, 1874-02-05

of reform is abroad in the land, and
cannot be stayed or defeated until it has
performed its mission and purer and
better order of affairs prevails in the
Government. The power Of this move
ment is felt and recognized in official
quarters and political circles the most
lstrongly welded to party. A Senate q
arge majority Of which is bound to the
President by strong party ties. rejects
his nominations of two leading politi-
clans cf their own party for the highest
Office in their gift, and confirm the nom-
ination of man for the same Office who
is unknown to the country as a party pol
iticiar and has rendered no service as =
party man. The appointments of Capt.
Blinn and Mr.. Huntington to important
Federal Offices in this Territory, with
many recent acts of similar character
in Louisiana, Texas and other places,
show that party tyranny is broken and
party domination is at an end. The
ablest and best journals of the country,
formerly in the service of the Republican
party, are giving the full tribute of their
ability to this great and much needed
reform, and it is a cause in which all
patriotic citizens may unite without
a surrender of principles or consistency.
The Sacramento Union, in an able arti-
Gle upon the political prospects, says:
"News from the Missouri Legislature
indicates pretty clearly that the farmers
and producers movement has extended
to that State so far as to bscone power
in politics. Democratic and Republican
members have dropped old party preju-
dices, and are united in action upon the
new issues that the railway managers
and other monopolies have forced upon
the country. They agree to oppose ma
tional bank corporations; that railway
corporations have no vested rights above
the reach of the Legislature; that they
must submit to the same laws that gov
ern individuals; that rates of transport
alton must be cheaper, and that the
Legislature and Congress have power to
regulate; and, finally, that retrenchment
and reform are needed in every depart
ment of the State and Federal Govern
ments. On all these points they will
act as unit, regardless of past political
differences on old questions which divi.
ded parties.
This is about the attitude of the farm
ers in nearly all the States, West and
Northwest. In Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin,
Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Mis-
souri, and Indiana, the Changers have
net only become political balance of
power, capable of throwing victory either
to Republicans or Democrats, as they
may see fit, but an absolute and control
ing political majority. And they are
constantly gaining ground. The peril
nacious refusal of the Republican ma
jor;ty in Congress to repeal the back
salary bill, and their silence on the great
railway frauds, are helping the Granger
movement in the West and extending it
to the Middle States and New England.
On the Pacifc Coast it has shown its
potency in the last year, and keeps even
pace with the growth that marks it in
the West. The new Constitution of
Pennsylvania is hailed as the certain
signal 'of new party in that State,
which. ignoring the separate existence
of the Democratic party, and taking into
its folds the vast majority of Democrats
and all honest Republicans, must sweep
the State from the Delaware to the Ohio
at the next Congressional election, and
80 pave the way for Pennsylvania to
cast her vote for the Peoples Anti Mos
nopoly candidate for President in 1876.
From the present outlook, We thil k
Speaker Blaine both desires and is likely
to receive the nomination for President
from the Republican party. Grant is
not to be thought of. Even if he should
be ungracious enough to accept it, a
nomination for third term would kill
him. Gen. Sherman is good enough where
he is, but there are not many people who
would like to see O man of his nervous,
hasty and extravagant temper in the
Presidential post. The timber for Pres.
idents is not abundant in the Republican
party. The Vice President is little
smirched by the Credit Mobilier invest
igation. The Secretary of State is un-
popular as an aristocrat. Morton is
shattered invalid. Sumner is past the
age of active service; and neither in the
Cabinet 1or the Senate is there a man
on the Republican side upon whom a
judicious political hunter of a President
tial candidate would stop to bestow a
second thought. The field is left open
10 the House and those in private life.
"If the Democrats make separate
nomination, on Thurman's shoulders
the purple ought to fall. He managed
the late fight in Ohio and carried the
State against John Sherman and all the
Administration forces, for the Demo-
cratic party. But we must not lose sight
of the fact that this victory was secured
by the detection of the Republicans and
the presence in the contest of third
power known as the Peoples party.
Keeping this in mind. there is not much
hope that Ohio will, at the next elec-
ton, adhere to the Democracy. Either
the Peoples party will unite with the
Republicans or the Republicans with
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