The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1870-12-01
DEMOCRATIC,
REPUBLICAN,.
Here we have all the States but two--Mis-

Here we have all the States but two-Mis-
sissippi and Texas the one giving seven
electoral votes and the other six, the seven
being hardly more positively good for the
Republicans than the six are for the Demo
Gratis. 1t thus appears, then, that from our
latest elections the Presidential electoral vote
Of the United States is Democratic. This ex-
hbit is startling. The Republican party is
evidently demoralZed if not disorganized.
In the height of its power it appears to be
somewhat in the weakened condition of
France, or like the mighty Sampson shorn Of
his locks of strength Over local squabbles
or factious divisions the party has lost North
Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Missouri;
and from the stupid feud between the Fen
ton and the Conkling factions it has failed to
recover New York and from incompetent or
lazy local leaders it has failed to recover
Maryland or Delaware, even with the acqui-
sition Of the colored vote. and has failed to
make any Roadway in Kentucky. In short
the Republican party has too many cooks and
too many captains, too many rival cliques
and too many clashing tactious, and it is on
the road to ruin 1t is rapidly using up its
capital of Gen. Grants popularity, and is in q
fair way to swamp Gen. Grant in 1872. The
party is doing nothing to strengthen the Adj
mnistration, but everything to embarrass
and cripple it. Gen. Grant saved the party
in 1868, and has saved it in Congress hence
forward till 1872 but at the rate of its losses
this year it will in 1872 be completely demol-
ished. The successes and prestige and pow
Ter Of Tammany Hall, on the other hand,
have inspired the Democracy of the whole
country and they seem to have in New York
city base of operations stronger than Wash
nglon. One would thing that the Republi-
cans, having carried through their mission
on the slavery question and the negro ques-
lion to the cap sheaf of negro suffrage, are
now beating about hither and thither for
some new idea OF some new leader OF some
new party. We know that the old Repnbli-
can party, after finishing its mission. broke
up in 1924 on four Presidential candidates-
Jackson, Adams, Crawford and Clay. The
present Republican party, but tor Gen. Grant
in the White House, would surely go the
same way in 1872. They say that Fcnton Is
mclitaing bolt anyhow, Il Ia Martin Van
Buren,, and that Gearv, Of Pennsylvania, is
hot on the trail of the Labor Reform party as
m Independent candidate. At any rate, if
these miserable Republican feuds, petty
zeal }nsies small personal revengcs and
squabhlcs are not stopped, Gen Grant HIM
self will soon be left high and dry, and the Re
publican party will be scattered and divided
among half u dozen mousng small potato
politicians adYcnturcrs and sectional dema-
rogucs. The simple truth is, that Gen.
Grant and his party must have some new is
sue to fight for, or his party will go TO
pieces, and he will 60 ont, at the risk of
bonds or no bonds, make or break, redemp-
ton or reputation for the American people,
in this age of railways, tclegraphs and army
slusages, will not 90 Jogging along al the
rate of ten miles an hour.