The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-23

most vigorous statements ever made of this
matter. The relations of the man and woman
under the subject theory" are analyzed with
remarkable skill, and the picture of man
given--especall Of the British husband
will startle American readers.
His reasons for allowing absolute equality
TO women under law and custom and politics
are exceedingly strongly put, so that the grand
case of womens suffrage seems now fairly
laid before the jury of the civilized world by
these two great advocates.
THE CONFUSION IN OUR POLITICAL
PARTIES-SIGNS OF A PRESIDEN-
TIAL SCRUB RACE.
From the N. y. Herald
The signs of the times foreshadow Presi-
dental scrub race in 1872. The Republican
party is falling to pieces, like the empire of
Alexander after his grand winding-up course
of carousals in the debaucheres of Babylon.
The Democratic party, seedy and bewildered,
is adrift, and all the isms of the last forty
years, with some new ones, are coming into
the foreground. The old Republican party
which came into power with Jeffersons
fourished say quarter of a century, when
(in 1920, having no longer a regular oppo-
sition party to fight, it was broken up in the
Presidential scrub race between Adams,
Jackson, Crawford, and Clay. SO the Repub-
lican party of the present time, which first
distinctly cropped out in the anti-slavery
third party vote which defeated Clay and
elected Polk in 1914, we may say has fulfilled
its term of twenty-five years, and having done
its appointed work is falling into decay and
dissolution.
The parallel will hold good in another rea-
ton As the administration of Monroe was
''the era of good feeling so the administra-
ton of Grant is peace us have
peace. He goes for peace at home and
abroad; he is not ambitious for another term
and he has no choice for the succession. He
is content with his good fortune; he has done
the best he could do for his party; he will
execute the laws of Congress; he will not
trouble himself with the hazards of any
startling enterprises; he will clog on-jog
on in a quiet fashion, enjoy his cigar when
he can by the wayside, and leave Congress,
his party, and the succession to take care of
themselves. If called upon to serve another
term, he will not decline if called upon to
give way, he will gladly do SO. He does not
care the toss of copper whether it is to be
Grant, or Colfax, or Sumner, Butler, or some
new man not yet dreamed of, for 1872. And
so various radical leaders and aspirants are
beginning to lay their pipe, and mine and
countermine for the succession. The do
nothing and care-nothing policy of the ad-
ministration makes it "a free fight" and the
weakness of the Cabinet leaves the balance
of power among the party leaders in Con-
gress.
But having nothing to rally upon, no stir
ring battle-cry, no new issue touching the
public pulse, the dominant party is beginning
to dissolve and all sorts of queer things are
showing their heads or sprouting up in this
stagnating morass of party politics. The
women's rights people are forming disturb
ing political factions the temperance people
are organizing for independent political ac-
tion the anti-Masons and other anti-secret
society reformers are combining as if for
another effort like that under William Writ,
of 1886; and there are not wanting signs of
religious Protestant coalition against the
Catholics, somewhat analogous to the Know
Nothing movement of fourteen years ago,
which, eliminating in ''Live Oak George,
went up like the rocket and came down like
the stick. Then, again, behind Mr.. Sumner
there is a Republican movement afoot to cap
ture the Irish vote on the Alabama claims,
while in this city there is an active clique at
work to capture the German vote on lager
beer But in numbers the most powerful,
the movements of the trades unions towards
political combinations of labor against capital
are the most ominous. These trades unions
have been wonderfully multiplied and ex-
tended within the last two or three years,
and the Eight-hour law of Congress in regard
to Government workmen is recognition of
their political strength. They hold to-day the
political balance of power in this country,
and, from present appearances, they are drift
ing into hostility to the negro equality pro-
gramme of the administration. .r.
All these movements are operating to the
Generalization of the Republican party and
the Democrats, convinced of their own weak
ness, are looking hopefully upon these disor-
ders in the enemys camp. Some of the old
Copperhead leaders of the West, moreover,
made wise from sore experience, are proposing
to cast their dead men and dead issues over
board, and so to enlarge their articles of faith
as to take in half the Republican party. In
the South they are out-bidding the carpet
baggers for the negro vote, and in the East
they are ready for anything which promises
the overthrow of radical despotism. At the
same time Chief Justice Chase, in his tour of
the Southern States, is gaining golden
| opinions from all the anti-radcal Southern
| elements, and, plank by plank, is building up
I strong Democratic platform for 1872. 1t is
possible, however, that his good work in this
| direction will result rather in breaking uI
than in consolidating the Democracy of the
North and in giving us two or three Presi-
| Dental candidates instead of one from thai
side of the house; for in the great Tammany
| Convention the fatal objection to Mr.. Chase
was that his nomination, even if followed by
his election, would be the dissolution of the
party.
We have yet, however, three years to ruI
to the next Presidential campaign, and the
chapter of events in the interval may Sc
change the grouping of the kaleidoscope as
to render the success or defeat of the admins
tration party moral certainty From the
| signs of the times, however, the two grea
( nartias will he broken mn into factions AM