The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-02
REORGANIZATION OF PARTIES.

What President Grant Has to Say on the
Subject--He think the Republican
Party is on Its Last Legs.
Washington, Feb. 1.-The President,
while conversing on the electoral bill,
yesterday, branched off upon a discus
sion of what he considered the present
tendency of political parties in this
country toward complete reorganization.
He says he has observed movement in
this direction for several years, and that
he accepts the reaction of 1874, known
as the tidal wave, as indisputable evil
dence oft. He thinks the Republican
party will be able in a great measure to
recover its lost ground, and possibly to
maintain it through another presiden-
tial term, but the experience of 1876,
though favorable to Republicans in To-
cal elections, and to a great degree in
Congressional districts, proves to him
that ON national questions the time for
reconstruction of political parties has
come. He does not mean by this that
he believes the Democratic party will
certainly secure permanent control of
the Government, but simply that the
Republican party, shattered as it is by
internal discussion, will only be able to
rally its forces and harmonic its diverse
elements upon some new question. He
said that of course no one can know
until the result of the election is offici-
ally disclosed, which party will secure
control of the executive branch of the
Government, with its extensive and po-
tential patronage. but whatever the re-
suit of the present contest, it will only
postpone the reorganization of which
he spoke.
The president recognizes the fact that
the south now presents a united front,
when permitted to act unrestrained by
~interposition of local constituted au-
thority, to prevent the white people
from resorting to illegal means Of carry
ing elections in those states. In those
sections of the north where Democratic
victories were gained contrary to form
er results, the means by which they
were obtained may be con-
sidered exceptional. He thinks that
before the end of the next presidential
term an entire reorganization of parties
will take place, in the south at least,
and that in the contest of 1880 that
section of the country will not again
vote any more solidly for Democratic
candidates than the north for Republic
cans. In the south, as political contests
are now carried on, there is, in his es-
timation, neither a Democrat or a Re-
publican party. The struggle is simply
for political power, between white peo-
pie on one hand, who desire to ignore
the blacks entirely, and colored people
on the other. The loss to the Republic
can party of all the southern states, un-
der these circumstances, he thought the
natural outgrowth of the opposition of
the party in power before the war to
that which grew out of that great strug-
gle. If Tilden be declared elected Pres
ident he thinks that the two states
nominally held by the Republicans will
probably succumb, and the moment this
unanimity is established he believes the
/ people of the south will begin to discuss
measures of state policy, and that the
result will be a diversion of political
opinion which will crystalline into a
political organization. This condi-
ton of affairs will be more wholesome.
If nothing else caused a diversion, the
jealousy of political leaders and the de-
sire to control official patronage will
! cause a division. Where n party has
entire control, then he thinks both po-
litical organizations will put forth their
best efforts to secure the negro vote,
Just as the Democrats of the north have
cajoled the Irish and Republicans cult
waited Germans and Scandinavians.
Speaking of Florida, North Carolina
and West Virginia, the President said
he believed the introduction of n ,rthern
capital and immigration from the north
will soon deprive them of their distinct
southern peculiarities and cause the or
g~anization of parties on the same prin
ciples as obtained in the north.
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