Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-09-13

IFNNlu Aui hlHlnA huNtfUhHt.
The present condition OF the Republican
party is not matter of cungraiunliun.
Those who are IN Office may imagine that
everything is prosperous, hut the great
body of thoughtful men watching the
signs of the tmes are not hopeful, and
those whose conduct of public affairs
should inspire confidence are letting
things drit towards the bad with a r,ck-
lessncss that is incomprchensibc. There
il widespread decentralization in party
sentiment, aud we do not hesitate to INV
il IL, at least here in Massachusetts,
chicny caused by the very conditions
which misguided pnttisans RELY upnu to
strengthen the organization. The Rcpub
liran party cannot forever endure the
strain t. which il is now put. and the
reason 10 cannot endure il is because il
ought mot Ia he endured. When "a party
becomes am organization OF oilice holders
and is held together by the profits Of its
administration of public aillirs, it Is near
lis end. To that condition the Republican
party is tending, and the sell compliment
gentlemen vino hold its places of honor
may thank themselves for the ruin they
ate diligently inviting and doing nothing
To prevent. We mem the gentlemen of
The President Cabinet, the members Of
the sc1'tt" aud House of Representatives,
and the army of thrifty custom house,
revenue, and post oil ce Onlcinls, WHO
think they serve the country by keeping
themselves warm. We do not covet the
reputation Of Hlarmists, but we think il
would be as stupid as useless to blink
facts Of which the people are already
co9nlzuut, and 10 correct which they are
ready, IN their perpleSity, to take the
mcss Wild and desperate steps.
What does 1t mean that ring of
national Oliiec-hOldcrs is this year daring
to do what was never before undertaken
| in such shamelessness and confidence In
this State How does ii happen that the
rec plcut3 Of salaries from The National
/ Ioy,rument almost without exception are
dcyotmg themselves To the task of con-
trolling our lOcnl affairs 1t is some
thing To which the people of Massachu-
sets are quite unaccustOmcd, and
something which three years ago any
| politician acquainted with the spirit aud
tradition Of our population would have
! declared would not be borne. Who are
these meni The creatures of patron
aud dependent upon his favor. They
were never elected to their Offices by the
/ people, they are uuder no immediate
obligation 10 the people, but by some
strange ana mOnstrOus delusiOn they seem
to imagine that the people are under obli-
CATION to them, that they are the consti-
tuted official advisers of the great body of
citizens in their political duties. We ven
tnre to say that the spectacle of the coll.
lcctor, postmaster aud marshal leagued
together ANA eXerting all the patronage
Of their Offices and using the time which
belongs 10 the public service to force upon
Il party Il candidate obnoxious to the ma
Jorlty was never before seen in the Bay
state. 1t is an invasion Of the independ
ehce OF the people of tue State, henious
and int0lerable. No one objects to their
having and INDUCING individual prefer
ences and exercising their legitimate
influence in legitimate ways but when
they use their offices to aid factions, and
from tue seats which they occupy by the
favor of the few aud not by The conf
denct of the many arrogate authority to
dictate who shall execute the peoples
Will IN local concerns, they rashly venture
where they arc not invited and where
their presence will not be tolerated.