Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-30
MOI Altogether Lovely.

feel that Everything is lovely" Lately, these
mysterious signs of something not so pleasant
as the hope of summer, have become more and
more ominous. Ii comes out distinctly, on one
side, that the 'lberal republicans" can do moth
ing until the democratic party is destroyed and
swept out of the way. They have several
'Ieaders," but as these are troubled by
great lack of followers, they are
obliged, las somebody has it), to follow
each other" This they have done with praise
worthy activity, but it brings no aid to their
purpose; republicans generally are not inclined
TO join the democratic party; they know its
record, spirit, and aims too well to follow any
body into that camp; these Headers" must 60
alone, if they 90 at all. This is now too mani
fest to be concealed. Therefore, to remove the
difficulty, they are saying earnestly that 10th
ing can be done until "the burial service is read
over the democracy" Even the Chicago Tri-
bune demands ''the finishing blow to the demo
cratic party" cries out for "the extinction of
the democracy" and believes there can be no
hope until this obstruction" is removed.
This, of course, moves the democratic organs
to suppressed wrath. They bury their party
it until it shall die natural death. True, it is,
just row, ''sck man." but they intend to use
medicine which will restore its vigor; they have
supposed the needed miracle could be wrought
by means of blood taken from few reformed"
republicans; but they will not be discouraged,
even if this hope shall fail. Eaton, at Hartford,
the other night, said what his party associates
mean, although some of them do not venture to
say it so plainly: "What I'm looking after is a
man who will take this rotten radical party and
choke it." They all aim like Eaton to "put the
old state-rights democracy in power !" but
some of them would play a confidence game
to secure this result, while he scorns TO
hide what he means. A democratic voice some
what more mild and equivocal than Eaton's,
says mounfully; "the liberal republicans have
that fatal weakness, an infrm will;" they "Iack
ready insight and unfinching courage" they
are "pusillanimous," they "will skulk back into
the Grant camp, and the Cincinnati convention
will be of as little consequence as the Cleveland
convention in 1854" Thus the beginning of
the end" comes in sight, Alas for that cooper
ative political picnic which was to unfold its
grandeurs amid the glory of blue birds, apple
blossoms, and thrilling summer weather! Alas
Tor liberal" republicans! There are more DEM
oerats than they supposed ready to spit in their
faces, aud cheer the hoarse and profane out
burst of the organ in Brown county, Illinois,
which exelams angrily: "shall we consent TO
see that glorious old democratic banner trailing
humbly in the dust beneath the triumphal
chariot of our enemies? A thousand times No!
We will see Graft Brown, and Carl Schurz and
Frank Blair eterRdly damned first! There you
have it."
Ii is a mistake for few 'liberal" (meanins
angry) republicans, or for anybody else, TO sup
pose they can force reconstruction of partie.
by resolving to do so. The personal pretension,
implied by an attempt to do it, are ridiculou.
anywhere outside of Mexico and the other Span
ish American republics. In this case, the tim,
for reconstruction Of parties has not come
and the most assuming "leaders" VIII try il
vain to substitute their influence for the opera
ton of natural laws. The democratic party re
fuses to be buried out of sight, and the republ
can party has not finished the work for which i
was organized. Some day, but not thi
year, there may be such reorganiza
ton; but it will be effected, not II
serve the convenience of angry men, MOI
of men, who, like Gratz Brown and Carl Schurz
have placed themselves in a bad position but to
secure discussion and action on great issues
which will demand settlement. Brown and
Schurz went out of the republican party to act
with the democrats, which theyiwould not have
done ii their sagacity and sense of obligation to
their republican associates had been equal to
their egotism. Now they seek rescue from their
unpromising political future by trying TO serve
the republican party of the nation just as they
served that OF Missouri, They will try in vain.
Some of the New York papers which are OPP
posed to the administrati on assert that the re-
form in the general order business there is a
sham, and to Iprove this publish a list of the
warehouses where the general order goods from
the eleven principal foreign steamship lines are
now sent. -Four of these lines send their goods
to the warehouse of Leet & Co., and four more
to those of F. Squire and Squires & Co., who
are said to be ''Leet's landlords" though what
bearing that fact, if fact it is, has upon the
question OF reform is not apparent. That gen.
eral order goods still go to Leet & Co.'s ware.
house is paraded as evidence that there has
been no real REFORM 1t might seem so to one
who knew only so much; but there are some
other facts to be considered in forming a judy
ment of the matter. The evil of the former sys.
TEN lay in the fact that Leet & Co. had mo-
nopoly, which enabled them to make oppressive
charges and otherwise TO iniuriously affect
The commerce of the city. Under the present
system a scale Of charges was established, with
the approval of the chamber of commerce,
which must be presumed reasonable, and each
steamship line was permitted to choose for it.
self to what warehouse its goods should be sent
under general order. Four of them selected the
store Of Leet s. Go. They were perfectly free to
choose that or any other, and they might have
left Leet s. Co. without any business of that
kind They made their choice probably because
the store itself, or its management, or both.
were more desirable for themselves or their GUS
toners. The custom house investigation seemed
to establish the fact that Leet is not in all re.
spects very deserving person; but he has
store house, and apparently knows how to man
age it to the satisfaction OF the public who have
goods TO be sent there. II they prefer his store
TO others why should the president or collector
interfere?
The New York World, after coquetting with
the liberal republicans for some time, and law
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