The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-13
From the New York Herald.
The Decentralization Of GIae Repub
IIcan Parfy--SiEUs Of an EE1Pend-
ing EBreak.Gp.


The Republican party Is fearfully demon
| allied The rank and file of this hitherto
/ all-pOweTful organization have no longer
any common bond Of union, except the
/ common bond Of the public plumber and
! over the plumber since the 4th Of March
last they have been growing, snarling,
| swapping and lighting like Infatuated cats
/ and dogs. There have been, on an average,
/ say ten applicants for every desirable office
4 in the gift of the President with the con-
/ sent of the Senate, and so, for every patriot
| removed, nine patriots are disappointed and
some are incensed and Disguised. The Pres
ident has been making quick work of an
ugly job. W thin two months from his IN
I auguration he has filled Yearly all the de-
sIrable places; but he has at the same time,
/ with the consent Of the Senate, filled all the
/ land with the grOans of the wounded. The
I unlucky place-hunters have turned against
/ him, against the lucky ones and against
I each other; and such All exhibition OF wrath
and scandal, with the washing OF dirty lin
| en- before the public, we have not had since
/ the first great Cabinet lmbrOglo of Gener-
/ al Jackson.
From republican journals we are inform
/ ed that the great Washburne is little better
| than a small political Jeremy bidder; that
/ he cheated Wilson, Of Iowa, out OF the state
/ Department, and has humbugged the Presi-
/ dent and Disguised Secretary Fish in nam
/ ing Nashburne's men for all tie foreign APP
I pointments before retiring; that there i, no
[ love lost between Fish and Washhurue; that
Secretary Borie is tired of the goid-laced
straight Jacket Of Admiral Porter and Will
/ get out OF it very soon that Attorney Cen
| eral Hoar has had enough of Grants Cabi-
| net, and that Grant himself thinks the time
| for another reconstruction has come. From
the same sources 1t further appears that at
! least half the republican Senators are sour
ed with Grants appointments; that the
Senatorial disaiiectiOns against the admin
/ istration are not limited TO Sprague, Ross,
Carl Schurz and Parson Brownlow by any
means; that the party leaders IN almost
every state excepting Massachusetts and
Illinois consider the President poor stick,
and that he will find it out in the coming
fall elections; that, in short, in falling to
bring about within sixty days the mlllenni-
um of Tittlebat Titmouse, everything for
everybody the administration Is a failure
and THE party machine is smashed
But where Is all this mutiny and uproar
among the powers that be to end: We
| shall be broken up says Senator Irum bull,
! 'unless some administration will set the eX-
ample, or some legislation will compel it, of
| making the price of office good behavior
! only He says, moreover, that the scenes
and the scramble of the last mouth have
| been disgracoful;" that Congress is becom
| ing demoralized and paralyZ cG, and that I'M
! less we have Il great reform in this business
Of the spoils, THE political state of the
country viii be degraded beyond recovery"
Our opinion is that a terrible TCcOIl will
come upon the corrupt and demOrdliZed
party in power, and that wholesome pO-
litical revolution will follow, in bringing
new party into the foreground. Thus, while
the signs of the times indicate that the pres
ent administration will be disastrous one
to the republican party, We think 1t viii be
good for the country. In the policy which
General Grant is pursuing of faithfully and
rigidiy carrying out the laws and the orders
and the wishes of Congress the consequent
ces are becoming apparent 10 the people
and thus the dominant party, through its
own devices, is rapidly hurried on the road
to ruin We say, then, let him 20
on, and let it come. 4 sweeping revolution
is the only remedy for universal corruption.