The daily gazette., 1875-02-13
From the n. Y. Tribune Of Friday.
TIME TO UNLOAD.


self and his assumption of whatever
credit belongs to the Republican party
have become 80 offensive as to have
seriously disaffected some of the most
influential of hissupporters. His self
compiacency amounts to a delusion. =
In the campaign of 1872 he honestly
believed he was doing the party fa-
vor In accepting a denomination and
lending the prestige of his name to Sc
cure its success. 1t never occurred to
him that he owed anything to the. ef-
forts OF the Republican Congressm en-
and Senators ard others who on the
stump aud elsewhere lakored unceas-
ingly for his election, In his view
they were rather indebted to him for
allowing them to use his name in be-
nall OF party whose success was
theirs. When Vice President Wilson
went to Washington at the close of a
political campaign in which he had
travelled moremiles and addressed more
audiences than any other man had ever
done in the same length of time, he
naturely expected some slight acknow-
ledgmert of his services in the ex-
change of congratulations which fol-
lowed upon the victory. A man of
more brittle temper would have been
angry but Mr.. Wilson was only mildly
astonishised to discover that the obli.
CATION was all on his side for the
privilege he had enjoyed of running
on the same ticket with Gen. Grant
and being carried into the Vice-Presi-
dency by him. TheVice- President ven.
tured, he thought was his privilege, to
make some suggestions as to the policy
OF the party, and Grant not only made
him no reply, but has studiously re-
Trained from following his counsels or
asking his advice since that time. -
That was the recognition which his as
sociate on the ticket and his most en-
ergetic supporter in the canvass re-
ceived aat the hands of President
trant. III o., ltt.'Up0 GIG d1ilUl
The events following the election of
1879 are well known. The public does
not need to be told how even before
the Spring elections of 1878 in New
Hampshire and Connecticut growing
dissatisfaction with the Administra-
tion had begun to show itself, and
how during the Summer and Fall of
that year the Congressional investiga-
tions and the Back Pay iniquity which
doubled the Presidents salary while it
increased the pay of Congress fifty
per cent, deepened the feeling of dis.
gust. The November elections of
that year though they did not touch
| Congress, and related only to State Of
ticers, went against the Abministra-
tion with whirl witch made the party
dizzy, but was only premonitory OF
the livelier whirl of 1874, that would
take them off their feet. Following
the elections of 1873 thePresident was
delivered of Delphic utterance in in
| depreciation of the results; and the
men who kow tow around him hasten.
ed to give to the country. He said il
was time for the party "to unload u
| Unload what ? Unload whom
To any clear-sighted person the Ad
ministration defeat was attributable tc
the corruptions which the Administra
tion itself had fostered and the dis
honesty of its professions with refer
ence to the Civil Service Reform; tt
the Credit Mobilier transactions anC
the Back-Pay Grab. Most prominent
undoubtedly, of these was the Back
Pay Grab, which put S100, 900 into Gen
Grants pocket and appropriated anal
individual "stear' to each member o
congress. 1t never occurred to hin
that popular dissatisfaction with hi
share in that transaction was possible
neither at that time nor afterward
when the SHINING Congressman sidlet
lup to the Treasury and restored thei
share of the ill-gotten plunder. HI
only saw in the election. results sign
of discontent-not with him or his act
l-impossible-but with the party; ant
he remembered that some of the part,
had differed with him of late. His con
clusion was swift. The people hat
said it was time to unload. Whom
Why, the persons who differed witt
the President, OF course.
| Since that time there has been mucl
unloading. Not, by any means, o
conspicuous, persons who hold offices
Not, so far as we can learn, of an,
Cabinet officers, Senators, or Represen
tatives Some of them are hanging,
as Mr.. Andrew johnson used to say
"on the verge, of the load, but for til
most part they cling. The unloading
has been Of the people who do the vc
ting, rather than OF men who do tn
governing and officeholding. Thy hav
been unloaded by the thousands ap
tens of thousands and hundreds @
thousands. They have been ualoade
in every State in the Union In a mos
wholesale, sweeping fashion. An
this unloading from the party has ais
unloaded both Houses of Congress q
t various prominent persons who had n
desire to step down. Mr., Butler lead
out motley following of them fror
the House, and Mr.. Carpenter and Nj
Chandler, with locked arms, precede
charming little procession from til
other end of the Capitol. And still
l we presume, the President continue
in the belief that what the party neeo
is to "unload. That seems to be h
fixed policy. Never was a party s
rapidly and successfully unloaded, {
the party ofthe Administration durin
the past two years, and never in th
i history of any party was there such
discharge of voters and retention {
office holders. Let us give the Admin
istration Senators and Representative.