The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-05-24
Has n GOT Down to This,

Thursday, /: ::.: May 24, 1877.
Has II Got Down to This.
To an enthusiastic admrer and supporter of
Hayes policy, as we are, it is aggravating to
hear the grumblng and fault finding so preva-
lent throughout the country. We are SO tickled
with his policy, that We can't sleep well of nights,
and frequently get up out of bed to give three
cheers for his policy, and hold regular joiifca-
ton. We see it clearly, that we shall have to
fight somebody, if they don't let the President
alone. We were never madder in our life, than
we were the other day, to hear the remarks OF
man digger than ourselO who calls himself
Republican. We presume he has voted the Re
publican ticket, for the pitful little period OF
twenty years or so; but that's all-he has never
tried to reform things, or to conciliate. He has
never gathered around him a crowd of Greeley
ties. sore heads, adventures, rebels, and Demo-
erats to help him carry out the principles of the
Republican platform, and in the interest of Re-
form and conciliatiou. Here is the substance of
the groxl that this fellow got off:
Said he: Europe is on the verge of war per-
hsps greater than the world has ever seen, which
may involve every European nation, and it will
strong naval force on hand, to protect its citi-
Gems and its commerce; but the United States
navy is crippled and helpless, and no authority
or money to put it in order. We are threatened
with q war on the Mexican border, and another
with the Mormons, to say nothing OF Indian
troubles; and the army 10 being rapidly reduced,
because Congress appropriated nothing to pay 1t.
The Supreme Court of the United States has been
compelled TO adjourn, to the neglect OF important
business, because there was not sufficient appro-
priation to keep it running; the Grand Jury Of
of the United States District Court at ST. Louis,
which was engaged in the investigation Of gigan-
tic frauds and other crimes against the Govern
ment, has been compelled to dissolve, because Of
the want of funds to pay it; and the United
States Courts ali over the Union have been noti-
fed by the Attorney General to cut their terms
short and to let all the bushes 60 over, because
! there are no funds to pay the expenses. On ev-
1 cry side there is danger, and everywhere the
public service is suffering in all its branches, be-
cause Congress did not appropriate money to
keep the wheels in motion and there is o law OF
Congress positively forbidding the head of any
Department from allowing its expenditures in
any fiscal year to exceed the amount appropriat-
ed for special purposes during that year, or to
enter into any contract or agreement obligating
the Government to pay any money that has not
previously been appropriated. At this critical
juncture, the President postpones for four months
an extra session of Congress, which it was deemed
necessary to convene for the purpose of making
4 appropriations to carry on the Government, be-
oesss Rs has reason to fear that his Southern policy
,ciu be criticised and attacked by members Of his orn
party In Coasress!
/ Should man who talks that way, have the
/ cheek to call himself Republican, But the
President knows what he is about. He talks,
too. OF course, he doesn't say much about the
crippled condition of every department of the
Government but he does talk of the good results
that are to como of his Southern policy. He says
that at the next election, North Carolina and
Tennessee viii, 60 Republican, and that South
Carolina and Louisiana will be Republican
States. His policy will break down the color
line, and the old Wings, who were in hopeless
minority in every Southern State, will rally and
make the South Republican. He also predicts,
that at the next election, Wade Hampton will be
the Republican Candidate for Governor. Hayes
says this, and as an earnest supporter of him, we
believe every word of it.
4 But there are growlers and skeptics on this
| proposition, as well as the matters spoken Of
/ above. Stubbornly shutting their eyes to the
| fact that the United States steamar Plymouth
/ recently had q grand reception at Natchez, in
which the blue and the gray fraternally mingled,
| the gray even giving the blue precedence-Gf
I any man should presume to ask why the gray is
/ still 90 sacredly retained when the blue is the
national color, and pacifcation is complete be is
liarl)-they perversely refer to the fact that,
about the same time in the same State, the color
line was broken down, and white men were as
i sassinated for being Republicans, and young
and beautiful girl was shot down while trying to
shield her wounded father; and that the assas-
sins placed guard the house, to prevent as
4 sistance coming to those wounded persons, in
consequence of which the girls wounds gangren.
ed, causing her DEATH These croakers have the
impudence to point to these things that have
followed pacifcation, when we have the assur-
ance of Hayes that the color line is broken down
h an that the South will be Republican. They al
30 insolently points to the boasts of Southern pa
pers, that Hayes has divided the Republican
I party of the North, which will enable the "solid
II South to unite with the Democracy of the North
and sweep the Republican party from power in
1880. They have the hardhood to throw up to
US, knowing we are q warm supporter of Hayes
policy, that the Hampton Legislature of South
Carolina refused to allow any Republican mem.
bers who were fairly elected, to take their seats
until they had publicly apologized for having
taken seats in the Republican Legislature; that
the members from Fairfield, the strongest Repub
lican District in the State, were expelled for re-
fusing to do this, and that the County elected
Democratic members by an overwhelming major
ty the Republicans feeling it to be useless to e
to the polls. All this they tell US, in spite of the
fact that Hayes tells us South Carolina will be
Republican, and that Hampton will be the Re
Il publican candidate for Governor. He 10 positive
that the Southern people are becoming Republi-
s cans because over ten Thousand of them have
asked him for appointments to office, within the
past few weeks! Hayes knows, and We stand by
him.
These growlera and msliguers further say, that
Hayes appointed one of the Packard Supreme
Judges of Louisiana to the $4,000 Collectorshr
ut New Orleans, which he accepted, thereby de
stroying the quorum Of the Republican Suprems
& of h. Ctsfa and rap1.r;pn hls