The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-05-04
Is San Domingo to be made an Issue
in:the Republican Party:

Since the adjournment Of Congress tue
CORRESPONDENTS o: two or three news
uapers, said to have the confidence OF the
administration and to represent It's policy
have taken = extraordinary pains to keep
thr 4an4)omingo questiunbefcre the'peo'
ME. They profess to,fidd new advocates
for annexation, and assert that the country
will soon demand it They have, how
ever, been careful to add that the PREsT'
pENr wilInot again press the subject upon
Congress. MT E-y aat
Buta correspondent Of the Springfield
Republican puts the affair in different
light He thinks the President will be
resolute US ever in promoting his scheme.
He writes:
Several prominent Republicans who
saw President Grant previous 10 his leaV'
ing Tor the Vest, and talked with him
about Sauto Domingo, assert that ne is
more sanguine Of success than ever be-
lore. He told one Of these gentlemen that
in his opinion, the report OF the commits
sioners would convert the country 10 an
DeXation. lie said that he should never
again urge Congress to take action on Tue
subject, bltt Id ezpGctS teGtihg SeHdt0TS 10
hLEB the iHitidhES HErt ElDtsr. G
This report is confirmed BY other we'll
informed writer's. The PRESIDENT will not
directly appear in the business; neither
did he directly appear in the removal oil
Mr.. SUMNER HeexpeGts "lealing Soma
tors" to represent him, " they did in that
unfortunate affair. II these reports are
true, tits q great misfortune to the Re
publican party and to the country.
There is no doubt Of the continued &C
tivity Of BAEz, FABENs and their confed-
crates, in preparing for the proposed sale
Of attraction Of the island, in the full eX-
pectatlon Of carrying out their plan.
There is reason to believe that the young
military statesmen who surround General
GRANT are anxious for some venture Of
that sort to relieve the mOnOtony Of civil
service. There has been much money
and much labor spent to influence. public
opinion in favor Of annexation and it /;
natural that Its advocates should be re
luctant to give itup. But that the PREs
IDEXT or !''lcading Senators should thinh
Of reyiving the question, after all thA
has occurred, is strange. Twice rejected
by the Senate, having ufew warm friend
in the House Of Representatives, opposed
by the most influential Republican news
papers Of the country, and plainly con
trary to the wishes and the interests o
the people, this measure cannot be agaiE
brought before the country without
serious injury to the administration itself
The Republican party is divided upor
the question; that part lit which is no
torlously under the immediate control o
the national executive being in favor o
annexation, or SILENT while the great bod!
of theparty, whtch'is Independent in 1t
views, and governed byits principles, f
almost unanimously against II. To force
upon thecOuntry the burden of half u'
island against the wifi Of u large part o
its people and Of our own, would he I,
weaken the Republican party at once
and probably to destroy it, This Is NJ
argument, the force Of which will be fcl
even by leading Senators" who regarL
tue conclusive objections to the schcmC
on grounds Of principle rs ofless Const
Quence than the favor Of the executive.