Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-11-13
TIE GREAT RADICAL CRASH.

The COUNTRY SWEPT CLEAN-DEMO-
CRAZY EVERYWHERE GREAT
UPRISING AGAINST THE REPUBLICAN
PARTT-U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENT
ATIv1.s, GOVERNORS. LEGISLATURES,
EVERYTHING GONE DEMOCRATIC
WHAT THE PRESS, AND THE PEOPLE
AND THE POLITICIANS THINK OF IT.
&C., &C, &C.
We can only tell our readers that all the
news given them Of the Radical disasters
last week was correct to the letter, and
we now give them the comments of the
President, politicians, press and people ON
them:
EFFECT ON GRANT-wIAT He THINKS.
Gen. Grant didn't talk much last week,
but what he said was to the effect that he
had done what he thought was his d ty
in the Louisiana matter and had asked
Congress to take shat matter into its ON n
hands. He thinks Congress alone is re-
sponsible for the defeat of the Republican
party. The Civil-Rights bill was the chief
offence and, to this, he says, he was always
opposed. A dispatch to the Baltimore
'!Sun," describing his emotions about the
political disasters, says
'sHe is firmly convinced that the Civil
Rights bill had more to DO with the defeat
of his party than all other causes combined,
and he expressed himself i'll such manner
as to leave no doubt upon the minds of
| those with whom he had conversed, t. at
if the bill shall be passed at the next session
he will interpcse his Veto"
He does not desp il of the Republican
party and thinks t,iat it will be triumphant
| in 1875. and that TIE delegation Of Congress
in December next will do much to remove
he complaints of the people. "A telegram
to the Richmond Dispatch" says:
To-day Colonel Mosby called on the Pres
deIt. and for an hour they discussed the
results of the recent elections. The Pres
dent declared TO Colonel Mosby that il his
| 1.-THE President's) opinion the result of the
| elections on Tuesday was in no way i'll
| tiusnced by the clam0r Of newspapers about
/ the third term.
| Rush Burgess also called on the Presi-
dent to-day TO talk about the reasons Of
| the failure of the elections. The President
! desired to impress upon Mr.. Burgess that
| C5esarisfn had nothing TO do with it, but
! Burgess said lie would waive a general
! discussion and talk about his own district
| to which the President said that he knew
{ enough about it already. He pointed to
| the fate Of Ellis Ell. Roberts, Of Utica, n
| Y, who Was the most prominent among
| the congressman to denOunce the third
! term TO Governor Dix ; to Pennsylvania.
! which through the Republican Convention
| had preciptuted Pronunciation of the
| third term. now lost to the Democracy;
! and to South Carolina, which since, really
| though imprudently, endorsed the third
| term, which has been saved to the Admin
| istration.
| WHAT THE yICE-PREsIDENT SAYS.
President Wilson was inteI viewed
in Boston on Wednesd ~. He accounted
for the change i'll Massachusetts by the
fact that she has been left out Of control
in the Cabinet. and main COMMITTEES in
| Congress and for ign missions, and further
| he adds of the general disaster:
After the issue of the Greeley campaign
| The truly policy was to open the doors. and
| endeavnr to secure the return of Sumner.
| Schuttz. B INKS and other republicans who
| went into the liberal republican movement.
| Another thing that weighted the repuhlI-
cans was tie third term scheme. That
was soinsthing tie country could not be
| be brought 10 consent to. and republicans,
AS he knew, had reasoned that they might
AS well kill the project now us two years
hence. Another error was made by the
otficeholders in pressing SO uniformly for
| perpstuating tilems Ives in office, and still
another in making unfit nominations. ALI
of these had contributed to produce dissat-
, isfac ion. Mr.. Wilson sail he was dim
clined to believe that the defea was other
than temporary, and that it would not de-
termine the issue Of the next Presidential
campaign.