The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1869-05-14

legion of friends and acquaintances, and
we trust that his banking career may be as
successful as has been his dealings in the
royal staple.
The Decentralization of the Republican
Party-Signs Of An Impending Break
UP.
From the New York Herald.I
The republican party ie fearfully demor-
lied. The rank and file ofthis hitherto all
powerful organization have no longer any
common bond of union, except the common
bond of public plunder, and over the plum
der since the 4th of March last they have
been growing, snarlng, swapping and |
fighting like :1furiated cats and dogs
There have been, on an average, say ten
applicants for every desirable Office in the |
gift of the President with the consent of |
the Senate, and SO, for every patriot re-
moved, nine patriots are disgusted and |
some are incensed and disgusted. The |
President has been making quick work of |
an ugly job. Within two months from his
Inauguration he has filed nearly all the de-
sirable places but he has at the same
time, with the consent of the Senate. filed !
all the land with the groans of the wound
ed. The unlucky place hunters have turn
ed against him, against the lucky ones
and against each other and such an exhi-
bition of wrath and scandal, with thes
ing of dirty linen before the puB.a
have not had nce.the- 6rst gre
imbroglio of General J Jaekson.
From republican jouFna
ed that the great Washburns
than a small political Jeremy D
he cheated Wilson. of Iowa,
State Department. and has hu-nb
President and Disguised scFstaly,
naming Washburne's men for
eigu appointments before retiTfssS
there is no love lost between Fish andF
Washburne that Secretary Borie is tired
of the gold-laced straight jacket of Admi-
raj Porter, and will get out of it soon; that
Attorney 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 fur
ther appears that at least half the Republi
can Senators haze soured with Grants ap-
pointments that the Senatorial disaffec
! tioOs against the administration are not
limited to Sprague, Ross, Carl Schurz and
Parson Brownlow by any means that the
| party leaders in almost every State except
ing Massachusetts and Illinois consider the
President poor stick, and that he will
fnd it out in the coming fall elections
that, in short, in failing to bring about
within sixty days the millennium of Tittlebat
Titmouse, "eVerything for everybody"
/ the administration is a failure and ''the
party machine is smashed
But where is all this mut1ny. and uproar
among the powers that be 70 end2 owe
shall be broken up" says Senator Trum-
bull, ''unless some administration will set
the example, or some Legislation will com
pei it, of making the price of Office good
behavior only" He says, moreover, that
"the scenes and the scramble of the last
month have been disgraceful - that Con-
gress is becoming demoralized and paralyz-
ed, and that unless we have great reform
in this business OF the spoils 1.-The political
state of the country will be degraded be-
yond recovery" Our opinion is that
terrible recoil will come upon the corrupt
and demoralized party in power, and that
a wholesome political revolution will fol-
low, in bringing a new party into the fore
ground. Thus. while the signs of the
times indicate that the present administra-
ton will be disastrous one to the Repub-
lican party, We think it will be good for the
country. Iu the policy which Gen. Grant
is pursuing of faithfully and rigidly car
rying out 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 devil
ces, is rapidly hurried on the road to ruin.
Andy johnson, from his policy of oppOsi-
tion to Congress, kept this party alive aud
furnished it with political capital for every
lAelection General Grant, in giving to Con-
and the party programme full sway.
Rsipg out the party law of rOta-
~ unspariug hand. Is in
SguratiO9 Of new
u Assive
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