The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-05-31

The election OF Mr.. Ferry by the
Connecticut Legislature, yesterday, is
the most significant public event that
has occurred since the Cincinnati Con-
vention. 1t can be hardly less. NOR
tifying to President Grant than it is to
Gen. Hawley, the defeated Republican
candidate, who, three days ago, had
the most confident hopes Of triumph
ant election. The money SO profusely
spent by Grants supporters in the Con.
necticut canvass turns out to be bad
investment. The election of Jewell,
the Republican candidate for Governor,
was trivial matter. 1t can affect
nothing but local politics and admins
tration. The real bone of contention
was the United States Senatorship, and
the reelection of Mr. Ferry is the next
best thing to the election Of Gov. Eng.
lish, which would have been the result
of Democratic triumph in April. BY
the circumstances of his reelection,
Senator Ferry is released from any
further Obligation to the Republican
party. He is secure of his present Office
till the 4th of March, l879-nearly
seven years hence and long before the
expiration of that period the Republi-
can party will have dissolved and dis.
appeared from politics. Mr.. Ferry is
hereafter in position of complete in.
dependence; and there in no reason to
distrust his fairness and patriotism.
Owing his election to the Democratic
party, and freed from the restraints of
Republican party discipline, he will act
hereafter in accordance with his excel
lent judgment and sense of public
duty. He Of course sees, as all sagacious
men see, that the party which supports
Gen. Grant is on the eve of dissolution.
In the new era which is opening, Mr..
Ferry is as valuable as an out-and-out
Democratic Senator; and in one respect
more valuable, because he is bound by
no previous ties, and is therefore at full
liberty to act in accordance with the
emerging situation.
The country is in the very crisis of q
grand transition in its politics. Old
political ties are loosened and dissolving,
and after transient chaos we shall
witness an orderly reconstru ction of
parties, in which like will be attracted
to its like in accordance with natural
affinities: and there will be some hope
of restoring the Federal Government to
its original basis. In this period of
transition and confusion, we must not
mistake the disor derly heaps of bricks
and lime casks and the temporary
scaffolding for the symmetrical building
to be constructed from these materials
and with this aid. Rude agencies may
be employed to demolish the old build
ing and clear away the rubbish; but
these will be flung away when they
have served their purpose. Let US hope
that the politics Of the future will be
constructed on foundations Of principle
and public morality, and that hereafter
men of honor and independence will
be free TO follow their conviction with
out slavish subserviency to caucus die.
tation or the behests of any base set OF
office.holders or ofice-seekers. The
breaking up of the Legislative caucus
system in Connecticut is one II the
most hopeful signs Of the times. 1t is
high time that stop be put to hooting
down independent men by this form OF
arrogant party dictation. No form OF
servility is so degrading or intolerable
than that which has SO long been i'm
posed by the political wirepullers who,
by base arts, get control of party eau
cuses and conventions, and make them
engines for suppressing all indepen'
dence of judgment and all freedom o.
political action.-Nep York World, Mag
10th.