The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-12-21


| tions initiated by their superiors through
| Joint official schemes and plundering con-
| tracts. So, by degrees, from non-partisan
| Commissions, from irresponsible Boards of
| Supervisors, from New Court.hous Rings,
| from jobbers in market-building and street
opening grew into strength those combina-
tions and intrigues of dishonest Republicans
with dishonest Democrats, which have been
active causes of party decentralization. Year
! by year the evil has grown until New York
politics are scandalized by the spectacle of
successive Legislatures bought and sold,
judges bribed or otherwise improperly in
fluenced, party leaders subsidized by their
political opponents, municipal reformers pur-
chased outright with lucrative offices, the
Citizens Association" itself reduced to be a
mere purveyor for the Tammany Ring, and
that ring dominant in State and city.
From this state of things the Republican
party has suffered grievously, and up to the
last election it was almost hopeless of relief.
OF the Republican General Committee of
1870, no less than forty delegates were recipi
ents of Tammany money in salaries as Office
holders under the Democratic city and county
Governments; and the zeal with which they
expected to do the bidding of their Tammany
employers was measured in the late election
by the activity and pertinacity with which
they opposed all efforts to reform and reor
ganize the party. For this reason it is now
properly urged that Tammany Office holders
shall not be placed in positions where they
may, by any possibility, work harm to Re-
publican interests. The honest members of
the Republican organization in the city, who
cast 80, 000Hvotes for their State ticket and
who have no object in view but the rescue of
our State from Democratic election frauds
and violence, demand that their Republican
associations and conventions shall be pro-
tected hereafter against the abuses of primary
| IL AlzA ID
| councils shall be secured from Democratic
soheming, and that Republican candidates
shall be honestly nominated and faithfully
supported on Republican issues only, and
elected, If dossible, by pure ballot and a
fair return.
Concerning any question of so-called Gre
| gularity" affecting this or that county con-
vention or general committee the State Com
mittee, If they be wise will take no heed
| With any supposititious attitude of either
| United States Senator, they will have as little
to do. The matter before thnm involves
more than regularity" it affects the integ-
rity and efficiency of Republicanism in New
! York city, and relatively in the State. This
| putrid cancer of Tammany influence must be
cut from the Republican organization, or it
| will eat out the strength thereof before ano-
ther Presidential canvass. Let the State
Committee direct such reconstruction of
the local associations as will make them ele-
ments of Republican strength, instead of
auxiliaries to Tammany Hall.
Let their rolls, which now carry majorities
of Democratic names, or of ''bogus" names
on which Democrats vote at Republican spri-
maries, be purged of such spurious men,
bership. Let the General Committee be no
longer controlled by Tammany delegates,
and nominating conventions be no longer
"packed" in the interest of Democratic aspi-
rants for Office. Let Republican hucksterers
who provide convenient inspectors for ap-
pointment by Mayor Hall, be left henceforth
to sell themselves only, and not their party.
AS for threatened divisions there need be
no apprehension on that score. The defec-
tion of the Republicans who are owned by
Tammany will be no loss to us; they had
better oppose openly than betray in secret
! The Republicans whom Tammany cannot buy
will not be found alien to a sound party or
ganization.
SIGNS OF A PRESIDENTIAL SCRUB
RACE AND IT'S TERRIBLE DANGERS
TO THE COUNTRY.
From the NJ p. Herald.
When great political party in the height
of its power is slain, like Caesar, in the Senate
House, it means revolution and confusion in
all the body polite before there can be a res
toration of order, system, and harmony. In a
political sense, General Grant and his admin
istration are menaced in the Senate with the
fate of Cesar. The conspirators are there
and the conspiracy is under way. Sumner,
pompous, pretentious, and consequential, is
the proper man to play the part of Brutus.
Fenton is not quite up to the calibre of ''the
lean and hungry Cassius," but he has the
spirit and the will, and he will do. Carl
Schurz, red revolutionist by profession, of
the European Jacobin school, is the very fell
low for the role of ''the envious Casca. The
faithful Drake, in his farewell speech in the
Senate, might have said of Schurz, in refer
ence to the late Missouri election, as Mark
Antony said over Cesar's dead body
''See what rent the envious Casca made"
Indeed, excepting General Cameron, Gene.
raj Wilson, and one or two others, we are not
certain General Grant has any supporters in
the Senate who are honestly working for his
success as the mainstay of the Republican
party and the National Treasury. Some OF
the Senatorial body want a new party, as
: Calhoun wanted a new party when he found
that General Jackson was too much for him
: some have their petty personal reyenges tc
satisfy, such as Fenton; some, disappointed
in the spoils, have ceased to care q buttor
whether Grant goes up or down; and some
) railway land jobs and whisky rings, woulC
l like to get General Grant out of the way, al
a an obstruction to their schemes. These ar,
} among the numerous signs of q genera
1 breakup of the Republican party, and of
y disastrous scrub-race to the country for tn,
3 Presidential succession. In this scrub-rac
9 we may look for three or four candidate
: from the debris of the Republican party, ant
: over three from the drifting materials of tn
: Democratic party AN Eastern candidate, sa.
9 Hoffman; a Western candidate, Hendricks