The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-11-07
THE POLITICAL TYPHOON.

THE POLITICAL TYPHOON.
Except perhaps at the magnitude of the
change, few rejecting people are disap-
pointed with the result Of Tuesdays cleo
ton, or really suffer any poignant regrets.
This great upheaval in politics is but an
earthquake effort of the moral sense of the
Republican masses to free the party of the
leeches and barnacles, which having fas-
tened upon it, and are using it as medium
to plumber and devour the substance of the
people. 1t was moral revolt of the party
against the materialistic element which
has got control of the party machinery
and is using the whole power of the Gov
eminent to accomplish selfish ends. The
moral sense of the party was shocked to
see General Butler installed administration
leader in the House, the favored adviser OF
the President, and with audacious effront-
cry, defending such robbery and robbers,
as the Credit Mobilier, the infamous Salary
Grab, the vampires, Jaynes and Sanbern.
The silent indignation of Republicans at
sight of these outrages in the name of the
Republican party, broke out at the first
convenient opportunity, in a denunciation
that it was determined should strike like
thunderbolt the authors and defenders of
such corruptions.
The Presidents position on the third
term, too, was looked upon as an offense
to the party which had heaped honors upon
him, as it were mountain high. The Office
holders were loud in their clamor for a
third term, and the sober Republicans saw
that the Presidents logged silence was
either compromising them, or that he was
willing to accept nomination for a third
term, if these officeholders could so man.
age the political machinery of primaries
and conventions, as to give him it. The
President, without the least regard, SEEM
ingly, for the moral sense of his party,
grossly offended and Inundated it, by such
acts as the appointment of Sheppard and
others whom the people were thoroughly
disguised with. These and many other
similar acts helped to create strong senti-
1uenG Vi NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. duo d DCliOA tAoe
the party was controlled, with the Presi-
dents consent, by the INSCRIPTIONS policy
of officeholders, without any respect for
the public conscience.
The present Congress, too, is composed
largely of an element that was but too will
ing to fall in with this selfish course, when
so doing, promised to advance their per-
sonal interests. Its trifling, if not imbe-
Gle manner of meeting the most import
ant questions before the country, especially
tho financial question, was sore trial to
the hearts of their thinking and intelli-
gent constituents. And as the most direct
means Of manifesting their emphatic dis
appreciation of these things in their name,
they have made nse of the Democrat party
to rid themselves of the political adventur-
ers and the immoral tendencies which have
been dragging the great party of ideas,
morality and freedom down. No man in
his senses will dare say that the Democrat
party has elected the Governor and four
Democrats and two Independent Congress
men in Massachusetts,; that the Democrat
party defeated Ben Butler in the Essex Dis
trict, that it has increased its members from
ninety-six in the present Congress to one
hundred and twenty seven in the next. No
principles that it has ever promulgated has
drawn the Republican thousands from the
faith they learned to love in the Republican
party. The men who achieved these re-
suits for the Democrat party, despise it as
heartily as ever, but they despised more
the men and practices that was dragging
their own beloved party down from the
high position it occupied before the world
ocrat party when it held control of the
Government.
The morality and intelligence of the
Republican party have said at the cleo
tions on Tuesday, that they don't want the
officeholders to be thrusting Grant on them
for third term; they don't want such men
as Benjamin F. Butler and his champion
ship of knavery, for spokesman of an
administration in their name; they don't
propose to govern by fraud and corruption,
or tolerate corrupt men in Office.
The Republican party possesses the NOR
ality and brains of the country. These
men have not espoused the effete princi-
Piles which compose the creed of the Demo-
crat party. But it is probable that that
party will lose its head with such unex-
pected success, and attempt to inaugurate
its worn out theories of Government and
will be brushed aside as tool, whose tenn
porary use is no longer needed, at the close
of the next Congress. The only hope of
any party is pure men in office.