Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-20
POLITICAL ITEMS.

icy is a fraud because more Democrats
or Conservatives are not appointed to
office, and then read in the same columns
denunciations of all Southern men who
accept positions under the Federal Gov
ernment, it occurs to us that there is q
slight inconsistency somewhere.-MeRs.
phis ADdLdnchs.
There is one view of this case that we
have not seen argued. 1t is that the
course President Hayes has taken puts
the Democracy on its good behavior. 1t
can have no possible excuse for further
violence and bad faith. Their demands
will have been fully met, and they will
not only have local self.government at
the South, but the governments will have
been committed to them unreservedly.
If with all this they continue their bru-
tality and violence, the North will be
concentrated against them Pittsburgh
Commercial Gazette.
Mr.. Packard says in substance: eff
Hayes carried Louisiana, so did l. il
Hayes has good title, so have L; If
Hayes should possess his office, so should
II This is all truth; but the mistake
Mr.. Packard makes is in assuming that
the President disputes it when he de-
clares his Louisiana policy. He doesn't
dispute it at all; he simply says that,
whatever may be his belief, the question
is one to be determined within the State.
And so it is. This point has been widely
misunderstood. The President doesn't
decide any title which is involved with
his own. He doesn't kick over the lad.
der on which he mounted. He simply
says that every Government must stand
on its own feet, and that the Federal
troops cannot be used to determine the
matter.-AIbany EUening Journal.
A New Orleans dispatch says that
quorum will be obtained in both branches
of the Nichols Legislature, on the basis
of the reports of the Returning Board.
The explanation of this is that, if the
Legislature is organized on the face of
the returns, the House would be tie,
and the Senate only have four Democratic
majority. The rule with the Nichols
men seems to be to abuse the Returning
Board for all that is corrupt and infamous,
when any advantage is to he obtained by
abuse, and to accept as legal and honor
able when an advantage is to be gained
by talking directly the other way. A
history of Democratic chicanery and in
trigue in Louisiana, from the days of
Aaron Burr to the present day, would
present an array of rascality equal to the
exploits of Tammany .-LouiSUiHe Com.
mercidL.
So far as the Republican party is con-
cerned, never did great and victorious
organization wait more quietly and sub.
missively the results of the "new de-
parture" on the part of its political head.
1t is easy to gather, from different quar-
ters, differences of opinion. Some are
blindly enthusiastic-caring nothing for
argument, content to rest upon faith.
Perhaps the majority of this class are of
those who, in the past, have not been
noted for fealty to the Republican organ
ication. Then comes the great body Of
the loyal element of the party, hopeful,
but quiet, as those who recognize the
gravity of the situation and the risks that
the new move entails. Then appears
third class, unable to conceal their disap-
proval of details, as sacrifice of what
seems to them high principles, but still
hopeful of the general result. And,
finally, there 10 a not inconsiderable ele-
ment who cannot quite conceal the fact
that they have no confidence in the re-
suit, but hope to be disappointed, and,
in the meantime, are determined to throw
no obstacles in the way of success. But,
varying as are these shades of opinion,
each and every one of these classes are
yielding honest support to the Southern
policy while it is on trial. 1t is at once
the most novel and most admirable exhi.
bition of unselfish and patriotic party alb
negation that we can recall Never, in
our history, has the Democracy exhibited
anything of the kind-it is not in its ma
ture.-C Cincinnati Times.
There is but one point upon which
Packard lays good deal of stress, but
which will probably not avail him. He
claims that he has as good title to the
vote of Louisiana for Governor as Hayes
had to its electoral vote. This plea is
wholly irrelevant, and is an attempt to
mix up settled with an unsettled ques-
ton. Mr.. Hayes had nothing whatever
to do with disposing of the electoral
vote of that State. 1t was done in
regular and legal manner under the au-
thority of Congress and through tribu-
nal created for the purpose. That
tribunal decided that it could not go
back and inquire into the process by
which the electoral vote had been reached
by the State. That is now settled
matter, settled according to the princi-
Piles applicable to it, but the State cleo
tion is not yet settled. Nobody ques.
tions that through its own Legislature
and its own laws and tribunals it can
furnish the means of settling it. The
processes through which the result was
reached may be examined into if it is
deemed necessary. Moreover, this is a
practical matter for the people of that
State, and the Presidential controversy
has nothing to do with it, The Federal
Government has no right or authority to
decide the controversy or to use the
army for the support of either party. 1t
is its duty to pat an end to such military
intervention as now exists. 1t is dis
posed to do it in the gentlest and
most conciliatory way possible, but it is
bound to do it.-BOStOn Globe.