in the speech of Senator
Morgan, as Chairman of the ratification
Meeting held last week in this city. He
loes not, indeed, arraign Congress after the
manner OF the writer we have quoted, nor
iOes he rebuke the wretched taste and worse
Judgment which are visible in certain of
he local nominations. But he clearly in
licates the necessity of legislating more
for the relief of the struggling
industry OF the country, and the peril of
onger neglecting its material require
nents. The revision of our system
IF taxation and the reduction ofl
It's burdens-the Inauguration of an
era of retrenchment-an and the judi
eiOus management of the currency, are
matters which Senator Morgan points out
IS tests by which the capacity of Congress
will properly be in a large degree deter
mined.
These demands are in nowise inimical to
,he policy of Congress on the reconstruc-
ion question, or the measures which the
differences with the President may yet ne
,essitate. But they are a protest against
The further neglect of material concerns,
and the continued sacrifice of great practi-
,al questions on the altar of an insensate
Let the reconstruction of the
South be completed by all means, and with
the least possible delay. But let not the
performance of this task be pleaded as an
excuse for inattention to the industrial,
and financial necessities of the
The Means Taken by the French
Emperor 10 Prevent "a Ii evOIt.