The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-18
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
The True Inwardness of MIR. Hayes
Southern Policy.
He Does Not Want Amy Third Party in
His,
The Democrat Promised A Nice Suit for
libel,

President seems to have spent its force, or q It |
least to have abated some part Of that wild fury
which characterized its first onsau ght-no' un- , ;
like charge of Bsshi B u uks upon defenseless
Bulgarian village. As yet there are no results
to record. beyond the appointment of Tem An
derson Collector OF the Pors of Nav Orleans
that is to ssy-wsll, it amounts TO tho same
thing When | tesgtaphed you ''the slatt"
week ago, there was . prospect that the appoint
ments suggested iu it would be made
WITHIN TEN DAYS,
bnt now there seems to be q hitch, and the
whole batch is lu1g up for tbs present. OF
O urse there is no to ling what day may bring
forth. but the chances are that it will take SOW
eral days to bring firth the new slate Of Federal
patronage in Louisiana. Que thing, however, Is
assured. The Federal patronage of the South ia
to be distributed on q strict party basis, and
NO CONSERVATIVE NEED APPLY.
| Indeed, there is good reason for asserting thai
| il the present Postmaster General should roeign
the isolated position which he holds-or, in other
words, escape from the state Of siege in which he
il held Republican would be appointed in his
place so quick it would make your head swim.
Not that the President has weakened on what is
called his Southern policy, but he has lately
reached the conclusion that the best thing he
can do is to sliok TO his party, while the best
thing that can happen Is to have
HIS PARTY STICK TO HIN.
| IF he ever entertained any notion OF smashing
things generally and organizing new party out
of tho debris, that notion WAS dream inspired by
the ducet whispers OF sohurx aud Stanley Mat
| or,1 bau bnav 1aIy al ial byt tI,1
harsh disoords that Blaine and Ben Wade struck
the keynote of. and that still growing in ugly
undertones through the editorials OF the New
York Tnes, Chicago Inter- Ocean and other ortho-
dox organs. Moreover the Pres dent has
been to some extent dshesrteuel aud most
utterly disappointed by the reception
which his Garfield movement encountered
in the S1uFh, aud hs msrvels 10 This moment
why il was that the Southern men declined to
transfer to Garfield the good will they expressed
toward Charles Foster. He does not sesm to
comprehend that the average Southern man il a
siokler for individual manhood, ani not such q
devotee Of measures" that he can lose sight OF
the ''mon" who may bs get up rs their exponents.
Fancy the feelings OF our good hearted and over
genial President when, having held hi, fri5nd
| Garfield out to the South on
| THE END OF A SILVER FORK,
the South flung the unsavory, not to say putrii,
mass OF oil polite " and nearly all psrs ,na, vile
meas imaginable back into his fsoe. with the
modest deolination, "Not any Garfield in on n.
thank you
The South looted up,n HsFes' new policy in
its true light as dspsnsation of simple justice
long delayed, anl WAS g'stsFul. IL a man has
Iov Iyou ton Ar,i1a a1yvsv fail hatt In
wards hila af5ee he has phil l. than whilo il WA
still due and unpaid AMI il You ha1 set II down
on the wron, siie OF profit ali Loss s5 a bal
debt, you feel still greater gratitude when your
debtor, whom you had given W fox dead beat,
unexpectedly o1mes up and hsnls ysu tho small
sum which You had given up for lost. Bu5 be-
cause he has psid you this debt you do not f0el
like turning around and m skiny him dssd Of
your prop srty- ali your possessions mich like
saying to him "Here, my good frieni, you have
at last bsen hoaest with mo- let m in turn sacri-
foe my honar in 80 re wsy to do you serviee! !'
Or, to put the boot on the o5her leg, suppose
the debtor after having discharged his debt
should say, "Dehold, my dear fellow, have paid
you what owed you. Now, havs friend who
is thief, and want you to give him an oppor-
tunty to ST. al something; you can hardly refuse
so small favor as to enter into conspiracy with
my friend who ia q thief, sioce I have been so
gracious as to pay you what owed you "
In the ordinary affairs of life Such q request
would not be likely to m aet with much favor.
And yet the Presidents desire that the Soutl,
should
ELECT GARFIELD SPEAKER
WAS not less absurd in a political point of view
bo a
business transaction. The President simply
paid the South a debt of long standing, debt
which even his stubborn and despotic predeces,
sor had acknowledged in equity long ago; and
then he turned blandly and asked the South to
support for the highest and most honorable
place in the gift OK the representatives OF the
, people this Garfield who. in the eyes OF all de-
cent, honest men, stands the hatefullest and de.
spisablest OF public characters in any party or
Of any persuasionl
On these and other accounts the Presidents
views have been some what modified, and his in
tentions as to policy somewhat narrowed OF late.
He has given up the idea of rsviving the Old
Limo Whig, aud concluded to
STICK TO THE MODERN REPUBLICAN
for his political eompanionship. He reaches out
after that unsubstantial parsonage called the
/ Liberal Republican, and pulls him back into the
. regular party basket on hook baited with a
postotice or consulate; but he has quit casting
his lge into the deep, still pool where the Demo
cratic fish swim. He says they only nibble; con-
found them, they won't bite; they have got away
with the bait every time, and he has to fish care
fully, or they W II get the hook and line, too!
Thus recently Conservative friend OF the
, President went to see him, simply to pay his re
spects, and without waiting for an inquiry or
that subject his Excellency brsnched out upor
J the subject OF
FEDERAL PATRONAGE IN THE SOUTH.
81 have made up my mind, ne said, ''to be
stow the Offices Ia my gilt exclusively upon mer
who worked for the success of the Republican
party in the late campaign. I shall try to selec
those Republicans who are most accep able to tn
body OF the people. but shall seIact in All CASES