The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-05
Greuiug telegraph
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1870.
WANTED = REPUBLICAN, STATES
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Cabinet marks q new departure for the ad-
ministrstion of President Grant. General
Cox was called to the portfolio of the Inte-
rior Department less than two years ago, be-
cause he was not politician and was known
to share the Presidents purpose to ignore the
counsels and wishes of that very large class
of the American people. Now he is bowed
out of the Cabinet with severe politeness
because he refused to countenance iniquities
that professional politicians have learned to
look upon as virtues. Cox retires, and
Cameron and Chandler have stamped their
impress upon the political policy of the admin
istration.
1t is proclaimed by those who worship
power that this new departure indicates a
wholesome Difference on the part of the
President to the political interests of the
Republican party. Whatever may have been
the motive, the result has but deepened and
widened the apprehensions of the better
class of the people who desire to be in cor
dial sympathy with the administration. The
complaint of the sincere, non-ofice-h hunting
Republicans was not that the President
ignored Republican politics. but because he
has steadily and 0bstinGteIy ignored RepubH-
can craftsmanship. When in the outset of
his administration he studied to discard the
representative statesmen of his party,
he committed fatal mistake
blunder that was worse than
crime; and he has foundered in his political
policy ever since, until in despair he seizes
upon the ever-ready and supple political trick
sters whose sef-respect never interrupts
their fawning court to power. The most
fx,;a hat Ho aly of
dents position is that having got himself into
hopelest muddle, he is unable to see any
way of getting out of it except by the assist
ance of tricksters whom every man in the
nation knows to be utterly unworthy of con.
fdence.
But one of the original Cabinet remains,
and his tenure seems to be uncertain; aud
the entire Cabinet is liable to reorganization
any day. The President fashioned it at first
to suit his personal tastes, regardless of popu-
lar opinion. One by one the mistakes. obvi-
Gus to sensible men, became annoying to the
President, and he seemed ready to cast the
blame anywhere but just where it belonged.
He appointed men without intellectual fitness
or national reputation, and has discarded
them in turn because they proved to possess
just the qualities he selected them for. They
were failures of course-they could not be
otherwise, for they were disqualified
for anything else in positions
demanding the highest measure of ability and
sagaoity If, when his Cabinet commenced
to topple about him, the President had rea-
lized the palpable truth that great nation
requires great craftsmanship in the success
full administration of the Government, the
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ing the loss of Connecticut, Indiana, Penn
sylvania, West Virginia, Tennessee, Oregon,
and California, and waiting for Missouri,
New York, Georgia, and several other States
to be added to the Democratic pyramid of
1870.
The worldwide distinction between the
mere politician and the statesman seems to
be unknown in administration circles, and
while it remains unknown or unappreciated,
political disasters will thicken upon the Re-
publican party. But few politicians are
statesmen-they are as distinct as the
mousing owl from the soaring eagle-but all
statesmen are politicians. We have great
scholars, and great orators, and great philo-
sophers, but the great statesman can be SO
only from his intimate knowledge of the
people and his earnest sympathy with the
pulsations of the popular heart. One such man
in the administration of President Grant would
soon demonstrate that his great want is
complete relief alike from the fossils and
nobodies, and from the political pretenders
who have gathered around him. 1t is dis
graceful to the Repu 'lican party that the
Camerons and the Chambers are announced
from week to week as the political confdants
of the administration. What they advise
there are none to gainsay, for the Cabinet
and the President are alike unacquainted with
the political necessities of the country. With
a Cabinet of statesmen, political charlatans
would be spared the opportunity of fiinging
contempt upon the Republican party by
being proclaimed as its chief managers.
1t is folly to attempt to disguise the politi-
cal situation. The Republican party cannot
survive the supremacy of mingled imbecility
and chicanery in its highest political counsels.
The admonitions have been so plain and so
decisive that the wayfarer must comprehend
them, and unless an era of craftsmanship can
be inaugurated, we must look for continued
Republican discontinue until 1872 consigns
the Republican organization to history.
THE NEW YORK ELECTION.
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