The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-11-25

REPUBLICAN.


Here we have all the States but two-AIis-
sissippi and TeXas-the one giving seven cleo
toral votes and the other six, the seven being
hardly more positively good for the republic
cans than the six are for the democrats 1t
thus appears, then, that from our latest cleo
tons the Presidential electoral vote Of the
United States is democratic This exhibit is
startling. The republican party is evident
ly demoraliZed. In the height of its power
it appears to be somewhat in the weakened
condition of France, or like the mighty Sam
son shorn of his locks Of strength. Over To-
cal squabbles or tactious divisions the party
has lost North Caroiana, Georgia, Tennessee
and Missouri; and from the stupid feud be-
tween the Fenton and the Conklng factions
it has failed to recover New York and from
incompetent or lazy local leaders it has fail
ed to recover Maryland or Delaware, even
with the acquisition of the colorcd vote, and
has failed to make any Roadway in Ken
lucky.
In short, the republican party has too
many cooks and too many captains, too many
rival cliques and too many clashing factions,
and il is on the road to ruin. 1t is rapidly
using up its capital Of Gen. Grants popu-
larity, and is in a fair way to swamp Gener.
al Grant in 1872. The party is doing moth
ing to strengthen the administration, but
everything to embarrass and cripple it. Gen
eral Grant saved the party in 1868, and has
saved it in Congress hcnceforward till 1872
but at the rate of its losses this year it will
in 1872 be completely demolished. The sue
cess and prestige and power of Tammany
Hall, on the other hand, have inspired the
democracy of the whole country, and they
seem to have in New York city n base of OBJ
erations stronger than Washington. One
would think that the republicans, having
carried through their mission on the slavery
question and the negro question to the cap
sheaf Of negro suffrage, are now beating
about hither and thither for some new idea,
or some new leader, or some new party.
We know that the old republican party, after
finishing its mission, broke up in 1924 on
four Presidential candidates jackson, Adams,
Crawford and Clay. The present republican
party, but for General Grant in the White
House, would surely go the same way in
1872. They say that Fenton is meditating q
bolt anyhow, q IL Martin Van Buren,, and
that Geary. of Pennsylvania, is hot on the
trail of the labor reform party as an indepen-
dent candidate.
AT any rate, if these miserable republican
feuds, petty jealousies, small personal reven-
ges and senseless squabbles are not stopped,
General Grant himself will soon be left high
and dry, and the republican party will be
scattered and divided among half dozen
housing small potato politicians, adventures
and sectional demagogues. The simple truth
is that General Grant and his party must
have some new issue to fight for or his party
will go to pieces and he will go out, at the
risk of bonds or no bonds, make or break,
redemption or reputation; for the Ameri.
can people in this age ofrailways, telegraphs
and army sausages will not go jogging along
at the rate of ten miles an hour