American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-18
Dissolving.

The foundations of the party that
won the Presidential election last No.
vember by SO narrow margin are
breaking up into fragments. One of
two things is clear from the almost uni
versal dissolution. Either the MAORI
ties cast against Hancock were false, or
the confidence in Garfield is gone.
Certainly the first reason is conclusive,
if We recall the terrorized vote in many
of the business centers last year, and
the present deep and loud discomfort in
these localities. In Philadelphia, which
was the first stone of the column to fall
on the first honest succeeding trial,
after the declared election of Garfield,
it is clear from the recent experiment
that nearly enough counterfeit votes
were counted for Garfield to make his
majority in the whole State. Republic
an examination boldly pursued has
proved that. by the aid of bought election
officers and forced returns, the voting in
the Presidential contest was a fragrant
farce, and when we include the organ
lied patronage in the counties, the sur
mise ripens into fact. The Indiana Dc
tober election was a proclaimed auction
in advance. The State was purchased
in open market. The same revelation
is true of New York and of other quar-
tiers. The proof was not only in the
meager Republican strength in Con-
gress, illustrated by the degradation of
the United States Senate, but in UMPIRE
cedented Republican defeats in most of
the great Republican cities since the
Presidential election. The first sign
since the Republicans of the Senate
Senate attempted to make a party
in that body by an open bargain
with q Repudiator, is the failure
OF the disruption of the so
called Solid South. The Malone
coalition has made the South granite
against that organized ingratitude. 1t
has even disguised the coloree vote,
and has placed the northern men of
honor who preferred Mr.. Garfield in the
worse of all attitudes, helpless apology.
No party can live that is ashamed or
afraid to defend itself. This element,
Republican rings in most of the great
cities, has dissolved whatever coher-
ence there was last November. That
conference in the Republican column was
always hollow. It was a forced con-
fidence. 1t was a combination of fear.
The employers feared the employe and
the employ ed marched forth in manacles
and 'frowningly voted with their
despotic masters. And now that these
very employers do not hesitate to show
their horror of such arrogance as that
of Conkling, and such shameless cor
ruption as the bargain with the bullying
Repudiator Malone, is it surprising
that the men they forced to vote against
Hancock should seek the first occasion
to return to the Democratic party?
There is another ingredient in this dis
solution of the Republican party.
There are not places for one out of a
hundred of the hungry expectants.
Reform has seized the cities. 1t will
control the departments. 1t will force
economy upon the bureaus. The first
to suffer will be the colored men, and
they will be kept more resolutely out
in the cold, now that the whites, who
are in, will labor with might and main
to stay. An army of mercenaries will
soon tire of fighting without plumber,
and when the gas rings are broken,
and when the water-rats are made to
work, and the street idlers are made to
do honest chores, the romance of party
loses its gliding. and men come down
to the prose of common life.-Colonet
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