The daily gazette., 1877-10-10
"a ~..s.tAll True.
From the Dover Delawarean.l


The Republican papers of this State
are wonderfully silent Ia reference to the
policy of Mr.. Hayes and his cabinet, both
as it regards the South and his Civil Ser
vice order. Twelve months ago every
Radical paper in the State denounced the
white men in the Southern States in un-
measured terms. and defended the mill
tary measures of Grant and Cameron to
control elections in South Carolina aud
Louisiana. The Republican State Con-
yention. last year, by formal resolutions,
justified the Grant Cameron policy to-
ward the South, and every Radical sheet
In the State fully approved and endorsed
the utterances of that Convention. Some
Of them went further than the Conven-
| tiOn and exhibited an irreconcilable ha-
tired to leading Southern men, and would
have approved the hanging of not few
of them. - Bau9 sgtf
Wade Hampton had his full share Of
abuse, and Chamberlain was held up, as
model statesman of irreproachable lire
and spotless reputation. Even the gross.
palpable frsiids of the corrupt returning
boards were justified by the Republican
papers of this State. and no wrong, how
ever great, which could possibly ard in
the defeat of Mr.. Tilden, was condemn
go. For the first time in the history OF
the Republic the expressed will of the
people OF the country in the choice OF
their chief executive officer was, by the
most unblushing fraud, defeated and
oyerthrown, and man installed in office
who had been rejected by the votes OF
his countrymen.
Against this wrong no Republican pa
per IN this State entered its protest. On
the contrary they endorsed and approved
it. There seems, however, sometimes to
be providence in political history. No
sooner had Hayes, by "ways that are
dark" been invested with power than he
began to disappoint his friends aud please
his enemies. Accepting, in the language
of Senator Morton, ''the inevitable,
doubtless from the conviction that the
people would no longer tolerate the mil
ltary oppression kept up by Grants ad
ministration, as well as from desire t.
conciliate the Democracy that he knew
had been wronged and cheated, ant
might find, before his term of Office hat
expired, The means of avengiug tina
wrong, he ordered the removal of TIN
Federal troops from the State Houses il
Charlestown and New Orleans, and LET
the Chamberlain and Packard govern
ments to perish of their own weakness.
!. This was, doubtless, displeasing to th
Radicals of this State, who had so vocif
. erously cheered Grant and Cameron
, while pursuing a different course, but M
one Of their organs in this State has ven
tured to express decided opposition Il
anything Hayes has done, nor do the Re
publican papers openly approve eithe
his Southern policy of his Civil Servic
+ order. What Is the reason there ha
been no independence exhibited by thes
papers? Ale they waiting to see tn
drift of Republican opinion in othe
States or In Congress, when it meets
before they have any opinions of thei
own TO express Verify there is timid
ity observable in their silence which ar
fgues servility or cowardice, discreditabl
to independent journalism. Perhap
when the offices are all given away il
this State the paddock will be remove,
from many lips, and restrained wratl
may find vent In The columns of the Re
publican press.