Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-10-24
Che freeman,
MONTPELIER VT
WEDNESDAY OCT a, 1877.


HUHle Nttutu LtNNVlISs
In those states where elections have tax =
en- place this year and where they are yet
to take place, as well as among the mem.
beers of the party in Congress-. there is APP
parent a good deal of dissatisfaction in the
republican ranks combined with fears Of
being defeated ut the polls by the old time
democracy.
A portion of the party is discontinued
because of the position assumed by the
president toward the south. and they are
bound to make their feelings known
Others are angry because they think thai
the order about office-holders is going to
ruin The working of the party machinery.
The best way to get clear weather is to
have the cloudy elements gather form
themselves into such sized storm us they
can create and spend their fury. There
Can never be IL better time for the rrpnbli
can party to have their storm come thai,
now. When this is done and more than
half of the northern states lost to repuhi-
can control for the time being there will
be less worry about Il solid South and
more attention paid to deserving and OBJ
tanning success in old republican strong
holds.
One weakness of the republican party
for years past has been the fort TO secure
political strength in the south. And il
doing this so many questionable thing,
have been ta'itIy sanctioned by the party
that it has become weakened in tt north.
ern home. Those who C, mpain of II
change in the treatment of the south coulo
have effec'ed nothing by going on in th
old way had they had man after then
own heart in the presidential chair. y
The army is in the hands of Congress,
and the democrats have control of III,
House while the republicans barely com
mand the Senate The malcontcnts dream
of the days when the south was unrepre-
scented in the government, and when re.
publicanism synonymous with patriotism
welded undispuled the whole national
power. That day is gone, and not by thu
fault of President Hayes, bat by the acts
of the party done when its head was turneu
by its great elevation.
Many later day republicans seem to be-.
lieve that the party has II sort of divine
right to the control of the American
government, and that all that is needed i,
to bear down hard enough to crush oppo
sition that has no right to exist.
They need to learn what the early re.
pnblicans knew, that the party must get
success by deserving it, by conlending lol
living issues and moi dead ones, by co
vincing the miEd and the h art of the peo-
Pile and not by the mere working Of parry
machinery oiled and managed by those
having an interest" They need 10
learn that the policy Of the government
cannot be determined By the result of a
faction fight in our own ranks, hui that the
question is whether we shall have III
whole government in lhr mis- of the
democracy outright or in the hands of an,
kind of republicans.
Perhaps the best way to get his notion
brought home and realized throughout the
party is that it should be whipped in New
York and Mas Il husctts and us it has been
in OHIO. In the latter state some were
against Garfield and many hated Stanley
Matthews with great hatred. As a resul,
they have George A. Pendleton or his
equivalent The party needs a good lun
of adversely. When it has it 50 that i,
gets down on its marrow bones it will Get
up from them purer and stronger.
his is good year for publication as
by tire. 1t is three Yeas to another nn.
tlonal election and our democratic friends
may be relied on to give us plenty of mis-.
takes, worse than our own have been.
which will burden them in tin to come.
1t now seems as though nothing but a
good, nnmistaknble defeat can unite the
republicans in an old fashioned campaign
and in view of tue good which this disci-
pine would bring we Ito not see why re-.
pubIlcans in our state should not look with
interested rather than anxious eyes on the
political contests of the year in the Other
northern states.