Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-11-12
THE REOEN T ELECTIONS.
What President Grant Thinks and Says Abou
the Canses OF the Republican fieverses.

Va tue hopuDHCAu hoFcrseBs
Especial to the Chicago Evening Journal
WASHINGTON, Nov Z The follow
ing statement is published here on
what appears TO be good authority:
The President has conversed freely
with his intimate friends as to the
causes which have produced such a
Revision in the popular verdict. He
is of the opinion that the Democrats
were as much surprised by their over
whelming successes as were the Re-
publcans. and he admits that, altho'
he fully expected Republican losses,
he was not prepared for this crushing
defeat He does not sanction the
idea that his policy or his personal
acts have contributed in any degree
to the defeat.
LOUISIANA.
SO far as Louisiana is concerned,
he says, he took the course which he
believed it to be his duty to take, but
that he twice specifically called the
attention of Congress to the affairs of
that State, and requested that body
to indicate its opinion as to the prop
er course to pursue. Congress failed
to express any opinion, and there was
no alternative but to adhere to the
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FINANCE.
The President thinks that at the
door of the Republican Congress,
alone, may be laid the defeat of the
Republican party. He does not Law
much stress upon the neglect of Con-
eress to present financial measures
which would restore confidence and
revive declining trade, for in the ma
ture of things this was next to an i'm
possibility. A proper adjustment of
the finances was not a matter susceD
tible ofparty control, as different Sec
tons of the country had diverse in.
terests and views superior ia party
considerations.
THE CIVIL RIGHTS ELL.
The President thinks that the great
element of discord IN the Republican
party was the unwise attempt to force
upon the american people the thee
ries OF Senator sumner, embodied in
the Civil Rights bill. Last spring it
was authorltatively stated that the
President did not favor the Civil
Rights bill. 1t can now be said that
his views in opposition to it have been
much strengthened by the recent cleo
ton He is firmly convinced that the
Civil Rights bill had more to do with
the defeat of the party than all other
causes combined.
FUTURE.
The President gives his friends to
understand that he is not cast down
by the recent reverses. He believes
that the Republican party has before
it q glorious future, and that it may
retrieve its past errors He believes
the Republic an Congress can, in the
three months of life left, so act as to
heal the dissensions within the party
and win back the confidence of the
people.
THE THIRD TERM.
1t is not improbable that in his mes
sage to Congress the President will
set forth some Of the views here civ
en-. lie has not so far, in any CONVEX
satlons on the elections, indicated
that he considered that the third term
had anything to do with the results. =
At the Cabinet meeting yesterday,
the President expressed himself more
at length on the third term than ever
before. He said that careful exam.
ination Of the returns in the different
States showed conolusively that the
people were not influenced by the
wild cries on this subject.
STATE EXPENDITURES. Says the
State Journal!
"The State treasury is full because
a Republican Legislature provided
for it The amount paid in this year
Is Sl35, 900 more than was paid in
last year,
The cost of erecting buildings and
supporting benevolent institutions
in 1873 was 100000 more than in
1874. The capitol fence cost S28, 900,
and the boiler rooms cost $4,000
Here are extraordinary expenses
amounting to 1854 900 in ~, yet
with receipts sl35 900 larger this
year, and expenditures 1854, 900 less,
the surplus III the treasury is only a
lutte over 1925 900. There would be |
more money there il large amount
had not gone in special appropria-
tons to Ref1rmer's on old cl inns.
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