The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-03-18
From the N. Y. World,l
WANTED-A POLICY.


The Republican party has come out
deadly sober from the mad debauch in
which its representatives in the Forty
third Congress passed the closing weeks
of the final session, but it has not yet be-
gnn fairly to get its wits back again. 1t
is now seemingly in the distressed con-
dition of an unhappy man who was very
drunk last night, who this morning wakes
up with dismal headache, and sits up
in bed rubbing his weak eyes, wondering
how he got there; and gradually calling
up painful recollections of having done
great many foolish and inconsistent
things while he was,in liquor The more
he thinks about it the less he likes it.
And we shall be very much mistaken if
Republican party managers-accredlted
Republican party leaders are nowhere
visible at the present moment-tind any
thing satisfactory or encouraging in the
condition of their party upon careful
review of it. The only thing in which
there is now anything like harmony in
the party is the clear conviction that a
vague something or other must done and
done quickly to keep the party alive.
This accounts for the Republican voting
in New Hampshire, as it accounts for the
whole conduct of the late Congress- The
November elections which had been pre-
ceded by many ominous signs Of the same
purport with the November elections,
caused the representatives Of the Repub-
iican party to assemble in the last ses-
sion of the Forty third Congress with this
conviction strong upon them. The tinan-
ces which had been brought to disaster
by Republican mismanagement were first
discussed, and the attempt was made to
strengthen the offensive and defensive
party front by bringing the party into a
very weak and ragged line Of battle on
Mr. Sherman's Finance bill-that sham
which proposes to better the financial
COnulUlOu Va IllG CONllIl Wy dll dCO VI SOll-
gress decreeing that Specie Payments
Shall be renewed four years hence. Wall
street quotations daily show that we are
now further away from a specie basis for
the currency than we were when the
Sherman bill was passed.
Then, when it was found necessary to
form on another line, the Southern ques-
ton. with the third term at the back of
it, was taken up. The party gave itself
into the hands of the carpet-baggers, and
by the aid of Speaker Blaine's eXtraordi-
nary rulings, tore down all parliamentary
barriers to the passage of partisan legis-
lation by the House of Representatives.
The Democratic minority in the House
were made mere spectators of the excess
ses committed by majority held in check
neither by the usual restraints of parlia
mentary law nor by sense of response
bility of their constituents, by whom half
of them had been rejected. The Civil
Rights bill had been passed and signed
by the President, as The World had from
the first predicted that it would be. But
the Civil Rights law contributes nothing
to the happiness of the party or its man
ayers. Before leaving Washington many
Republican Codgressmen expressed their
fears lest the measure shonld do them
more harm than good, as it is very apt to
do; and Grant, who signed the bill mainly
to indicate his approval of violent and