The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-30

that the great Washburne Is little better than
small political Jeremy Diddler that he cheated
Wilson, of Iowa, out of the State Department.
and has humbugged the President and disguised
Secretary Fish in naming Washburnes men for
all the foreign appointments before retiring;
that there is no love lost between Fish and
Washburne; that Secretary Bore is tired of the
gold-laced straight-jacket of Admiral Porter,
and will get but of 1t very soon; that Attorney
General Hoar has had enough of Grants Cabi-
net; and that Grant himself thinks the time for
another reconstruction has come. From the
same sources it further appears that ut least half
the Republican Senators are soured with Grants
appointments; that the Senatorial dsaffections
against the administration are not limited to
Sprague, Ross, Carl Schurz, and Parson Brown
low by any means; that the party leaders in
almost every State excepting Massachusetts, and
Illinois consider the President poor stick and
that he viii find 1t out in the coming fall cleo
tions that, in short, in failing to bring about
within sixty days the millennium of Tittebat
Titmouse everything for everybody" the
administration is a failure and 'the party ma
chine is smashed"
which prevails among our Republican contempo-
raries will serve to season this dish.
Isn't it a dainty dish
To set before the kingg
For instance, the patriotic free trade poc;s of
the Post have fling or two at some of General
Grants appointments; and then we learn from
another quarter that it is because they have
failed to be sent to take possession of their
"castles in Spain" The facetous Dana next
ceases to be funny, gets out of patience, gets
into a rage, and proceeds ferventy and furiousy
toscold and scandalize the administration; where
upon it appears that it is because Dana has failed
in his dreams of the Custom House, and even of
good whisky district, which would enable him.
in his coach and four and diamonds and gold
chains to shine like Sheridan Shook. Worst Of
all, Dana, dropping his mock heroics over Greeley
produces some biting revelations of the curiosi-
ties of Joint stock newspaper system calcu-
lated to petrify the Tribune philosopher; where
upon the enterprising Dana is brought face to
face with a hundred thousand dollar libel suit
and there is great fuss among the small fry in
Philadelphia. With these things and the Sprague
war still on in Rhode Island, and amid the gene
raj turmoil noise, and confusion in the Republi-
can camp the formidable Fisk and his railway
lawsuits are for the time eclipsed. when the
politicians get into Donnybrook "scrimmage"
over the spoils Fisk must fall back for he ceases
to be the living sensation
But where is all this mutiny and uproar
among the powers that be to end? I'VE shall
be broken up," says Senator Trumbull, unless
some administration will set the example, or
some legislation will compel it, OF making the
price OF office good behavior only lie says
moreover, that 'the scenes and the scramble of
the last month have been disgraceful;' that Con-
gress is becoming demoraized and paralyzed
and that unless we have a great reform in this
business of the spos, 1.-The political state of the
country will be degraded beyond recovery"
Our opinion is that terrible recoil will come
upon the corrupt and demoraized party in
power, and that wholesome political
revolution will follow, in bringing a new
party into the foreground. Thus. while
the signs of the times indicate chat the
present administration will be n disastrous
one to the Republican party, we think it will be
good for the country. in the policy which
General Grant is pursuing of faithfully and
rigidly carrying ont the laws and the orders and
the wishes of Congress, the consequences are
becoming apparent to the people; and thus the
dominant party, through its own devices, is
rapidly hurried on the road to ruin. Andy John
son, from his policy of opposition to Congress,
kept this party alive and furnished it political
capital for every election; General Grant in
giving to Congress and the party programme full
sway, and in carrying out the party law of rota-
tion in Office with an unsparing hand, is in fair
way to the Inauguration of a new and more
startling and more progressive revolution than
that which culminntcd in his election. We say,
then, let him go on, and let it come. a sweeping
revolution is'the only remedy for universal cor
ruptiOn.