New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-12-29
A PECRIES.S PARTY

The Administration party was never so con-
fident of it's hold upon power as now, judging
from the reckless rate at which it goes on and
it's utter heedessness of public opinion. The
Administration is secure for three years more
at least; the Senate is beyond the reach of
revolution for many years, the House is Adj
ministration by so large a majority as to make
change in its political complexion under any
circumstances, during the present term of
President Grant, quite improbable. so,
with everything well in hand, the gen
tlemen who do the managing for the
party are taking matters in the most easy and
phllOsophic manner, from the indignation of
the people at the back pay grab to the bank
ruptcy of the Treasury and the utter incOm
potency of the Executive Departments The
party that elected President Grant year ago
last November is swinging along yet under
the impulse Of that victory. 1t understood
that result not only as vindcation of every
body against everything that had been said to
his prejudice, but as a sort of universal indul
gence and absolutiOn for whatever he might do
in the future. The record of the party, its
grand achievements and trumphs, and the
hallelujah and hurrah over them which carried
the last election and put down the opposition,
are supposed to have pervading and con-
tinuOus efficacy, and to make sure all the
future, while the Endorsement of the Great
Silent Man is behind to reach forward for
ever as well as condOne all the past.
So the President can easily afford TO fling
into the Senate such appointments as that of
Shepherd for Governor of the District of
Columbia and Williams as Chief Justice, and
10 do ~ r;,,;1 Go, &c
pleasure, and in short consult only his own
inclinatlons in administering the Government.
So the Senate can afford, or thinks it can, to
vindicate it's Carpenters and Shepherds and
Williamses, the House to fool away time in
speech-making over the Salary Grab and then
compromise for part of the plumber, and the
whole Government to run in slip-shOd, brain
less way to bankruptcy. For the people who
grumble at these sad exhibitions of incOnl-
potency, waste and reckessness cannot reach
the gentlemen in power for some time yet.
They will be able to reach the lower House of
Congress not till next year; the Senate not
till much laier, and the Executive not till
1876. So the game goes On~ The people muir
muir and the players laugh.
But the representatives Of two States at least
are not so philosophical in their view of the
situation. To the members from ew-Hamp-
shire and Connecticut there is something Sc
rious in the attitude of affairs which is not
appreciated by their colleagues. These two
States are shortly to hold elections. 1t is
somewhat Important to them TO keep the Adj
ministration in good odor with the people, as
their own continuance in Office depends upon
it, Neither of the two States elects members
of Congress next Spring, but Connecticut
chooses United States Senator, and in both
it is important to have State control for the
advantage it will give when the elections for
Congress take place in 1875. From pres
ent appearances both will be carried by the
Opposition; New-Hampshire in March and
Connecticut in April. Both are, and have been
for years, close and doubtful States, with no
margins for experiments by the party in power.
| Connecticut was lost to the Administration last