The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-10
THE REPUBLICAN, REVIVAL.

THE REPUBLICAN, REVIVAL.
TaE darkest hour often comes before the
dawn in the political as we'll as the physical
world; and the history of the Republican
organization during the last month affords
striking illustration of this trite truism. The
disasters in New Hampshire were natural
result of the state of feeling existing at the
time the election in that State was held,
while the subsequent Republican triumph in
Connecticut is fair indication of
the improved tone of public SEN
timent. The apparent persistence in
San Domingo policy which
was offensive to large portion of the Repub-
iican party, the removal of Senator Sumner
from the craftsmanship of the Committee on
Foreign Relations, and sundry other acts of
the administration, aroused widespread
feeling Of hostility which not only found ex-
preston in the rapid diminution in the
strength of the Republican party, but threat
ened to overwhelm it with ruin. Many of its
politicians and leaders we're for the moment
impressed with the belief that party exigencies
would not permit the denomination of Grant
in 1872, and they began to look with anxious
eyes for an available successor. 1t was no
easy task, however, to discover an entirely
satisfactory substitute. Hosts of aspirants
were ready to spring up; and small
regiment of cunning Congressman, stem
torian Senators, war Governors, and
military heroes were each thought of, and
talked of, as possible candidates, by small
knots of their sycophantic admirers and
friends. But we cannot all be Presidents,
after all, and it is by no means the easiest
task in the world to pick an available candi-
date out from forty millions of people, Sup
posing Grant to have one or even many faults,
it requires no ordinary skill to discover
candidate who has more positive virtues and
more wel-defned claims to public support;
and Just as the politicians were becoming
sorely puzzled by the difficulties with which
they saw they would be environed, if the
Presidential course for 1872 was fairly
opened to the three-yesr-old colts of
politics, a sweeping reaction came, which
went far to solve the puzzle in the simplest
of all ways, by indi ,ating that there would
probably be no necessity for seeking new
candidate. The President reasserted his
original doctrine that he would have no po-
licy to enforce against the will of the people;
he executed q skilful flank movement against
the anti-San Domingo agitators; the Repub-
tioan party YVES united in solid column upon
moderate anti -Ku-klux BILL the necessity of
looking after the politics and politicians of
the country was at last distinctly recognized,
and by sudden change of tactics the ad-
ministration improved its position as rapidly
as any well-disciplined army ever improved
its position on the battlefield.
Apparently, the tide which had been setting
steadily sgainst the Republican party has at
last been changed. But let not those who
undertake to check its destinies be over san
guine, and neglectful of the necessity of con-
tinual exertion to keep the current of popular
feeling in its present direction. Many
thousands of Republicans are still soured, or
Indifferent to the continued triumph of the
party, and it would be we'll to adopt the best
possible means of conciliating them. The in
come tax continues to be edious to many in
huential members of the party, and as
it is inherently unjust as we'll
as unpopular and unnecessary, the President
should take decided ground in favor of its
repeal. Let him publicly announce, also,
his hostility to continuation of the present
policy of collecting hundred millions per
annum more of revenue than the legitimate
wants of the Treasury require; let him de-
clare for protection of homs industry for
every determined free-trader viii inevitably
become his secret or open foe); and let him
advocate an increase in the volume of
the circulating medium of the country;
and he will gain friends from
the ranks of the Democracy as we'll as
IL ID
Morton, in his late speech at Washin gton,
undertakes the Importance OF financial ques-
tions. The vital issues of the present and
the future are connected with them, the Ku-
klux and San Domingo issues being mere cpl
sodes of the national drama that is nearest
to mems hearts; and if Grant wishes a re-
election to follow a denomination, he should
show that he is able to grapple with all the
existing financial problems.
AN OID OHTENDEP I'M PPOTyPT "