Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04
A New Party.

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the old organization is confessedly
played out. The infamy Of the car
pct-bag system has left it hardly a
shadow Of hope for the future. The
great and all absorbing object of the
present Administration, as we have
before shown, is now to build up a
new party on the basis and ruins ct
the old. To this end every move
ment is specifically directed. The
proofs of this multiply every day.
Whether or not Hampton and Mich
oils are to be recognized will deperd
not upon the past, but upon the most
beneficial arrangements to be made
to build up new Administration par
ty at the South.
All the old Wing clements in that
section are in this movement. Hence
the divers consultations before the
electoral count between Hayes and
Southern men of Wing antecedents.
Reuben E. Fenton of New York, Il
noted organizer, was sent South to
help mould the plastic elements into
shape. The dickering and huckster
ing OF Matthews and Foster, pending
the count, were based upol, the same
idea. Their policy was to divide and
conquer-not simply to secnre Hayess
Inauguration, but to build up asnew
party. 1t was vital to the scheme
that Tilden should be counted OUT
That would throw all the patronage
into the hands of Hayes, who could
dispense it with sole reference to di-
viding a solid South. Key, disap-
pointed and defeated Democrat, was
placed in the Cabinet with that single
view. He is now devoting his entire
time and efforts in the Southern direc-
ton, while Tyner, occupying the same
room and desk, is IN fact Postmaster
General. The specific and only design
of the new Commission is to further
this movement. Its members were
selected purely with this view. The
Radicals have been utterly ignored,
and for the obvious reason that their
presence would be fatal to the plan.
Lawrence is an old Wing who COM
peted against the Radical Logan for a
seat in the Senate, Hawley has al
ways affected a sort of outspoken indie
pendence, and so much so as TO have
encountered distrust and hatred of the
more reliable Radicals. Harlan is of
the old Kentucky stripe OF Clay pollti-
clans, and was appointed for that rea-
son. McVeigh is of the same class.
Brown, though nominally Democrat,
was an old fashioned Wing. Besides,
that Texas railroad scheme is near his
heart, and is included in the pro-
gramme Of the Administration as one
of the most vital forces for accomplish
ing its purpose.
This Commission is no more or less
than an Executive Board of Trade
There is no field for its operations in
South Carolina, for there is nobody
there to trade with but Chamberlain.
and he is now engaged in negotiations
with the chief at the White House. -
The troops are to be withdrawn from
South Carolina, and Chamberlain is
to take his carpet,bag and other traps
elsewhere, But in Louisiana the case
is different Much trading is 10 be
done there. There are too many mer-
cenaries to be provided for, and too
many details to be arranged, before
the troops can be withdrawn. The
occupant of the White House needed
help. Hence the Commission. There
is no hope Of bringing the State into
the new arrangement. Carpet-bag-
ism is too odious, and there is not
leaven enough there to be utilized.-I
But the Senate has become dangerous
ly weak. There is hopeful chance
of securing one or more members from
Louisiana, and when negotiations to
that end are concluded the troops will
be withdrawn from there also
That the view here presented is cor
rect is susceptible Of abundant proof
from the open declarations OF the head
of the Administration. Read the toll
lowing from the organ at Washing
ton, in giving the account of an inter-
view with a New England Republi
CAM
while he expected these two
L" States (South Carolina and Louis
" iana) to pass into the hands OF the
" Democrats, he also firmly believed
",hat the effect of the changed policy
" toward the South would be to give
" to the Republicans the States of
g Tennessee and North Carolina cer-