Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1874 — The Republican Party. [ARTICLE]

The Republican Party.

The Republican party shows no signs of decay. If its members make mistakes, they manifest a willingness to rectify them. If its servants fail to record their wishes, the masses of the party quickly make their disapprobation felt, and the response is prompt and satisfactory. The Salary bill of the Forty-second Congress was universally condemned. The Fortythird Congress has repealed it. The nomination of Attorney-General Williams to the Chief-Justiceship was not favorably received by the Senate or the people. It was withdrawn by the President at the request of Mr. Williams himself. The nomination of Mr. Cushing to the same position was received at first with a feeling of doubt His fitness in legal attainments and experience was universally admitted ; but his opinion on great political questions Which may possibly come before the Supreme Court for decision were for the moment forgotten. a strong light was thrown upon his secret ■*histonr which removed all doubt, and President Grant hastened to withdraw his name. These are striking events in the recent history of the great reform party of the nation. They show that its President, its Senate, and its Congress are in accord with the people, and that they sit in their several places to carry out, so far as in them lies, the wishes of the ultimate supreme authority in the land—the mass of the legal voters. Not since the closing scenes of the Ssat acts of reconstruction has the publican party shown ite repreaentative character so strikingly as during the last month. If one nranch of the Government makes a mistake, another branch hastens to rectify it; if all err, the great body of the party—the rank and file—asserts its right to judge and its authority to condemn; and the alacrity with which the Republican party officials bow to the dictates of this, jjfeat tribunal ; of the people constitutes to-day, as it has . ■■■ ,

i constituted during its whole history, the secret of iu tenure of power. The rugged vigor, the quick vitality, and the sustained . purpose of the Republican organization to act as it is acted upon by the moral and political sentiment of the people are exhibited in bold relief by its recent his-tory.—lnter-Ocean.