The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-23
THE RADIC4AL BREAK-UP
Remarkable Admissions from q LEADING
Party Organ.

The Nation radical. one OF the most can
did and thoughtful journals of the party in
power, IN it's last issue, uses the following Ian
guage:
1t seems not at all likely that we shall witness
something OF The same kind during the coming
fall. 1t ie casting no extraordinary 6iscredlt
on oot the Republican party to say that ever since
affection. It had q very difficult wol K to do in
reconstruction, md one for which the ex.
perence OF the war had hardly fitted it's leaders.
ana which. from it's Very nature, was sure to
dertcok it. It was enabled to carry it out out sue NC
cessfully solely owing TO Andrew Johnson's
folly and the. south's obsiinacy n and stu =
pdty po1tSnoa Hoy os esspy the leaders felt the i'm
was well shown by the frantic efforts made 81
them and BY the party papers to magnify his
crmes" ana sAe gravity Of the impeachment
trlal. La add; ;on to this, the party has had
o. money, and has @seen forced to collect and
disburse it without any adequate adniinistra-
tive machinery. The consequence, and the in
evitable e consequence, has been not only that
tneparty has has had to shoulder the respon-
slbil1ty ofgreat abuses, but has had to witness
the accession to it's ranks Of prodigous nun p
Der OF knayes and adventurers, and to bear thC
burden ot their loyalty" and 'soilndness"
WhAe entirely unable to put q stop to their
plunderlng and pecclating. Some allowance,
TOO, in investigating the cause OF the decline
or the party In popular estimation, must Of
course, be made for the weariness Of any party
which has been long in power which inevitably
comes over the public before many wears.
Many people forget the nlisdeeds of the oppo-
s.tion, are constantly frotted by the faults Of
them selves first into belief that any change
would be tor the better, and then into deter.
minatlon to have change Of some kind at any
cost.
The party was, therefore, in somewhat
sorry plight at the approach OF the Pres,den.
tial election; and il it bad made up its mind 10
discard Grant, and Democrats had made up
their minds to lake Chase, there s we believe.
little doubt in the minds Of careful observers
that l. you'd have gone to pieces. Here the
folly OF the Opposition, combined with the en-
ergetlc action of the sensible men at the Chica-
80 Convention, postponed the evil dav. AS it
was, Grant may be said to bave achieved a re.
spectacle victory only by the peculiarlties Of
the elective machinery. Had he boen depcn
dent ON o direct, popular vote, he W lu.d lave
barely escaped defeat. The history OF his adj
minlstratien thus far has certainly not been Of
character to give the party o new hold on the
popular confidence. Indeed, It's warmest
friends have been forced almost from the first
TO act on the detensve--to devote themselves
IN fact, mainly to the work Of proving, not that
IT has esta blished new claims 10 popular graft
tude, but that it has done nothing to earn
popular distIust.
II is not at all surprising, therefore, that
the hack politicians, whose presence in it's
ranks and use OF ITS machinery as their own
ends have brought so much discred,t on it,
should once more Begin to feel anxious, and
cast about for some means OF rekindliDg the
popular enthus asm In it's behalf or procuring
renewal OF AtS l.aEe OF power.