The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-23
TIE RADICAL BREAK-U1.
Remarkable Admissio ms from q LEADING
Party Organ.

The Nation (Radical,) one OF the most can
did and thoughtful journals of the party in
power, IN it's last issue, uses the following Ian
guage:
1t seems not at all likely that we shall witness
something of the same kind during the coming
fall: 1t is casting no extraordinary 6iscredlt
on n the Republican party to say that ever since
etfec'ion. 1t had very difficult work to do in
reconstruction, md one for which the ex.
perlence OF the war had hardly fitted it's leaders,
ana whlcn. rom its very nature, was sure to
dertcok it. It was enabled to carry it out suc-
ceSsful!y solely .owin2 10 Andrew Johnson's
folly and the. South's obs,lnacy anI stu
pnrtsno. pi.y bow oF deeply the leaders felt the i'm
was we'll shown by the frantic efforts made by
them and br the party papers to magnify his
erimes" t.;r' and sc gravity Of the impeachment
!tlai. IN ADD; ioh to this. the party has had
Tie spending eight yeafs Of enormous sums
OF money, and has ;seen forced to collect and
disburse. it without any adequate administra-
tiye machinery The consequence, and the in-
evitable consequence, has been not only that
the party has has lad to shoulder the respon-
slbiity ofTreat abuses, but has had to Witness,
the acces sion 60 its ranks Of prodigious nun 3
per OF knayes and adventurers, and to bear thG
burden Of their " loyalty" and s'soundness'
while entirely unable. to put stop to their
plunderlng and pecrlating. Some allowance.
100, in investigating the cause OF the decline
vi tuo party IN popular estimation, must, OF
course, be made for the weariness of any party
which has been long in power which nevita bly
comes over the public before many years.
Many people forget the nlisdeeds of the oppo-
sltlon' L are constantly frctted by the faults CT
the administration. and gradually worked
them selves first into belief that any cbanro
would be Tor the better, and then into a. deter
mination to have a change Of some kind It apy
cost.
The party was. therefore, in a somewhat
sorry plight at the approach CT the Pres,ten.
tlal election; and II it had made up it's mind 10
discard Grant, and Democrats had made up
their mmds to take Chase there is we believe.
little doubt in the minds Of careful observers
that IL !ould have gone to pieces Hero the
folly OF the opposition, combined with the en-
20 Convention, postponed tho evil dav. AS 1t
was, Grant may DO said to bavo achieved a re-
spectacle victory only by the poculiarlties of
me elective machinery. Had he boen depen-
dent on direct popular vote, he W ,u.d have
barely escaped defeat. The history Of his adj
mnlstratlon thus far has certainly not been Of
a character to give the party q now hold on the
popular confidence. Indeed, lis warnest
friends have been forced almost from the first
to act on the detensive-to devote themselves.
IN tact, mainly TO the work of proving, not that
IT has established new claims 10 popular graft
tude but that it has done nothing to enrn
popular distIust.
1t is not at all surprising, therefore, that
the hack politicians, whose presence in its
ranks and use OF Its machinery as their own
ends have brought so much discred,t on it,
should once more begin to feel anxious. and
cast about for some means Of rekindlipp the
popular enthu7' asm In its behalf, or procurino
renewal OF .ts Lease OF power.