The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-11-12
The Late Republican Party.

I ~->S'O ONSAA ~
ly devoted to chronicling the magnificent
results and to congratulations over the
victories, that but little has been said OF
the Republican party OF the causes of its
downfall The St. Louis Republican,
however, INDUCES in review of the
causes which contributed to its disasters
1t says that, like all organizations builded
upon fraud and falsehood the Republican
party's downfall has been sudden and
crushing. 1t has stood for years an i'm
mense hollow SHE'LL needing but the
punching OF a lew holes in it to crumbe
into fragments. 1t is not too much to
assume that the Republican party of yes
terday the party of salary grabs and
| and Credit Mobiliers and press gags; the
party OF bribery and forgery and perjury
the party of dragonnades and midnight
| raids upon detenceless citizens; the party
of Shepherd rings and custom house rings;
the party OF Sanborn moiety swindles and
Jayne customs revenue black mailings;
''-N PsSit VI hpilopoilC5 anu ouboietiS'o ttAN
| land grants and grabs; the party of But
| Ter, OF Cameron, of Chandler, Of Williams.
OF Pomeroy, OF Harlan, of Patterson of
Nipple Mitchell, Of Poland and Of Car
penter; in fine the party of all imaginable
men and things that are infamous and
odious it is not too much to assume that
\
| suscitated As a controlling power in
| American politics. Its sole prestige was
| in its power Violent, rapacious, venal;
| knowing no policy but eXpediency, and
| no principle but that Of selt-perpetuaton
! appealing to no motives save those of
| popular prejudice or OF individual greed
its support was simply an army OF mer-
cenaries ready to desert its standard the
moment the pay-chest was empty and
the commisary without supplies, together
with Il horde Of fanatics whom one defeat
was certain TO turn into panic stricken
rabble
| 1t had outllved its usefulness for wears
!
graceless a crew of adventurers, pirates,
| and trebooterS as ever besmrched the
| history of a nation. 1t has taken this
foul crew just eight years to exhaust the
magnificent resources of a party which
won a war and triumphed in revolution.
1t has taken them eight years to turn such
| words as loyalty and patriotism into sy
| nonymes of that contempt which men al
ways cherish for cant and hypocrisy. 1t
| has taken them eight years to so debauch
the heritage which Greeley and Sumner
left them, that New York and Massachu-
sets, in which the party was Graded and
whence it has always drawn its brains and
its mo1ole, now spit upon it and trample
it into the dust. What it has done of evil
could not be recounted upon this page.
What it has failed to do of good could not
| be summarized upon the next page. But
IFS work for good or evil is almost done.
It's beaten and demoralized cohorts are to-
day disorganized, routed and scattered.
Its whipped, spurned and repudiated lead
ers are hopelessly ruined. Let no man
who has led in the later infamies of Re
| publicanism ever hope to lift his head
again among the people, Tor the odiuln the
| party has incurred will tasten upon its
individual leaders ust as those indi-
vidual leaders fastened upon its spoils
The Republican party will follow its old
prototype, the Federalist party, into his
torcal intamy. Its name will become q
synonyme of everything that should be
stunned in political life and banshed
from political affairs. The men who,
like Blaine and Morton and Conkling,
staked their personal ambitions upon its
perpetuty and chung to it even while it
was going to pieces, Will sink 18th it into
places where oblivion will be kindlier
than memory. AS for the lower and mean
er brood of the Buffers and their kind,
the kennel-keepers and whippers-in Of
| the party's ours and spaniels, they are too
| dead to characterize. The time is one
| for genuine rejoicing. 1t is suspicious Of
| a better. purer and happier era. 1t gives
assurance that the Great Republic will
enter upon its second century OF existence
| with a new lease OF lite, before which
all the shadows of centralism, despotisn,
and, it must be said, even possible mon
archy, must vanish. never again to cloud
| the future in our time