The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-11-19
'RltIlnlol1a Dlspatth.
soNDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1877.
The president--The Situation.

shirt Radicals artery NOT liking the iieSt-
dents conciliatory policy, because 1t is fatal
to them, since they can maintain their
hold on power only by the pcrpetua'ion OF
sectional hate, they desire to Illustrate that
policy. CoNKLrNG, BLAlSE, and EpaeNbs'
have uncovered their plan. 1t IS 10 or'ns
the nac;fc policy into contempt among he
pubIcans by first assailing the appoint
mcrts Of Democrats, and, second, by de-
handing the complaints against those he
n,,b,ic,n o.ice-holders suspended for moi
complying with the Presidents cIvi'-ser-
yicc-rcform rules. simultaneously with this
movement the proceedings upon the LOUISE
ana case. in tho Senate are intended to 90
as much as possible not only to bolster up
the Radical rule in the Senate, but to revive
the decsying sectional hates so profitable to
RadicaliSm. ..| 'sI.s...
This Is all, we believe, that the extremists
have to GO upon in their war upon Mr..
HAYES. And what OF it? 1t seems to us
nothing beyond little annoyance to the
President and complete defeat OF the
bloody Radicals. The question OF Demo-
cratic appointments is failure already; for
it HIS been found impossible to combine all
the Republican senators upon it, and their
majority is so small that without unanimity
defeat follows necessarily. The practical
and deliberate senators know that the time
when the Democrats will rule IS too near 1T
hand to render il safe to wage any intolerant
war on the President for appointing Demo-
Gratis. Besides. the Presidents acts in the
very few appointments OF that character are
entirely defensible. So to the unforgiving
and ultra partisans led by CoNKLlSG will
only be left the liberty OF growing and
murmuring. On this point they have al
ready sgnally failed.
The suspension Of obstinate officc-hold-
ers who refused TO obey the Presidents
regulations, and in refusing looked to the
Senate. led by BLAINE and CoSKLlNG, for
support. will be approved. The PreSl-
dents ciyil-servicc reform is approved by
large portion OF the Radical party, and even
if that were questionable it would be very
serious matter for the Senate. = coordinate
department, to interfere to bring contempt
uton the Executive by rendering futile an
order relatiag 10 the officials under his au-
,hority. 1t would indeed be most serious
matter, and there are some senators on the
Radical side who will not be party to any
sucb interference. Itwould BET poor gov
eminent. indeed. where al arrogant, pre-
sumptuoss Senate could parayze the au-
1hority OF the Chief Executive over his
snbalterns. So that the CoSKLING war is
doomed to failure, as, indeed, it has
been shown to be in the caucuSses OF the
conspirators, as they really are-consnrinS
against the Executive Department.
What was the real point attempted by the
bloody Radicals: To draw the Republican
party from the President, AMI to leave him
alone to brood over his loneliness or to
submit and kiss the bloody rod. This was
most absurd idea, engendered by AFRO
eance, vanity, and malice combined. The
ultras should have known that it was impos-
Sible to draw more than small part of the
Republican party from Nj. HAYES. The
most that they could have done in this way
would have been to leave him in minority
in the Senate. In the House the Republic
can party itself is in Il minority, and to
break down the very small majority OF Re-
pubIicans in the Senate by dividing it with
regard to Mr.. HAYES was only to throw Mr..
HAYES almost entirely upon the Democratic
party, thus separating him with reference
to controlling acts OF legislation from the
party which elected him to the presidency.
Was there ever an act of party madness
more absurd and suicidal than that would
be? .....
President HAYES stands upon solid ioun-
dations. He has the right and justice on
his side, and he has the power aud the pa
tronage Of the Government to reinforce
himself with, and that power and patron
age guarded by the sympathy and alliance
OF the Democrats, who are now in the ma
iority in the House and soon will be in the
Senate. If the attack upon President
HAYES may not be compared to an assault
upon Gibraltar with a pocket-pistol there
are indeed few things that may. -
The Democrats occupy a position that
cannot be damaged save by the most i'll
advised and unwise action on their part.
They are steadily being invigorated by
every act of intolerance and vindictiveness
OF the bloody-shirt' Radicals. So is Mr..
HAYES strengthened by all such manifesto
tons. His policy has impaired too much
satisfaction to the people, too much order
and thrift TO the domestic economy OF the
country, to permit any disturbing inflA-
ences-such as the irreconcilable Radicals
NAV produce-to unsettls its successful
tide. There is daily beauty in that which
makes all ultra adicalism hideously ugly.
We say, therefore, that there is no damage
to flow from the acts OF the irate Radical sena-
tors to Mr.. HAYES, and none to the Demo.
Gratis. The Republican party will probably
discover that it will not be wise in them to
press Mr.. HAYES too far, and they may with
draw from the CoSKLING war, in which case
the followers Of the vain and foolish men who
got it up will see that they have driven the
party in the wrong observation-disclosures Mr..
HAYES instead OF themselves !
The peace policy, we repeat is destructive
TO the war party-the party OF persecution
and outrage upon the Constitution. 1t will
eliminate the more sensible and cQnside-
rate-the more just and civil-of Republicans
from the irreconcilable and vindictive. This
will no oro,f for tho pood o9 tho TTnion