Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-12-07

Tennessee .............. 10 Vermont ............
Nirginia-.............. ~ lNisconsin...........
West Nirginia........
Total................l5i' Total...............li'
Here we have all the States but two
M ississippi and Texas-thc one Civ
ing seven electoral votes and the Other
six, the seven being hardly more pos
itively good for the Republicans than
the six are for the Democrats. il
thus appears, then, that from our lat
est elections the Presidential electoral
vote of the United States is Demo
cratic. This exhibit is startling
The Republican party is evidently de
moralized, if not disorganized. lu
the height of its power it appears to
be somewhat in the weakened condi
ton of France, or like the mighty
Samson shorn of his locks of strength
Over local squabbles or factious diyis
ions the party has lost North Carolina,
Georgia, Tennessee and Missouri and
from the stupid fcud between the Fen
ton and the Conkling factions it has
failed TO recover New York f; and from
incompetent or lazy local leaders II
has failed TO recover Maryland or Del
aware, even with the acquisition of
the colored vote, and has failed TO
make any headway in Kentucky.
In short, the Republican party has
too many cooks and too many cap
tanis, too many rival cliques and too
many clashing factions, and it is on
the road to ruin, 1t is rapidly using
up its capital Of General Grants pop
ularity, and is in fair way to swamp
General Grant in 1872. The party is
doing nothing TO strengthen the ad-
ministration, but everything to en-.
barrass and cripple it. General Grant
saved the party in 1865, and has saved
it in Congress henceiorward till 1872
but at the rate of its losses this year
it will in 1872 be completely demol-
ishcd. The successes ard prestige
and power of Tammany Eall, on the
other hand, have inspired the democ-
racy of the whole country, and they
seem TO have in New York city n base
of operations stronger than Washing
ton. One should think that the Re
pubicans, having carried through
their mission on the slavery question
and the negro suffrage, are now beat
ing about hither and thither for some
new idea, or some new leader, or some
new party. We know that the ole
Republican party, after finishing il
mission, broke up in 1924 on ioul
Presidential candidates-Jacks Ad
ans, Crawford and Clay The pres
ent Republican party, but for Genera
Grant in tho White House, woulC
surely 90 the same way in 1872
They say that Fenton is mcditating {
bolt any how, a Ia Martin Van Buren
and that Geary of Pennsylvania, il
the the trial of the labor reform party
as an independent candidate.
At any rate, if these miserable re
publican feuds, petty jealousies, small
personal revenges and senscless squab
bles are not stopped General Gran
himself will soon be left high and dry
and the Republican party will be scat
tered and divided among half a dozel
housing small potato politicians ad
vonturers and sectional demagogues
The simple truth is that General Gran
and his party must have some issue t,
fight for or his party will go to pieces
and he will 90 out, at the risk ofbond
mako or break, redemption or repudi
alton; for the American pcoplein thi
age of railways telegraph and arm,
sausagcs will not go Jogging along a
the rate of ten miles an hour
The above article is from the Ne'
York Herald 1t docs not cxhibite
healthy prospect for the Radical part,
in 1872. And when we take Penn
sylvania from the Radical column an
place It on the Democratic column,
| gives tho Democratic candidate IS
and the Radical candidate l22, cxclu
sivc of Texes and Mississippi.
Why Pennsylvania should be give
to the Radicals by the Herald, we ar
at loss to conceive. No computation
can be made based on facts which vii
show a Radical majority at the lat
election. The Democrats carried tb
State in spite of the cxtraordinar,
measures resortcd TO by the Admins
tration to prevent it, and we can Sc
no reason why they ought not to b
able to carry it it in 1872. II prope
care be taken in the selection Of th
candidate and clear expression o
Democratic principles be given in tn
platform, Pennsylvania will give he
electoral vote to the Democracy.