The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-08-01
THE r
Its Position and Prospects.
TFrom the Chicago Triigina.1

iffom the Chicago 1riiB,iIie-I
No one can deny that the attitude o,
the Republican party toward all the
questions which are 10Y engaging
public attention is, OF the whole, very
satisfactory. No season could be more
nnpropitious than the present for the
effort which the politicians OF the oppO.
sition are making TO create discomfort
toward the party in possession of the
national government, and of most OF
the State governments. The season is
50 decidedly unpropitious that the effort
Is desperate. il is 80 for many rea-
IONS. In the first place. of the CUES
lions engaging public attention. none is
an urgent and commanding e or one
.un either side of which II party tan he
srcadily and summarily placed. The
lnost important mes are either compara-
fiyely new ones, or If not new, then of
a general nature which does not admit
of parties being distinctly divided BY
them. OF the first class the transpolta-
lion question is an instance. OF the
second, an instance is found in the
question of morality IN ofic raised by
the Credit Mobilier investigation and
the Back-pay bill On the Transports
ii0si question no party hay . well de
fined policy, or for some time can have.
All declarations to il must obviously lie
general and tentative. On the question
at morality in public places parties can-
not be divided sharply. Their profess
si0ns will not differ mich. The public
will judge them by their acts. y hen
only such questions are before the pub
9ic il is obvious that any attempt TO d.
vert confidence from the party in pos
session, and to awaken confidence in a
&emOralizeJ. disorganized and irTcspon-
sible opposition, is = desperate attempt.
Eat =; the teXt rta:e. while the cur
rent questions arr Bst sis$I, on in such
shape, that great political changes can
Dc made on them, the attitude of the
Republican party toYard them, such -
they are. is creditabYe. 1t is an attitude
that the people can understand and will
respect. When VIC speak of the Repnb-
ilcan party. we must be understood to
tcfcr to the party a. represented by its
journeys. its conventions and its public
men. These, taken together, afford all
the evidence that can be got ms 10 what
the party thinks and means IL do. And
taking The evidence thus furnished,
deere Is not u single question of amy
mopcnt on which The Republican party
does not appear TO be n safer and bet
fer party than any opposition party
that is likely to arise. Certainly this Is
not only true. but obviously true rs re-
cards the two questions 10 which We
lysc referred. The Republican party
inettatcs. q great majority Of the uneom-
promising opponents and condcnneTs
II ibe participants ~ the Credit Mobi
|ier s,yindls. Although some offs fes-
ner l~esleys we're involved in that mis-
,rable b~nstsesa. e is p,ais ibat these
i,en will never pgY;s I've leaders. The
prominent Republicans wao were dis
inctly Invoked w tho Credit Mobilier
'oDIpany have lost forever their hold gu .
he party, and we yeBturs ~ Say that
70 understands this better than !
'iems-iyes. On tie other hand. the i
,en with the MioFt promising carecrsi
them, .ru fhose sho we're not