Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-05-26
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The Republican Party Impending
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| Break-Up.
No observing man will attempt 10 gain
say the assertion that the influence Of tn,
York Herald is one of the most poten
agencies that compelled the republican par
ty to nominate Gen. Grant for President
The Herald has been tho constant and nm
wavering friend Of Grant from the battle O
Fort Donaldson TO his Inauguration as Pres
ident. But the display of inefiiciency ant
nepotism that has characterized the acts o.
the President has disgusted even the Scotch
stomach of Bennett during the first six
weeks of the new administration. In the
Herald OF the Goth, appears O long leader
headed THE Decentralization of NE Renub.
lean party-Signs Of an Impending Break.
Up, from which we make the following OK.
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From Republican journals we are in
formed that the great Washburne is little
better than small political Jeremy Diddler
that he cheated Wilson, of Iowa. out of the
state department., and has humbugged the
President and disgusted Secretary Fish in
naming Washburne's men for all the foreign
appointments before retiring, that there Is
no love lost between Fish and Washburne;
that Secretary Borie is tired of the gold
laced straight Jacket ofAdmiral Porter, and
will get out of il very soon; that Attorney
General Hoar has had enough of Grants
cabinet and that Grant himself thinks the
| tima fof another reconstruction has come.
From the same sources it further. appears
that at least half the Republican Senators
are soured with Grants appointments that
the senatorial disafections against the ad-
ministretan are mitedtoSpmgue, Ross,
Carl Schurz and Parson Brownlow by any
means; that the party leaders in almost
every state excepting Massachusetts, and H.
linois 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 millen-
mum of Tittlehat Titmouse, Everything
far everybody" the administration is fail
ure and ''the party machine ia smashed. "
After narrating the quArTels among the
Republican leaders in New York, Phila.
delphia and Washington, the Herald con-
cludes:
"But where is all this mutiny and uproar
among the powers that be 70 end "We
shall be broken up, says senator Trumbull
'unless soma administration will setthe 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 month are dis
graceful" that congress is becoming de.
moYalized and pafalyzed, and unless we
have great reform in this business of The
spoils, "the political state Of the country
will be degraded beyond recovery" Our
opinion is that terrible reooll will come
upon the corrupt and demoralized party in
power, and that wholesome political rev.
olution will follow in bringing new party
into the foreground, Thus, while the signs
of the times indicate that the present ad-
ministration will be disasteroua one to
the republican party, we think it will be
good for tho country. In the policy which
Gen. Grant is pursuing of faithfully and
rigidly carrying out the laws and the orders
and the wishes of congress the consequent
ces are becoming apparent to the people,
and thus the dominant party through its
own devices, is rapidly hurried ON the road
to ruin. Andy Johnson, from his policy Of
opposition 10 congress, kept his party alive
and furnished it with political capital for
every election; Grant in giving to congress
and the party programme full sway and in
carrying out the party law Of rotation in
Office with an unspAiring hand, is in fair
way to the Inauguration of q new and more
startling and more progressive revolution
than that which eliminated in his election.
We say, then, let him go on, and let il
come. A sweeping revolution is the only
remedy for universal corruption.
The sharp instincts of Bennett have en-
abled him for thirty years to scent outwitf
great accuracy the decline and fall Of politi
col parties. The blunders of Grant, and
the selhshnesshn dishonesty of his leading
supporters, indicate to the Herald the Ger
tain result of their msmanagement and GU
pidity, The promises Of honesty and econ
omy he shows to be thus far simply snare
and delnsion for the people.