West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-07-05
REPUBLICAN LEADERS.
THE PARTY TOO LONG IN
POWER.
A Change Needed for the Good
Of the comprehension for
the Country to Allow
Them 70 Obtain a New
Lease of Power.

lmI' NoruhouS washington Dispatch
TO tho New York Horald.l
The course Of the Republican
leaders in The Senate this week has
ben atocious. They have fought
the army bill as though they were
the rump Of the Grant movement
fighting for tee las. chance to secure
an election, or as though, as is com
mon'y conjectured there were some
secret motive in their opposition.
The Importance Of what they have
said has by no means justified their
intensity and desperation of purpose.
They have trancended all regular
and legitimate opposition, and they
have not shown any reasons that the
bill ought not to pasP. Their con-
duct has afforded curious spectacle
OF men who have been too lorg in
power for their own or the country's
good--who have become intolerant OF
opposition from any source, either
outside Of or within their party, and
who have forgotten how to submit to
defeat, and are capable Of Selling on
power by any means, however VIC
lent. The display y hich they have
made is of a spirit entirely and dan
gerously evil, and no thoughtful
man can read the Senate debates Of
the last week and consider the tone,
the mper, the spirit and the wide
disparity between the subicct and
the Republican treatment of it
without pcrGeiving that it would be
well for the country if these gentle
men could be for awhile re ired from
power, and that it would be an ex-
tremely hazardous thing to leape OF
it, which they seem determined at
all hazards and by any means to
sezs.
tits the Grant Movement
which has displayed itself in the
Senate in these days, and has, with
extraordinary arrogance and intol-
erance, insisted on troops at the
polls. II nothing else justified the
Democrats In insisting on their ex-
tremely mild prohibition o. the use
of troops Tor election purposes, the
language and spirit of the Republi-
can leaders in the Senate this week
would give them abundant justlfi-
cation, and it is not too IN ch to say
that rather than trust these Repub-
LEANS Senators Conkling, Blaine
and others with troops at the polls
it would be lar better and safer TO
the country to disbaud the army. In
this aspect the senate debate OF this
week may and ought to serve use
iul and INF ortaut purpose. The
Grant movement has its center in
that Senatorial coterie which has
aimed to control the House, has tried
and is now trying to Intimldate the
President, whom it hates, aad which
with unerring instinct makes it's des-
perate stand TOR troops at the polls
as the true ground for the Grant
movement to maintain.
The Democratic determination to |
Laon trnnrd a.
seemed hitherto to be inspired by
foolish and ridiculous fears, but the
apparition OF the Grant movement in
the Senate justifies them and ough
10 secure tor their aims the supDort
OF all judicaOuS voters, The spirit oil
the Reru6Icau leaders in the Senate
shows that 1T IS HIGH TINE FOR THE
SECURITY AND PEACE OF THE CoUN-
TRY, TO HAVE A CHANGE OF PARTIES.
Like the Democratic party 10 1860, |
these men have been TOO LONG IN
POWER. They are drank with an un-
patriotic ambition. They show plain.
ly that they dc not mean to let 90
Of the government, that they regard
the country as their possession and
political defe 1t al
A Personal Wrong and Robbery
Of themselves.
The impressions which this de-
bate has made upon many tbouehtful
attendants upon it is that no party
can be so dangerous to the country
as party led, inspire and contrib
Ell by these men, and that it the Re-
publican party appears ia tie Pres
idential canvass under their leader
ship it will be the duty OF every man
who values the country's safety and
peace to oppose it and them, no mat
ter who is on The other side. The
Republicans utters a foolish cry OF
revolution early in session, but your
correspondent, whose duty IT bas
been to watch all the tedious debates
OF the extra session, and who has not
Jailed to expose TO you The folly and
weakness Of the democrats, hes seen
nothing o the Demot ratio side when
among the worst element Of that
party which al all compares for wick
edness OF purpose, for desperation
and evil spirit, with the course and
temper Of the leading Republican
Senators during THE dsbste.