The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-29

stout protective tariff; Cox, OF ONO, they |
say, is ripe for revolt; Trumbull, of Illinois,
is named as cheap salt and free wool new |
party aspirant for the succession; Gratz |
Brown and Carl Schurz in their bolt on uni |
versal amnesty and revenue reform" have |
revolutionized Missouri beyond recovery;
laundering radical leaders have thrown away
to the Ku.Klux Klan North Carolina, Ala
baIsa, and Tennessee; negro suffrage has
failed to shake the Democracy in Delaware,
Maryland, or Kentucky; and lastly, has not
Wendell Phillips pronounced the mission of
the Republican party accomplished, and the
organization broken upS
Have we not here, in all these rebellious
elements, the materials for new party on
"reyenue reform which will carry away
from General Grant the left wing of his
army, and carry in the Democratic ticket
Do we not see from the Democratic journals
that Grant is failure and humbug of the
first water-a greater failure than Louis Napo-
leon-an ignoramus who hardly knows his
right hand from his left; King Log with
whom t1e thinking men of his party have
become disgusted; a small, peddling poll
tician; or a sort of horse jockey, whose real
policy is limited to the manipulation of his
gangs of office-holders to secure the next Re-
publican Convention, and to the employment
of the United States army to secure his re-
election? Are not the Democracy satisfied
from this, their estimate of General Grant,
that his popularity is gone, that he is COM
pletely used up; that Vicksburg and Apo
mattox Court House will no longer serve
him, and that, reinforced by the revenue
reform Republicans and disappointed Office
seekers and other deserters from Grant,
the Democracy, looking at the late elections,
will in 1872 walk over the course and leave
Grant perfectly free to retire TO his lanyard
at Galena or to his farm in Missouri or to
his Jersey tScottape bv the sea p'
Granting all the premises in this budget of
Republican blunders, must accept these
conclusions; but the premises areB too sweep
ing. The late elections in reference to 1872
really mean nothing, except that the two
parties remain substantially as they were in
every State where a square fight has this year
been made. Nor have these boilers against
General Grant any issue upon which they can
fight him under new party organization.
Revenue reform is hollow device, which
means in the East a squabble between i'm
porters of dry goods and hardware and home
manufacturers of the same materials. The
importers want the duties on imported goods
removed or reduced SO that they can get them
cheaper to sell again, and the home manu-
facturers want the existing duties increased
or retained in order that they may get good
prices for their wares. Out West, where fac
tories of dry goods and hardware are few,
and where the consumers embrace nearly the
whole population, free trade or the modi6ca-
tion of revenue reform" means something
but the ''reform" which would satisfy the ex-
tremists of the West and Southwest, as the
programme of either party, would ALLEVIATE
the East, from Pennsylvania to Maine, and
all the districts embracing the rising manu-
| featuring establishments of the South. from
the James river to the Alabama
In truth however, the attempt to organize
an independent ''revenue reform" party has
failed with the proclamation of th9 idea. 1t
has not made even the respectable show of
Andy Johnson's Independent Philadelphia
Convention Conservative party of 1866. The
''revenue reform" journals concerned in the
movement have come to parley on finding
that they could not swallow the Democratic
party, but that the Democratic party must
swallow thom, and SO this new party is an
abortion. Then with regard to General Grant
and his administration. From the universal
hue and cry of the Democratic organs against
him, it is manifest that they fully comprehend
the fact that while he blocks the way their
prospects for 1872 are very slim. Hence the
efforts along the whole Democratic line to
remove Grant or to weaken his position as
the Republican candidate. 1t is an old trick,
but it has never succeeded against a truly
popular President; and SO it will fail against
Grant. From present indications he is sure
of the Republican nomination by the unani-
nous vote of the convention of 1872, and
there is nothing in the political situation to
indicate that he will be defeated before the
people. The people are satisfied that he is an
honest President, and that he has done great
things in correcting abuses, in saving money
upon reduced taxations, and in the work OF
reducing the national debt. The country, il
is true, expects something more than this
but it will suffice for the present tina
General Grants administration stands in
dorsed by the country in the elections for The
next Congress.
The Republican party is in a sickly con
dition, nevertheless; but those small crabs
the fiddlers, will frolic at dead low water. No
is the Democratic party, as it stands, prepares
for the Presidential battle. 1t has no plat
form, except that of hostility to Genera
Grant and the party in power; no recognizes
generslissimo, no plan of operations beyou
that of trusting to luck, and no idea of th
Presidential battle beyond the hops tina
something may turn up from Tamman
Habitat there is something in Tamman
and in her active cash capital and politics
machinery.
And here we begin to see something of tn
J character and elements of the coming Pres
Dental contest. We see that the great raj
way corporations are a positive politics
power; that the central forces of this powe
are in New York, and that they are in th
hands of Tammany Hall. The Western Unio
/ Telegraph monopoly is fast becoming anothe
positive political power, and it is fairly With
> reach of the same party influences as on
: leading railway corporations. These forces
r railway and telegraphic, under the msnipuls
: tions of ofTammany, may neutralize the nations
/; banks and bondholders on the other side, an
: may otherwise seriously demoralize the inar