The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-07-07

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The renubl;c.s party is suffering from many
..uh,.. uh.,n. troubles in Massachusetts,,
where, according to- wendell innnps' 'us
animating spirit Of 'riie G. ''''er Is sons' sn'
the concern is morally defane> ueno.A' Da'
Ter still lives and is still lively; .''' d..
settlement of the fishery question q 60 60.
cannot raise a breeze Of excitement - -
Cod. In Pennsylvania the republicans are "''
at skies and sevens but while they are divided
upon everything and everybody else they
have at least a common rallying ground around
General Grant and his administration. In
Gratz Brown, Carl Schurz and General Frank
Blair, that they are apparently gone beyond
recovery. In Ohio and Illinois the free
traders and civil service reformers and gen.
eral amnesty guerillas, headed by such men
as General Cox and Senator Trumbull, are
lie, too, has an eye upon the White House, for
he thinks one term enough for General Grant.
Down in Maryland, and most of the other
Southern States, they have several little
clashing cliques, each claiming to be the Simon
Pure republicans. In fact, we doubt if there
is single State in which the republicans are
a unit, unless it is the State of Kentucky, and
there they have not the ghost of a chance for
anything against the overwhelming democracy.
But the wranglings and the divisions among
the republicans Of New York city and State
are the most stupid, the most malignant and
apparently the most hopeless of all the lot
The two principal factions of the party here
are the insiders and the outsiders headed, the
one by Senator Conkling, the other by Senator
Fenton. In the outset of General Grants ad-
ministration Senator Fenton got hold of the
working wires Of the New York Custom House,
and then to Fenton and his confederates and
his followers everything was lively at Wash
| ington. and General Grant was model Presi-
| dent. But unfortunately Senator Fenton, in
| "cutting too much fat" was found out, and so
he fell from grace, and all his fat is in the fire.
! In fact he and his retainers have been ban
shut against them, and SO they have resolved
that General Grant shall be reduced to one
term, and that, if possible, Fenton or Greeley
shall take his place, and that Conkling, who
now is cheek by jowl with Collector Murphy,
shall walk the plank. So they CO.
This New York Custom House, however,
has become nothing but a box of Pandora to
the party holding it. In lS53-54 there were
in this city and State two factions among the
democrats which absorbed the whole party
the hardshells aud the softshells; and in the
quarrellng of these hards and softs over the
Custom House spoils and plumber they be-
came each an independent party in the State
elections, and so on the Custom House spoils
question between the Bronson hardshell ticket
and the Redfield sofshell ticket they turned
over the State to the common enemy. So it
will most probably be with this republican split
over the Custom House spoils. OF course the
Tammany sachems are jubilant, for from
present appearances they will carry New York
in November by at least fifty thousand
majority. Senator Conkllng, down at Long
Branch, has been talking over these troubles
with General Grant but we fear they are too
much for Senator Conkling, and we fear that
the only way whereby Custom House treaty
of peace can be made is the way Of the Joint
High Commission on those Alabama claims.
Let this plan of arbitration be adopted, with
share of the spoils TO Senator FentOn and a
sop to Mr.. Greeley and the country, and our
precious institutions may be saved. Other
wise let General Grant prepare for scrub
race for the Presidential succession, with half
q dozen Richmonds in the field. ''The cohe-
sive power Of the public plumber" is well
known, but its explosive power is awful, and
here at once lie the safety and the danger of
the constitution.