The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-02
ssA.Es, soursIERN POLICY.
Promising to abandon the Carpet
Ba9gers and Make e DiUisiom IF
O6ices-1he Programme as IL as set
Forth Jy an Ohio Republican.

Promising to abandon the Carpet |
Ba9gers and Hoke DiUisiom IF
O6ices-Ihe Programme as Il as set
Forth by an Ohio Republican.
There is much tribalation in the
Republican campjust COW. Fhe party
managers are perplexed with the job
of fixing up Cabinet for His Fraud
uleney Returning Bsard Hayes Their
perplexities are SAID to be increased by
the intimidatiorssw hich His Fraudu-
,ency has thrown out in regard To bis
Southern policy. 1t is pretty certain
that thus far the man who has been
made President OF 10 ,O0v 900 Of free
men by Mad Wells and Joe Bradley
has not felt it to be his duty to take
into his counsels the old-tim leaders
of his party. | know from a variety
OF sources that since these small poll-
ticians put in an appearance AT the
national capital, certain Republican
congressman from Ohio have been
very active among Southern Democrat
ic members of the House of Re- presen-
tatives. One of them said that he was
authorized to say to Southern Demo-
Gratis that they might rest assured OF
one thing: that Hayes would not suffer
the power Of the Federal Government
to be used to impose a government
upon the people of a State that WI
uE.s9le to exist twenty-iour hours
without the moral support OF Federal
! bayonejs
This declaration was Quoted as com,
ing from Returhing Box a"''
was meant 10 apply TO LOUISIANA ana
South Carolina. The Southern Dem
ocrat to whom it was made wanted TO
K s@s of his Republican FREUD in what
manner Hayes had authorized the -
surance to be given to Southern men.
and the gentleman replied that Hayes
/ had written a letter to that effect, and
4 il was in the possession OF one OF his
/ nearest friends now in Washington.
The Sqptherner appeared a iiule ia
/ credulous, until his Republican friend
asked why he was so skeptical where
upon be said Il can't understand
! how Mr.. Hayes can accept the Pre-l
/ dency and then recognize the Nichols
( Government in Louisiana There mu> t
/ be u ,sembiauce Of consistency in the
acts of public mao He cant take
the highest office in the gift OF mortal
man at the hands of the Louisiana
( Returning Board, and, when Unstable
therein, turn coldly to Gov. Packard
aud say, You have no title to the
GoverDorship of Louisiana save that
which corrupt Returning Board gave
you, and therefore you must get out
The people of Louisiana repudiated
/ you at the polls, aud their will must be
respected
"Oh, you don't understand this bus
mess, replied the Republican mem
her OF Congtess from Ohio.
perhaps not. dryly said the
Southerner please xplaiu"
We'll" said the X NJ c. from
I Ohio, lit won't be done in the open.
undisguised way in which you evident
/ ly suppose OF course, Mr. Hayes
cannot Immediately recognize the
/ Nichols OF the Hampton Government
1t will not be necessary for him to for
maliy recognize them until after they
/ have asserted their power
What do you mean by that p ech
oed the Southeruer.
why, you are very dull to day, -
( exclaimed the r. NJ e from Ohio
Don't you see how it can be done ?
Mr. Hayes will be inaugurated and
, read his inaugural address, which will
; be fall of Kindness toward tue South,
but at the same time will demand
equal rights for all men before the law
\ day or Two after he has been 10
stalled in the White House your
Louisiana Democratic friends will call
upon him to ask him TO recognize the
Nichols Government. Then he will
have a quiet chat with them. and give
them 10 understand that he can do
nothing at present but maintain the
status quo down there, but if they will
just coutIuUe 70 maintain good order.
as they have done. Tie troops will be
quietly Withdrawn, aud the Nichols
Government Gun take possession some
bright morning without any blOodshed
or violence, and then, having fall pos
session of all the machinery OF the
State Government, aud all the people
OF the Stale behind them. Mr. Hayes
will recognize the de lecto Government
aud everything viii 20 on quietly aud
smoothly and nobody eau accuse him
of being Inconsistent
All, said the Southeruer, that is
one way OF doing it.
All you people want Is to have
your State Government. isn't it?'
asked the r. VI c from Ohio.
That's all, said the Sourherner.
Aud here the conversation stopped
But while the moderate conservative
Republicans are making them-e elves
bay in this way with Southern DEM
ocrats, the carpet baggers are not idle
They are as busy bees and as full OF
expedieuts as the devil Is of sugges-
tons to a hesitatiDg Eve They aie
badly alarmed. there i 40 ut about
that; but they are not hopeless They
remind their Senatorial friends, Morton /
Sherman, aud Blaine. that after the /
fourth of March next they hold the /
balance of power in the Sen
ate, and if they are Abandoned by
Republican Administration, Of course
they must make the best terms they