The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-11-20
THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS.
The President and His Party.
From the 81. Louis Republican.

From the st. Louis Republican,
The disaster in which the President and
his party go down together I'm irremedia-
BILE wreck brings up the question: Who
is 10 blame for it? Ii is a question for the
defeated alone; IL Is nobody else's bust
ness. IL Is clear enough 10 an outsider
that both are 10 blame-the President for
doing wrong, and the party for upholding
him In IL; and that II would be only just
and fair for them to dispose of the ill-for-
tune as brigands dispose of their booty
divide it, and say nothing more about 1t.
But neither Is in a mood for such an equi-
table and and philosophical settlement,
and IL Is probable that they will prefer to
quarrel over IL. The effect of the catas-
rophe on individual Republicans and or
cans foreshadows the future relation be-
tween the party and the President. Here
and there we find a Republican paper tina.
attempts 10 hope that Ii Is Bull RIM les
son, which will discipline the party for
future triumpbs. But this cheerful news
i not shared by the masses OF the party.
Bull Run was a beginning. and this is the
ending. The blame for McDowell's rout
was generously accepted by all the parti-
cipants in il, and il was followed by a
fierce resolve TO stand together and re-
trieve IL. But the rout of last Tuesday Is
followed by the savage conviction that
there is no chance for retrieving-that all
that is left is the ferocious comfort OF
reckoning with the author or authors
Oft.
The Republicans are still in power at
Washington. The present Congress lasts
three months longer, and President
Grants term does not expire till two
years from the next 4th of March. With
the power TO enact laws and control the
purse, the army and navy, some persons
have a vague idea that the administration
and the majority In Congress may at
tempt something desperate to retain their
authority, in defiance of the verdict of
Tuesday. But we see no reason to appre-
bend such thing. Ii would be daring
conspiracy. and would require cordial
partnership for life or death between
the conspirators. But the feel
ing actually existing between the
President and the party chiefs is one of
bitter and unforgiving enmity, and we are
much more likely 10 witness quarrel
than a partnership. Those organs that
clearly foresaw the impending disaster, but
without being able to do any thing TO avert
IL, now spitefully point TO the President
as the cause of il. They denounce Pack
ard and Casey and the iouisiana policy
they speak freely of the fast-horse and wa
tering-place fiippancy which carried the
Executive away from his duties and left
the Government in the hands of Attorney
General Williams and the department
clerks I; and they cast bitter reproaches on
the personal selfishness which added the
indispensable odium of third term TO the
party already staggering under more than
il could carry.
These complaints and rcproaches proba-
bly, foreshadow the future relations of the
President and the Republican leaders
The latter believe that Grant Is the cause
of their ruin. Morton and Blaine both
imagine that the President has robbed
them and the party of the succession, and
all the other overthrown chiefs will attri-
butte TO him the calamity that brings the
Democracy into power and forces Repub-
licanism into an obscurity scarcely less ig-
noble than that i'm which secessionism has
lived for ten years. The proceedings of
the approaching session of Congress are
likely, therefore, TO be chapter of crmi-
nation and recrimination, of war between
the Capitol and the White House, i'm which
truths will be fiercely |
proclaimed. Both sides are in a wolfish !
temper, for each thinks the other to blame |
for the common discontinue, and nothing
would be more natural than 10 conclude a
career of excess with quarrel over the /
causes that have brought 1t to an end.