The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-10-30
From tile Ne,o York Times, Oct. Is.
Views Of Great Republican Journal.

There is great deal of vague apprehen
sion and discomfort in the public mind.
With lively sense of the discomforts of
the situation, there is no clear conception
of the remedy. This condition of public
feeling is unfayorabe to the party in pow
er. 1t produces critical temper and
fault-finding more or less Just. Things
which in good times" would go unno-
ticed are pounced upon and growed over.
1t may be party treason, but we are bound
to say that the Republican party is not
prepared so we'll as it might be to with
stand the operation of this mood of
the public. There are too many points
on which the public. if so disposed
can fasten criticism. The party has taken
a good deal of credit to itself of late for
kicking out its scoundrels and exposing
the misdeeds that have been done in its
name, and the credit has not been unde-
served. But the operation is not one that
inspires confidence. The cantankerous and
obstinate public is inclined to think that
where such things are brought to the surface
there is more of the same sort underneath.
The impression could only be removed by
making the process of publication so
thorough that no one could question its
complete efficacy. That we have hardly
done. The Credit Mobilier business drove
Patterson out of public life, but no one
connected with that shameful chapter in
our political history suffered seriously from
the action of Congress in regard to it. The
back pay bill was repealed, but in half
hearted way. The Sanborn contract law
was repealed, but it took a change in the
Cabinet to upset the official actors in the
scandal, and Butler, the deus &c machtna of
the whole dirty business, has received no
effective damper on his arrogant prcten-
sions as party leader.
Then, the condition of the South is not
winning Republican votes. No nedoubts
that the President did his duty in putting
down the White Leaguers in New Orleans
last month; but the fact that, nine years
after the surrender at Appomattox, such Il
duty devolved on the President, is not cal
culated to excite enthusiasm for the party
that has been in power during that period.
The party leaders have felt it necessary to
circulate reports concerning outrages in
the South, some of which were obviously
not to be relied on. They undoubtedly
expected to bring into prominence the de-
pravity of the Democrats; but the public
seems to have thought that, however depra-
we'd the Democrats may have been, the ex-
istence of this alleged "reign of terror" in
the South was something for which tie
Republicans where not wholly irresponsi-
bic. And it is not impossible that por-
ton of the people of Ohio are foolish
enough to believe Gen. Grants personal
partisans in their assertion regarding
third term, and so far as they do believe
thau MOI 10
Remember, voters Of Hartford, that your
ballots next Thursday must either coun-
tenance or condemn the party in power
which is responsible for the condition of
affairs so ably, though mildly, presented
above by great Republican journal. You
will do your part towards rectifying the
abuses of disagreement by voting FOR Mr..
Roberts