The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-04-04

trigues- Ike publican Candle lates for the
Succession Grant Now here-A New Man
for the Next Hest-Ths Degraded United
States senate.
Washington Correspondence Of the New York Sun.
The rivalry between Morton and
Conkling for the leadership of the Senate
during tie Forty-third Congress already
begins to crop out. Morton aspires TO
be Grants successor, and Conkling, who
hates Morton, knows this, and means to
take advantage of the fact. He will play
upon Grants prejndices in order % get
patronage out of him, but intending all
the time to throw him off when he no
longer needs him, and come out for
President himself. Yes, the Hon. Ros-
coe Conklipg intends to be candidate
in 1876. Morton Of course does, and the
annihilation Of Colfax does not displease
him at all, COR it squelched man who
he thought stood in his way in his own
State. Tie fall of this pretentious little
person removes one obstacle to Mortons
advancement.
BLAINE AND BOUTWELL,.
Blaine and Boutwell, are plready on the
track for the succession. Blaine is the
more roisy and snowy of the two, and he
is rather better organizer than Bout
well, and three times as big a dema-
gOgue. Blaine did rot take any Credit
Mobilier stock but the reason simply
was because in looking over Ames' share
lists he discovered something better,
and therefore the Poland investiga-
ton has forever destroyed his Presi-
Dental aspirations. He rubbed against
Ames and got the stain ON his clothes,
and he is offensive to the nostfils of the
people. In this regard, and so far az
yet appears, Boutwell, has not got any of
these chalk marks on his garments and
if he can reach the Senate he will prob
ably lead the New England Repr olican
candidates for 1876, unless zoe Hawley,
of Connecticut, should rise up against
him.
WILSON AND BUTLER.
The Vice-President, Notwithstanding
his Credit Mobilier disgrace, is looking to
the White House, and Gen. Butler las
his weather eye upon it. But Credit
Mobilier kills the former. and that ten
thousand dollar railway fee the latter.
1t is the opinion here in the best in
formed quarters that no man whose name
has been mixed up in airy way with the
Investigations of the past winter, how
ever thick the coating of whitewash with
which he may have been enveloped,
stands The faintest chance for the Re-
publican nomination of 1876. Though
the party has an inconvepient supply of
rogues, its best members feel that they
have homes. men enough left for national
candidates, and therefore they will take
no stock in those who have had even the |
remotest connection with corrupt trans
actions.
SHERMAN AND LOGAN.
This consideration blasts the hopes of
John Sherman and Gen. Logan. The |
latter smells of Credit Mobilier, and
that finishes him, while the notorious
lobby exploits of the disreputable Judge
Sherman, of Ohio, have thrown thick |
cloud across the horizon of his more dis !
tinguished brother, the Chairman of the |
Finance Committee of the Senate, with |
whom the Judge is believed to have had
other relations than those of blood.
GRANTS DECLINING SUN.
One thing is already apparent. No
body talks of Grant for another term.
The great leaders of the Republican
party begin to sneer Mt him. They have
used him thus far to accomplish their
own ends. The lemon is squeezed, and
the rind will soon be thrown away. On
the opening of the next Congress, his
patronage being then disposed of, he
will be of no more consequence to the
Republican party, aud will have no
stronger hold upon its leaders than An
drew johnson had twelve months after
he stepped over Lincoln's grave into the
White House, and it will be marvel
if he is not impeached like Johnson, ere
his term closes. One cen hardly imagine
how little power Grant will lave rs soon
Is it comes } he understood tina. the
party has no further use for him and its ,
great chieftains are ON the war oath for ,
the succession. Should he stand for a ,
single moment in their why, they will {
not hesitate to take his scalp as party ,
leaders, heretofore took the scalps of !
Tyler, Fillmore, and johnson, when |
;hese accidental occupants of the White
House would not pack up and quit when !
old to do SO by those who put them
here. {
THE pIsGRACED aENATE. I
Oflice-seekers abound here, and having I
.xes to grind, they of course affect to
hirk as well as possible of the Senate.
But everybody else feels that it has sunk Q
great way below the contempt Of hon |
st, honorable men. The Senate which i
djourned on Tuesday had not the {
ourage nor even the self-respect to tnm +
mt Patterson, Harlan, Pomeroy, Cald- i
veil, and Clayton, while the new Senate \
velcomes to its hall Jones, another Pat c
erson, Spencer, Dockray, and three or {
our more who got their seats by the il
most disreputable means. However, it d
vill be difficult for the Forty third Con- 8
ress to act worse or look worse than the 4