The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-06-22
The New ..OppOsIlion', Parry.

ter, and there is little doubt that
with many Of his party his political
demise will be an event productive
Of no regrets whatever. AS a living
talker he is a source Of very great
trouble and annoyance. He has
opinions and expresses them with
positive emphasis; he has political
preferences and does not conceal
them; in fact, he is a very trouble
some factor in the Republican prob
lem. Having saved The Uaion from
-dieruption he was chosen by the Re.
publicans to preserve the admins.
tration of power to that party, and
lately, when Garfield was is danger
ofsigaal defeat at the polls, Gen.
Grant with his powerful wing of the
party was called upon to rescue it
from ifretrievable ruin. Services
like these very naturally created a
sense Of gratitude in the party, and
were not likely to be less productive
Of a sense of authority and influence
in the general himself. The savior
Of the party in the last election was
reasonably eatitled TO very great con
sideration at the hands Of the party
thus saved, and ID whom he had
preserved all the good things" Of
Federal patronage. Notwithstand-
ing all this he has not asked very
much from the President-the trans.
fer Of one brother-in.law from a cold
toa warm climate was all that he
asked, and that granted he repaired
toMexico, with the expectation tina,
his wing Of the party would fare at
the hands of the administration at
least as well as any other. In this
expectation he has been greatly dis.
appointed. Hence he has not ex.
hibited, upon his return home, that
disposition to submit to buffeting on
both cheeks which the Good Book
inculcates. He is n recalcitant, and
casting away his mask Of "the silent
man." he has become both voluble
and vindictive talker. The dis
position to make his wrongs known
and to arraign tho President for bat
faith and bad treatment the New
York Tribune regards as "not credit
able to him nor to those who have
honored him; and his opinions as ex
pressed are by the same paper desig
mated as most degrading concep
ton of public affairs The same
paper commits the extreme folly O
saying that from.his conversation.
sit might be inferred that the ex
President was getting ready to serve
as Democratic candidate for some
Office" The wisdom of the Tribune,
remark Capt. Cutie would have
made "note of-when found"
Two Republican administrations
those of Hayes and Garfield, owe
theirexistence directly to Gen. Grant
He made Hayes President by mar.
shaling the army at Washington
and threatening civil war unless the
declared will of the people as ex.
pressed at the polls was set aside
and this was done by an unconstitu.
tional electoral Commission" He
made Garfield President by exhibit.
ing himselfall over the North, and
deliberately classifying his own vol.
nntary declarations as to the peace.
ful and law-abiding character Of the
Southern people, and encouraging
belief in the suggestion of resistance
to the inauguration of General Han.
cock if elected, he again aroused the
fears Of business men, and frightened
capital capitulated 1.-THE polls and
Garfield was elected.
Both Of these administrations, thus
owing their existence to Gen. Grant
and his friends, were no sooner in
power than the support that had lift.
ed them into place was kicked from
under, and the general and his wing
Of the party were turned out in the
cold. 1t will not be surprising if
such treatment should result, not in
the absurd suggestion of the Tribune,
Of a Democratic candidacy of Gen.
Grant, but in the more probable in.
timation of the New York Herald
"if there is not room enough in the
Republican party for himself (Conk-
ling and Mr.. Blaine there is plenty
of room outside. MIR. Conkling will
do the country more good as the lead,