Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-06-28
REPUBLICAN LEADERS.
THE PARTY TOO LONG IN POWER.
A Change Needed for the Good Of the
COuntry-HazardOus for the COun-
try to Allow Them to Obtain
New Lease ofPower.
Mr.. Nordhofrs Washington Dispatch to the New

Mr.. Nordhofs Washington Dispatch to the New
! York Herald.
The course of the Republican leaders
in the Senate this week has been afro
cious.. They have fought the army bill
as though they were the rump of the
Grant movement fighting for the last
chance to secure an election; or as
though, as is commonly conjectured,
there were some secret motive in their
opposition. The Importance OF what
they have said has by no means justi-
fled their intensity and desperation OF
purpose. They have trancended all reg
ular and legitimate opposition, and they
have not shown any reasons that the
bill ought not to pass. Their conduct
has afforded curious spectacle OF men
wLO hare been too tong IN pOwer for
their OWa or tie cO,miry's good
who have become intolerant OF OppOsi-
ton from any source, either outside of
or within their party, and who have
forgotten how to submit To defeat, and
are capable of sciZing on power by any
means, however violent. The display
which they have made is Of a spirit en-
tirely and dangerously evil, and no
thoughtful man can read the Senate de-
bates of the last week and consider the
tone, the temper, the spirit and the wide
disparity between the subject and the
Republican treatment of it without per-
ceiving that it would he ,r,N FORTH COM
tY # these geItI,mcR cOUH b. for dirhiLe re-
Grai from porcr, dId that Il ,ro1Iid BE- az
extremely ha:droiOus HHy to taSe Of Il,
which they SEEM DETERMINED At ALL
HAZARDS AND By ANY MEANS TO SEIZE.
II is the Grant Movement
which has displayed itself in the Senate
i'm these days, and has, with extraordi-
nary arrogance and intolerance, in
sisted on troops at the polls. Ii nothing
else justified the Democrats i'm insisting
on their extremely mild prohibition of
the use of troops for election purposes,
the language and spirit OF the Republi-
can leaders in the Senate this week
would give them abundant justification,
and it is not too much To say that rather
than trust these RepublICans-SenatOrs
Cunkling, Blaine and Othcrs-with
troops at the polls it would be far better
and safer to the country to disband the
army In this aspect the Senate debate
Oi this week may and ought TO serve a |
useful and important purpose. The
Grant movement has its centre in that
Senatorial coterie which has aimed |
To control the House, has tried,
and is now trying TO intimidate
the President, whom it hates, and
which with uncrring instinct makes its !
desperate stand for troops at the polls |
as the true ground for the Grant move
ment to maintain. The Democratic |
determination TO keep troops away from
the polls has seemed hitherto to be in |
spircd by foolish and ridiculous fears,
ment men IN In tie Senate justilies them and
O,yld to secure for their duRS tW support Of |
aH WdiciOls rUterS. The spirit ot the Re-
p,,Licdu ral,rS IN Hc Senate SLOlrS Hdt
Ir Is HGH TINE FOR THE SECURITY AND
PEACE OF THECOUNTRY, TO HAVE A CHANGE
or PARTIES. Like the Democratic party
i'm 1860 these men have been TOO Long
IN POWER. They are drunk with an un-
patriotic ambition. They show plainly
that thev do not mean 10 let 20 OF the
government; that they regard the
country as their possession and Politl-
cal defeat rs
A Personal Wrong and Robbery
Of themselves.
The impression which this debate has
made upon many thoughtful attendants
upon it is that no party can be 50 dan
gerOuS to the country as Il party led, IN
spircd and controlled by these men, and
that Uhr Rp,dijcm pdrig appears ~ Htr
Presidential cd,ausS under their icud'rShjp
Il wW b. the DUTY OF EVERY MAN WHO
VALUES THE CoUNTEY'S SAFETY AND PEACE
To OPPOSE IT and them, no matter who
is on the other side. The Republicans
uttered Il foolish cry Of revolution early
i'm the session, but your correspondent,
whose duty it las been TO watch all the
tedious debates of the extra session, and
who has not failed to expose to you the
folly and weakness of the Democrats,
has seen nothing on the Democratic side
when among the worst element of that
party which at all compares for wicked
ness of purpose, for despcratian and
evil spirit, with the course and temper
of the leading Republican Senator's dur
ing this debate.