The daily gazette., 1877-08-01
What the Hayes Republicans SAP
Of the RepWbLtcans tUIsO oppose,
Hayes EOLicU.
THE ADvER, ARIES or THE AID
MINISTRAC1ON:
be Cincinnati Commercial.


to witness how the old politicians fall to
artificial atfinities. The through paced |
partlsa,is, the men who care more for |
party than for country, the believers in
the art of carrying elections by money
aud political patronage, instinctively
range themselves on the side of conserv-
ing the old order of things. 1t is these
men who are now creating all the opposi-
ton that exists to the reform policies of
the President. 1t is they who are back
biting the administration, misrepresenting
the motives of President Hayes, and
clamoring about the "ignominious surren-
der" of the principles OF the Republican
party. ..,.
Parties live upon ideas. What gave
vitality and vicCory to the grand old Re-
publican party of the past, was that it
stood for free territory and the unbroken
union of the States. In the strength of
these ideas it marched from conquest to
conquest, until the principles it represent
ed, victorious over all opposition, were
embodied in the Constitution. If they
who were officially responsible for the
party had carried into the administration
of the Government the same purity and
fidelity to principle which always inspr-
ed the masses that supported Republican
ism, the country would have been conten-
ted to trust power in their hands for a
generation. IDs.ead of this, unworthy
men were elevated to office, and, as might
have been expected; abused their trusts.
A herd of camp-followers, the suffers and
the bummers of the Republican party,
Int 10 LyS
and covered it all over with the ignominy
of their own corruplions. Coming into
power on platform pledged to reform
all these abuses, the new president went
to work faithfully to redeem its pledges.
His very first act demonstrated in the
selection of his Cabinet what manner of
man he was, The political rings have not
vet recovered from the CONSERVATION with
which the saw the work of reform within
the party so vigorously begun, and the
steadily directed and powerful blows
which have been truck in various quar-
ters ever since at the weak spots in the
old political machine have deepened their
| disgust and increased their CONSERVATION.
Firmly convinced as they are that the
politics of this country cannot be managed
except by the old methods of money and
patronage, the denounce the policy of
of civil service reform, Of administration
of the business of the Government on
business principles, as foredoomed fail
ure. They are slowly gathering their
forces to make war upon the reform
President and those in Congress and in
the country who stand by him.
is curious and motley company
TraHar xuhot hunpar hnaa VnaFche The
question of leadership is still open.
and there comes to the front min
gled array of political strikers, disaI
pointed office-seekers and railroad
statesmen, in sore dread lest under the
new order of things their occupation
should be gone. There is Blaine
called Bishop Blaine in Maine-the
brilliant representative of keen party
tactics organic election machinery
and money made out of politics the
, man who marketed his rulings a:
Speaker, and was a silent partner in sc
many railroad enterprise and is now
: properly shocked at an administration
! which has the presumption to hole
that public officers have no business
except with public trusts. There Ii
Robeson, still rotund with the fatness
l of the good old Grant times and Cat
5 tell contracts who takes pains to parat
3 the fact in q recent speech that he Is
3 party man, and that Gin his profouno
iudgment) no President who does moi
believe in party men and party meth
, ods can ever succeed in his great of
> fee. There is Landaulet Williams an
/ other great pillar of Grantism and its
t political methods late Attorney-Gener
al and Grants candidate for Che
Justice. There is Wade with few re-
mains of his former qualities save i'm
, placability carrying the feeble re
, marns of his craftsmanship into rail-
way practice at Washington. There
too, ale Chamberlain and Packard still
7 sore ~ having beeE refused the sup
! port of Federal bayonets to impose
! Northern men as Governors on South
ern States who would none of them
! There is Benjamin f. Butler, whose
/. name has SO adorned the annals ol
: legislation and police jurisprudence
1 a man who never made speech for re
=, form but hundreds in defense of rob
: berism and corruption. There are th'
TWO Camerons-the Winnebago Chic
) whose long life ends in consistent de
/ votion to Cameronian principles, pure
q, and uudetiled and there too Is Don
Il Cameron Grants latest Secretary o
o War, now continuing the business a
y the old stand in the Senate. There too
. marching under cloud are Belknal
# and Babcock both ardent supporters .
n the old party tradietions and policit
# differing chiefly from their compeerS
g in the art of making money out o
1t politics in that they mad the misfor
s tune or the maladroitness TO be tount
9 out. Under the same banner will b.
ranged those statesmen moving unoel
still darker cloud-the long array o
n whisky thieves. There, too, marcee
Boss Shepherd who "nad more lnnu
= ence with Grant than all the Western
a delegation ia Congress-" the hero o.
3. colossal contracts and rotten Woodel
:, pavements forty miles long, VINO DC
h gan by bankl upting the District Q
'lColumbia for which he. was agall
: nominated TO office by Plesiden
Grant, and finished by going into banl
10 ruptcy himself. .-, MI
S let, swearing mad, the engineer OF WASH