Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-06-01
Eureka Dailp Sentinel.
THE REpuBLICAN DILEMMA.

tell whether it is safer to drive ahead oil
back out. The Albany sages have a ser
o u responsibility on their hands, and
the general public, which is a little tired
of the Republican party, with its ever
lasting fuss and faction fighting, looks on
with lively %unconccrn to see how they
will get out of their scrape. They are,
as the phrase goes, between the devil and
the deep sea. If they ~re-elect the two
New York Senators, they offend the Ad-
miuistration, and lose their dear patron
age: if they do not r~e-elect them, they
offend a large part of their party.
The public, says the New York Her
aid. looks ON with amusement or careless
~unconcern; for the public is tired of the
Republican party. The old superstition
that something quite too awfully dread
full would happen to the country if the
Republican party should cease to misgov-
ern it has no longer nearly as much ter
ror as it used to have. Dorsey dinners,
Brady Star Routes, Indiana SO bills and
Hubbell letters have done a good deal in
the last few months to disillusion honest
men who really believed that their party
was the sole repository Of honesty and
all the other virtues. The Republican
tricksters and jobbers have cried wolf
while they were feathering their own
nests, but the respectable part of the
country begins to see through them.
There is a rapidly growing conviction
that the Republican party is no more
necessary to the country than was Nc
Clellan after Antietam, and that the
one it goes to pieces and makes room
for another and better party, the better
it will be for the real interests of the
country.
People begin to ask themselves every
where what has this great Republican
party done, and what is it doing for the
country? They see it just now engaged
in a desperate fight over the public plum
der and neglecting every public interest
in this disgraceful scramble. And as they
look on with contempt at this disgraceful
exhibition, which has about as much dig.
nifty as a first-class dog fight, they recall
the fact that under Hayes it did little
else than carefully conceal the stealing
which it fostered, and that with loud
and interminable professions of virtue in
the last dozen years it has only produced
scandal after scandal, until the whole his
tory of the party in this period is made
up of Belknap, Robson, Pacific Mail,
Star Route, whisky fraud, carpet-bag
salary grab, and a multitude of othel
jobberies Of the basest and most vulgar
kind, mixed in with the most abject sub
lection to railroad and other corporation
influences. And in all that time no on,
can recall without an effort a ~solitar,
public service that party has rendered
1t might as we'll inscribe on its banners
millions for plumber, not one cent TO
the public interests"
1t has resisted every reform; it ha
prevented the repeal of every bit of tn
obsolete and obstructive war legislation
it has maintained every bad law on tn
statute book, it has shown in every i'm
aginable way its i~ncapacity to deal will
public questions, and whenever publ,
opinion has pressed it to do at least ON,
triaing good it has adroitly got up som,
new excitement about the South, or som'
new, petty and uncalled-for quarrel witt
the Democrats. with the sole view to en-
gage the attention of the people and draw
their minds away from public interests
and real questions.
The Republican party has in the gen
eral opinion fulfilled its mission. Why
should it not 20 to piecesi Why SHOULD
any one Of its honest voters mourn ovel
its disappearance? It may not be deat
at this moment, but it is rotten. 1t il
the creature of railroad and other corpor
alton and monopoly influences. It's mos
intimate relations are no longer with The
people, but with the railroad and tele
graph kings-the Jay Goulds, Stanfords
H~untingtons, and others Of that kind,
who W and control its managers and
chiefs. To say that such a party, which
deliberately chooses Dorsey as one of it,
public manipulators. and unblushingly
gives him public dinners; which has pro.
tected and honored Robson, which
openly courts the friendship of public
plunderers. which during four years
sheltered Brady in his Star Route job.
berries, and took part of his gains for its
campaign fund after the exposures made
OF him in Congress; to say that such a
party, which scarcely conceals it's rela-
tions with a dozen lobbies, and many Of
whose publie-meu live by jobs-to say
that this party, quarrelling now over the
spoils, ought to live is absurd. 1t has
lost even the respect fer public opinion
which leads jobbers usually to divide
their spoils in private.
Some Republicans, we notice, lament
the resignation Of the New York Sena.
tors. We do not. It was doubtless a
grave mistake in Mr.. Conkling to resign
as he did, for it was a slap in the face to
his friends in the Senate. But if he
meant by this resignation to show his
intention to abandon his relations with a
corrupt party he was right, and what.
ever p~artisans may say Of him, or how.
ever he may derange the plans Of mere
spoilsmen, If this was the meaning of