The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-19
THE ISSUES OF TO-DAY.
TuE LABOR QUESTION, AND NOE THE
PRESIDENTS SOUTHERN POLsCs'
THE LEADING ISSUE In POLA'ios'
The Late Revolt Of Labor against Caps
tai the Fruit Of vicious Radical Lesis-
Iat,on and mad Government.
Especial Correspondence N. o. Democrat

ra,ae,aI correspondence N. o. Democrat.
SILVER SpRINa,
Montgomery County, Md,
August IT, 1877.
You can form no conception OF the intense
.,ullness which prevails in this part Of the
world In political matters. People generally
aeem 10 have resolved to take o long rest after
the painful excitements of the late Presi-
DENTAL campaign, and nobody appears to care
much whether the signs of the times portend
Democratic or Republican successes at the
fall elections. Democrats more for the sake
of principle and consistency than anything
else, occasionally make feeble drafts upon
their reserve fund Of Indignation and de-
nounee the fraud whereby Hayes was seated
lin Che Presidential chair; but, principle thus
yindicated, they soon weary OF the effort and
relapse into state Of apathy and indiifer-
ence: while Republicans, divided In their
views as to the wisdom and expediency OF
Hayes civil go vice and Southern policies,
have, as a rule, resolved to forego for the
present the indulgence or the expression OF
positive and strongly-deIined political opin-
IONS
1HE PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS OF THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY
are mostly to be seen perched upon the fence,
uncertain on which side to alight and eagerly
watching for some straw to indicate how tho
wind is going TO blow. The people, as mass,
seem TO be very well satisfied with the present
political condition Of the country and well
they may be. Happy the nation, SAID
Fenelon, that has no history" Happy the
republic" we may say where the voice OF
the demagogue Is stilled and party passions
are luIled to rest
Such IL the condition Of this country just now
30 far as party politics are concerned, and
there isevery prospect of its being maintained
for n long time to come, to the great advan-
tage OF all parts of the Union. but particularly
OF the South. Federal intermeddling with our
domestic concerns is at an end; all OF the Jim
Blaines and Ben Wades Of the country can not
revive it. Il il dead beyond resurrection, and
the stalwart" Radicals of New England will
before long realize the utter hopelessness
of all attempts to organize a new crusade
against the South. Hayes Southern
policy" will be maintained. You have
seen, from the proceedings of the late
Republican Convention In Maine that even
Blaine, who recently aimed at being
the leader Of such new crusade did not
dare to sound the toesin of war against
Hayes, but pleaded for harmony and peace.
and smothered his wrath UNDER mountain
of vapid and wordy resolutions, which might
have served very well for an ante tell,tm Re-
publican platform, but are utterly meaning
less as party shibboleth at the present
time. The fact Is,
rtrr urn pEprrpJICAN PARTY HAS LOST IT'S
DISCIPLINE, AaaREss1 vENEss AND
COHESION,
because It has reallyn no longer a raison detre.
It still points with PRIDE to its past achieve
ments, and boasts of its valorous deeds; but
that sort Of thing has lost it's charm for the
people, who care little for political theories
just now, but are clamoring for some relief
from the Industrial distress which prevails
throughout the North. Such relief
BLAINE REPUBLIcANIsM
cannot give, for the simple reason that 1t can
only be obtained by the widest possible de-
parture from the principles and practices of
that party. Every intelligent student of cur
rent events and their causes realizes that the
prevalent "hard times are the direct result
and legitimate product of Radical maladmin-
istration of the government; consequently 1t
would be the height of impertinence for Radi-
calism to undertake to relieve the country
from its present distress. 1t could not offer
any real and substantial remedy which would
not involve its own Standardization and con-
domination. Blaine probably felt this, and
therefore, set the machine for the grinding
out of empty platitudes and airy nothings.
The Ajax of the fight has skulked and Hayes
remains master of the situation.
The President is certainly q most lucky
man. just at the time when everybody was
anticipating bitter struggle In Congress be-
tween his friends and enemies over his South
ern policy, and the lovers of peace and order
were grieving over a probable revival of Sec
tional bitterness and discord, there occurred
the recent fierce, but blind and misdirected,
REVOLT OF LABOR AGAINST CAPITAL,
which has called the attention of the people
TO matters of such vital Importance to the
welfare of the country that, in all probability
they will overshadow and dwarf into utter
insignificance all questions concerning Hayes
policy toward the South. That may serve as
q theme for occasional disputes and long
winded Saturday orations, which nobody list
ems to; but the real tug of war will
come when the respective advocates of labor
and capital lock horns over the measures
which they, but particularly capital, will seek
to have enacted as speedily as possible.
Congress will meet in about two months
and venturet predict that within the first
week Of the session fifty or ahundred bills
be will introduced for the
SOLUTION OF THE GREAT SOCIAL PROBLEM,
thefirst act of which was witnessed last month
in the desperate effort of ''labor'' to free it
self from the burdens which the heartless
moneyed corporations of the land had i'm
posed upon it. This first act ended in the
temporary victory of those corporations, be-
cause they had the law ON their side, while
the labor revolt was allowed to degenerate
into riot and spoliation; but, while labor
achieved nothing by this movement in the
way of increase of wages, it succeeded in
drawing the attention of the whole country to