The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-26
REPUBLICAN RECONCILIATION.
ME-. HAYES sURRENDERs To Ru,AINE
AND THE EOLD-FAsHIONED
RADICALS.
The Republican Party to be Reorganized
on Its Old Platform of a solid North
Against a solid south,

| EBBITT HOUSE, !
] .s Washington, October %, 1877.
Betweensohn Sherman Stanley Matthews,
the Returning Board. Civil Service Reform the
New Orleans Custom House and the Democratic
party poor Mr. Hayes is having harder time
than any man has ever had since the memora-
ble night when st. Peter tried to make himself
solid with the Roman soidiery and serve Christ
at the same time. 1t would be now rather late
in the day for me to question
THE GOOD INTENTIONS OF MR. HAYES:
tor That l have been vouchfhg for them OK
planning the frequent conflicts of Appearances
and otherwise holding the Administration up
Dy the tail to the tolerant if not admring view of
| tne readers OF the DEMOCRAT so long that cam
hedge now. SO pronounced and laborious has
been my support of the Administration in this
correspondence, that my friends long ago came
| to the unWarrantable conclusion that was a
| candidate for some secretaryship of legation
ana nave been wont to ask me. sympathizingy
| WHAT wANTEDP'
In vain have protested that there was Moth
ing in the gift of this Administration that could
| seduce me from the paths of Democracy and yir-
tue and that my sole reason for supporting the
Administration was the fact that the Administra-
ton was doing. inadvertently perhaps, but still
| doing, great things for the Democratic party
| which is my only love. So long as the course of
| the President was calculated 10 be beneficial to
| the Democratic party, and thereby to the coun-
| try at large. felt it my patriotic duty to give
| him all the aid and comfort within my feeble
power. But now begin to gather from various
sources the important information that the
President has concluded that he can do nothing
| more for the Democratic party has abandoned
| his Schurzian
DREAM OF A NEW PARTY
| based upon German philosophy and forgive
ness of the sins of the Returning Board, and
has set himself resolutely at the work of re-
| pairing the Radical ruin he has wrought
| have information which, am satisfied. is
| in the main accurate. sufficient to warrant the
assertion that the day of possible dssension
| among the Republicans on questions of mere
policy has gone by. The President has Ger
tainly signified his willingness to abandon his
| ridiculous civil service order and to wage no
more warfare upon the Conkling machine in
New York, together with eyaeuating other posi-
tions equally untenable from partisan
standpoint AS the price of this repentance
he asks, am told. only that no attack shall be
made upon his Southern Policy by Republicans
either in Congress or in future State conven-
tons; but am also informed that he is willing
that the base ingratitude OF the Southern DEM
ocrats, manifested In the cruel persecution of
John Patterson and the Returning Board shall
be excoriated to any extent Of severity. He is
particularly anxious to soothe the laceratei
ling, and as for Blaine. that love 9i feast V was
reduced to crumbs long ago.
Perhaps the reader may be inguiring by this
time what Is to become of our late lamented
friends,
FOSTER AND MATTHEW'S.
To that inquiry would respond Go read the
returns from Oh hiol Foster and Matthews are
regarded as having been ''sot down on" by the |
GsSu IT II ss oWn stnts apa largely LEFT
Administration on the, kindergarten system
has has been g abandoned definitely, owing to the
bad boys were the Democrats who, when he Of |
fergd them few plums, demanded the VIII le |
orcdharEd E but spbsse,auentiy 3, took the plums
Democrats say that Hayes does not take the |
stolen Dsm9cratie . a Presidency for him Hayes
and, not being 50 expert as Bradley at the busi-
nees e get Ct caught at it-hnth hy the Democrats
E vhe 1Sn nst RNsy hs cdssed snd fY tYbns the
brought into their house.
- You may remember that, in letter from New |
York last September or August said Ohio |
would go Democratic by larger majority than |
either party had obtained there in several
spinal columns of the old fashioned Radicals
and that Hayes would have either to succumb |
to them or cast himself at the feet of the De-
mocracy very 80 Il after thu meeting of Con-
gress. Well. that occasion has now come and
tue President has apparently made up his mind
70 SuccuIuD 10
THE oLD-FAsHIoNED RADICALS,
The result is that the second week of the extra
session opens with the two parties confronting
dressed"
This fact is really nothing more or less than
every common-sen-e observer expected. 1t has
always been easy to get UP a newspaper t1rOre |
such political empires a. Schurz have been % able
to obtain notoriety and to make an impression
upon plastic minds like that OF Hayes. far out
cd BY hc But the people, ee ienfs
hon poHOi, with whom political preference is an
instinct. are not easily whooped out Of their
ancient paths into new ones The old paths
may be worn into ruts and gu lies or they may
be full Of slough holes but the people know
whittier they lead, and prefer them to the new
paths which though smooth enough and car
peted with the roses Of rhetoric, may be the
broad way that leads to the devil for all they
know.
Ha, es himself is sort of great over-grown
boy meaning we'll. but clumsy, and ambitious
o Of snHTz Ta nf the soft guile
castor oil, he liked the feeling of it. But a mo-
ment after-that is to say. at the present mo-
is wry. Schurz held some private revenges,
and he wheedled Hayes into giving him an
to wreak them. But
scHURz's JIG IS UP NOW,
and Hayes is on his way back to the innermost
fold Of the party that counted him in. They will
forgive him. with the reservation that he must
never say anything about Louisiana and South
forever. in fact.
The. burly Packard and the cadaverous Kel-
logg haunt Hayes like the ghosts of victims
in fit of the Jim jams. and there is q
sp9t OF blood upon his hands from the slaughter
of Chamberlain which must forever dance be-
fore the vision of Blaine But barring these
trifiing points of difference the entente cOriale
y not the essence Of concord. Is restored, and
Hayes will henceforth Loyalty cooperate with 7
The Radical programme, which is. in ten words,
10 make
SOLID NORTH AGAINST SOLID SOUTH II
in 1880. need not tell you what this means. It
means d
NO HELP OR HOPE FOR sPoFFoED, EUsTIs AND
BUTLER
% begin with and from that on it means every
possible expedient which malgnity can hatch
Or deviish ingenuity devise to teach the people !
of the North that the people of the South are the
enemies of the nation.
3, In view of these portentous facts-for to me