The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-25
Trouble BegInning.

!t,5'@ Trouble BEGINNING.
The, spirit of rivalry and jealousy
is beginning to show itself in the
Republican organs. This is particu-
larly evident in the course of those
journals in this city and the temper
they exhibit toward each other in
discussing prominent topics. For
instance, one favors an increase in
thePresident's salary, with sly wink
at the great elect and month wa
tering for the rare viands and the
generous wines at the expectant
table in the Executive kitchen. This
organ is familiar with high living
and desires General Grant to have q
salary which will enable him to main
tain luxurious table for the benefit
OF. his friends. On the other hand,
another organ opposes an increase of
salary in view of the twenty-four
hundred million Indebtedness under
which the nation groans, as if the
proposed increase would prove more
than O drop in wine cooler as COM
pared with our magnificent national
obligations. This is the cheap-liv-
ing, tenement house. bran bread
branch of the Republican organs-a
very noisy, persistent, hungry, grasp
ing set of political sans culo0es.
Then there is row about the te-
nure of Office bill. One set of Repub-
ican organs declare that the bill
must be modified or Grant will be a
mere mummy President, like Andy
johnson, without power to do good
or evil-a mere nonentity, neither
useful nor ornamental. Another
batch aver that modification in the
tenure of Office bill would be an
admission that the party had been
acting wrong; and, moreover, they
are not precisely so sure about Gen
eral Grants fidelity to radicalism as
to allow him the reins without-to
use an equine figure-irst testing his
soundness and endurance. But, with
or without q tenure of Office bill,
General Grant can suspend all go
vernment officers tainted with cor
ruption, and, pending investigation,
submit their cases to the Senate,
which will be bound to sustain him.
Still another set Of Republicans are
crazy after O universal suffrage
amendment to the constitution, fore
ing willy nilly, negro suffrage alike
npon all the States. And yet another
faction are positively opposed to
such an extreme measure, and are
rather violent in their opposition.
Finally, prominent Republican or
gans are highly exercised in regard
to the composition of Gen. Grants
Cabinet, there being already formed,
or in process of formation, Cabinet
rings in the East, in the West, in the
North. and even in the South. The
Eastern, or New England ring, has
Sumner as its favorite, with an old
regime, but rather enterprising, Bos-
ton paper as an organ. The Western,
or Chicago ring, has Elihu B. Wash
burne as its favorite. with Chicago
qua nuac as an organ. The South
ern, or carpet-bag ring. has repre-
sentative man as its favorite, with O
colored organ to groom him for the
contest. But the grandest ring of all
the great concentric ring, the ring
within rings, the ring that is prepared
TO dish up Cabinet ministers. foreign
ambassadorships. fat collectorships,
and to serve out, according to order,
all the superb plums and delicious
drippings from the larder of fresh
administrations the New York
ring, with its impatient, quarrelsome
and troublesome organs. Happily
for the peace of Gen. Grant, either
OF these organs can furnish candi-
date for place in his Cabinet, or an
ambassadorship abroad, without
going out of the purlieus of their
own sanctums.
In the meantime. while all these
political wire-pullers are in ferment
about appointments and plunder u,,.
der Gen. Grants administration. that
hero visits New York, amokes his
segar, dimes and chats pleasantly with