The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-11
The Two Alternatives for the New Presi
dent.

From the Washington National InteHtgencer.
The Republican party already exhibits signs
of disintegration, and these will multiply
every day. 1t is made up Of very discordant
and incOngruous material-the election of
General Grant being the link that bound them
together when no other could have done so.
1t may sound paradoxical, but it is neyerthe-
less true, that this party could not have sur
vived either defeat or victory. 1t is clear, we
think that General Grant will have to block
out a policy of his own, and look beyond party
to the country to sustain him. If he does
this he may well fscs the future, and the split
ting up of the Republican party need not
alarm him. Indeed, it will be positive help
to his administration
During the last three years the Republican
party has been governed by few ultra lead
ers, who have whipped and cOerced the more
moderate men, and thus compelled party
unity The stimulus of Presidential election
helped to establish the power of this Oligarchy,
and the name of General Grant won enough
of the Democrats and floating vote barely to
carry the October elections, on which that OF
November depended. But this is now over,
and the prize is wen. The rule of Jacobin
leaders cannot be kept up; they have pushed
matters too far, and their army ie rebelous.
General Grant has never promised to be the
''constable' or ''tool' OF Congress, as Mr..
Phillips supposes, or pretends TO suppose; the
feet the victory won in Grants nomination
over the ultras; and as for the Democrats
who voted for Grant, they certainly did not
intend to commit themselves to Butler, sum
ner, or Wendell Phillips. They were for
"peace"
Ii General Grant should commit the great
mistake Of attempting to please the ultra
leaders who have dominated in Congress for
some years, he will not retain for month even
the support of majority of the people. Such
policy is not what was bargained for by the
many Democrats who, as the Springfield Re
publican asserts, voted for him. They would
be very sorry to find themselves mistaken in
him. and that they had helped to rivet the ia
Goblin policy of Greeley and Simmer upon the
country; but they would not be slow to detect
their mistake, and to join the Conservative op-
position. This Conservative opposition is, as
body, prepared to Judge General Grant with
great oandor and lberality; it is ready to accord
to him the most patriotic intentions for the
public good, and it will support him with en-
thusiasm in an effort to wipe out VindictiYe
measures, and thereby do away with sectional
estrangement but the hour that General Grant
shall finally commit himself to the ultras,
and maintenance of their proscriptiye
policy, their duty will be plain They will be-
a unit against his administration. and, re-
ceiviDg back into their ranks the Democrats
whose votes they lost on the Sd of November
ldSJ luey WOulu 10 real majority OF the
people, and before their united opposition the
erring administration would go down in short
order. They would carry all the elections TO
be held hereafter in the great Central and
Western States, and secure by large majority
the next House of Representatives to be
chosen. The moderate Republicans would
also desert an ultra administration, not so
promptly, perhaps, as the others, but surely,
and in large masses. The Government would
soon be left in a woful minority, and nothing
would remain but four years Of embarrassment
and unpopularity, and an ignominious suren-
der of office.
IT, on the other hand, General Grant should
aim to become a pacidoator of the country,
and thus discard the oounsels of Sumner,
Greeley, and the rest, he will, of course, lose
good many Republicans. BY neither nor
any plan could he keep that party togeth ar.
1t must divide at once. But his loss of the
ultrss and violent radicals would endear him
all the more to the moderate men OF the Rs-
publican party, and would conciliate the
Democratic party and the country generally.
Such an administration would be immensely
popular, and if the new President were