Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-16
THE TROUBLES OF THE REPUB'
lnf LIOAN PARTY.
a Joint High CommI.sIOn Proposed.

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The Republican party is suffering
from many troubles. 1t has its
troubles in Massachusetts, where, ac
cording to Wendell Phillips, the ami.
mating spirit of "the critter" 10 gone
and the concern is morally defunct.- -
General Butler still lives and is still
lively; but since the settlement of the
fishery question even Butler cannot
raise brees of excitement at Cape
Cod. In Pennsylvania the Rcpubli.
cans are all at skies and scvens; but
while they are divided upon every
thing and everybody else they have
at least a common rallying ground
around General Grant and his admin
istration. In Missouri they have boon
so cut up between Gratz Brown, Carl
Schurz and General Frank Blair, that
they are apparently gone beyond re
covery. In Ohio and Illinois the free
traders and civil service reformers and
general amnesty guerillas, headed by
such men as General Cox and Senator
Trumbull, are making much mischief.
Asfor General Logan, he, 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 cliqucs,
each claiming to be the Simon Pure
Republicans. In fact, we doubt if
there is single State in which the
Republicans are unit, unless it is the
State of Kentucky, and there they
have not the ghost Of 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 administra.
tion Senator Fenton got hold of the
working wires of the New York Gus.
tom House, and then to Fenton and
his confedcrates and bis followers
everything was lively at Washington,
and General Grant was a model Prcsi.
dent But unfortunately Senator Fen.
ton, in "cutting too much fat" was
found out, and so he fell from grace,
and all his fire. In fact, he and his
retainers have been banishcd from the
Custom House and the door is shut
against them, and SO they have re.
solved ths. General Grant snaii uu
reduced to one term, and that, If pos
sible, Fenton or Greeley shall take his
place, and that Conkling, who now is
check by jowl with Collector Murphy,
shall walk the plank SO they 90.
This New York Custom House,
however, has become nothing but q
box Of Pandora to the party holding
it. In 1853 "a there were in this city
and S!aio two factions among the
Democrats which absorbed the whole
party--the hardshells and the soft.
shells and in the quarreing of these
hards and softs over the Custom House
spoils and plumber they became each
an Independent party in the State
elections, and 80 on the Custom House
spoils question between the Bronson
hardshell ticket and the Rcdficld soft
shell ticket they turned over the State
to the common enemy. So it will
most probably bo with this Republican
split over the Custom House spoils.-
OF course the Tammany sacbcms are
jublant, for from present appear.
ances they will carry New York in
November by at least fifty thousand
majority. Senator Conkling, down
at Long Branch, has been talking
over these troubles with Genera
Grant; but we fear they are too much
for Senator Conkling, and wc fcal
that the only way whereby Custom
House treaty of peace can be made Il
the way of the Joint High Commits
sion on those Alabama claims. lie,
this plan of arbitration be adopted
with q share of the spoi's to Senator
Fenton and sop TO Mr.. Greeley ant
the country, and our precious institu
tions may be saved. Otherwise lc
General Grant prepare for scrub race
for the Presidential succession, will
half dozen Richmonds in the field
"The cohesive power of the publi'
plunder" is well known, but its OK
plosive power is awful, and here q
once lie The safety aud the danger o
tho constitution.-N Y. Herald.