The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-23
n1sAFFEcr1oN IN RADICAL RANKS


The old adage, ga house divided against i'-
Golf cannot stand" seems very likely TO DC
again verified in the case of the Republican
party. Having had control of the Government
y little more than eight years, and succeeded'
bv means of their illegal enactments, in the
shape of registry and franchise laws under
the operation of which thousands upon thous-
onds of citizens were disfranchised, in carrying
the last Presidential election, thereby elevatlng
TO the highest office within the giftof the Amer
lean people man totally unfit for the position,
and one who is as wholly devoid of all those
qualities going towards constituting states
man as the Radical party is of honesty, they
now discover for the first time that Grant Is
wofully deficient in those very qualities Tor
which they formerly gave him the most credit
They wruug the changes time and again on the
fact that Grant was q man OF few words, Dut
If GREAT decision of character; that the great
ability he had displayed i'll controlling large
bodies of men as General, and the obstlnacy
and pertlnacity with which he had fought it out
son that line, if it took him all Summer" was
conclusive evidence of his great executive abil-
inv. that the success which had attended him
rs n soldier would follow him as u statesman,
and after his election he would speedily bring
order out of chaos" and our country once more
be united in the bonds of 4 traternal rs well
as an actual Union They were, and still are,
correct about Grant being man o: few words
and they might have added, with much truth
also, a man of few ideas; but time has proven
that he has no decision of character, and II
ANDY Johnson and his Cabinet are to be be-
lieved of very little il any character. lie has
bern in office six months and what has he done /!
He first devoted his entire attention to turning
out of office nearly every person who had been
appoated under Johnsou's Administration, at
the same time carefully providing Tor all his
relatives at the expense OF the public treasur!
and appointing To the highest positions OF hon
or and profit those obsequlous individuals "ho
had replenished his depleted purse, and pro
vided him with horses, dogs, etc, too nuner-
Gus TO mention. The Great Gilt Enterprise
proved magnificent success, ut least Tor the
"restless boy and sea side lounger, rs en-
dell Phillips has apty termed him. Having
wearied himself in attending 10 these matters
of qreat and ritdl public Importance he resigns
himself coolly TO the pursuit OF those pleasures
and enI"ymcnts natural to an indoIcnt and
weak minded BOBBY, and turns over the rrins
of Government II his subord!natcs, but more
particularly to Secretary Boutwell,, the tanau.
cal chief of the radical wing of the 50 styled
National Union Republican party. The apple
of discord has been throw in the midst "i the
\ Republican ranks IN the nature 81 thcpr"p"acd
18th Amendment TO the Constitution, and the
proposition 10 remove the political disabilities
of the late '.rrbcs" The result OF the clec
tinns held in Virginia, Tennessee and California
demonstrates coucIusiyrly that the masses al
the people are awakening 10 sense OF lmpcnd
ing danger, and that the conservative portion
of the late Republican party Will no longer
bliudly follow the teachings Of such fanatics
and political harliquins as Butler, Logan, 10
Holt. Boutwell,, and others Of that Ilk. 1T /,
Il long lane that has no turn IN 1t, and II ",
are not greatly mistaken, before another Sly
months has elapsed the Radicals will be Al
Thoroughly disgustcd with Mr.. Grant as The
Democrats are at the present time. he sen
siblc men and best men of that party are no"
deserving the rotten, Radical hulk, like rat
from 4 sinking ship" aud the glorious old Dem
ocratic party, which is daily receiving acces
, slons frors the cncny'S ranks, can contidcntI.
look forward to the time, which is not far dis
tant, when they will again obtain control of tn
National Government
SLANDERING HER SEX Anna +. Dickin
/, son, in one of her recent lectures in San Fran
1 cisco. her subject being Last Words, " mad