New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-03

President Hayess popularity among this class of poll
ticans is apparently greater than at any other time
since his inauguration. The very same men who
less than ten days ago so positively asserted that
the President had allowed the one golden oppor-
tunity of his to pass. in their elation seem to
have forgotten that they doubted the Presidents
sincerity.
The satisfaction of the Southern Democrats is more
than offset by the indignation and disappointment
of the Southern Republicans and their Northern
sympathzers. 1t is useless to repeat the hard things
which these men have been saying yesterday and
to-day about President Hayes and his Admin
istration. They affect never to have believed
until within the last 4S hours that it Is
part of the Presidents policy to desert they call
1t, his only friends in the South, and to turn them
over TO the mercy of their Democratic adversarieS.
They predict that the Republican party or
ganizatOn in the Cotton States will disappear and
that the effect of this alleged treachery will be
great upon the Republican vote of the North that
Ohio will give Democratic majority of more than
10000 next FALL They 90 further and predict that
other stanch Republican States will follow its
ample.
One of the most prominent of the South Carolina
Republicans remarked yesterday that the fatal mis-
take of President Hayes's Southern policy is to
expect anything from the conservative element of
party he said, has been an unbroken series Of vic
tories under the lead of the radicals and of defeats
under the lead of the conservatives. The radicals
i'll his opinion are the only men who will do the
necessary work of organization, either in the North
or the South. This policy of the President,
he believes, will ALLEVIATE from The Administration
all the radical element; and while it may secure
the more enthusiastic support of the conservatives,
that support will be limited in its effect SIM
ply by the number of votes which it casts.
But" he continued, "the Republican party did not
need to change its policy in order to the snp
port of conservative men. The universal experience
of the party has been that while the conservatives
may not have fully approved the policy of the party
at any Time they have invariably voted its ticket.
This was the case in 1872, and again in 1876. when
the bloody shirt, slandered as that garment has
BEEN saved the election to the Republicans
These same Southern radicals are also predicting
terrible state of affairs in South Carolina for the
next year. They most positively assert that not
a single Northern Republican will dare to remain
in the State; and that the negro, in spite
Of Wade Hampton's most solemn pledges, Will
be subjected to the most grinding oppression. In
support of this theory they point to the acts passed
hy the Legislature of South Carolina ten years ago.
during the admnstraton&f Gov. Orr. They de-
clare that the same men, with the principles and
passions, who passed those laws and undertook to
put them into execution will now be in power.
1t may be said, however, that no prominent mem
Der Of the Administration anticipates anything oil
the kind. Gov. HaTptOns visit TO Washington has
done much TO strengthen the confidence of leading
Administration Republicans in the honesty of his
purpose and ms ability to fulfill his promises