The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-12
SPIRIT or THE PRESS
LDlloNlAh Ah OPINIONS OF THE LEADING JOURNALS
OfON CURRENT PROFESSIONALISM EVERY
DAY FOR THE EVENING TELEGRAPH
|THE ALABAMA CLAIMS AS A PARTY
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IS'V"' T'e AN' i HOfu.
there has been on foot, for the past two
| OF three weeks, an organized effort to make
( the Alabama claims the leading party issue in
the fall elections this year. Such evidence of
tins attempt as we think it expedient to offe,
~ present will be taken from the Republican
|lournals IN order that our readers NAV see
that TINS Is not a partisan imputation, in
vented and set afloat by Democrats for the
purpose of damaging the Republican parity
,,o,, Ft0n, the Eoening Post June (e5itoriqD.
"Our Washington correspondent has made public
ne IaCt that several leading Republicans mean
question IN the next political canvass"
From the Tribune J,tns 10.
"WASHINGTON, June 1O-Senator Nye I'm the name
all the people OF that portion of the United States
Known as the Pacific Slope has invited senator
Sumner to visit that country during the summer.
and enlighten the people thereof on the Alabama
lay. Sumner has accepted the invitation, and viii
accompany the Ways and Means COMMITTEES, which
ehach much significance to this proposed trip of Mr.
Summer They say he favors strongly the idea o
Hmaklng the question Of the duty of our Government
III the matter Of the Alabama claims test in tn
*comlng political campaigns i'm the various States
ahd, II ne should make any speeches while in tn,
est, u Is not improbable that he will annOunc
From a Washington telegram to the Ecening Post,
June 10.
Senator Howe writes here fromWisconsin heartly
approving the scheme to make the Alabama claims
question of party issue at the next elections and
bays that prominent men throughout the Northwest
entertain the same sentiments, and that this mOVe-
nent would meet with the universal approval Of all
XRepublcans throughout his section of country.
Special despatch to the Commercial AdUertiser.
WASHINGTON, June 10.-The eXpedenCy of en-
grating the Sumner Alabama speech upon the Re-
3puDncan platform as means to carry the fall cleo
Ions is freely canvassed, and Is far from meeting
Bwth unanimous support
influential Republicans denounce the war-cry
ngainst England rs untenable In point of right and
nternational law, and certain to lead to repuda
ton of the entire debt if pushed to actual hosttes
1t is certain, however, that very powerful pOit-
zeal combination is being organized to make Mr.
&Sumners view of the Alabama question test issue
lat the fall elections.
Sumner Forney, Stanton, and several Western
~ ollticans and Congressman are at the head Of the
81 lew anti-English movement
The first question that presents itself in
connection with this desperate project re-
ates to its motives and reasons. Whence the
necessity, which is so widely felt by the most
ctYe leaders and managers of the Republi-
AN party, of getting up a new and exciting
[ ssue, in the first political canvass after the
II inauguration of the new President? This
l%esperate attempt grows out of the universal
Rfbeling, and almost universal confession, that
THE administration of General Grant is already
&5 failure; that he has disappointed and morti-
fed his friends, aud given grounds of deri-
ksive triumph to his enemies. After the enOr-
nous dripping wet blanket which three
months of General Grants administration has
laid upon the flaming enthusiasm by which
he was borne into Office, the disgusted Repub-
lcan leaders feel that something must be
done to save the party. The public mind
they think, must be llindled by new and in
fammatory topic OF invective; and in casting
about for the new ISSUE a quarrel with Eng
land has struck them as the most feasible and
promising. SO desperate have they become,
in view of the impending ruin which hangs
over the party in consequence of President
Grants imbecility and blunders, that they will
not stick at embroiling the country in a for
Il eien war, if they can succeed in uniting
- their party on the new issue. In their
view, the Alabama issue has two great
M Recommendations. In the first place, it is
I. Nof that exciting and incendiary character
which is so congenial to the radical love of
adtation and in the next place, they count
upon the chance of detaching, 10y means of it,
part of our citizens of Irish birth, and espe-
cially the Jealous Fenians. from the Demo-
cratic party. The signs of the times render
Il it certain that the negro vote, on which the
Republicans have chiefly relied for the future
success of their party, will be divided, and a
large portion of it be controlled by the
Southern Democrats. To counterbalance this
fatal loss the reckless political gamesters who
manage the Republican party have decided
to make q desperate effort to divide the Irish
vote by incendiary appeals to the burning
hatred of the Fenians for England. These
this attempt to make the Alabama claims q
party issue.
This is, of course, foolish project, which
will recoil, with damaging effect, against the
Republican party. Being a confession thai
the party is in desperate straits-that it is il
the jaws of impending destructOn-it vii
only hasten its downfall and render its ruin
more signal and complete. Nobody can be
deceived by this sudden and shallow attemp
to occupy Democratic gronnd, and steal and
xaggerate the Democratic thunder. When
Aever this country has bearded the British lioI
has been led by the Democratic party. Il
was a Democratic Congress that declared, anC
IA Democratic administration that conducted
4 the last war with England, against the uni
eYersal opposition of the Federalists. 1t wa
the Democrats who raised the party cries, il
III the Oregon controversy, 1.-The whole
WI Of Oregon or none"-''F 'Fifty-four-forty
= m-Fighth 1t was a Democratic administra
ton that demanded an apology for tho
outrage upon the steamer Caroline: and it wa
= Democratic Senators that vehemently Opposed
+ the ratification of the Observation-Disclosures
treaty. because they thought that treat
mckled to British interests. 1t was Demo
cratic administration that sent Mr. Champion
# the British Minister, out of the country at tn
time of the Russian war. When such al
idolizer of England, such toady OF England
W hs MIR. Sumner has always been, turns sud
den somersault and busters against her witt
+ his staggering, incendiary rhetoric, everybod
with half a grain of common sense must se
that he is acting a part His suited phrase
\ bear the same relation to the hearty, honest
genuine anti-English feeling which ma