Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-04-07

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The republican professional mid
wives and volunteer nurses, mostly
office-holders and contractors, are
in state of great alarm, and are
going around with their chloroform
bottles to quiet the dissentions in,
the party. The patient must be
quiet, they declare in sitting
whisper, yet loud enough for all Of
him to hear; he must not talk SO,
loud and thrush about 50 freely, or,
he will certainly die, and then we
shall be ont Of business. This is
the sumand substance Of their plain
tive appeals, pitched on every KEY,
and accompanied with all manner
of wheedling and delicate chiding;
to-day to Mr.. Sumner, tomorrow to
Gen. Grant, the next day to Butler,
and now again to Speaker Blaine
and Mr.. Dawes. | Theyiare all pa
triots, all honest men. But could
not they just forego their feelings
for little and speak kindly Of one
another? Would not Grant wait
awhile as to San Domingo, and Mr..
Sumner yield his. position, and
Speaker blaine stay in his chair,
where he belongs; and Gen, Farms
worth stroke his beard more, and
talk less; and would not Mr.. Dawes
be in better health if he did not
work so hard and ask so many i'm
pertinent questions about the ap-
preparations; and had not Gen.
Butler better repair to an oculist,
and cure his strabismus, SO that he
could look at the same question in,
the same way for two days r,lnning??.
We should all be so happy then,
and our salaries would 90 on, and
these dreadful Democrats and the
awful Kuklux would subside into
hopelessness, and the country would
be so peaceful.
But these are vain prayers and
hopeless efforts. 1t is not chloro-
form that the patient needs. The
dissensions of the Republican party
cannot be stified with solemn exhor-
tations or childish appeals. They
are simply the outbreak Of internal
evils; and they should be encourage
ed, and not suppressed. Let them
run until they run dry OF their, cor
rupt juices of selfish ambition, of
their weak wine Of ignorance. The
Republican p,rty is to be saved
only by better administration; only
by meeting its responsibilities and
duties in more honest, straight
forward and intelligent way; only
by putting out of power and influ-
ence its weak and it's corrupt men,
and by putting in their places it's
more intelligent and patriotic and
honest leaders.
Since Grant must or will make
gross blunders, since he has tenn
per and training untitled for civil
administration, it is well that he is
exposed and opposed; it is well that
the country and the party come to
see and to feel that they cannot de-
pend upon him for the future, and
that they must seek other instru-
mentalities for administering the
government. Since Butler is cor
rupt and revengeful and untruthful,
a blind leader and wicked mar
plot, we should applaud his exposure
and rejoice at his disgrace. No
more useful service has been done
to the Republican party for a long
while than that which Speaker
Blaine did in coming down from
the chair, last week, and castigating
Butler. There is no hope for the
Republican party, except through
such exposure Of the incapacity and
infidelity of its leaders, and their
prompt displacement from influence
and power. a 1'ttntaFWa4AtA aa
1t will not do to go round "shoo-
ing' the party and the public into
an unnatural peace, and dishonest
blindness to the evils which exist
within it. The effort cannot sue
| ceed; if it could, it would enly tend
to rotten the party, and bring it to
decay and complete ruin. Let the
quarrels and dissensions go on,
therefore. Let the winds blow
freely. Only the weak and the un-
worthy will suffer from the tempest.
The strong will but stand the frmer;
true power and real worth will be
more readily recognized; and the
| country will not only be the wiser.
but the party will be theshealthier
for it all. There is danger only in
suppression and in 5stagnation.-
| .Sprimafeld Republicun.