The daily gazette., 1875-02-02
Whaf Is the Republican Party

From the N. Y. T.iJ,tas.
No one but partisan, obstinately
blind, can fail to see that the Repub-
lican party is no longer in power. In
its place an organization OF spoilsmen
is administering upon its effects
through the consent of the unthinking
voters who still cling to the old name.
1t was a party founded and kept to-
gether up to victory and through the
| war upon moral ideas Ii served its
purpose and won its magnificent tri-
umphs under leaders who have nearly
all passed away from its councils.
Lincoln, Seward, Chase, sumner, are
dead, and the last three saw themselves
! ostracised by their party before they
died. Trumbull, the leading Republi-
| can iurist, has been ousted from the
Senate, The first scholar, orator and
soldier who represented in the Repub
| lican party those hundreds of thousands
of liberty loving Germans who gave it
such formidable strength, has been dri-
ven out of the organization because he
could not submit his conscience to the
dictation Of men as careless OF law as
of liberty. Almost all the leading
journalist, who fought the good fight
in the press, have found it impossible
| to retain their companionship with the
present pillagers of the victorious
| field. Whenever a sincere and clear
headed man dares to think for mo-
ment for himself, he is prescribed by
the coarse grained dictators of the party
caucus, as Messrs. Foster and Phelps
are to-day, as General Morrow will be.
| The party is honey-combed with the
doubts of timidly honest members,
who thoroughly disapprovc of their
leaders but do not yet dare to disobey
them. They see how veteran Repub-
lican like Bryant, Cooper and Evarts
are denounced, vilified and caricatured d
for joining in manly protest against
the abuse of power, and naturally hes
itate to expose themselves to similar
chastisclncnt.
Who are the men who exercise this
ostracism Of lifelong Republicans,
and who claim to embody the history
and the glory of the party which abol'
ished slavery and saved the Union:
Their recent representative in New
York is General Dix, Buchanan
Democrat, and associate nearly all his
life of Tilden, Seymour, and the rest
who opposed Mr.. Lincoln's election
and rs late as 1864 refused to suffer hi.
name to be used on the same ticket
on the ground that he and Mr.. Lincoll
were not in political accord. In Mas
sachussetts it is Mr. Butler, for whom
Buchanan was not pro-slavery enough
In Illinois it is Mr. Logan, who sni(
| l.... q I.,s l,,
proud OF the dirty work Of catching
runaway slaves In Wisconsin it i,
Matt Carpenter, Il pro-slavery Demo
crat up to the end of the war. Ii
both Houses of Congress these caucus
leaders are composed of corrup
alliance of carpet-baggers withou
honor or history and eX-Rebel officer
who have changed their principles ID.
readily as their coats. The House O
Representatives swarms with men wh(
swore at Greeley and Sumner all th,
way to their graves, for what they
called the treason" of the historic
= Republicans. In the Cabinet, who i
there to representthc Republicans wht
built up the party, sustained it in it
weakness, and carried it to strength
and triumph: No one, and it woulC
puzzle more than half of them TO pro
duce the evidence that they ever vote,
for Abraham Lincoln. In the Whit,
House, the great visible head and mas
ter of the party is II Buchanan Demo
crat whoncver cast Republican VOTE
in his life, unless for himself or Bos
: Shepherd,
Into hands like thc7c The work ha
fallen of preserving intact HE tradi
tions and the honor of the Republican
party, 1t seems only necessary t
state this to show the absurdty Of til
idol worship of those who still thin
= there is no salvation for the countr