The daily gazette., 1877-11-27
THE REPUBLICAN CRISIS.
ON the Neso York Herald.

| Soon after the death of Mr.. Morton
we presented a detailed statement of
J the Federal Senate and warned the
Republican party of the imminent
danger which menaced it. That
friendly office seemed like inspecting
an unseaworthy vessel which might
continue its voyage if the weather
should prove favorable, but was ex-
posed to disaster in the first storm it
might encounter. Rough weather
has come sooner than we expected, and
il will be little short of miracle If
The shattered Republican hulk ever
gets into port after the rude shock of
the waves which are dashing with
such violence against it.
Even I the truant Sharon should obey
the telegraphic summons sent him
and maze all speed to reach Washing
ton his presence would be of no avail
if Patterson and Conover continue to
vote with the Democrats. Their votes
give the Democrats majority of two
and ev en- if Sharon comes the Demo-
Gratis will still have a majority of one
IL Patterson and Conover act with
them. If. with their assistance, the
case of Butler is taken up first and he
is admitted, and then, with his assis-
tance, the case of Eustis is next acted
upon, and Eastis is admitted, the
Democrats will have no difficulty in
seating Spofford, when they will be
independent of outside sassistance.
This is as likely result as any, and
if the Democrats should henceforth
control the Senate the Republican
Senators may, perhaps be brought
to sense of their stupendous
folly in quarrellng with the Presi-
dent. In their arrogant attempt to CO.
cree him they were trading on too
small capital. AS "Poor" Richard
SAID
Vessels large may venture more,
But little boats must keep near shore.
1t will not do for political party to
get at loggerheads with President itself
has elected, unless it has either majori-
ty OF both houses or very large and per-
fectly united majority of the Senate.
Previous to the death of Senator Morton
the Republicans had a reasonable hope
of controlling the Senate during the first
half of Mr.. Hayes term, if wise enough
to keep clear of intestine divisions; but
from the hour that he expired it was
sheer political lunacy to stand out against
tons death and the appointment of
Democratic successor reduced the already
slender Republican majority by two, and
made the margin too 3larmingly narrow
for experiments on the unity of the party
There still remained five carpet-bag Sena-
tors whose terms, with one exception
Bruce, of Mississippi), expire a year
from next March. If these gentlemen
expect to reside, after their retirement,
in the States which they represent, their
wish to stand well with their neighborS
would naturally make some of them a
little shaky In their politics. The other
Republican Senators have no reason for
! surprise that their carpet-bag associates
| do not take so deep an interest in the
Republican party as Northern Senators
| who hope for a reelection. Men hike
Conover and Patterson have no possible
chance OF ever again appearing in public
/ life after the expiration of the brief re-
sldue of their terms, and the good will of
their fellow-citZens at home may be of
great value to them in their private pur-
suits and social intercourse. IL is the
most natural thing in the world that
| some OF the Republican Senators from
the South should lose their interest in
politics as the time approaches when they
must retire from public life forever. The
| Republican leaders were blind when they
overlooked this tendency and made no
allowance for the natural decline of party
zeal among this section of their supporters
They must now begin to see where they
stand, for the present crisis is only "the
beginning of the end"
We will not venture to say that the
republican party is dead and that it was
buried IN the same grave with Senator
Morton, but its chances of life were GER
talnly impaired by the loss of that vigor-
Gus lea Ter. The party strongly re-
CT nT11h h h.Rtl G.. -
IN his sanguine hope of recovery when
the hand OF death was visibly upon him.
Its disease is like a paralytic shock,
which commonly visits and disables one
side before completing its work on the
whole body. The Southern half of the
Republican party is in state of COM
plete and hopeless paralysis. There are
sixteen OF the thlrty-eight States in
which the Republican organization has
become extinct. Although it may be
premature as yet to say that the Republi-
can party is dead there can be no dispute
or question as to its complete deathin six
teen States of the Union. 1t is like a
man iwhose whole left side is paralyzed
and his right side afflicted with annar.
antly lncurable wounds Aside from the
wounds how can this paralytic expect to
run political race and win it? The au-
thor OF Hudtbf0S gave his doughty
knight but one-haif of a pair of spurs.
assigning as reason that if he pricked
| one side of lis horse into a gallon the
! other could not hang behind. But the
converse of this grotesque maxim would
/ hold equally true, that if one side of the
! steed stood still the other could not pet
S very far ahead. The same reasoning an.
5 plies to paralytic man or a paralytie
: party; and that the left or Southern side
OF the Republican party has lost every
vital function is evident to those who
q will not yet admit the death of the partI
as a whole. .
Mere figures of speech, indeed, prove
? nothing. but though not argument the,
q may have some value as illustration
We proceed to show by real argumep
o how the paralysis OF the Republican
: party throughout the whole South mus
t disable ir in the North. We do not her.
y allude to The depressing effect on il
4 hopes, but to the diff Guilty of workips
;. the party machinery. 1t the Republi
e cans should ever hold another nationa
= convention now will they manage it
II Will they admit or exclude delega te
c from the sixteen southern States? Aspit
p ing candidates would be pretty sure t,
s get up pretended Southern delegations