Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-04-28
LINES OF NEW DEPARIURE-LET
USHAVE AN ERA OF GOOD
FEELING.
From the New York Herald.

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may be as brilliant as that of JeffeT
son or as ludicrous as that of Tyler
But he must continue in his heroit
policy until he has formed a new
party. When he threw aside tn,
barons of the Republican party, th'
carpet-bag barons like the Blaines
the Chambers, the Camerons anC
the Buffers, he invoked a spirit
which will rise up and destroy him
unless he destroys it. The mer
whom the new President has i'm the
most public manner repudiated are
the men who made him President
without whom he would still be in
COlumbus-the men who can wreck
hisadministratiOn before III is launch
ed. He must not despise nor deride
their power. Mr.. EVarts is admir-
able as the Secretary of State. Mr..
SchurZ is commendable as Secretary
of the Interior. Mr.. Devens will
expound the law. 1t is pleasant ia
have kind word from the indie
pendent reform organs, and the sup
port Of Mr.. Curtis and Mr.. BOwles
will be so novel that the sensation
will be agreeable. 1t is gratifying
to have toe chambers of commerce,
the business interests, the clergy
men and the poets all sending words
of comfort and encouragement. AS
the new President looks out of the
White House and sees all this in
cense rising and remembers how
the acolytes treated his predecessor
only few weeks ago, he must feel
that his lines have truly fallen upon
pleasant places.
But what an administration needs
even more than incense is votes
votes in Congress and votes i'm con-
Vention. This is where the new adj
ministration is weak. Mr.. Evarts
and Mr.. Schurz, Mr.. Devens and
Curtis, the chambers of commerce,
the clergymen, the poets and the
refOrmers, have not political power
enough to carry an election district.
1t is because they have never been
in that line of business and know
nothing about it. Mr.. Evarts is, If
we may say it without offence, ten
thousand times more respectable
than Don Cameron, but Don Came
ron could control ten thousand times
as many votes as Mr.. Evarts. AS
to the reformers, who are so well
tuned now, Mr.. Hayes has learned,
or, if not, he soon will learn, that
when reformers preach "reform"
they mean that they shall be called
on to reform the country at large
salaries. Politics with us, as indeed
it is in all representative govern
ments, is a practical business. Men
who give their lives to it may have
exalted ideas of what is due to the
country and the peoples welfare,
but they have no less clear views as
totheir own personal interests. They
are to support the administrator
which supports them. If President
Hayes thinks that his work is done
when he has thrown aside the
Blaines the Buffers and the Came
rons and the carpet-baggers he will
only have to wait until the meeting
of the next Congress or the autumn
State conventions to have his mind
disabused. He will then have to
confront party in mutiny and to
take refuge with the democrats as
johnson did. They will keep him
as long as he serves their purpose,
and kick him out when ne Is no
longer useful as they kicked out
johnson.
What, then, remains TO the Presi-
dent? He must make a new party.
He must summon from the Repub-
lican and the Democratic ranks the
men who will unite with him i'm an
effort to reform the civil service and
bring about an era of good feeling.
Public opinion is ripe for such a
change, If Hayes pursues his war
upon the barons of the Republican
party and the carpet-baggers he can
defeat them, even as Richelieu de-
feated the feudal lords of France and
all power in the Crown.
He must appeal from the politicians
to the people. He must lay down
broad lines of policy-such a policy
as will command the confidence of
the country. He can destroy the
barons by destroying their power.
He can destroy their power by cut
ting away from all relations with
parties as they now exist. The
country sees that both parties are
corrupt. In one we have the car
and the whiskey thief;
in the other we have the repudiator
and the Tammany chief. But the |
great mass of the American people |
or Republicans-do not |
fall within these degrading distinc- |
tons. The farmers, who dwell on |
their own soil the merchants, who |
buy and sell; the grim soldiers, who |
how they followed with !
honest, daring heart the flag of the |
North or the South; the multitudes |
Of pious, God-fearing men whOswell |
our religious denominations; the |
citizens, who have no interest in |
politics except that right shall be |
done, that there shall be low taxes,
freedom and prosperity-these are |
The materials out of which a new |
party can be formed, an American |
party, Republican and Democratic \
in its best sense, theparty of nation
al honor.
Such a party can be formed by lay
ing down certain precepts Of pOlit-
ical action and calling upon the
to support them. The Pres
dent should say frankly, "There
IS no use for the Republican par
ty. Its work is done. 1t was a
party and will only march to the
sound of the drum. There is no use
for the Democratic party. IL is
between conspiracy and |
4 railroad speculation. 1t rests on
no solid basis. 1t is a fancy stock,
TN..sr tho hn.anrasg.a rsnfrna
1t should go into bankruptcy. Bu-
,hanan and Tweed and jeff Davis
have frittered its resources away.
Even Tilden, the shrewdest railroad |
lawyer in the country and familiar
with the handling of broken cOrpor-
atoms, could not realize on its assets. |
What we want now il peace. Let /
Us have an era Of good feeling. Let |
Us have peace and civil service re-
form peace and Justice to the South; |
peace and specie payment; peace |
and revision of the tariffs peace |
and the revival of industry and |
,redit; peace and reform of the pow
ers of the Presidency, the Senate and |
the States. Let all who believe that |
the warts over; that there should be |
to the black and justiceto |
the white; that public servants
should be treated as men, not cattle; |
that there should no longer be pa
tronage in the management of the |
nations business that the debt |
should be paid dollar for dollar-let |
all who believe in these precepts and |
are willing to unite with the Presi-
dent in enforcing them to rally |