Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-01-03
What Does He Want With a
Party?

pie who DelleVe as ne 0OeS-Wltn anything or
anybody, indeed, outside of himself and his
owd views and purposes? Not being can
didate for reelection, settles the question for
the President of the United States that he has
no use for party. His only use for it, if
We interpret Alright the spirit of the CONNER
cials inquiry, was to gain the Presidency;
having attained which, and disclaimed any
desire for re e-election or further political am
bition, he wants nothing more of it. He can
get along now without it why should he
bother himself in the matter? From its own
point of view, the Commercial is quite right
and perfectly consistent. Its theory of the
relations which should exist between the
President and the party which elected him
dovetails precisely with its notion of what is
itor. The President and the debtor are at an
advantage over the party which elected and
the capitalist who befriended them. When
the debtor refusing to pay more than ninety
cents on the dollar of his debt is told that
such an operation will impair his credit, the
Western philosopher replies for him "What
does debtor who is paying ninety cents on
the dollar and has made up his mind to retire
from business, and not run in debt any more,
want with credit any how?" So when the
President disregards the wishes of the party
that elected him, and, failing to secure the
support of any other, is left without any
backing for his miristration, the same
philosopher says: swell, be is not candi-
date for reelection; what does he want with
party 2" And it must be granted that the
debtor in one case has no use for credit, and
the President in the other no use for party
Each is perfectly independent and can do as
he plelses, but, as was remarked by Mrs.
Pitcher, when Mr.. P got into bed with his
hat and boots on, ''it is not considered 8
proper thing in the best society"
The question, what does the party want
with a President, may seem to some persons
to he not entirely without pertinence under
the circumstances. The party, we believe,
elected the President in pursuance of some
purpose of its own. There is general con-
cnrrance, we think, in Mr.. Conkling's propo.
sition that Administrations do not make
parties, but parties make Administrations. y
Now that the President is in Office and not a
candidate for reelection, he, of course, want:
nothing of the party. He has got what he
wanted, and, perhaps, all he wanted. But il
is quite possible that the party has not done
so well, that it has not got all it wanted Oh
expected in securing the office for him; thai
there are certain policies which it desires tc
have carried out, for the furtherance Of
which it looks to the President. But the
party is under disadvantage. 1t is a candi'
date for reelection. Its mission was not end
ed with the election of President Hayes. Il
thinks it has other things to de- in the future
other Presidents to elect; other contests tt
wage against the enemies of the public hono
and the public faith. The President may bt
at the end of his road. He may sit down ant
say, "rhis is as far as go; have no further
use for party;" but the party must go OF
| through the present term, and after it, witt
the President or without him. Theie is only
moral obligation resting upon the Presiden
in the matter. 1t is as easy for him to disre
gard its obligations to the public creditor
The Nation may kick out the creditor will
ninety cents or With nothing, saying. "Wha
do we want with credit p and the President
may do as ne pleases and say, "What do |
want with party?" 1t is only question o.
disposition; each has the power.
But after all, what does the President gair
by setting up an independent opposition to
his party? Candidate for reelection or not
he must have some convictions he wishes tc
carry out, some policy he would ike to en-
force. II he is SO welded TO his notions thai
he is willing to break with his party sooner
than give them up, he must think enough Of
| them to desire to make them practical. AnC
isn't that what he ''wants with party" Il
he wants nothing Of the party, he need moi
abandon it or gratuitously spurn and cast il
aside. If he has no convictions of public
duty, be need only 60 along and be governed
by the convictions of his party. If he hal
convictions of duty at variance with those o.
his party. he certainly wants some sort of {
party to sustain him in them. If they ar,
worth having, they are worth making an eff
fort to maintain. Every man who has be
lief or theory in religion, politics or any
thing else, wants party TO believe with him
If he did not he would not make known hi
views, and support them by reason and argu-
ment. A belief that isn't worth propagatinG
isn't worth having. and whoever propagate
/ his belief shows by that that he wants q par
ty. ''What does the President want with
party? p What does he want with brains OF
with anything else if he has got through, ane
cares for nothing more now that he has at
tanned the Presidency p MY. Tribune.
l. -
Art Education Of Women.
Women need much consolation in thi
world Sometimes they are in love, indeed
this is 80 common u complaint with them tina
they should have a sublimated Ponds Extrac
a metaphorical canphor, or spiritual arnica
to apply TO that hidden wound. The needle
is good little lightning-rooi; a conductor of
for concealed disturbance. Many heart acht
has been embroidered away, Sometime
women are poor. This is sadder still. They
must so couduct the hidden sorrow through
the needle into the satin that it may comt
back to them, bringing bread, They mus
weave that enchanted carpet Of Aladdin
which shall take tn m from place to place
They must earn their living by their accom-
plishments, a hard thing to do.