The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-03-08
BELKHAp AND THE PRESIDENCY.

HI.
The following two-edred article Il from tb1
iork 1ribsne. The views expressed
.Dous the Republican party ne encouraging,
ous me Remarks about the Democracy are
depressing:
80 loeEe y this comfort in the situation, .
~ YAH SchuIz the other day. AT any
ssse .nines are not crystalizing in the interest
-. satner Of the old parties. EVERYTHING ia
~. - caaoa Since the ex-senator from
zlssoun said this, the political Kaleidoscope
1as MKen one or two new turns, and the con-
A1slOn Is worse COMPOUNDED. Everything is
snoat again. Two or three fixed points, how.
evst' can Dc seen in the moving debris:
= secretary Belknap has made an end of
49, saminstration party. It does not need
ne sLs otner Secretary, whose swiftly following
4.I - expected, to finish the work. Substan-
10y Ns done already. Every man init
@stely connected with this administration is
So-day hors du combat. The people would no
more trust Grant, or anybody supposed to
represent Grant, or identified with Grants ad-
mlnassrataon, than they would trust Belknap
=. Inc curse goes further. Every man who
= nss Deen n any way conspicuous leader of
me republican party is to-day put upon his
proof He must show that he is not thief
1ne suspicion Is against him. The dis.ioc-
ave administration candidates -Oonkling,
norton and the lest-have no more chance
ior success before the people whatever may
% their chance at Cincinnati) than has Jeffer.
son Davis. There is no creature whom the
average American people more fervidly hate
in any times, and particularly in hard times,
IMAM thief; and after Belknap there is no
administration man who is not suspected of
being thief
30 too, there is no man VIZ o has been coz.
spicuous Republican leader, identified with
the management of the party at Washington,
Who is not damaged by the late exposures.
Blaine suffers among the rest, and the p
minence Of his leadership makes the damage
these exposures bring him the greater. He
must in some way cut loose from the admins
trstlon, and ell its works, or 60 down in the
common ruin.
8. There is no necessary gain to the Demo.
do not believe them to be one whit better
Their management this winter has been dis
gushing. They have shown no capacity for
government. and until within few days not
even capacity tor investigating. They have
NO policy, no leaders, practically no organiza-
ton. Il has scarcely been q fortnight since
they were lodging around trying to escape
the responsibility for the appointment of q
shameless liar, who was so delighted
with the assassination of Abraham
Lincoln that he named his child for the as
sassin. II is party without coherenc, " til
out leadership, without principles, discordant
in policy. rent in twain on the money question,
absolutely without unity on any subject save
the desire to get into Office. thousand
times within the past twenty -four hours, hon.
est men as they met each other on the streets
have said, 'Oh. if the Democrats only had
any sense or any honestly"
There never was q time SO near the assem-
bling of the conventions when mere character
would count for SO much. There is no dis
tinct dividing line between the parties. At
such time principles are common, men are
everything. Tilden gains. Brlstow gains.
Morgan and Fish gain, every man who is
known as relentless foe to corruption gains
and everybody else loses.
Such is the situation. The National Con-
vention Of the Republican party meets on
June IA The National Convention of the
DemocrAtic party meets on June ~. What
are honest and patriotic citizens to do?