Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-06
The President and the Politicians.
New York Herald.

The Iowa Republican Convention has
refused to approve the Presidents poll
cy. The Cameron politicians in Penn
sylvania threaten to hand that State
over to the Democrats next fall. The
principal New Jersey Republican politi-
clans have united in offering cOmpli-
mentary dinner to Ex-Secretary Robe
son, who is known to oppose the Presi-
dents policy, and among the prominent
names who join in this demonstration,
said to have for its purpose the making
Mr. Robson candidate for Governor,
we miss only those of Ex-senator Ere
linghuysen, Mr.. William Walter Phelps
and Mr.. Kinney. All reports state that
there is great bitterness against the
President among leading Republicans in
New York, and the tone Of their presses
shows this to be true Even in Ohio
there are rumors of a good deal of Oppo-
sition and more lukewarmness.
WE'LL what or it? If one talks with
some of these dissatisfied people he
hears that If Ohio, New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania, or any two Of
them, should go Democratic this fall
that would be blow to the President.
1t would evidence" they add, that his
policy is not approved by the parity
and that, it seems, would be something
dreadful We have been trying to dis
cover how such result. which is very
probable, could seriously embarrass or
painfully affect the President, and we
confess ourselves unable to see. In the
first place, we take it for granted that
the President wants only what is right.
He has no desire for a nomination
He means to reward no favorites He
intends to nominate only capable and
honest men to office. Personally, there
fore, he has no embarrassments to fear
from the action of the Senate. If
that shall reject any of his nominations,
we have no doubt he will send in others.
If it insists on rejecting good men, that
will be so much worse for the Senate;
but we cannot see how it can injure the
President On the contrary, such a
course pursued by the Senate would at
once turn public sympathy toward Mr.
Hayes
But then there is his policy! Well,
there is first the Southern policy; that
is finished. The Southern issue is dead;
no sensible man expects and no patriot
ic man desires to revive the Southern
question, so happily and constitutional
ly closed up by Mr.. Hayes. Next is
the civil service policy. Undoubtedly
that makes the machine politicians furi
Gus; but undoubtedly, also, it has the
support of the whole non-office- holding
class, which means the mass of the vot-
ers 1t is universally felt and acknowl-
edged that the safety of our free in
situations demands the separation of
Office holding and political management,
and the President has the whole nation
with him in his determination to do
this, and only an insignificant squad of
machine politicians oppose. In other
questions he has struck with equal fe-
LEFTY the popular mind. The foreign
policy, manly and just, has received I'M
iversal praise. His determination to have
justice done in Utah meets with like
universal consent. How, then, we in
quire, can the success of his policy be
affected by the opposition OF any num-
Der of the Republican politicians? He
has only to 60 on; the people are with
him; and we are mistaken in the man if
the President shall prove to be panic
struck by the beating of parcel of
Cameronian tin pans.
We think it not improbable that New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
possibly even Ohio, will cast Democrat
ic majorities this fall. Such result
will say nothing against the President S
policy, except as the Republican NAL
contents may help to bring it about.