The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-05-29

ever assistance he can render will always
be available to aid the party in its strug-
gle to overthrow the common enemy.
The idea of building up third party, or
Hayes party, independent of Republi-
cans, either in the North or South, has
never entered his head. He especially
dislikes the suggestion of the term
"Hsyes' Southern policy" and looks upon
1t as the policy of Justice and necessity in
the interests Of fpropriety end peace"
These views, We are assured, very fully
and tfuthfully express the feelings and
attitude of the President toward his
party.
There never has been any good reason
to donbt his fealty to party, or adjudge
him Indifferent to his party relations and
friends. - -.- NJ az
Yet We have the anomalous condition
Of q Republican President shaping his
administration after . Democratic plat.
form; succeeding Republican President
and yet at variance with bis predecessor;
depending for support upon the leaders
of the party which elected him, if he was
elected, and yet combating them, and
opposed by them upon sll the leading
questions of the day; in short, Mr..
HAYES, is q republican, avowing his ad.
herence to the republican party, claimed
by the republicans as their President, re-
pudiated BY the democra 8, and yet plac-
ing himself, as President, in direct oppo-
sition to the platform upon which it s
claimed he was elected
Yet there is more easy and natural
explanation OF this anomoly than putting
it on the ground that Mr.. HAYES In
tends or desires to abandon his party.
Mr.. HAYES has abandoned the policy
of his party-the policy on which his
campaign for the Presidency was fought,
and the policy which the Republican
leaders, such as MORTON and BLAINE,
are still endeavoring to maintain and
promot-yst he has not and will not
abandon his party. He was inaugurated
President with an undisputed majority
OF the popular vote against him. What
ever may be claimed by him and his
party rs to the electoral vote, he and
they know and concede that the voice of
the people was against him. 1t was but
an act of self preservation, therefore, for
Mr.. HAYES to abandon his party and
Its policy 30 far as to carry
out the will of the people 30 clearly
manifested in the result of the cam
paign. To have done otherwise would
have been to stultity himself and destroy
every hope Of success for his Administra-
tion. Even Senator MORTON, with all
his dogmatism and partisan blindness, is
willing to conceds this. He says, IN
his late letter:
awhile in my judgment it was clearly
the right of the President, under the
Constitution, to recognize the Packard
government and support it by military
power, the undertaking would have been
futile and failure disastrous; with divided
public opinion in his own party and both
Houses of Congress against him, he
would have failed in the end. The
Democratic House has power to
destroy the army entirely, and from my
knowledge of the Senate, am sure the
Republican majority of that body could
hardly Do relied on to support him in
such a course. We have had so much
talk about cancellation a1d fraternity
that many we'll meaning people in the
North had come to believe sll that was
necessary to secure tranquility and equal
rights il the South was to withdraw the
army, the Republicans to abandon the
struggle, and commit 3he government TO
the white Democrats OF those states
There has been very prevalent dis
position IN the Democratic party and
with the Democratic press to count much
on Mr.. HAYES. But 30 far as he is in &C.
cord with the Democratic policy, he
has simply been yielding to necessity
he has succumbed to an overwhelming
public sentiment. And it will appear,
when these issues OF the campaign that
were decided against him, have all been
acted upon and disposed of As dictate 1
by the people, Mr.. HAYES will be found
acting as hsrmoniously with his party,
and shaping the campaign Tor Re-
publican successor with as much zeal as
though there had been no jar in the fam
ily. Even now the mutterings of the
extremists and dissenters are dying away,
and they are gracefully trimming their
sails in prospects of smooth sea and
pleasant sailing with their doubtful cap.