American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-05-22
The Decentralization of the Republi-
can Party-Signs Of an Impending
Break Up.

The Republican party is fearfully
demOralized. The rank and file of .
this hitherto all powerful organiza-
ton have no longer any common
bond of union, except the common
bond of the public plumber, and over |
the plumber siEce the 4th of March |
last they have been growing, snarl |
ing, swapping and lighting like in
furiated cats and dogs, There have
been, on an average, say ten appli- |
cants for every desirable office in the
gift of the President with the Goa
sent of the Senate, and SO, for every
patriot removed, nine patriots are
disappointed and some are incensed
and disguised. The PresiUeift fres
been making quick work of an ugly
job. Within two months from his
Inauguration he has filled nearly all
the desirable places but he has at
the same time, with the consent of
the Senate, filled all tic land with
the groans of the wounded. The I'M
lucky place-hunters have turned
against him, against the lucky ones
and against each other and such an
exhibition of wrath and scandal,
with the washing of dirty linen be
fore the public we have not had
since the first great Cabinet Imbroglio
of General Jackson.
From Republican journals we are
Informed that the great Washburne
is little better than a small political
Jeremy Diddler; that he cheated
Wilson, of Iowa, out of the State
Department., and has hnmbugged
the President, and disgusted Secre-
tary Fish in naming Washburne's
men for all the foreign appointments
before retiring; that there is no love
lost between Fish and Washburpe 4;
that Secretary Borie is tired of the
gold-laced jacket of Admiral Potter,
and will get out very soon that At
torney General Hoar has had enough
Of Grants Cabinet, and that Grant
himself thinks the time for another
reconstruction has come. From the
same sources it further appears that
at least half the republican Senators
are soured with Grants appoint
ments; that the Senatorial disaffec-
tions against the administration are
not limited to Sprague, Ross, Carl
Schurz and Parson Browniow by
any means; that the party leaders
in almost every State excepting
Massachusetts and Illinois consider
the President poor stitch. and that
he will find it ont in the coming. fall
elections; in short, in failing to
bring about within sixty days the
millennium of Tittlebat Titmousc,
everything for every body" the ad-
ministration is failure and the
party machine is smashed"
But where is all this mutiny and
uproar among the powers that be to
end? ave shall be broken up
says Senator Trumbull, "unless
some administration will set the ex.
ample, or some legislation will com.
pei it, of making the price of office
good behavior only" He says
moreover, that 4" the scenes and the
:. scrambles of the last month have
!. been disgraceful :" that Congress
is becoming demoralized and para
~ Ecu, anu lHdU We q
,, great reform in this business Of the
spoils, "the political state of the
= country will be degraded beyond re
; covery.n Our opinion is that ter
: rible recoil will come upon the cor
rupt and demoralized party in power
and that a wholesome political revo
luton will follow, i'll bringing a new
party into the foreground. Thus
\ while the signs of the times iniicat,
;. that the present administration viii
g be disastrous one to the republi
+ can party, we think it will be goot
r. for the country. In the policy whicl
General Grant is pursuing of faith
# fully and rigidly carrying out tn
II laws, and the orders, and the wishe
a of Congress the consequences ar
becoming apparent to the people
: and thus the dominant party
). through it's own devices, is rapid,
\ hurried on the road to ruin.
:. We say, then, let him go OH, aud lie
+ it come. A sweeping revolution i
:. the only remedy for universal COZ
=, ruption.-Ne,o York Herald.