New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-10-09

campaign. A new Congress ID I'd 10 Y r.,
Is it strange that the party in power snoS'"
have its sense Of hearing quickened, or that
the whole power of the Government should Dc
invoked to maintain order at just this crisis
Does any simple minded citizen wonder that
in the States where either by voting or count
ing the Administration people are in control, a
mortal terror should break out just before cleo
ton, lest the minority should murder them by
night and reinstate the COnfederacyf 1t is to
be remembered that several elections have been
carried on this raw head and bloody bones
plan, and that this is the keynote OF the
present Congressional campaign. Not finance,
not reform in administration, not higher
standards Of political morality, but simply and
only Southern Outrages.
1t has been very shrewdly managed thus
far. The first step was taken when the kel-
logg usurpation began to push the taxpayers
of Louisiana to point where there seemed
but single way Of escape left and that In
the revolutionary process of turning out the
de factO government and installing the legally
elected one in its place. 1t worked admira-
bly, 1t almost made an instruction; but IL
failed at the point where collision between
the citizens and the Federal authorities was
looked for which might furnish excuse tor
military interference and afford electioneer-
ing capital for the Fall elections. Then came
the campaign fictiOns Of the Alabama r0-
mancer, Congressman Hays, and dropping
all around from South Carolina to Texas OF
outrages upon negroes and white Republicans.
Gen. Butler at once prcked up his ears and
rushed to the front-the front being Washing
nd m a Va
hours notice to put down "the new rebellion"
accompanying the announcement TO MS con-
stituents of this heroic offer with the proposition
to return to Congress and continue III tne
service of his country and such clients as the
position brings. Gen. Hawley brought out the
thrilling Alabama rOmances to fire the New
England heart. Gen. WOodfOrd addressed the
Utica Convention with thunder in his tones
and blood in his eye, asserting with vehement
oratOry and florid rhetoric that the Rebels
should be put down. Senator COnkling fol-
lowed with an address showing that Grant
was the man to put them down, and pointing
out the possibility that it might be necessary
to have third term of Grant to repress these
terrible disorders. Senator MOrtOn's State
Committee sent out their circulars to Admin
istratiOn organs to make the outrages prom
inent feature of the news till after election,
and on Wednesday of this week the Hon.
Henry L. Dawes in his address to the Massa-
chusetts Republican Convention made the
Southern outrages and the necessity OF Keep
ing the Republicans in power to suppress
them the theme of his discourse.
From all quarters comes up the cry OF the
Administration organs and orators that the
condition of affairs at the South imperatlvely
demands the continuance of the dominant
party in power in all branches of the Govern
ment. Senator Morton and Mr.. Dawes, forgetting
their differences upon the important questions
of finance, unite in an appeal to the country
to keep their divided party in power; Gen
Hawley and Gen. Butler, forgetting that they
are the antipodes of each other upon essen
tial points of political morality as well as
party policy, join in the cry that is to keep
them both in Congress, and all the orators
and statesmen lay aside their differences In
the great struggle to keep themselves In and
their opponents out of office. Always the
raw head and bloody bones; always this
sort of appeal to the passion, the hate,
the rancor, and the bitterness of the war that
ended more than nine years ago. Is 1t always
to 90 ONT Never to ceasef Are the States
in which the Administration party is In the
majority to be forever held up to the country
as suffering untold evils from helpless mi
nOrity just before election, and to be given
over to be plundered and robbed afterwards !
And will the people continue to allow their
attention to be turned from the serious ques-
tons that beset the Government by this out
cry of politiciansf Everybody knows that it
will all subside Immediately after the votes
are counted, and that the result will be the
continuance of the no-policy policy upon the
most important subjects of political discussion
till the time comes around to start up the out
RACES afresh as an excuse for renOminating
Grant. The experiment is getting stale. Let
us have some other "key-nO