Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-05
AN IRATE ORGAN.

The Washington Republican, recog-
nized as the Presidents personal or
gan, grew very spiteful after the 0cto-
Der elections so effectually squelched
Grants third aspirations. In the
shadow of the November elections it
poured forth its bitter wall and its de-
nunciation of leading Republicans who,
it fancied, had contributed to Grants
downfall. In its issue of Saturday
last the Republican had a long double
loaded article charging the re-
sponsibility for the recent reversts
of the Republican party upon
''the Daweses, Garfelds, and Fosters, -
who have weakly and wickedly connived
at Investigations into the alleged cor
ruptiOns Of the various departments of
the Government. This article is SO
evidently ''inspired'' and so decidedly
savage that We transfer to our columns
the following extract, in which it con-
fesses to disgust and Generalization on
every side:
In this fourteenth year Of its power
it cannot be denied that the Republi-
can party enters into the contest under
burdens which it has unknown In the
past; that its chances of success are
less than they have been in any one
previous "off-years;" that if we win, it
will be owing more to good luck than
to good management. Why? =
Only one answer can be giEen-the
party itself-it, and it alone, is re-
sponsible for the position In which
it is placed. We may win against the
fearful odds that stare US in the face.
We may win, probably we shall,
but the mass of the party should not
have been placed where it is. And we
charge thaG it has been put there by
its so-called leaders-leaders without
an element of leadership, who, in its
legislation, having dragged the party
down from the commanding position
it held even two years ago, until to-day
it is at the mercy Of the enemy. 1--WE
have still majority of the people of
the country" but that majority has
been so demoralized by its leaders in
Congress that it is unconscious of its
own strength-that one of its generals
in the House is almost repudiated by
the men who were proud to elect and
re-elect him by majolities all the way
from 5000 to $4,000 votes. We mean
the Chairman of the Appropriations
Committee of the House of Represen-
tatives, Gen. James A. Garfield. Mr..
Dawes is another leader-the Chair
man Of the Waysand Means Committee.
What did either Of them do at the last
session of Congress to strengthen the
party before the country? They had
the command of the House; they had
the control of legislation; they had the
destinies of the party in their hands,
but they threw them away. They gave
us paltry policy; they, to use vulga
term, ''nosed" around the Departments
to see whereapenny could here and there
be saved; they yielded the floor to every
Democrat, who held a resolution In his
hand to investigate a Department of
the Government, and were the first 10
second the motion; they led the party
to its own and their own defeat.
What wonder that there are disgust
and dissatisfaction on every side; that
the Republican majority of nearly 100
in the elective branch of the Govern
ment, seems likely to be bIotted out?
In the contest of Tuesday next we be-
heye that we shall win, but the victory,
if 1t does come, win come in spite of