The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-05-22

CAN PARTY.
The Republican party organs has
ten now 10 assure their readers
that there will be no disruption Of
the organization in consequence Of the
Presidents course in relation 10 infa-
tion. Even the "lndependent 1ri-
5une, which blows both hot and cold
on party TO which it affects to have
abandoned, says that there will be no
split, and that, on the contrary, the
party will be strengthened w a large
accession Of hard money Democrats.
The complacenty, real Or pretended,
Of these papers over the result is GER
tainIy amusing. That the veto will
consol d tie the Republican party and
break up the Democratic party is a.
result OF which that sagacious tinan-
oier and profound statesman who sits
in the White House never in his most
sanguine moods dreamed. 1t has
taken the more powerful intellects oil
Republican and independent" editors
to discover 1t.
The matter with the Republican
party is not this quarrel over initiation
so much as that it comes when the
party is in exceeding demoralized con
iition from previous mlsfortunes,
Had the disagreement fallen upon a
compact and victorious organization,
it's ability to ride out the storm might
not be questioned. But Republicanism
| is like battered and leaking hulk;
which has been torn by many pre-
cedmg storms. All hands are a. the
pumps, the masts are cut away aud
The ship is rolling heavily, when tenn
pest more terrific than any before
strikes it, We believe that it will
4 take more genius than Republican
Journalists possess TO save it.
The Republican party has been
beaten in ninety per ceut. of the
States which have held elections since
last Autumn, We have demonstrated
lin these columns by the official figures
that it is in a minority Of the popular
vote, Now, on the top Of this comes
fight between the leading men in
the party, in which Morton, Logan,
Chandler and S"Bossn Butler are
ranged on one side, and Conklin,
IIamlin, Dix Blaine ard the Presi-
dent on the other Both sides have
| made the question vital one, the
first declaring that'without a further
issue of paper money the country il
ruined, and the last that with it des
trueton is speedy and certain, How
can the defeated faction reconcile III
conscience to further afliliation Will
: an organization which, II holds, ha
committed itself, through its chief, tt
: course ruinous to the best interests
Of the countryY
The truth is, that this demand to
expansion which has come up Il
f, Washington from the producing part
OF the Union is pot fitting AM
ephcmeral demand which can be 81
! ! lenced by a Presidents message
Whether right br wrong, it is an OK
I preston Of want felt by the peopl
Of those sections. Their disarpoint
: ment will drive them to take ver
geance upon the man who has thwar'
. ed them, and that man happens to ,
us. Grant, the chief of the Reput
: lican party. They know that the
= eau strike sharpest and deepest b
= abandoning the party upon which D
relies for support. And we thin
;, that it is easonable expect that the
9 will do it. The West and South Al
y y these dissatisfied sections. The We
! has been the Republican stronghold
II bnt of late years its loyalty to II
= party has been more than doubttu
!, A shrewd party policy would hay
y dictated the strengthening OF the lin
y y in that direction by a judicious 60
u cession to its wishes, The party
" strong enough Tor present purposes
p New England, aud that section d
ls not need TO be conciliated. III
- President, however. has weaken'
40 the party in the West, where il
u ~ weak, for the sake Of the East, whe
- it is comparatively strong The
~ suit will be that, while the EaSJ "
"a do no better by it than before, I
y West will tumble out OF IL altogcth
y ~ The elections IN the forthcoming a
= = tumn will show that the Republic
., party has lost its hold upon the W.
70 and Northwest, and that will
Y equivalent TO the loss OF the nc
aS so Presidential campaign,