The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-16


most successful or one of the most disastrous
in history. 1t may be as brilliant as that OF
jefferson or as ludicrous as that of Tyler,
But he must continue in his heroic policy
until he has formed a new party. When he
threw aside the barons of the republican
party, the carpet-bag barons like the Blaines,
the Chambers, the Camerons and the But
lers, he invoked a spirit which will rise up
and destroy him unless he destroys it. The
men whom the new President has in the
most public manner repudiated are the men
who made him President without whom he
would still be in Columbus-the men who
can wreck his administration before 1t Is
launched. He must not despise nor deride
their power. Mr.. Evarts is admirable as
the Secretary of State. Mr.. Schurz is COM
mendable as Secretary Of the Interior. MIR.
Devens will expound the law. 1t is pleas
ant to have a kind word from the inde-
pendent reform organs, and the support OF
| Mr. Curtis and Mr. Bowles will be so novel
that the sensation will be agreeable. 1t is
gratifying to have the chambers Of COM
MERGE, the business interests, the clergymen
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-
xracc or1 vo<ac -, convention Th;o 10 w h ara
the new administration is weak. Mr.. Evarts
and Mr. Schurz, MI. Devens and Mr.. Curtis,
the chambers Of commerce, 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 business 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 Cameron could
control ten thousand times as many votes
as Mr. Eyarts. 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. Politics with us,
as indeed it is in all representative govern
ments, is practical business Men who
give their lives to it may have exalted ideas
of what is due to the country and the peo-
Piles welfare, but they have no less clear
views as to their own personal in
terests. They are apt to support the
administration which supports them.
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 conventions to have
his mind disabused. He will then have to
confront party in mutiny 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 John
son.
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. Public opinion is ripe for such
change. If Hayes pursues his war upon
the barons of the republican party and the
carpet-baggers he can defeat them, even as
Richelieu defeated the feudal lords Of
France and consolidated all power in the
Crown. He must appeal from the politi-
clans to the people. He must lay down
broad lines of policy-such policy as will
command the confidence of the country.
He can destroy the barons by destroying
their power. he can destroy their power by
cutting away from all relations with parties
as they now exist. The country sees that both
parties are corrupt In one we have the car
pet-bagger and the whiskey thief; in the
other we have the repudiator and the Tam
many chief But the great mass of the
American people-democrats or republi-
cans-do not fall within these degrading
distinctions. The farmers, 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 our religious denominations; the citi-
zens, who have no interest in politics ex-
cept that right shall be done, that there
shall be low taxes, freedom and pros
perity-these are the materials out of
which new party can be formed, an
American party, republican and demo-
cratic in its best sense, the party Of
national honor.
Such party can be formed by laying
down certain precepts of political action
and calling upon the people to support
them. The President should say frankly,
There is no use for the republican party
It's work is done. 1t was a war party and
will only march to the sound of the drum.