Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-10-13
RADICALISM.
The Discussions In the ParsY-The
Work of DisintcgratiOn Progress

The DtsSemstOns I'm the ParaY-The
Work of DisintcgratiOn Progress
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From the Titusville .(Pa) Journal, Oct. 6.
The Republican party, State and nation
ally viewed, is tern with discussions, and
is full of trouble and trial, and gives fat
tering evidences of speedy dissolution.
From all parts of the country come rum
ors of bitterness and strife among the
leading men, engendering distrust and
disgust in marked degree with the
masses-the rank and file of tho party.
In the second congressional district of
the State-city of Philadelphia-tWoR Re-
publican candidates are running for Con-
gress, both claiming to be regular nomi-
nees, and the fight is irreconcilsble and
intense. Recently the Radical State Cen
tral Committee undertook to fix matters,
but the effort failed and the State Com
mittee became ''fragmentaryn upon the
unpleasantness, and John Covode, the
venerable chairman thereof, repudiated
the action of his associates, who had de-
cided in favor of O.Neill, thus establish
ing the regularity of Capt. Greeley, the
other 'sbolter.n -..
In the Allegheny district the same in
harmonious political feast is presented,
and Simon Cameron is head and front of
| the misunderstanding"
Nearer home, we find Scofeld in the
Erie and Warren district confronted with
a call, signed by hundreds of honest Re-
publicans, asking Hon. Morrow B. Lowry
10 take the field against him, after regu-
lar Convention of his party has put him
| In nomination.
In our own Congressional district, made
| up of Crawford, Mercer, Venango and
Clarion counties, Gilfillian is openly de b.
nounced by many influential members of
bis party, and his defeat made almost
| certain.
The President of the United States
takes hand in the divisions of Radical
ism in Missouri, where two Republican
candidates are in nomination for guberna-
torial honors-one B. Gratz Brown
standing upon free-trade, anti-proscrip-
| tive policy toward the late rebellious
South, and the other going to extremes
| for protection, and outlawry for Rebels, if
need be, to crafty their baser hates.
Grant and his administration stand by the
extremists, and he has already removed
many of his off1ce-holders for opposing
| McClung, whom he calls the regular NOM
| inee.
In Maryland, the party is split into fac
tons upon the negro suffrage issue, the
administration taking the affirmative or
negro side of the question, and large
| fraction of the white men of the State
threaten to abandon the party and its
candidates, and leave Grant and negro
suffrage to Federal care.
In Massachusetts,, Wendell Phillips is
the candidate of one branch of Radical
ism against the regular Republican nomi-
nee, and is conducting his side of the
canvass upon the imbecility and want of
craftsmanship displayed by Grant and his
administration.
In the Empire State, the nomination of
Gen. WoOdfOrd over Horace Greeley is
deemed weakness most wretchedly
patched, and while the powers at Wash
ington are striving to bolster the fortunes
of the "little blue-eyed" candidate for
Governor, the indications are daily be-
coming more and more manifest that his
opponent Gov. John T. Hoffman, will
count his majority by the 10000 In
many of the Congressional districts of
New York the party is so thoroughly de-
mOralized that its conventions are unable
to agree upon candidates for Congress
and so they bless and curse each other for
lack of honesty, integrity, and political
fidelity.
It's well. Republicanism, of the modern
sort, has outlived its usefulness, and the
sooner it is put to rest, the better for our
sax-ridden, debt burdened people