The Louisiana Democrat

Republican Discontent.-The Republican Convention of Iowa has indirectly condemned the President. The Republican House in the New Hampshire Legislature has tabled a resolution approving his course. Senator Conkling, of New York, leaving for Europe, and all the chief national officers in the city of New York surrounding him, conspicuously and significantly omitted to speak a word of sympathy or approbation. At the Robeson banquet in New Jersey, although the President of the United States was toasted, it was plain enough from what was said and what was not said that the feeling was not friendly. Messrs. Cameron, father and son, Chandler, Butler and Blaine, are known to disapprove his action. The Woodstock demonstration is significant. The Republican party press, in large part, deplores the recent order in regard to the participation of office-holders in active politics, and apprehends a consequent loss of the autumn elections. The signs are unmistakable of a deep and wide dissatisfaction in a certain part of the Republican party, and none the less of profound pleasure and content among other Republicans and an important element of the Democratic party. The action of the Iowa Convention, whatever it may forecast, can not change the fact that the President adheres very much more faithfully to the platform of the party than that of the convention itself. The silver plank of the Iowa platform, involving a virtual breach of the public faith, is repugnant to the traditional tone of the party, its Southern resolution is evasive and deceitful, and the silence of the convention in regard to administrative reform is an abandonment of the policy which the party loudly professed and demanded until a President took it at its word.

-[Harper's Weekly.