Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-03-01
WASHINGTON, Feb. 81, 1877,

AS i Wrlte, tue ueCiSlOH OF the III
Hight oint Electoral Tribunal is an
nounced in the famous case of the
American People versus Cronin's Cau-
Gus. All the democrats, Judges, Sem
ators and Representatives--voted that
Cronin should elect the next Presi.
dent and the Republicans - Judges,
Senators aud Representatives. voted
to sustain the rights of the American
People to choose their Chief Magis.
trate.
The votes at this Tribunal have
sh own the folly of ever expecting any
decision, excepting partizan decision,
from any intelligent group of Ameri.
can citizens in an issue involving pol
itical ideas or supremacy. 1t is not facts
that influence men so much IS theo-
ries. Senator Bayard is an honor
able man and so is Senator Nor.
ton; but both are men of intel.
ligence, and both are equally earnest
partizans and in every dispute into
which party questions enter they vote
every time with their political allies
There is nothing either wrong or dis.
honest in their actions; because it is
founded on different views of life.
Conservatives resist progress radicals
insist on progress; conservatives re-
in motion. life. Hence, they must al-
ways regard the same facts as having
a totally or at least widely different
significance. The American who is
not partzan is derelict to his duty
to the public. Every American ought
to be politician. Instead of pridlng
himself on abstaining from politics the
American who does so proclaims his
own shame. All intelligent men take
either the progressive or the conserva-
tive view of life, and rs it colors every
act and thought their decisions are
necessarily partizan--w whether they are
called Senator's or Judges or Congress
men. Hence comes the fact that one
man decided the late contest. The
democrats desired Cronin to decide it
the radical Republicans desired Ferry
to decide it; aud the conservative
Republicans elected Bradley who de-
cided it. One man did it. It was a
narrow escape.
Hayes and His Task.
Hayes stands at the beginning ola
great career. To no man has the New
World entrusted a more sacred or
greater task. AS he shall deal with
the Southern problem, his memory
shall be cursed or crowned in the an
nails of the coming ages-fiung among
the cobwebs, the Pierces and the Bu-
chanans, or exalted among the stars,
the Washingtons and Lincolns.
Let us give him strong support,
but not blind support. 1t is only by
frank and friendly criticism that errors
can be avoided in party, and reform
within it made possible.
Cabinet Making.
Everybody is engaged in making
cabinets for President Hayes. As it
is barely possible that the new Presi-
dent may take hand in this game
himself, and win, it is hardly worth
the trouble to chronicle these guesses
or the probable programme. There is
ono new feature in these schenings.
Two Sections claim. and justly claim
a Cabinet representation-the Pacific
Coast and the South. The Pacific
Coast is hungering for the Interior
Department. / trust it will not get
that portfolio; although it is entitled to
seat in the Cabinet. The Indian
Bureau is a division of the Interior
Department, aud the public sentiment
of the Pacific Coast is hostile to the
red man. It's average opinion is that
all the bad Indians should be killed
and that all the good Indians are dead
already. We have been cruel enough,
long enough, to the aboriginal Amer
leans. No man should be permitted
to enter the Interior who is not a
friend of the Indian and ready always
to throw the whole power of the
Government between him and his
enemies.
The Southern Republicans.
The Southern Republicans-each
of the three classes of them-are work
ing for representation in the Cabi-
net. Alcorn of Mississippi, and Set
tie of North Carolina, are presented
as candidates for the Southern native
white Republicans. Both are able
men, brave, and OF stainless integrity.
They would do honor to the party
Both were in the rebel army; both are
of old Southern antilles; both are men
of property aud standing in their re
spective States; both were wealthy
shareholders in the days of the 'pe-
culiar Institution;" both, as soon as
the war closed, publicly identified
themselves with the Republican par
ty, and have fought its battles ever
since. Settle has recently accepted
the position of u. S. District Judge
in Florida, and this fact, although he
has not vet assumed it's duties, rather:
favors the union of the Southern Re-
publieans on Alcorn. We ought to
give him the position. AS party,
we have used the Southern Republic
cans shamefully; and, as they saved us
at the last election, it is time to ac-
knowledge our offences against them
by honoring one of their representa-
| tive men.
Selling Out The Southern Republicans.
And yet there are Republican pol
iticians here so utterly depraved in
heart and scared IN conscience that
they cody recommend that Hayes
shall give Cabinet position to some
Southern Democrat-Ben Hill of Geor-
gia, for example, Lamar, of Misslssip-
ri Brown, of Tennessee, or Hancock OF
Texas: Hill, the defender of the con.
duct of the Confederate officers at
Andersonville; Lamar, who talks OF
peace here in Washington but never
raised word of protest against the
atrocities of the Mississippi campaign
in which assassination was organized
into q system and eliminated in his
election TO the Senate; Hancock, a
bitter Democrat, whose only claim to
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