National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-01-13


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THE DEKOCRAFTC PRESS UPON
MIR. CUSHING.
No nomination that the President has
made for the last five years has called forth
greater variety of opinions than that Of
Mr.. Gushing to be Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court One set of journals con-
demns him because he Is not Republican,
and another that he is not q Democrat. Ed
itors who only last week told us that Mr..
Williams was too young, now assure us
that Mr.. Gushing is too old. The Liberal Re-
publican press, which only short year ago
endeavored to disrupt and destroy the Re-
publican party, have conceived sudden
interest in its welfare, and see in the nomi.
nation which has just been made its final
downfall. Gentlemen who have not been
Is many months as Mr.. Cushing has been
years in the Republican ranks are exceed
ingly bitter and remind US of the politics
Of twenty or thirty years ago. when MIR.
Gushing acted with this or that Admins
tration, and held political views and opin-
ions which are not exactly fashionable at
the present time. OF course no nomination
that the President could make would have
Riven entire satisfaction. If an out
spoken and pronounced Republican had been
selected we should have heard howl OF
indignation, as in the case of Mr.. Williams
Now, that what may be called non-parti-
san nomination is made, neither party is
entirely satisfied. Judging from the tone
Of some Of our Republican contemporaries,
It would be natural to suppose that the
Democratic papers would give Mr.. Gushing
their approval; but so far as that from be-
ing the case, he is more severely criticised
by the Journals which speak its views than
even by the Republican press. The New
York World, for instance, repudiates him
and all association with him as follows:
''The Republicans who have broken out
with such violence against Mr.. Gushing are
exhibiting a singular want of tact and address
In selecting the ground of their opposition.
The head and front Of their objections to
him consist in his political sntecedents pre-
vlous to the war. If they had been wary
and dexterous, they would have yelled their
opposition under other pretexts; because o
very little reflection would have convinced
them that the surest way to unite all the
Democratic Senators In his favor was to
assail him on his Democratic record in by
gone politics. If this motive had been
concealed with sufficient craft, the
Democratic Senalors might have diff
fered in opinion as to the expe-
diency of voting for him. But in put
ding the opposition on the ground they
have maladroitly selected, and revivfng
spent controversies, they have forced the
Democratic Senators into his support un-
mindful of the fact that a Republican split
on an appointment makes the Democrats
masters of the situation. Democrats, a.
such. regard Mr.. Cushing NTH no liking or
faoor. He has not stood BY the party in
its trials He skulked and deserted in tho
days of persecution. His coice soas neper
raised against the arbitrary arrests and
other high handed proceedings Of tho Repub-
iican party during the rar, nor against the
reconstruction nseasurss. He has necer
supported any Democratic candidate for
the Presidency since 1860, nor during thess
fourteen erentftl years has he gicen the
slightest encouragement or the faintest nsaa-
ifsstation Of sympathy to the Democratic
opposition. He has been an alien and a
stranger to tie Democratic party sosr sines
the Aesinafng Of the sear, and Aas bean in
sonfdential association NTH essry Repub-
Eean d Administration, and trusted 0dcissr
in difficulties. -.--...
These are bitter words from the leading
organ of the Democratic party, and there
can be no doubt that they correctly express
the opinions of the majority of the Demo
cratic leaders Mr.. Cushing has had no
sympathy with them, nor they with him,
since the war Of the rebellion. Before and
since the flag was fired upon at Sumter be
has said no word calculated to aid or COM
tort the Democratic party. All his public
and private utterances since then have been
Republican and in support of the party in
power. He was the trusted friend and ad-
wiser of Mr.. Lincoln, for whom he voted in
1854. and since then, out of the maturity of
his ripe experience, his learning and skin
as lawyer, he has contributed as much
toward moulding the legislation of the Re-
publican party as i.ny man in it. 4
Even men like Mr.. Stevens consulted
him upon many Of the constitutional
questions which arose in those dark
and stormy DAYS when the fate Of the.I
country trembIed in the balance. In these
Later wears. although not in the foreground
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