Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1881 — Patriotic Mission of the Republican Party. [ARTICLE]

Patriotic Mission of the Republican Party.

It is a Republican quarrel. It is a Republican war. It is a Republican wrangle. It indicates that there is nothing left of the Republican party but petty wrangling. The great national question under the guidance of the Republican party is suddenly shifted. A few days ago the national Republican party stood before the country on a pecular platform of twins, Gorham and Riddleberger. The Republican position was that the only patriotic business of the United States was to make Gorham, Brady’s partner, Secre tary of the Senate of the United States, and Riddleberger, who only became notorious because he was a notorious Repudiator and the next friend of a traitor, Sergeant-at-Arms of the United States Senate. The Republican party has been compelled to abandon this position by the splendid tenacity of the Democratic Senators ; and the liepublican attitude is changed. The Republican party is no longer fighting for Gorham and Riddleberger as, great national issues, but it is quarreling with itself as to a Custom House officer. The question is still one of small and local spoils. The jump from the national issue, which related to two servants of the United States Senate, to the national issue which relates to a Custom House officer, is not a change of character. A few days ago the fuss was about two small offices. The Senatorial agents of the Republican party obstructed the public busi-* ness two months in the endeavor to put two worthy men out of office and to put two unworthy men in their places. When the Republican party abandoned this small position it immediately began quarreling with itself about one office—a Custom House office. These simple facts seem to indicate the length and breadth and thickness of the patriotic mission of the Republican party at this moment.— Cincinnati Enquirer.