The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-06-29

respects, probably the strongest
that the republicans could have Sc
lected. while in others it is Ger
tainly the weakest. Gov. Hayes
has not, we believe, sharply an-
tagonized any of the great leaders
Of the party, and all the defeated
aspirants for the nomination will
find il easy 10 cordially mite In
his support. He ii a hard money
man Of the strictest sect, and il
may therefore be presumed that
he will please the East. But the
equuocal utteraDces of the plat
form upon which he stands his
Western pr0cliyities, and the we'll
known unsoundness Of many OF
the ablsst and most eminent re-
publican chiefs Of bis section, are
facts well calculated to alarm the
| great money section of the Union,
and weaken its confidence even in
the man who Wrested the rag baby
from Uncle William Aliens arms
and spanked it soundly, If he did
not strangle it III Ohio.
In the last gubernatoFial election
| 10 Ohio the anti-Catholic senti-
ment played an active part and
contributed largely to the election
of HAYES. III may be safely as
sumed, therefore, that he viii now
receive the cordial support of that
narrow and fauatical element OF
the country.
1t is affirmed that the personal
! character of Gov. Hayes is i'm
| pregnable, aud we are not pre-
pared to question the assumption ;
but the personal qualities, alone,
of no man, however pure, are in a
time like this a guarantee that, il
elected to the Presidency, his Ad-
ministration will be national, just
and wise.
The strongest intellect and most
resoluts character would be scarce
Ely able now to change the course
Of the administration of the Gov
eminent and steer it out Of the fn-
! rious current of pruhgaey and ex-
trav aaance into which it has drift
ed. Tue administration of i re-
publican President, however wise
i aud pure be may be, will be under
! the irresistible influences Of the
leaders Of his party. who have
shaped the policy of the Govern
meut for so many disastrous aud
shameful years. Gov. Hayes may
be- most worthy man, bQt ii he
| is elected to the Presidency his
| Administration will be largely CON
trolled by MoFton, Conkling, Lo-
I gon, Blaine and the other LEADERS
Of the party who have created in
| auF politics what is now known as
4rantlsm. As the new York Her
a'd said last week, whoever bears
ue standard of the republican
party in this fight carries Grant
perehed upon il.
We doubt if the nomination oI
| Gov. Hayes will evoke any very
wild enthusiasm throughout the
North and West at this time. His
anne is not 30 identified with the
/ reconstruction iRfamY as that 81
Coukling and Morton, and there
| ) not that smell oil blood upon bis
\ garments which arouses the dend-
1 ish passions Of lis party. But as
| the canvass advances aud the sec
i ti0nal character of the platform il
more fully understood. We viii find
| the nominee rallying a mighty
| strength and when il becomes
| clearly manifest that all the intlu-
ence. legitimate and illegitimate,
| 81 the Administration are being
| exerted tn his behalf. and il il
plainly seen that Hayes. like
| Grant. or Morton, oil Blaine, il
representing all the bitterness oi
/ Northern seotionaism, all the pro-
| iligate measures of the past eight
wears, and I'LL the rings and poll
teal pluuderers who infost the
service, the full aud enthusiastic
strength of his party wall be drawn
| ont ill his favor.
| In the nomination of Gov. Hayes