St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-12-21


Tylerized failures. We urged an effort
at reconciliation and harmony before
the New York appointments were sent
in the second time. We urge it again
now. The President cannot afford to
be supported by the democrats and he
cannot afford at crisis like this to
break up the party that elected him.
There is no substantial reason for an
irreconcilable difference with his natu-
raj supporters ;-there is every reason
for trying to get together again, and
there is no need to abandon civil-ser-
vice reform.
From the New York Times.1
The incident will create considerable
excitement in political circles, and it
will be generally regarded by the re-
publieans of the Conkling school as
rebuke to the ''new-fangled' and
visionary" ideas of civil service reform,
while the immediate champions of the
President will confirm this view, and
chronicle it as another sign of republi-
can hostility to the principles which the
President processes. For our own part,
speaking, as we are well assured that
we do, the views of the great body of
Is,
we cannot look upon the transaction as
involving the principles of civil service
reform at all.
[From the New York Herald,l
This is as mortifying for the admin
istration as the fall of Plevna is for the
Turks. 1t is too early to indulge in
conjectures as to the effect of this NOR
tifyiDg defeat on the future course of
the administration. 1t may, or it may
not, lead to dissolution of the present
cabinet. Certain it is that the Presi-
dent has been badly advised, and il he
is wise he will select better advisers.
[From the New York world.l
Six republican senators only stand by
MIR. Hayes in his civil-service policy,
and, looking at the broken and bellig-
erent fragments of once powerful par
ty hurled to and fro without common
principle or a common sentiment, we
are inclined to ask "What is republi-
canism ?" To be candid, the democracy
does not present more imposing spec
tacle. On a question involving the su-
premacy of one of two republicans fac
tiOns they were without plan. In a
matter involving the partial divorce of
federal office from personal and partisan
politics in this state, they were without
principle. In matter involving in
tricate considerations of party strata
gem, they were without scheme The
mass of them supported the president,
but no less than IL failed TO vote, OIL
voted on the wrong side, and thus threw
the whole control of the republican or
ganization in New York into the hands
of one of the most cunning politicians
in the country, giving him, as capital
to work with, the prestige of success in
the Senate and the federal patronage OF
the Empire State. They chose to aban-
don the man who has spent his whole
term of office thus far in carrying out
democratic purposes, and allied them
selves with the open enemies of that
moderation, charity and justice, which
have recently been introduced into pol
itics and have transformed the face OF
them. Truly, there something con-
temptible about the whole transaction
[From the Boston Journall
The whole significance of the event
of Wednesday lies in what is to come
chiefly in the spirit, to be shown oil
both sides. The president can so con-
duct himself as to convince the country
that he is disinterestedly pursuing the
course required by the Cincinnati plat.
form and his own avowed principles, ol
he may show himself obstinate anG
combative. The majority of republican
senators, also, may evince desire fol
harmony with the president so far al
they consistently can, or they may
make their present attitde the begin-t
ming of an Overbearing and aggressiv,
attitude toward Mr.. Hayes and hi
cabinet.
| From the Boston Transcript
The president should not give hair
Let him infiexibly cling to the purpos,
of maintaining the perfect independents,
of the executive as a means to an i'm
proved civil service, and the people vii
stand by him without reference to til,
senatorial triumvirate.
[From the Boston Herald.]
The only New England senator wht
fought to put down the rebellion voted
to sustain the president yesterday Tb,
New England senator who was inter
ested in army contracts voted agains
Mr.. Hayes.