Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-04-28
Hayes Abandonment of Party.

Hayes Abandonment of Party.
The n. y. SIM says Wendell
Phillips has a right to demand to b.
heard by the Republican party
Before that party was organized III
had urged for years the principles Il
which it owe, its existence. Since it,
formation he has been foremost il
the work of giving practical effect tt
the idea on which the party wa.
founded. He had made many enc
mics by the sharpness of his tongue
but no enemy of his has ever CUES
toned the sincerity Of his utterances
or ever doubted the honesty of his
motives. Before the war, during the
war, and after the war, he has pre-
served a singleness of action which
can proceed only from entire unset
f.hness. His purpose has been the
purpose Of Republican party-the
Liberation of the slaves, their enfran-
chiScmcnt, and the assurance of civil
AMI religious rights under the con-
, stitutional amendments. His heart
has never blel for the poor African
becauscd he desired power for him.
self or wanted Offices for his friends.
This record, more even than the
vigor Of his thoughts and the poig-
nancy Of his rhetoric, gives promi-
ncncc TO Mr. Phillips scorchin9 in
dictmcnt of the man for whom he vot-
dior President. 1t is not possible to
misunderstood Mr.. Phillips. There
is no ambiguity about his words.
Half Of what Grant gained for us
at Appomattox,' he says, Hayes
surrendered ut Washington on the
9TH of March" The surrender of
the other half he believes to be only
question of time and of barter. II
hold Hayes responsible for his
friends, SAYS Mr.. Phillips, "when
they sold him out to the white South.
The bargain is plain. On the one
side The Democrats were to stop fill
clustering and let Hayes be counted
in. On the other side his friends
agreed to withdraw the troops; sec
ond. tn recognize Nicho Island Hamp-
tot as Governors; third. to charter
thc southern Pacific Railway, giving
away millions of national acres and
millions of national bonds. This
last item won Jay Gould and his
pocket-piece, the Tribune. We shall
see the bargain carried out soon.
This delay and this commission are
only to let us down easy and accus-
tom the public mind to the descent.
There is, we say, no ambiguity about
this charge. 1t is direct and explicit.
Tou an expression of Mr.. Phillips,
he must feed on moonshine who
thinks that it means anything else
than that Hayes has abandoned the
Black Republicans who put him in
power.
No doubt Mr.. Phillips expresses
tho feelings of large majority of the
Republican party. "Blaine and the
bloody shirt elected Hayes" says he.
Maine and Vermont, New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio, contains hun
dreds of thousands of voters who be-
lieve with him that the twelve years
which have elapsed since the war,
have not secured all that they desire
to secure. 1t is easy to underestimate
the strength and extent of this senti-
ment. Mr.. Phillips knows how
strong and extensive it is, and appeals
to it with confidence that the response
will be certain, whether prompt or
tardy.
The leading Republican journal of
the country has already perceived the
danger which turks behind Hayes
abandonment of Republican ideas.
The Times has sustained peculiar re-
lations to Mr. Hayes ever since its
early announcement of his election,
and is obviously restrained from
the frankness of expression which
IN .kes Mr.. Phillips speech SO remark
able. Nevertheless, the editorial
sounds like an alarm bell in the night.
The Times warns Mr.. Hayes that the
withdrawal of the Federal troops
from the support of Chamberlain is
"a complete abandonment of a posi-
ton heretofore held by Republican
party rs n consequence of the recon-
struc,ion policy" 1t sees and says
that the abandonment Of Packard
must logically follow; and it sees,
but does not say that the abandon
ment of Packard implies the ADAM
donment of the only colorado claim
which Hayes has to the office now
held by him. The Times hope that
the consequences of the irrevocable
concession already made in the South
Carolina case will not prove disas-
trous to the party seems faint indeed,
when contrasted with it's apprehen-
sion of a contrary result. Our Re-
publican neighbor is more guarded
in it's expressions than Mr.. Phillips
was, but the Times article is not less
significant than the Philadelphia
speech.