The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-04-08

the popular vote would have stood
In our political aImanacs to the
credit Of the Democratic candi-
date.
Nor has the Radical party been
strengthened by Grants year in Of
fee. 1t 10 weaker to day than when
the polls closed IN November, 1868.
The voting serve whose support
secured his election has become dis
gusted, and his partisAns dlsheart-
ened, by the Incompetency and In-
decision of their political chief, as
well as by his questionable connec.
ton with schemes of public and
private speculation. No President
makes political friends by doing
out the patronage of his high Office,
but Grant in dischargIng this trust
has been extraordinarily successful
IN weakening his party. There Is
not a State of the Union IN which
he is not rouHdly denounced and
ridiculeG by influential journals
that earnestly supported his cleo
ton. Pensioning his relatives and
his relatives relatives upon the
treasury is not the least of his
blunders. He has promoted iIefi-
cheney and corruption in the public
service by adopting a sliding scale
of personal favors as the guerdon
of official position. While all this
has wearird the judiclous, of course
he has lost the large proportion of
"free Iances," enlisted in his behalf
in 1868, simply because there has
not been offices enough 10 go a
round.
This pertains to the personal pol
icy of the Administration. but in
grave affairs of state there has been
the same evidence of incapacity to
grasp the true principles Of govern-
ment. Cuba and San Domingo il
~lustrate his foreign policy precisely
to the same extent that the Gold
Conspiracy proved his weakness
and accessibility in domestic affairs,
to the unwse and currupt councils
of bad men. "Ah, hut we have paid
off so-and-so of the public debt"
cries some oficeholder or bondhoI-
der as he jingIes his gold interest,"
Yes ; IRE have paid it off; but it
has been ground out of the people
in the shape of taxes, fixed at high
er rates than r paid by any 9th
er people on the face of the globe ;
taxes which discriminate In favor
of the rich and against the poor
taxes which pay heavy toll to ex-
cessively loyal manufacturing mag
mates, over whose suffering inter-
ests the Radical PARTY maintains
jealous watch and ward. "Te have
paid off millions Of the bebt," say
Boutwell, and his 'free lances"in
service. Fudge If you would
find WHO paid it off, seek light from
depressed industries throughout the |
land-from The hundreds of thous
ands of labOring men vainlv seeks
ing employment, or from the agri-
culturIst whose profits have gone to
swell the purse of iron lords and
cotton SINNERS.
These facts are becoming thor
oughiy worked into the popular es-
innate of Grant and the RadIcal
party There ls hardly any doubt
but that he will be offered up as an
atoning sacrifice, two years hence.
by his own political friends. Their
god ID availability, and Grant no
longer meets the requirement
But all this will not save the Rad
ical party. 1t is in a minority to-
day, in the United States /; it's inge-
NOUS machinery to control the
South will be turned against itself,
just as cleverly as other engineers
of ruin have been hoisted by Their
own petard. In the two years IN
tervening between this and the
next national struggle, the Democ-
racy, lfthey are wise, can organize
and weld together the elements of
opposition TO the Republican party,
80 effectualIy that that organization
will be swept from power. We all
know enough of its lncongruous
composition to appreciate the fact
that one signal and decisive defeat
on the national battle field, will
compel it to seek another alias.
THE FRUITS OF THE WAR
AND OF RADICAL RUEE