Year: 1872

soiicitude In tho Republican Ranks-


The sPoils I'm Danger.


The Chronicle Ia republican organ in Wash
ington) compliments the HERALD upon its po-
litical speculations and suggestions Itdeclares
1t to be the pet project of tho HzRALD to set the
President and his friends by the ears - that cit
manifests patroni1ing disposition, and seems
disposed to constitute itself special organ to
protect the President from his party friends, I"
and adds: :-'It remains to be seen whether
the prospect of having the enterprising and
indefatigable HnsALD as his champion is o
sufficient inducement for the President to turn
his back upon republican Congress-


Now, with due respect to the views Of our
Washington contemporary, we confess our ina
bility to discover why republican Congress
should turn against General Grant because the
independent press Of the country determined
TO extend him an earnest and disinterested
support What the next Congress has to fear
is the overshadowing influence of strictly
partisan papers The Washington Chronicle,
backed by ex-senator Harlan and other emi-
nent politicians, who demand as their inalien-
able prerogative the right to be the dispensers
OF the patronage of government they claim
to have elected, is naturally anxious to retain
that political hold upon the President which
will insure continuance of the power and
influence of its party friends. Now, we hold
that the time has gone by for strict party rule,
and the result of the recent election, the gen.
eral breaking down Of all old party lines, and
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votes of the people independent of political
divisions, prove that we are right Neither
Congress nor the President need apprehend
danger from the support of the inde-
pendent press of the country; on the con-
trary, the new Congress, coming in with the
new administration of General Grant, will be
free from the embarrassment that weighed SO
heavily against certain party measures in the
last Congress, and will be in condition to
court rather than repel advances ON the part
of untrammelled journals. Besides, there are
other reasons why the President should not be
obliged to ''turn his back upon q republican
Congress" nor republican Congress upon the
President, no matter what party manipulators
may say. We are promised on the part of the
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measures, and if Congress will work harmo-
niously with the President in favor of South
ern reconciliation, civil service reform and a
| frm American policy in our foreign relations
there is prospect of sort Of political mil
lennium. Already long list of leading and
influential journals have adopted the principle
upon which the HERALD was established and
built up into the leading newspaper of the
world, and have announced their indepen-
dence. Among them are such well-known
papers as the Chicago Tribune and Times, the
| Springfield Republican, the New York Tribune
and Sun, the New Orleans Picayune and Times
and the Cincinnati Enquirer. The Richmond
EaqSirr, although not avowing entire indie
pendence, signifies its readiness to support
President Grant in all good and wise measures
of his administration. So here we have
papers from all sections-North and South,
East and West, secession and loyal, republican
and mountaineering of party trammels
| and protesting determination to stand by the
President and Congress in all that is worthy of
support, irrespective of party considerations
or of former sentiments. The effect can be
seen already on prominent leaders, who, like
ex-PresiLent Andy johnson, are beginning to
announce themselves as discriminating friends
of the next national administration. A jour
nal so intelligent as the Washington
Chronicle should understand the signs of the
times, and, instead of objecting to the course
of the HERALD as the disinterested adviser of
the President, should aid us in urging upon
him popular policy and in inciting the re-
publicans in Congress to extend to his recon-
mendations On honest and earnest support.


But whatever may be the course of the pro-
fessional politicians, the four years of General
Grant next administration will in all prob
ability present marked contrast with the four
years Of the past New men, new meas
ures, new IDEAS more vigorous foreign
policy and reconciliation will animate
its councils and inspire it with re-
forms commensurate with the progressive
spirit of the age. President Grant is now
practically out Of party clutches and shackles,
and is in position to rise loftily above all
party feeling and affiliations. It has been
said during the past four years that he was
simply puppet in the hands Of o few wire-
pullers, and that he had no independence Of
character OF mind Of his own. He was re-
garded as "King Log" by his own parti-
sans, and treated accordingly. But next
March the curtain will rise upon new order
Of things. Instead of "King Log we be-
lieve the republican managers, who are SO
eager to reap and garner the fresh crop Of
spoils after the harvest of four years is ex-
hausted, will fnd they have "King Stork''
. to deal with, and that, backed by the inde-
pendent press Of the Republic, General Grant
will be President in fact as well as in name
during his next administration. Evidently
there is great deal of solicitude in the ranks