National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-23

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not obtain sufficient advances to properly
conduct the same. There Is lack of con-
fidence and feeling of insecurity every
where, and it partly grows out of the fact
that capitalists are in doubt as to whether
the policy Of the Republican party in rela-
ton to finances will be the policy Of two
years hence; but this doubt will be grad
ually overcome when it is appreciated that
the President will remain consistent to his
avowed financial policy. That the Repub-
lican party can recover most of the ground
it lost at the North, East and West no one
doubts. But the great doubt is as to what
the course of the party will be toward the
South. If the present policy of insction
is to be pursued, the merest novice in pol
itics can readily see that every State south
of Mason and Dixon's line will, in the can
vass of 1876, present an unbroken Demo
cratic front. If Louisiana, with twenty
five thousand Republican majority, can be
terrorized over and made Democratic by
White Leaguers without rebuke by Re-
publican Congress; the Democrats of Mis-
sissippi, aided by those of Tennessee and
Alabama, and the Democrats of South Car
olina, aided by the Georgia Tigers, will do
in the two States named what their breth-
rem have been allowed to do in Louisiana.
With encouragement of this kind, and with
the fact known that the South will cast a
solid vote for a Democratic President, the
Democrats of the North will be encouraged
to redouble their efforts in the closely
contested States. This effort, coupled with
the cry to make money plenty, and to
pay labor twice what it is now paid,
will present obstacles to the success of the
Republican party that will be hard to over
come, if they can be overcome at all. If
the present Congress intends to do anything
with or for the South, it is time the meas
ures were brought forward and passed, but
ifthe Republicans in Congress have made
up their minds to give the Southern States to
the Democratic party absolutely, and allow
that party to have the benefit of the votes
that Of night, at least so far as a majority
of the States are concerned, belong to the
Republican party, it is but justice to the Re-
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shall be disclosed atan early day, to the end
that our friends in those States may make
their arrangements to step down and out in
such manner as will at least allow them to
retain their lives.
Nor is the Southern question alone the
only thing of which the great mass of the
Republican party have a right to complain
in regard to its leaders in Congress. There
are, perhaps, as shrewd and able men in
the Republican party outside the halls of
Congress as there are inside. They are as
capable of judging of what certain move
ments mean as those who put them on foot.
Any man, no matter how little or how
great his ability, has the right to aspire TO
the Presidential chair Such aspirations
are not only lawful under our form of gov
eminent, but are laudable. But the party
should not be weakened or destroyed to
subserve the ends of aspirants. We do
not say that it has been done. All that we
say is that it ought not to be done.
Not long since a committee was
appointed to go to New Orleans to inquire
into the condition of affairs in Louisiana.
This committee was appointed from body
having over one hundred Republican major
ity in it. The committee thus appointed
appointed a subcommittee That SUBJ
committee has made report. That report
indirectly, if not directly, reflects upon the
President for sustaining Kellogg. Other
committees have also been appointed to in
vestigate into the affairs in Southern States,
to wit: Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama.
What reports and recommendations these
committees will make is not now known to
the public. If they should be on q par
with that made by the subcommittee in re-
lation TO Louisiana, persons that cannot
properly be charged with being unduly
suspicious or evil-disposed might think
that it was not all the result of accident, or
of convictions founded on testimony taken,
or that could have been taken. If the OBJ
ject is, and we do not SO charge, to render
the President odious with Republi-
cans and thus place him outside of
a nominating convention, we sub
NIT the plan, if plan it is, is
dangerous one. In our opinion such
course would not commend those connected
with such transaction to the confidence
of Republicans. Troops have been sent to
the four States named in strict conformity
to the Constitution and laws of the
United States at least we are so in
formed. If this be true proper use of
them should go to the credit of the
Executive regardless Of whether it in.
creased or diminished his chances for re-
If he acted in conformity
with the Constitution and laws, in the in
terest of peace, law and order, this should
be placed to his credit and no attempt
should be made to so conduct the affair as
to make it appear that he was entitled 10