New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-09
Grants Prospects for a denomination
How il Looks in Maine.
From the Portland Advertiser, the leading Repul
hcan paper in Maine.l


From the Portland Advertiser the leading Repub
hcan paper in Maine.
President Grant has no enemies so dan.
gerous as some of the advisers he has taken
INTO his confidence. They are his friends
so long as he controls or seems likely to
control the patronage of the government.
and no longer 1t is not such support as
theirs which will secure his denomination.
and it is idle to disguise the fact that his
Identification with their counsels NAV cost
him the support which gave him the nomi-
nation before. That nomination was a
tribute of admiration to the soldier who. BIZ
so just title, held and still holds the PED
pies gratitude; but it was something more.
1t was the rebellion of the great body of
the party against the domination of the set
OF politicians into whose hands the Presi
dent, with the best intentions, and by the
force OF system too strong even for his
strong will, appears to have fallen; and rev.
buttons never go backward. The next
presidential campaign will find the party of
progress united upon a platform of solid
principles which it is easy to forecast
Holding to all the results of the war; the
Republican party will demand general am
nesty, reformed civil service, specie nav.
ments, and an intelligent revision of the
tariff
Whether General Grant shall lead the
party in this movement still depends main
ly upon himself. Six months ago it seemed
certain that he would. He had then disan-
pointed the expectation of MANY of his
supporters; but it was still hoped that he
might escape from the entanglements which
beset him. and resume the independent DO
sition which his instinct led him to take in
the outset. If it is too late for that, then
with undated respect for the man and the
soldier, but with the mingled feelings with
which English liberals watched the political
course OF the Duke of Wellington, the Re
publican party will proceed to choose a
leader who viii represent the ideas by
which our national policy must be nodded.
And they will not have far to look. The
statesman who has comprehended most
clearly and set forth most forcibly the ma
ture of the evil which more than ANYTHING
else corrupts and degrades our politics. is
Senator Trumbull, to whose watchful care
we owe it that the President is now clothed
with full pow r to inaugurate thorough
reform of the civil service, if he will. In
dealing with the Southern States Mr.. Trum
bull approves of Mr.. Blaine's proposition.
ordering careful investigation, but he has
faith, too, in the theory of self>govsrnment.
and believes the time has come to commit
the affairs of those States to their own
cluzens by an act of general amnesty.
Recognizing the anomaly of great nation,
Win no costly court, no hereditary nobility,
small army and an inconsiderate navy,
weighed down by the heaviest taxes in the
world, he believes the time has come for a
revision of the revenue laws.
return to specie payments, he said in
Chicago last fall, is perfectly feasible, and
pointed out the way-by withdrawal of
the iegai tender circulation. Conservative
and cautious in legislation, Senator Trum-
bull IS now and has ALWAYS been fully
abreast of the best thought of his party
1t is hard TO spare from the Senate Chamber
a man so careful and prudent in embody-
ing the policy Of his political associates IN
practical measures; but forethought and
caution will not come amiss in the Presi- |
dents chair. His high courage has been
by the sharpest tests. His mag