The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1871-01-19

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The Republican Senators and men,
bers who have remained here over the
recess have had ample time to discuss
the prospects of the party for the next
Presidential election in connection
with recent events. There is no dis
guising the fact that the majority of
them are respondent, and especially
the experienced politicians who are in
the habit of looking ahead. They con-
cede that the South, with the excep-
ton, perhaps, of South Carolina, is
hopelessly Democratic, and that who
ever may be the Democratic candidate
in 1872 will get the full Southern vote,
with the above exception. To over
come this it win be necessary for the
Republicans to carry all the great States
of the North, including Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana. The first and the
last are doubtful, and the leaders of the
Republican party are of the opinion
that, even with Grant for candidate,
nothing can save them but the blunders
of the Democracy. Should the Demo-
Gratis put forward candidates with q
good record and a decent platform there
seems to be little doubt of their success.
The Republicans, however, seem conf
dent that the Democrats will repeat
the folly of 1868, and thus enable them
to retain power --f 5F}
Thus writes the usually well-inform-
ed Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald, who, in the main,
gives such impressions of political
changes and prospects, as at the time
appear reasonable and just in the eyes
of shrewd newspaper chronicler.
The Herald supports Gen. Grant, but
disavows allegiance to any party. 1t
processes to be wide-awake, semi-con-
sentative, independent political jour-
nal, and has as frequently aided the
Republicans as it has the Democrats.
Other and more certain indications
are not wanting of the loss ofconfdence
and Of influence by the leaders and
fathers of the Republican party. The
renewal Of the war-cry of persecution
of "loyal" men at the South, and the
notes ofpreparation for another crusade
against certain Southern States, on &C
count oftheir preference for Democracy
over Radicalism, tell of Republican
chagrin and want of faith in the ballot
box, as plainly as if the fact were an
nounced from every house-top, and
came up from every by-way and high
way in the land. And the sudden and
miraculous change in the Republican
party, in reference to the acquisition of
San Domingo, and the very great haste
used in forwarding it's annexation, is
another evidence of panic among the
Republican leaders, who, in view of
their decaying party vigor and strength,
are thus plotting for reinforcement
Of one more certain Black Republican
State.
In the carpet-bag States ofthe South,
surer indications of Republican decay
are found in the loose discipline pre-
vailing in the party, and the repeated
overtures, in some shape or other, made
to leading Conservative citizens to join
the satiated Radical leaders in a move
ment for new party designed practi-
cally to ignore negro equality, and to
elevate those who have profited by the
unnatural dogma to the best positions
in the State. The local organizations
of the so-called National Republican
party are breaking up, both in the South
and West, and the conviction has come
home to leaders who consult nuhlic