The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-04-25

clerRymen and the poets all sending words
of comfort and encouragement: As the
new president looks out OF the White
House and sees all this incense rising, and
remembers how the acolytes treated his
predecessor only few weeks ago, he must
feel that his lines have truly fallen upon
pleasant places.
But what an administration needs even
more than incense is votes-votes in con-
gress and votes in convention. This is
where the new administration is weak.
Mr.. Eyarts and Mr. Schurz. Mr.. Devens
and Mr., Curtis, the chambers of com
merce, the clergymen, the poets and the
reformers, have not political power enough
to carry an election district. 1t is because
they have never been in that line of bust
ness and know nothing about it. Mr..
Evarts is, if we may say it without offence,
ten thousand times more respectable
than Don Cameron but Don Cam
eron could control ten thousand
times as many votes as Mr.. Evarts AS
| to the reformers, who are so we'll tuned
now, Mr. Hayes has learned, or, if not. he
soon will learn, that when reformers
preach reform" they mean that they
shall be called on to reform the country at
large salaries. If President Hayes thinks
that his work is done when he has thrown
aside the Blaines, the Buffers, and the
Camerons, and the carpet-baggers. he will
only have to wait until the meeting of the
next congress or the autumn state conven-
tons to have his mind disabused, He
will then have to confront party in mu
tiny and to take refuge with the Democrats
as johnson did. They will keep him as
long as he serves their purpose, and kick
him out when he is no longer useful, as
they kicked out johnson.
What, then, remains to the president?
| He must make new party. He must
summon from the Republican and the
| Democratic ranks the men who will unite
with him in an effort to reform the civil
service and bring about an era of good feel
ing. If Hayes pursues his war upon the
barons of the Republican party and the
carpet baggers he can defeat them. He
can destroy the barons by destroying their
power. He can destroy their power by
cutting away from all relations with par
ties as they now exist. The country sees
that both parties are corrupt. But the
great mass of the American people, Dem
ocrats OF Republicans, do not fall within
, these degrading distinctions. The farm.
ers, who dwell on their own soil; the
merchants, who buy and sell; the grim
, soldiers, who remember how they followed
with honest, daring heart the flag of the
north or the south; the multitudeS
Of pious, God fearing men who swell ou
r religious denominations; the citizens, VIII,
p. have no interest in politics except tina
| -, ~ h. fh Chan ho To-
: taxes, freedom, and prosperity-these ar
0 the materials out of which new part
can be formed, an American party, Re
e publican and Democratic in its best sense
the party of national honor.
: Such party can be formed by laying
down certain pracepts of political action
and calling upon the people to supper
them. The president should say frankly
u There is no use for the Republican
r party, It's 1Uork is done, 1t was wa
party, and will only march to the sounC
I Of the drum. There is no use tor tn
II Democratic party. 1t is something be
e tween a conspiracy and railroad specu
e lation. 1t rests on no solid basis 1t
q fancy stock, like the Erie or the bonanz
I'll mines. 1t should go into bankruptcy
D Buchanan and Tweed and jeff Davis hav
3 frittered it's resources away. Even TildeI
= the shrewdest railroad lawyer in the cour
IS try, and familiar with the handling {
II broken corporations. could not realize 0
W it's assets What we want now is peace
Is Let US have an era Of good feeling. LIE
p. US have peace and civil service reform
Ct peace and justice to the south; peace an
r, specie payment; peace and the revival
10 industry and credit; peace ard reform
is the powers of the presidency, the senat
es and the states. Let all who believe tn
le the war is over; that there should be pr
ID lection to the black and justice to Il
r, white; that public servants should
ei treated as men, not cattle; that the
u should no longer be patronage in the ma
ed agement of the nations business; that Il
debt should be paid dollar for dollar
ne all who believe in these precepts, and a
ne willing to unite with the president in Z
ict forcing them, rally around the admin
ne tration.
10 To such an appeal as this the count
IN would respond. Having thrown asi
d. the old barons of his party, the preside
rs must find new men. He must ha
De bis chiefs in the senate aud the hou'
VII He cannot depend upon the poets, t
Gu rhetoricians and the Sherman family,
IAN was long enough in the army to learn til
I've you caunCt fight battle with bands
er musicians. lie had been long enough
Ite' civil authority to learn that bosom frien
lm will not strengthen an administratic
mo He must take men like Conklipg and
ISL mar, Hoar and Thurman, Adams a
Or Bayard. and to them he must intrust t
AN leadership OF his party. He has now
'or opportunity as splendid as that Of jeff
per son. If Hayes is wise and brave he IN
me be another Jefferson. He stands now
for the parting of theswaters. A few wee
1or will decide whether we are to have
ar administration like that of Jefferson
lhe one like that of Tyler.
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