Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-07
Republican Prospects.

The signs of the times were never
more favorable for the success of the
Republican party than now. More
than a year of President Grants
Administration has expired. and it's
policy has been fully unfolded to the
country. It's honesty, its economy,
its steady diminution of the debt,
commend it to the favor of all the
people. The frmness with which
the reins Of Government have been
held indicates a vigor unsurpassed
by any previous Administration.
The Presidents plainly-indicated
purpose to faithfully obey and exc
cute the laws is sure to save the
country any renewal of the unhappy
scenes which transpired under the
rule of the arrogant and lawless An
drew johnson. Prophecies of
breach between President Grant
and Congress, made by Democrats,
with whom the wish was father to the
thought, have signally failed. The
cordial relations which existed at the
beginning between the executive and
legislative branches OF our Republi-
can Administration have grown con-
stantly stronger, and now our oppo-
nents have no hope of profiting by
anything like a rupture in the domi-
nant party.
Republican members Of Congress
who soon go before the people for a
reelection have now no issue to join
with the President, as they had
with Johnson when the pestilent pol
icy of the latter was on trial at the
polls. Whatever influence is used
by the Administration in the coming
election will be brought to bear in
favor of the Republican candidates /;
and this must give them a great ad-
vantage.
The Republican party has also
gained intellectually by the fifteenth
amendment, which has added vastly
to its strength. 1t has given the par
ty so many accessions as to make
hitherto Democratic States, like In
diana, Connecticut and California,
reliably Republican.
Ii Sherman's amendment to the
Senate bill to enforce the fifteenth
amendment shall pass the House, it
will take the State of New York out
of the hands of the corrupt Democ-
racy, since it attaches the severest
penalties to the crime of repeating,
and makes the criminal amenable TO
the United States courts. If such a
law shall BIO enforced it will cut
down the apparent majority with
which the city of New York has
overridden the country, and will
place the Empire State once more
where she rightfully belongs-in the
Republican line.
Congress will adjourn on the 18th
of July, in ample time to participate
in the coming campaign, but not too
soon, we trust, to pass important
measures of useful legislation de-
handed by the country, which will
promote the popularity of the party.
The standing of Republican mem
bers of Congress with their constitu-
ents will depend much on what they
shall do within the few remaining
weeks of the present session. The
"eyes" of the people are on them,
and they will make up their minds
as to how they shall vote at the
coming election more from what
their Representatives do before the
18th of July than from the stump
speeches they shall make after that
time.
The immediate future of our par
ty is most auspicious. With the
prestige of an unbroken series of
victories, with the reinforcements
furnished by the fifteenth amend
ment, with the popularity procured
by unexceptionable Executive and
Congressional records, the success of
the party has assurance doubly
sure. "-F6rney'S Press.