, 1875-07-10
Saving tie Republican Rarty.


The number of Presidential candl-
dates who are anxious for the rePub-
lican nomination is slowly but con-
stantly decreasing.
Friend after frierd departs.
Who hath not lost a friend 3!
1t begins to be generally suspected
that in spite of democratic fooilshness
the country is turning It's face toward
that party and It's back upon the re-
publicans. The shrewdest men IN the
republican party are making up their
minds to democratic interregnum;
and a good many of them are not sor-
~. Ii the democratic lie eaders North
and South had only manag TO IN
spire the country with a little con-
| fidence in their conservative wisdom
in the last four or five years they
would carry of with them next year
a large and the best part OF the re-
publican party. This is q d:sagreeaole
state of things for the republican lead
ers but they have themselves alone
to blame for it, and they have the
remedy in their own hands If they
have but the courage and wisdom TO
apply it. They are not yet ruined,
and they need not be; on the contrary,
they have it in their power now TO
confer a great benefit on the country,
and at the same Time, as We beiieVe,
rescue their parry from a Threatening
defeat. 1t IT should De known TO day
that the leading republicans OF the dIf
ferent Sla,eS-men OF the stamp OF
Blame and Wilson, OF W heeier, Elias
ii. Roberts and W oodiord, III New
\ urk OF Hayes ana fos'er, I'D ONO
OF Willard, Pollard and EdmundS, III
Vernon, GhelpS, III New Jersey
Willard, III MIchi5an Ferry IN Con
nrciIcu, haSs"n ana James r WI
son, III Iowa McF eaSh, III GennSyl-
wanna, and Others whom we might
name-had met to9ether lor consul
TALON, ana loaI they had called 10
Ihem Such hohest southern rePhDiicahS
as oheldeh ana q uoge steele IN Lou
lSlaha Judge Iaroeli, III MISSISSIPPI,
and buckley and others, ID Alabama,
as well As NUMBER oi Southern wings;
ana II Tomorrow the result OF TINS
consultation should be made pubic
ID an address piedgIng the SignerS, on
behalf OF the feppUilcan party, TO re-
peal, at the earliest moment, the en-
'orcement acts ana put a stop TO all
federal interference III the local affairs
OF the Southern States, there Is very
ilI'le doubt that The republican party
Wo"ld nave removed Inc only lornld-
ao = o9Stacle |" lis success III $50
NO sensible person IN the North
any longer "o"olH liia' thiS llIeiIeI
ehce' however proper ana necessary II
may nave been during some years
alier Inc war; haS, during the last
TWO OF 'htee years, anu even l"fSer,
been the means OF Keeping IN power
Ill the South set OF unScTuPuloI s
politicians, who have mlSgoverned and
robbed and USED the federal power to
sustain themselves. Even those who
believe that violence and laWleSSne>s
are still the Iule N the Southland
their number decreases daily ac-
knowledge that the republican rulers
there are bad men, who are guilty OF
grave aud dangerous maiadmlnlstra,
ton; and 1t Is evident to all who
have paid attention TO the subject
mat the federal power, under the en-
foTcement acts, is used now in tie
South only to bolster up set Of cor
rupt and incapable men who iniure
the republican name and crush out
every ATTEMPT by honest republicans al
reform of the party there. Now, the
republican party is responsible for this
federal in erierence and its results.
1t had the courage to adopt the en-
f,rcement ac,s at time when Sourl
ern society was still diSorganized by
the results of the war. Has it the
courage to demand and promise their
repeaI, now that circumstances have
changed. and these laws are not .
safeguard but a curse to the country ;
If The reuubIican leaders hava the
conrage 10 do this tboy will raI;aya
tba owls and anurasSion snffarad hvtba
Southern people; but they cannot get
nd OF this Issue, which do what they