The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-06-21
81 LIKE Mr.. HAYES"
Hon. Joe Pulitzer, Of st. Louis, in
Defence Of Hayes.
A Critical Review of His Policy by a
Tilden StUmper.

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ST. LOUIS, June I3.-I like Mr.. Hayes
He has repudiated the traditions Of the
Republican party. He has utterly ignored
the precedents established by Lincoln.
He has rebuked the Radical elements
which kept the party in power since the
death of Lincoln. He is arraying in Bit
ter opposition to his Administration most
powerful and popular leaders-men like
Roscoe Conkling, James G. Blaine, Ben
Butler, Ben Wade, Wendell Phillips,
the Chambers, Camerons, Boutwells,
Tafs, &c. His administration has so far
been of benefit to the country and the
Democratic organization. He has not
acted in the interest ofthe Republican
party. He has adopted Democratic
doctrines of government. He has dis
carded every ordinary obligation Of gra-
titude and honor to men like Packard
and Chamberlain, the Chambers, and
the Camerons who stole the Presidency
and presented tito him. He has, by his
own deliberate act, plead guilty and put
the official seal of the Presidency to the
record that every single electoral vote OF
three Southern States was stolen to count
in the man who never was elected by the
people and has no legal title to the Pre-
sidency,
| like Mr.. Hayes. | like him because
he represents innovation and ideas. No
longer can it be said that the receiver is
no better than the thief. No longer can
it be said that there is honor among
thieves, No longer can it be said that
the creators are stronger than the created.
No longer can it be said that the office
should seek the man and not the man the
office, No longer can it be doubted that
there is such thing as an irony OF fate.
See how, almost with the very first breath
of official life, Mr.. Hayes destroys the
very authors of his being No longer
can it be doubted that conscience doth
make towards of us all. See how Mr..
Hayes utterly repudiates Republican and
vindicates Democratic doctrines.
like Mr.. Hayes. He is doing much
better than could be expected He
strives assiduously to wash away the let
tiers of that terrible syllable which is
stamped upon his brow. He struggles
hard TO luli his troubled conscience into
repose, to calm the consciousness OF
crime and atone for it by improved con-
duct. For Mr.. Hayes has read the class
sizes and history, has heard of Banquo's S
ghost If even Richard III. had visiN
ons, whatmust be the slumber of Hayes?
There are tales that no walls unfold, and
secrets that human lips never utter
They remain forever buried in that most
mysterious and inscrutable thing,called
the human heart. Whose heart is treer
from regret, reproach, wrong or guilt
that of r. B. Hayes, or that ofSamuel J.
Tilden? Who doubts that amid all the
ceremony and servility, all the show and
glitter, all the feasts, fun, and fawning at
the White House, there does not often
appear, like Banquo's ghost, the re-
proachful vision of him who of right
should be the occupant They have
kept from the White House the body of
Samuel 7. Tilden only not his spirit.
like Mr.. Hayes. like the way he
has snubbed Blaine and Conkling and
Cameron, the real representatives of his
party and one of whom was its real
choice for the Presidency. l like to see
three members in the Cabinet who for
six years were in bitter opposition to the
Presidents party and predecessor. | like
to see his Southern policy" Mr.. Hayes
and all his organs call it an "experiment"
only, and ask for suspension of judg-
ment until time has shown its wisdom or
unwisdom. Yes, it is an experiment.
But it will prove to be an experiment that
will cost the very life of the Republican
party. 1t will be like the experiment of
the mad medical scientist, of whom |
read in boyhood. He killed human
body to have a vivisection, and to test
whether by putting the various parts to-
gether, he could not vivifcate it. The re-
Suit of the experiment of Mr.. Hayes will
be the same. After he gets through with
il he will find that the life spirit of his
party has departed, and that all the no.
tions and theories of Evarts, Schurz & Co
cannot again restore the dead corpse to
life, His policy may be an experiment"
to himself and the country to the Re-
publican party it is vivisection.
like Mr.. Hayes. He does not know
what he is doing. For the last ten years
at least, the Republican party has owed
its ascendency mainly to its daring, de-
fiant, able audacity. There may have
been ADLER political parties in the past, 4,
there never was one as bold as the Re-
publican party since the death ofLincoln,
From the day which drove Seward and
all of Lincoln's Cabinet, excepting one,
out of the party, to the days of military
reconstruction and robbery, the impeach-
ment Of Johnson the adoption Of the Fif>
teenth Amendment, the disgrace of Sum-
ner, Greeley, Trumbull, and Schurz, the
exposure ofCredit Mobilier, and Belknap
and Babcock, boldness alone saved the
party from destruction. I remember
well how one day, shortly after Grants
first Inauguration, gentleman who was
then Republican Senator, and is now
one of the most influential Cabinet Mi
nisters Of Mr.. Hayes, turned pale in
reading the telegraphic dispatches; and
exclaimed "This is terrible, terrible !
1t will inevitably destroy the party" 1t
was the evidence in the Black Friday in
vesdgation, tracing money from the
hands of Jim Fisk and Brother in law
Corbin to the White House. remember
the CONSERVATION of the same distingu-
ished gentleman at the failure Of the i'm.
peachment of Johnson. Then, too, he
saw the inevitable ruin ofthe Republican
party. remember, too. his grave fears
on account of the Fifteenth Amendment.
1t was then most unpopular measure,
even with Republicans. Wherever the
question of negro suffrage had been SUBJ
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