The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-18

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tration. And who does not look kindly upon
it? A few Of the disconnected carpet-bag
barons of the republican party pout and
fret and swear revenge, even as did the lead
ers of old feudal France when Richelieu
made his new departure and resolved that
the Kingdom should have no king but the
King That was the beginning of the great
ness of France. And it may be that the
greatness of our country will date from the
intrepid Chief Magistrate who, in the inter-
est of his country, was brave enough to dcfy
the very men to whom he owed his power.
The policy of President Hayes will only
reach its fruition when he lays down creed
for new party md calls around him as his
Cabinet new men. He is opposed by Blaine
and the fanatical republicans. Let him seek
the aid of patriotic republicans.
We can understand why the Camerons,
the Buffers and the Blaines will resent the
course of the President. They feel that the
President is the child of their begetting;
that he sprang from their loins; that he owes
them filial duty and respect. Under the or
binary conditions Of political life this resent
ment would be natural. In all representa-
tive governments party discipline and party
honors are respected. If Lord Harrington
came into power tomorrow he would seek
the aid of Bright and Lowe and Forster.
The accession of Disraeli means the access
sion of Derby and Hardy and Northcote
When Polk became President every one
knew it meant the elevation of Marcy
and Buchanan and Walker. When Lin
coin took Office he called to his side
the gentlemen who had been his rivals
for the nomination to the Presidency. He
sought the aid of the party leaders. Grant
had q military idea about Cabinet as staff,
and the persistence with which he chung to
it injured his administration. According
to the presidents OF Legislative government
the natural Cabinet for Hayes would have
been Brstow and Conkling. Morton and
Blame. These were his rivals in the Con-
vention These were the leaders of the
party. If any one of them had been nomi-
mated and elected Hayes would have ex-
pected q summons to the Cabinet. In point
of ability, eloquence, political force and ex-
perience in public affairs we do not think
that any even Of the fatterers of the Presi-
dent would call him the equal OF Morton,
Conkling or Blaine. To throw aside these
men was q revolutionary and dangerous
step-one that could only be defended upon
the highest grounds Of duty to the nation.
We think the course of the President de-
feasible upon the very highest grounds.
We do not care much about the cries of the
reformers-- their defamation of men whose
only offence is, if the truth were known,
that they are in Office. The Bristow reform
movement which ran for n few weeks last
summer was o good deal like the Dutch
tulip mania, and camo to as ludicrous on
end. The reformers ran after Bristow as
though he were a witch who could reform
the country by riding over it on broom.
It was n movement without a head or q
tail--a few sentimentalists and transcen-
dentalists running mad after one of the
lightest and most frivolous experiments in
public life If Mr.. Hayes had made his
administration an echo of this absurd
affair no would have shown a lamentable
want of judgment. But he saw that the
Bristow movement was straw showing the
direction of the wind-that the time had
come to take new departure. He must
either become the creature of Senatorial
ring, pulled this way by Blaine and the
fanatical republicans, and the other way by
Conkling and the patriotic republicans, or
assert himself and be President. He saw
that the republican party was dead that the
fanatics had killed it that the party of Lin
coin and Seward and Chase was now leased
out to knot of adventures who commanded
the Senate and meant to command the coun-
try. He saw that new issues were taking
shape. He saw that the country was weary
of the Southern question weary of these
cries of war in time of peace; weary of the
drum-beats and the marching of armed
men. He saw that both parties were
corrupt, cankcred, rotten. He saw that
behind these parties was vast,
pious, patriotic public opinion, anxious
to find political expression This pub
lie opinion did not want the democratic
party because of it's disloyalty during the
war, its corruptions in New York, its here
sizes on finance. 1t did not want the fanat-
ical republican party because of corruptions
in Washington, because of failures in the
South and civil service reform. The new
President put himself at the head Of this
opinion and said as he now says to the
country:-T propose to give you high
minded, honest, thoroughly American adj
ministration, and call upon oil men. with
out regard to party-upon you, Messrs.
Conkling and Edmunds and Hoar, upon
Gordon to support me, and bring once more
to the country an era of peace and good
feeling"
No President ever set out on his work