The New York herald., 1870-12-26
General aran. and the Isepubllcaus-tsov


West Indian hurricane in the Senate. Sumner
the President, and his threats of a dfchednce
have carried terror into the ranks Of the admin
istration and great JOY into the tents OF the
democracy They who have looked upon
Sumner as an agent of Beelzebub now find him
transformed into an angel Of light, while they
whe have regarded him as model of radical
heroism now denounce him as traitor. Carl
Schurz, after leading off against General Grant
on the Missouri election, is delighted to play
the bottle holder to Sumner on st. Domingo.
Patterson, Of New Hampshire, and Upton, Of
Nebraska stand by Sumner on the test vote, and
twenty other republican Senators, including
Fenton, are among the missing. What does
all this mean? Is it the beginning OF
destructive Political cyclone, or black squail
which will soen blow over? There is mischief
in the wind and In the gathering clouds East,
West and South. Suddenly these questions
What can General Grant do with this unman-
ageable republican partya What can the
republican party do with General Grantf-
divert the American mind even from the tre-
mendous issues involved in the present siege
of Paris and all the political complications of
Europe.
The movements of the party engineers on
both sides for the next Presidency are becoming
very interesting. The republicans are de-
moralzed, and some of their most trusted
leaders and most skilful managers are work
ing for new deal or new party; but still
the party has q common base Of operations in
General Grant and his administration. The
democrats are hopeful, as usual, bnt they have
no generally recognized head or platform and
no base Of operations but Tammany Hall, and
| Tammany is admonished from the West that
she is only local organization, with
all her money and all her spoils A
month ago there was hardly whisper from the
republican camp against General Grant as its
candidate for 1872, but now we are warned
that within the next two years the whole face
of things may b. changed. month ago,
flushed with the great success Of another elec-
ton of their Governor, Tammany hailed her
champion, Hoffman, as the coming man for
the next democratic nomination, certain and
sure; but now from the growing democracy
Of the West the Sachems recoil and wish it
| to be understood that Hoffman is not their
ultimatum and that they do not intend even to
press his claims if Objectionable TO the great
Western wing Of the party.
General Grant is again in the Wilderness.
Will he be able to push forward, or be COM
PEELED to fall back? Massachusetts, Is per-
picked with the detection of Sumner; Mis-
souri, is lost by the bolt Of Brown and Schurz;
Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina have,
by similar divisions, been given over to the
enemy, and now Georgia follows suit, and by
a vote which Indicates the speedy recovery Of
the whole South by the democratic party.
Nor is this all for while the Chicago Tribune,
hitherto sort of Red Cloud or Spotted Tail
among the radical tribes of the West, is now
among the boilers on 'srevenue REFORM" the
New York Tribune, the Marplot Of its party
in the Empire State, proclams that it is too
soon by at least a year to talk Of General
Grants superior claims as the republican can
didate for the succession. How is General
Grant to extricate himself from this entangle-
ment2 He escaped from the jungle Of the
Rapidan by pushing straight through for Rich
nond thus compelling the rebel General to
back out in order to save his communications.
Now, however, Grant has not only the reglt-
lar democratic enemy in front to fight, but
all these republican bushwhack9rs operating
ON his Aanks and among his provision trains.
The Western ''rcvenue reform" boilers, they
say. have been coquetting with Senator
Trunbull, Of Illinois, and Gratz Brown,
Governor elect Of Missouri, in view Of
candidate for the new party Of the Chicago
Tribune, and Trumbull like Barkis, sis will
lin'," and so is Brown, provided the demo-
cracy will come over. Sumner, it is rumored,
is really aspiring for the White House, and
thinks that there will be an opening for him
with the removal of Grant from the course.
Fenton, it is suspected, deliberately meditates
in '72 the independent dodge Of Martin Van
Buren, of 1S4S against the regular party can
| didate. should that candidate be Grant, and
all these mutneers have their followers. How
is Grant to escape with whole skin? How is
the republican party to escape crushing de-
feat from these divisions, factions and clques
operating for a new shuttle, cut and deal, and
a scrub race? We cannot tell There is an
armistice at Washington, in the absence Of
Congress, among these clashing cliques and
factions, till the 4th Of January, and, with the
return of the two houses to business, even the
wrath Of Sumner may have cooled down, and
he may be ready for compromise between
St. Domingo and the Alabama claims. Secre-
tary Fish, 1t appears, at dinner he gave the
other evening to the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, discovered that Summers
wrath was not implacable, inasmuch as he
cordially fraternized over the wine and wal
nuts with Morton, the chosen champion
| nf tho President nrainst Sumner In