The Van Buren press., 1872-03-12
Mach Truth in Q Few Words.

Tine Mobile E,y.s;ef |. violently opposed 20
the D''n er,cy helping the Liberal Rcpneli-
cans /, defeat Grant and overthrow the Radi-
cal party. sud il insists that the Liberals shall
help tte Democracy DO the work IL forgets
that t~o or three Liberal Republican senators
and ~ many Liberal Republican Journals
have done mor. 10 damage the President aud
his administration In three months. than three
million Democrat, have been able 10 90 In
three years. The fact is almost Incredible,
aud yet ii j. indisputable; it |. the eons picu-
Gus and distinguishing event Of the da, And
yet the ikgisier not only leaves IL out ofsight.
but di.reg ards the reasons for IL. when IL de-
mands that the effective aud successful move
ment against the dominant party. now led by
Republican Insurgents. and supported by the
Democracy. shall be reversed rs to be here
after led by the Democracy and supported by
Republican insurgents. The Register asks:
How do we know, If the Democrats get out
Of tire way that these gentlemen are equal to
the task of beating Grant? How do we know.
1t they do beat him. how and in what polit-
cal grooves they will run the government?
We know nothing about 1t, for they ara all
reticcnt. Neither Seburz. nor Trumbull. nor
Upton, nor Ferry. nor Logan, nor Gratz
Brown, nor any of the party. have yet declar-
ed that they were anything but Republicans.
They dcnounce Grant and his tyrannical prac-
tceS to be sure, but not one Of them has ever
veutured hint OF the probability of bis be-
coming Democrat.
Thus speaks the Register in its leading edi-
torial of the I'd inst, and, very singularly and
very fortunately, it furnishes a conclusive an
swer 10 its own argument in the following
minor editorial in the same issue:
READ OUT.
While Mcssrs. Schurz and Trumbull have
stuck 70 the Republican organization in all
their assaults upon the Grant administration,
they have now been read out OF the party by
Morton aud the Radical leaders in the Senate.
To give higher effect to the accommodation
it is alleged that Schurz Is n deserter. and the
order goes forth to " shoot the dc>erfer." " The
purpose Is very trnnsplrent-itis is TO break the
force of their terrible arraignments of Grant
before the bar the people, The astute Rad
ical senators know that If these gentlemen
are allowed TO thunder against Grant from a
Republican standpoint, it will be difficult to
repcl the attack. but Just cal! them IL serteTsdad
Democrats and nobody will be hurt.
Thi, little paragraph furnishes more and
better reasons why the Liberal Republicans
should 40, become Democrats in the approach
ing Presidential campaign, than we could
hope TO give In an entire column. IT. there
fore, our Mobile contemporary will not listen
to our arguments let it, at least, heed lis own.
As to the Regis!ns question about the "po-
ltleal grooves y the government is to be run
in, after the election OF a Liberal Republican
President, we may say that the Democratic
majority in the House at Washington, chosen
at the same time, and the Administration par
ty Of three million incNtinguishable Deno-
Gratis on which the new President will lean
for support. will give the proper answer
81 Louts Republican.