The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-11-28
Tho Rlckcty Condition OF tho Republican
Party-The Game for tho Presidential
Succession.
when the pie was open'd
The birds began TO sing.
wasn't that q dainty dish
To set before the klng.n

| disappointed of1ce-seekers and ambitious
leaders boiling from the administration Sum.
| ner, tho pretentious Sumner, evidently re-
| CARDS General Grant failure of the class Of
Andy Johnson Fenton, 1t is clear, ON account
Of honest Tom Murphy (Mordecai in the Kings
gate) is resolved upon great revenge; the
poets Of the New York Eoening Post have
lost all faith In the administration and are hot
upon the new party trail of free trade, while
Greeley will have nothing short of stout
protective tariff; Cox, Of Ohio they say, is ripe
for revolt; Trumbull, Of Illinois, is named
as a cheap salt and free wool new party aspir-
ant for the succession; Crate Brown and Carl
Schurz in their bolt on universal amnesty and
revenue reform" have revolutionized Mis-
souri, beyond recovery; laundering radical
leaders have thrown away to the Ku Klux
Khan North Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee;
negro suffrage has failed to shake the demo-
cracy in Delaware, Maryland or Kentucky; and
lastly, has not Wendell Phillips pronounced
the mission Of the republican party accom-
plished, and the organization broken up?
Have we not here, in all these rebellious
elements, the materials for new party on
revenue reform" which will carry away
from General Grant the left wing of his army,
and carry in the democratic ticket? Do we
not see from the democratic journals that
water-.a greater failure than Louis Napo-
leon-an ignoramus who hardly knows his
right hand from his left; a King Log, with
whom the thinking men of his party have
become disguised; small, peddling poll
tician; or sort of horse jockey, whose real
gangs of Office holders to secure the next
Republican Convention, and to the employment
of the United States army to secure his re-
election? Are not the democracy satisfied
from this, their estimate of General Grant,
that his popularity is gone that he is COM
pletely used up that vicksburg and Apo
mattox Court House will no longer serve him,
and that, reinforced by the "revenue reform"
republicans and disappointed ofice-seekers
and other deserters from Grant, the demo-
cracy, looking at these late elections, will in
1872 walk over the course and leave Grant
perfectly free to retire to his lanyard at
Galena or his farm in Missouri, or to his
Jersey "Cottage by the sea?"
Granting all the premises in this budget of
republican blunders, we must accept these
conclusions; but the premises are too sweep
ing. The late elections in reference to 1872
really mean nothing, except that the two
parties remain substantially as they were In
every State where square fight has this year
been made. Nor have these boilers against
General Grant any issue upon which they can
fight him under new party organization.
"Revenue reform" Is shallow device, which
means in the East squabble between i'm
porters of dry goods and hardware and home
manufacturers of the same materials. The
importers want the duties on imported goods
removed or reduced SO that they can get them
cheaper to sell again, and the home manu-
facturers want the existing duties increased or
retained in order that they may get good
| prices for their wares. Out West, where
factories Of dry goods and hardware are few,
and where the consumers embrace nearly the
whole population, free trade or the modii-
|
thing; but the s'reform" which would satisfy
the extremists of the West and Southwest,
as the programme Of either party, would
ALLEVIATE the East from Pennsylvania to Maine,
and all the districts embracing the rising
manufacturing establishments Of the South
from the James river to the Alabama.
In truth, however, the attempt to organize
an independent revenue reform" party has
failed with the proclamation of the idea. i
has not made even the respectable show O
Andy Johnson's Independent Philadelphia
Convention conservative party Of 1866. Tht
'.revenue reform" journals concerned in thu
movement have come to parley on finding
that they could not swallow the democratic
party, but that the democratic party mus
swallow them, and SO this new party is al
abortion. Then with regard to General Gran
and his administration. From the universe
? hue and cry Of the democratic organs agains
him it is manifest that they fully comprehend
the fact that while he blocks the way thei
prospects for 1872 are very slim. Hence tn
efforts along the whole democratic line tt
remove Grant or to weaken his position as tn
republican candidate. 1t Is an old trick, bu
it has never succeeded against truly popula
President, and so 1t will fail agains
Grant. From present indications he is sure
Of the republican nomination by the unani
nous vote Of the convention of 1872, an,
there is nothing in the political situation to indi
cate that he will be defeated before the PEG
= pie. The people are satisfied that he is a
honest President, and that he has done grea
things in correcting abuses, in saving none
upon reduced taxations, and in the work Q
reducing the national debt. The country,
is true, expects something more than this, bu
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