The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-06-25
Republican Disintegrafson.

Inc storm tossed republican party
sought safety in flight from Grantism
to Garfield. So far as the party is
concerned it has proved a disastrous
alternative. The affrighted bark has
avoided Scylla only to be tossed upon
the Charybdis. 1t is useless for the
organs Of the apologists and the how
ling orators of the party to attempt
to conceal! the truth The repub-
lican party is hopelessly shipwrecked
and Mr.. Garfeld's administration is
responsible for the disaster. If an
election were to be held tomorrow,
not a Doubtful Northern State could
be carried by the republicans. 1t
may be said that this is no Demo
cratic funeral SO it is not, but
foundered ship is legitimate object
of curiosity. Garfield has blundered
from the beginning. He was elected
by the audaeious rascality of Dorsey
and the Star Route ring in the West
and the splendid generalship of
Conkling and Grant in, New Y ork.
The plundered treasury was the in
vincible strength Of disparity in both
sections. No man understood this
better than the man who was the
beneficiary of it and the country is
only reaping the benefits of quarrel
over the plumber. 1t is trueism
almost as old as mankind that when
thieves fall out honest men get their
dues. The President deserves no
credit for the exposure in the Star
Route swindles. He made the eyre
gious mistake of appointing a consci-
entious Attorney General who has
taken the bit between his teeth, and
Garfield could not if he would, check
the Investigation. He made the fur
Their mistake of quarreling with the
most potential of his allies to satisfy
the spirit of revenge of a special
friend. If it were true that great
party, inspired by good and great
traditions, living life of honor and
integrity and sustained by the loyal
confidence of the people, had been
disrupted by factional differences,
there might be cause for sorrow and
regret at the deep damnation of its
taking of, but when a national organ
ization, existing only by the cohesive
power of public plumber, sustained by
the reckless efforts of office holders
and the most gigantic and unblush-
ing assaults upon the integrity of
of American citizenship, through the
money power of official corruption
lists, is destroyed by its own hand,
there can exist but a feeling of uni
versal relief and rejoicing. Garfield
has been bent more on continuing
himself in the position to which he
attained by the purest of accidents
than of reforming the departments of
the Government. To carry out his
corrupt scheme he saw fit to bring all
the power of his place to crush those
who might stand in his way in 1884.
Apparently he has succeeded in de-
stroying those who would stand in the
way OF his ambitious plans, but in
doingi it he has destroyed himself and
his party. With all than can be said
in disparagement of him.. Conizling is
far better man than Garfield. His
record is freersfrom suspicion Of per
sonal corruption, and Mr.. Garfield
will find that he is as powerful to
tear down as he was to build up.
Without Dorsey's INSCRIPTIONS aid,
and with conkling as a proclaimed
rebel, the President and his friends
and the whole Republican party vii.
discover that their lease Of place will
never be renewed. Baltimore Gu
cefte.