The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-16
A Political Change Coming

A Political Change Coming.
There is to be a breaking up Of
parties, and a refreshioning of them
not the duilest politician tails to
discern. Not a few are getting rea-
dy TO catch the new hrks that are
to fall from their new nests in the
skies. General Butler declares the
Republicans have ND policy, and
like an insurance agent, Is very ur-
gent that It should take one from
the Fisheries or Fight Company,
which he largely controls. He also
offers one in The Alabama and An
nexation Company, which is a
branch of the Fisheries DR. Fight
Company. He has connection also
With the Labor Reform and Reven-
ne Reform concerns, and would be
willing 10 take the job of running
the Prohibitory machine, al of
them being part and parcel of the
unitod Republican and Democratic
party, of which he will be the ac-
cepted and deserved head.
This Is a very pretty programme
and only lacks one thing TO make
it succeed-backers. General But
Ter is "a dref1e smart man." but he
is not quite equal to controlling all
the old political leaders and all the
new political ideas. The Bird Club
meets yot, and fortified by eighty
Thousand Republican votes, and by
Young's dinners (net to say Equors)
Is ready to claim all these four
seore :hopsand men as its support
ers. and to modostly invite General
Butler to take a seat at the foot of
their triumphant table. Will he do
this +? is tho question. Will the
pent up Essex district constantly
contract his powers z Shall the
head OF Congress be the tail of Mas
sachusetss Not If be can prevent
it.
Others, less bold and brainy, ars
not less cogrtatIve. They, too, dis
the signs of the times. Every
which is a journal Of
ideas, Rs well as pictures, says the
present political era will probably
with the next election Of
Grant that the object for which
she Republican party was raised up
would be nearly completed by that
time ; that new ideas must come to
the front. OF these it mentions
revenue reform, civil service, free
saeredness Of lands for set
tiers, claims of labor, and proper
of TAXATION" This list is
more curious for what it omils than
what it includes. 1t casts out the
ballot and Prohibition,
the Two movements that keep more
tongues, pens and presses busy than
it has mentioned. So one writ
ing on the eve Of Jackson's second
election would have said new issues
are arising, banks, tariff ,specle cur
rency, everything but Abolition.
The main fact is TO see that the
end of cid Issues draw near. The
latest election in the State, as The
Journal well says, dis very signif-
But its significance few de-
bect. They call the ProhlbItory
vote srIdiculonsly small" They
speak of il as the same papers spoke
Of the Anrl>slayery movement
when Van Buren, aud even when
was elected ; when Abel
Bliss, of Wilbraham, got fourteen
hundred votes for Lieutenant Gov
srnor, and Wendell Phillips receiv-
I'd ffty-fve for Representative for
from the same district
now gives the two Prohibition
candidates for the same Office near
y five hundred votes, and gives the
Governor nearly one
while the whole State
gives the Lieutenant Governor ov-
Or nine thousand votes and not six
hundred, as was given last
But the fact that parties is moul-
ling themselves around new issues,
evident. For years the Republi-
,an party has been urged to accept
The greatest of issues, the abolition
Of the ~dramshop in every shape,
hat Is Prohibition. lthas achaHce
yet to do it. 1t has many earnest
.rohIbltionists in it's ranks. Can
they subdue it TO this issue? If so, it
will still hold Its head high IN cha>
aud in authority. IF not, it
go to pieces, ike the Wing par
y, not less excellent in It's compos-
zion and ITS Prohibltery memb-
srs will all unto IN an organization
hat means TO extirpate the evil of
liquor selling, and that will fight
and grow unlil God gives it the VIC
,ery. That is the greatest of all
he new issues. 1t will absorb them
Ill, and enc the parties and she
latlon in its Righteousness divine.
Herald.