Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-04-10

A weekly newspaper which operates as kind |
of bushwacking guerrilla, political and social
questions, assumes that "the republican party is
divided againstitself," and undertakes to explain
this condition of things, 1t is caused, says this
philosopher, by the position of certain men
called ''liberal republicans who despair of be
ing able TO act as dictators in the republican
national convention, next June. These men, he
says, have no quarrel with the republican
party nor do they deny that President Grants
administration is commercially in harmony
with the principles and policy of the party;
nevertheless they have commanded the party
not 10 renomiuate President Grant, and, suspect
ing strongly that it will not be controlled by this
command, they propose to anticipate its action
by doing something at Cincinnati; they will
split the party asunder" if he shall be renOmi-
mated, and, therefore, they have conspired to
begin the Splitting at Cincinnati, five or six
weeks before the national convention will assem-
Bile. We have translated some OF the sentences,
but this is substantially what is said.
This expounder OF the "Cincnnati move
ment" admits that the preservation and ascend
ancy of the republican party sis vital TO the
nation;" but has he inquired carefully what the
party would be worth, if it were capable of sub
hitting to be subugated by this dictation?
There are, perhaps, half dozen men who have
menaced the party in the manner described
and most of them are candidates for the presi-
dency. They have no following; that is to say,
they do not all together represent any consider
able number of men who will actually aid them
=. g. IL a.
will attempt. Among the republican voters of
the country, who are not candidates for the
presidency, there is for the Cincinnati mass
meeting not one-tenth of the sympathy that
was felt in 1864 for the movement which made
demonstration at Cleveland. Personal consid
erations are not usually sufficient to split" any
party that has a good reason for existence; and
in this case, no Others are visible If the half
dozen men to whom we ref had not so aston
ishingly ovemated their own personal import
ance, and assumed the arrogant tone of dicta-
tors, there might have been candid discussion
of whatever they could have said against re-
nominating President Grant, but they were
conscious, probably, that their reasons would
not bear dscussi On, for it has been their chief
business to make up case against him, by in
sinuating false charges, and asking to have
them Investigated.
The individuals who menace the republican
party in this way are demented, else they would
see what is SO manifest to everybody else name
ly, that the republican party is not divided
against ITSELF and is not likely to be. Promi
nence and power in the party can be secured
only by representing faithfully its principles and
aims. No man in it is great enough to substi-
fute his own personality for these, or to save
himself from break down of his influence
when he attempts to do so, It is not surprising,
perhaps, that Mr.. Greeley fails TO see this, for
men are sometimes made blind and deaf TO rea-
sou by morbid oyerestimate of themselves
and, be must be fearfully incapable of seeing
the political situation as it IS ifhe supposes any
considerable number of republicans can be in
duced 10 support movement for restoring the
old democratic party to power. 1t is said that
he has lost himself and gone wildly astray in
the mist Of an overwhelming desire to be made
a candidate for the presidency. We know not
how this is but we are sure that such desire
for the presidency, if actually entertained, would
be the greatest delusion Of bis life Some things
are impossible.