The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-10-05
THE ADMINISTRATION VERSUS THE
PEOPLE.

III n PEG pie are so earnest anu
unanimous in their wish for President
Grants re election, whence the signi-
ficance of the Liberal Republican
movement which sprung up in a day,
as it were, which dropped full formed
out ofan invisible but potential dissat-
isfaction with the present Admlni>tra-
ton, and desire for a higher order OF
craftsmanship and a better conduct OF
affairs? This immense detection from
the Republican party, organized at
Cincinnati. and growing every day, is
a splendid standing refutatiOn of all
If the people had been devotedly at
tached to him. and urgent in their de
termination to III pel him to serve as
President another term, how does it
happen that the few sore headed and
sour souled secederS from the Repub-
lican ranks found such a magnificent
following, and drew hundreds of the
best men from the Republican ranks
to their side? And, when the cam
paign actually begun. why did the
Grant party find it necessary to put
the entire Cabinet OIL the stump, and
send Department clerks to electioneer
in doubtful districts. and Use all its
vast patronage and prestige to influence
local elections, and wiring an extra as
sessment from Office holders to ray
for banners and bands of music and
torchiight professions, and freight
down the mails with campaign docu
ments illegally ranked by Members
of Congress-, and convert the whole
Government into a vast electioneering
machine to secure his reelection. if
the great body of the American people
are united and enthusiastic in his sup
port? 1t is only necessary to hold
such a pretense as this up in the light
of plain and palpable facts, to see how
thin and false the fabrication is.
The truth is, there is the very least
III Vi "A al oh tic
part of the people of America. he
was a successful general, and they
honored him for his services and re-
warded him with the highest office in
their gift, and all the glory they could
bestow; but he is a political failure.
His character does not awaken admira
ii n norinspire respect. There is moth
ing about the man nor his conduct of
affairs that enkindleS regard. He is
everywhere regarded as a load rather
than as a force, and almost every
speaker who is not a present or pros
pective office holder Processes that
General Grant is not his preference.
Republicans support him because he
is the regular party nominee. or be
cause they are afraid that the Demo
Gratis will regain supremacy in the gov
eminent, or because they imagine the
colored people will not be tenderly
cared for and protected under a new
regime, or because they have been
scared into his support by nisrepre-
sensations of the character and pur
poses of the opposition. They take
him as the Least of two evils, but An
evil nevertheless. and without heart,
earuestness or zeal. And, but for the
prodigal use of the Governmental pa
tronage, and III espionage and pro
scriptiou never before known in our
political history, it would be impos-
sible for the Administration party TO
get the means to carry on the cam
paign in a single State. The entlusi-
assn exhibited at their public meetings
is mostly manufactured and paid for.
The earneStness they boast is sulleu
and cold. Everywhere The fact is pa
tent and conspicuous that this am
pljgr is waged by the Administration
against the people. For the first time
in American history the Government
has taken the field against the country.
On the other hand, the Liberal
movement owed its significance and
vigor entirely to its popular support.
It articulated the public dissatisfaction.
1t organized the public demand for
reform aud reconciliation. The Gin
cinnati meeting was designed as a
conferenceof a few leading politicians;
it proved to be a vast gathering of in'
teIligent people from every section of
the land. It's size and popular charac