New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-19

UHfT TIE PRESIDENT OUGHT TO FNPECT
Tie adjournment Of the Senate and the con-
sequent cessation of good deal of political
intrigue at tie capital leaves the President
irce to carry out his plans of reform without
the Interference OF politicians, to reOrgaHl2c
the departments wherever disorder prevails, 10
investigate the condition Of certain branches
0f the service, and to perfect the proposed
rules fer appointments and removals. Before
Congress meets again lie may probably place
the Administration uEon new fuom% ana
show the world a new art OF government
Cen Grant, during his brief and eccentric
career as civil service reformer, used to L.
ment that Congress would not and him to keep
his resolutions by appropriate legislation, iol,
as he oddly complained, he could not help 60
ing wrong as long as he remained free
agent. But Mr.. Hayes believes that 10 reform
laws are necessary il the Executive is in dead
earnest. He only asks to be let alone He has
had his first trial Of strength with refractory
statesmen in Congress, and has come of with
flying colOrS, not only winning his point mn
making friends, and achieving substantial
victory without the usual cost in heartburn
ings and resentments. If his conduct during
the recess prove to be as judicious as it has
been heretofore, he will meet the new Con-
grcss so strong III popularity that ali open
opposition to his reforms will have TO cease.
In the prosecution of bis plans the new
President however, will need the hearty sup
port and sympathy of the people, and he has
right 10 demand the moral assistance OF both
political parties alike. Opinions OF course will
continue to differ about the constitutional qucS-
tons involved in his election, and they viii
differ from time to time on political ISSUES as
they arise, but they cannot differ respecting
the administrative reforms which are row il
land. Democrats and Republicans have de
mandrd with equal emphasis the changes which
Mr.. Hayes is trying to make. If there is aHY
candor III the Republican leaders they will
admit that they have sanctioned all these inn0-
vations in advance AMI if the Democrats have
been struggling for anything more than the
spols of Office they must acknowlt dgc tIat
Mr.. Hayes is trying to carry out the very re-
forms which Mr.. Tillen promised 10 undci
take, and that he is favored by many adyan
tages which Tildcn would have lacked. If
our President is putting the professions Of
their platform into practice it is not unrcason-
able to ask that they will give him credit for
it, and refrain from factious schemes to en-
barrass him. Otherwise the world will be driven
to believe, in spite of the fine language of
Democratic conventions, that civil service re-
form is one of those things which the DemOc-
racy particularly do not want.
The evident tendency of Mr.. Hayes's policy
is to make elections hereafter, what they have
often failed to be in the past, a real indication
of the popular preferences. At the South he
is eDdcavOling to do away with bayOnet cam
paigns ana false counting; at the North he
purposes to dispense with the labors of post
officers and gaugers in organizing victory"
Reduced to their last expression the twin re-
forms which he is bringing in, hand in hand,
mean nothing more or less than free ballot,
undisturbed by official influences, and II fair
count governed by the rules of arithmetic
rather than by the politics of the custom
house If there is any party i'll the United
States opposed to this SORT of reform, by all
means let it go after President Hayes.